A New Prayer at the Tzaddik’s Resting Place—The Wonder-Worker

Rabbi Shlomo of Zvhil was born in the year 5629 (1868), to his father Rabbi Mordechai, the third Rebbe in the Zvhil dynasty and the Rav of the city of Zvhil. In the year 5686 (1926) he ascended to Eretz Yisrael and settled in the Old City. Even though the terrible Holocaust wiped out most of his Chassidus, and almost no Chassidim remained, he became known in Jerusalem as a master of miracles and a great wonder-worker. On the 26th of Iyar, 5705 (1945), he returned his pure soul to its Maker and was buried on Har HaZeisim.

His holy resting place is known as a source of many salvations. Below, from last week, Rabbi Berland shlit"a wrote a new prayer to be said at the holy resting place of Rabbi Shlomk’eh of Zvhil zy"a on Har HaZeisim.

Here is the prayer for reading and downloading, courtesy of the book “Prayers for the Road and for the Graves of the Tzaddikim”—soon to be published:

The gaon Rabbi Shlomk’eh of Zvhil merited that with his passing, the dreadful decree to murder nine million Jews was annulled. For with his ascent to the lofty heights—to the hidden treasuries on High—he nullified the terrible decree that had been upon the People of Israel: a decree of destruction and annihilation, rooted in the sale of Yosef and the killing of Nov, the city of the Kohanim—“from youth to elder, infants and women, suckling and nursing child.” For Shaul showed true compassion toward Amalek, and said to Shmuel that he was not capable of wiping out children, women, and babies. Then a Heavenly voice went forth: “Whoever has mercy on the cruel will in the end be cruel to the merciful.” And then a dreadful decree went forth—to annihilate the People of Israel. And then Shaul himself was wiped out, and he and his sons ascended to the spiritual domain of Shmuel the Prophet, and merited to be included within the soul of Shmuel. And therefore the holy and awe-inspiring Rebbe of Zvhil came to sweeten all decrees. And from then on there have been no decrees upon the People of Israel; and from then on Hashem causes the nations of the world to fall—collapse after collapse—until they have no recovery.