The scriptural texts for tefillin are obscure in literal meaning. For example, the verse in Deut. 11:18 does not designate what specifically to bind upon your arm, and the definition of totafot is not obvious. It is the Talmud, the authoritative oral tradition for Rabbinic Judaism, which explains what are to be bound to the body and the form of tefillin.
deep state. English. Wikipedia has an article on: deep state. Wikipedia. Noun. deep state (plural deep states) A body of people, typically influential members of government agencies or the military, believed to be involved in the secret manipulation or control of government policy.
(Turkey and Egypt have recently moved to more overt security-state dictatorships, in which the deep state is the only state.) For a generation, the people who saw something like an American deep stateâeven if they rarely called it thatâresided on the left, not the right.