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Lots of Jewish shops sell pens made for the purpose of filling in parts of your tefillin which have lost their blackness.
Do you need to buy a special pen (and if so why) or is it all a con and I can use a sharpie? Is there a difference between the boxes and the retzuos (straps)?
