
Shliach Discovers His Tefillin Straps Are Plastic
Rabbi Avrohom Yitzchok Prudenshedsky, a Chabad Shliach in the Israeli Moshav of Ganei Yochanan, could not believe his eyes: after mistakenly leaving his Tefillin in the sunlight for two hours, he discovered that the straps were not made of leather – as required by Halachah – but of cheap plastic.