Vegan Tefillin &
Vegan Mezuzah Scrolls
Kavanot for the Shleimus of All Life on Earth
Chiddushot B’Hilchos Torah for Shomrei Refuah
Shaddai Elementals creates vegan Tefillin and other cruelty-free, sustainable Judaica that rebirths the Jewish Archaic with arms of modern morality.
100% vegan and cruelty-free
Sustainable, renewable and regenerative
Handcrafted in ritual with kavanah
Created in reverence to our unbroken traditions and reviving Jewish ancestral rituals previously lost to history
“There is no difference between the pain of humans and the pain of other living beings.”
KAVAKNOT Vegan Tefillin
$372
Bind heart, mind and ethics in tradition with cruelty-free, sustainable tefillin.
Vegan Mezuzah Klaf
$18.18
Mark your doorposts with the mitzvot of preventing unecessary suffering of animals.
Iron Gall Kosher Sofer Ink
$38
Traditionally made with thousands-year-old Jewish process using wild oak galls sustainably hand-harvested in Northern California forests.
Rescued Tree Branch Mezuzah
$82
Sacred woodworker Hershel Weiss intuitively hand-carves each mezuzah to celebrate the unique beauty and story of every rescued branch.
Shaddai Elemental’s vegan Tefillin line, KAVAKNOT, allows the spirits of
Torah Hakedosha,
Halacha (traditional rabbinic law),
Sacred teachings of Rambam and the sages,
Mystic ritual of the Jewish Archaic,
And the modern vegan, animal rights and sustainability ethics
to intertwine themselves through one of the most ancient and holy ritual objects of the Jewish people.
Birthed in Ancestral Ceremony
Blessed with intention and tradition
Reviving and combining several rituals from the Jewish archaic that have fallen out of practice, KAVAKNOT tefillin straps are buried in wilderness for 70 hours while the Tefillin maker undergoes a fast. They are then unearthed amidst recitation of Bereshit and Tefilah and symbolically passed hand to hand, dor le dor, from oldest to the youngest of the next generation. Fruit, songs and dance celebrate the mitzvah of tefillin before they are tied to batim and sent to their next home.
While vegan Klaf is placed within Batim, each Tefillin box is blessed with the recipient’s specific intentions and Hebrew name, the 72 holy names and tefilot.
Tikkun Olam. Tzedakkah. Healing.
For every neshama on earth.
$18 of every Tefillin purchase and $1 of every Mezuzah Klaf purchase is donated to the tefillin recipients’ choice of charity or individual.
We are happy to help coordinate an anonymous donation to an individual if you are inspired to do so.
Need a suggestion? Shaddai Elementals highlights a different worthy non-profit organization each month. This month:
JEWISH INITIATIVE FOR ANIMALS (JIFA)
Learn more about their pioneering work at jifanimals.org
Uncompromising Vegan, Animal Rights
and Sustainability Ethics
Barukh Atah Hashem Elokheinu
STRAPS (Retzuot)
Straps are made from certified sustainable, 100% plant-based vegan leather. Material is third-party tested free from all pesticides, carcinogenic and allergenic compounds, formaldehyde, phthalates and chlorophenols.
Melekh Ha'Olam Asher Kid'shanu
BOXES (Batim)
Tefillin boxes are individually handcrafted with intention from a variety of sustainably harvested wood types.
PARCHMENT (Klaf)
Every vegan Klaf is made from tree-free, acid free and certified sustainable paper. The paper is handmade from the inner bark of Nepalese Lokta bush, renewably harvested above the root stem to allow the plant to naturally regenerate each year.
B'mitz'votav V'tzivanu
L'hani'ach Tefillin
QUALITY TO LAST DOR LE DOR
Handcrafted to be used for a lifetime and passed generation to generation, KAVAKNOT Tefillin is designed for decades of daily use.
Bind Your Ethics
to Your Ancestral
Bind your intentions to your actions.
Bind your heart to hashem.
Lead our community and our descendants to a better world by reinvigorating the ethics of animal rights weaved through Torah and Jewish history.
“The tzaddik (righteous person) acts according to the laws of justice; not only does he act according to these laws with human beings, but also with animals. ”
Contact Us
You may also feel free to email shaddaielementals@gmail.com.