The Pasuk, when describing how the Tefilin Shel Rosh is to be placed on the head, says they should be ‘Totafos Bein Einecha’, which we translate to mean ‘Ornaments between the eyes’. Rashi quotes Chazal to explain that the Tefilin Shel Rosh is called Totafos because there are four separate Parshiyos in the Tefilin Shel Rosh, in four separate compartments, and the word Totafos is a combination of two words. The word ‘Tat’ in the language of Kafti means the number two, and ‘Fas’ in the language of Afriki is the number two, and this adds up to four, which is a reference to the Tefilin Shel Rosh. The Sh”lah Ha’kadosh asks, why would the Torah call our holy Tefilin a name which is comprised of two words from two different languages that mean the number two? The Sh”lah explains that each of the seventy languages has a bit of Lashon HaKodesh mixed in to it. There is no language that is totally without any Hebrew in it. The words ‘Tat’ and ‘Fas’ are both Hebrew words, but they are just used in another language. It is for this reason we say in Mussaf on Yom Tov, ‘V’Romemanu Mi’kol Lashon’, that Hashem elevates us above all other languages. This is because Bnei Yisroel got the entire Lashon HaKodesh, which is a pure and undiluted language, and it is different from all the other nations because they only merited to receive small bits and pieces of it. Therefore, we can learn that the Tefilin Shel Rosh is made up of four compartments from two different words that mean the number two!
