Elaborate scripture- containing cases, or Phylacteries, were worn in Jesus' time
and are still employed by certain Jewish sects today.
If a man said,‘ There is no obligation to wear Phylacteries' so that he transgresses the words of the Law,
If a man said,‘ There is no obligation to wear Phylacteries' so that he transgresses the words of the Law,
he is not culpable;[ but if he said],‘ There should be in them five partitions', so that he adds to the words of the Scribes, he is culpable.”- The Mishnah, by Herbert Danby, page 400.