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"At the Time of the Birth of the Month of Nissan, Open for Us All the Gates of Miracles and Wonders" • Prayer for the Molad of the Month of Nissan

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"At the Time of the Birth of the Month of Nissan, Open for Us All the Gates of Miracles and Wonders" • Prayer for the Molad of the Month of Nissan

The molad (birth of the new moon) of the month of Adar II will occur tonight, Tuesday night, Rosh Chodesh (the New Month) of Nissan 5784. At 11:26 PM and 7 parts, here is a prayer written by the Gaon and Tzaddik Rabbi Eliezer Berland shlit"a (may he live long and good days) for the molad of the month of Nissan:

Master of the World, Almighty, at the time of the molad (birth of the new moon) of the month of Nissan, which will be on Monday night/Tuesday night at 11:36, 7 parts before midnight, open for us all the gates of miracles and wonders, just as it was at the time of the Exodus from Egypt, and the ten plagues, and the splitting of the Yam Suf (Red Sea). And as Rabbi Yosi said, 'ten in Egypt and fifty at the sea,' and Rabbi Eliezer said, '40 in Egypt and 200 at the sea,' and Rabbi Akiva said, '50 in Egypt and 250 at the sea,' together 600 plagues, plus another ten, and another Detzach Adash Beachab (the mnemonic for the ten plagues), making 613 plagues, corresponding to the 613 mitzvos (commandments). That we should merit already at the moment of the molad (birth of the new moon) all the miracles and wonders and salvations. Therefore, everyone traveled to Rabbi Akiva the student, and not to Peki'in to Rabbi Yehoshua, and not to Lod to Rabbi Eliezer, because Rabbi Akiva would expound on every tag (scribal crown on the letters) and tag heaps and heaps of laws, and he is the one who expounded the most plagues, and through this, "all the illness that I placed in Egypt I will not place upon you, for I am Hashem your Healer."

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