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of the family’s possession. 
His father passed away 
in 1996 and his mother 
Florence died in 2013. It 
was at that point when his 
parents’ house was being 
cleared out and sold that 
items, including the tefillin, 
must have been included in 
an estate sale. 
“I do not know how or 
why they were put up for 
sale, but I am glad I have 
them back,” Blau said. 
“When my time comes, I 
intend to pass them along 
in my family.” 
Lerman said so many of 
her friends and contacts 
had an emotional response 
to the post and “were 
inspired” by its happy end-
ing. 
Asked why so many 
people responded to the 
desire to return a religious 
ritual object that not many 
outside the Orthodox 
community practice on a 
regular basis, Lerman said 

she thinks that these days, 
people are eager for inter-
personal connections. 
As she waits for her ali-
yah request to be processed 
to move to Jerusalem and 
leave the United States, 
Lerman said she is happy 
knowing that she helped 
return the lost tefillin to its 
rightful owner. 
“Tefillin is one of those 
special mitzvahs, and I 
think a man’s tefillin is 
something that is a deep-
ly personal ritual object,” 
Lerman said. “People these 
days are searching for 
meaning, for something 
to feel good about. If they 
had been a lost pair of 
AirPods, I don’t think I 
would have gotten such a 
wide response. But tefil-
lin are such a sentimental 
and meaningful item, and 
my parents and I were so 
happy to hand them back to 
Marshall; he is such a nice 
man.” 

Marshall Blau holds 
his late father’s tefillin. 
He plans to pass them 
along in his family.

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