The Month of Teves — The Secret of “Nikras HaTzur” • Prayer for the Molad of the

The Molad of the month of Teves will be tonight, the sixth candle of Chanukah—Tuesday night, leading into Rosh Chodesh Teves—at 19:40 and three chalakim. Before you is a prayer that Rabbi Berland shlit"a wrote for the Molad of the month of Teves:

"Molad of the Month of Teves"

The initials of “TIKAVER B’SEIVAH TOVAH” (“You shall be buried in a good old age”), at the age of 180—like Yitzchak. It is written in Sefer Karnayim that anyone who passes away in the month of Teves is promised that he will enter Gan-Eden = 177 without any judgment at all—on condition that he learns Torah by day and by night = 177, 18 hours each day. Through this, the tziruf of the month of Teves will be fulfilled in him: “GADLU LAHASHEM ITI U’NEROM’MAH SHEMO YACHDAV” (“Declare the greatness of Hashem with me, and let us exalt His Name together”). This is the tziruf of the month of Teves, corresponding to the verse: “HINEH MAKOM ITI, V’SAMTICHA B’NIKRAS HATZUR” (“Behold, there is a place with Me, and I will place you in the cleft of the rock”), for the month of Teves is the secret of “NIKRAS HATZUR.”

For in the month of Teves, every single Jewish man who learns Torah by day and by night = 177, 18 hours each day, and every Jewish woman who says Tehillim every single day—all of them merit to enter, together with the body, into Gan-Eden = 177, to Nikras HaTzur, in the cave into which only Moshe and Eliyahu HaNavi, remembered for good, entered—after they fasted forty days and forty nights. And anyone who will fast forty days and forty nights will merit as well to enter this cave—the secret of the month of Teves, which is called “NIKRAS HATZUR.”

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