Prayer Before Putting on Rabbeinu Tam Tefillin

B"SD 806

Prayer Before Putting on Rabbeinu Tam Tefillin

Rabbeinu Tam Tefillin come to rectify (tikkun) the terrible blemish of the destruction of the First Temple, which was in the year 3338, in the secret of "You shall surely send away (Shaleach tishalach) the mother," and the destruction of the Generation of the Dispersion which was also in the year 338 [for it was 340 years from the Flood until the Dispersion, and two years were subtracted for the birth of Arpachshad], in the secret of 'Efer Kasdi' (Chaldean ash), for Shem wanted to sweeten the destruction of the First Temple, which was by the Chaldeans, through his son Arpachshad who lived 438 years—338 + 100, corresponding to the 100 blessings.

For through Rabbeinu Tam [Tefillin], one ascends to the Keter of Adam Kadmon, and all evil inclinations are nullified, as well as all foreign thoughts and all forbidden gazes. And one will know of no illness, nor of any sorrow, nor of any harm.

And each and every person will merit to find his true shidduch (marriage match) from the six days of Creation, from the Light of the Seven Days, and will merit ten sons and ten daughters, and the verse will be fulfilled in him: "There shall not be a barren male or female among you, or among your livestock."

And all his haters and enemies shall fall beneath him, as it is said (Deuteronomy 7:23-24): "And Hashem your G-d will deliver them before you, and He will throw them into a great panic until they are destroyed. And He will give their kings into your hand, and you shall destroy their name from under the heavens; no man shall stand before you until you have destroyed them." "Moreover, Hashem your G-d will send the hornet against them, until those who are left and those who hide themselves from you perish. You shall not be terrified of them, for Hashem your G-d is in your midst, a great and awesome G-d." "Do not say in your heart, when Hashem your G-d thrusts them out from before you, 'Because of my righteousness Hashem has brought me in to possess this land'; but because of the wickedness of these nations Hashem is driving them out from before you. Not because of your righteousness or the uprightness of your heart are you going in to possess their land, but because of the wickedness of these nations Hashem your G-d is driving them out from before you, and in order to fulfill the word which Hashem swore to your fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob."