Rabbi Yosef Shmueli • The Secret of Tefillin: The Four Angels Who Accompany a Person

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About Tefillin. There are many passages in the Zohar, many passages about the mitzvah of Tefillin, but let's taste a portion of the passages with the help of God. Thank you very much. "May the pleasantness of the Lord our God be upon us; our handiwork, establish for us...and those who are wise will shine like the brightness of the expanse, and those who lead many to righteousness like the stars forever and ever." This is in the Zohar Chadash, Parashat Terumah, page 52. Rabbi Shimon bar Yochai said: When a person goes to the synagogue and puts on Tefillin on his head and Tefillin on his holy arm, and wraps himself in the garment of the mitzvah, and goes out the door of his house, four holy angels join him and go out with him from the door of his house , and they precede him and proclaim, " Give honor to the image of the Holy King, give honor to the son of the King , to the precious visage of the King, to the holy spirit that rests upon him. " And they say, "Israel, in whom I am glorified." So, Rabbi Shimon bar Yochai says, a person who gets up in the morning, naturally after reciting the morning blessings and the Torah blessings with intention, if he got up early, he recited Tikkun Chatzot. He studied. But now the time has arrived, the time for Tallit and Tefillin. So he wraps himself in the Tallit, puts on the Tefillin—Tefillin on his head, Tefillin on his arm—and goes out from the door of his house. Four holy angels

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