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Blessed art thou, Lord our God, King of the universe, who hast sanctified us with thy commandments, and commanded us to enwrap ourselves in the fringed garment.

How precious is thy kindness, O God! The children of men take refuge in the shadow of thy wings. They have their fill of the choice food of thy house, and thou givest them drink of thy stream of delights. For with thee is the fountain of life; by thy light do we see light. Continue thy kindness to those who know thee, and thy righteousness to the upright in heart.

May it be thy will, Lord our God and God of our fathers, that my observance of this precept of tsitsith be considered as if I fulfilled it with all its particulars, details and implications, together with the six hundred and thirteen precepts that are related to it. Amen.

By putting on the tefillin I intend to fulfill the command of my Creator, who has commanded us to wear tefillin, as it is written in the Torah: You shall bind them as a sign on your hand, and they shall be as frontlets between your eyes. The tefillin contain four sections of the Torah which proclaim the absolute unity of God, blessed be his name, and remind us of the miracles and wonders which he did for us when he brought us out from