The Prayer of the Shelah HaKadosh - A Powerful Segulah for Educating Children on Erev Rosh Chodesh Sivan

A well-known segulah in Jewish communities for educating children is the recitation of the prayer of the Shelah HaKadosh, Rabbi Isaiah HaLevi Horowitz. Although this prayer is said throughout the year and has great power to influence this matter, it is a known segulah to recite it especially on Rosh Chodesh Sivan.

The Shelah himself testified about the segulah of reciting the prayer on Rosh Chodesh Sivan, "And my heart tells me that this is a time of favor for this prayer on Erev Rosh Chodesh Sivan," and he established that this day is a time of favor conducive to the success of the offspring.

Rosh Chodesh Sivan 5780 will fall on Sunday. However, the molad will occur (unusually) already tomorrow, on Friday at 12:21 AM and 13 parts.

Text of the Prayer of the Shelah HaKadosh

You are Hashem our God before the world was created, and You are our God since You created the world, and from eternity to eternity You are God. And You created Your world to make Your divinity known through Your holy Torah, as our Rabbis of blessed memory said, "In the beginning," for the sake of the Torah and for the sake of Israel, for they are Your people and Your inheritance whom You have chosen from all the nations, and You gave them Your holy Torah, and You brought them close to Your great name.

And for the existence of the world and for the existence of the Torah, we have received from You, Hashem our God, two commandments. You wrote in Your Torah "Be fruitful and multiply," and You wrote in Your Torah "And you shall teach them to your children." And the intention in both is one, for You did not create it in vain but to be inhabited, and for Your honor You created, formed, and even made it, so that we and our descendants and the descendants of all Your people the house of Israel may know Your name and study Your Torah.

Therefore, I come to You, Hashem, King of kings, and I cast my supplication, and my eyes are upon You until You show me favor and hear my prayer to grant me sons and daughters. And they too shall be fruitful and multiply, they and their children and their children's children until the end of all generations, so that they and I, all of us, may engage in Your holy Torah, to learn and to teach, to observe and to perform and to fulfill all the words of Your Torah with love, and enlighten our eyes in Your Torah and attach our hearts to Your mitzvot to love and to fear Your name.

Our Father, merciful Father, grant us all long and blessed lives, who is like You, merciful Father, who remembers His creatures for life with mercy, remember us for eternal life, as our father Abraham prayed "Would that Ishmael might live before You," and our Rabbis of blessed memory explained, "in Your fear."

Therefore, I have come to ask and to plead before You that my seed and the seed of my seed forever be a kosher seed. And may there not be found in me or in my seed or in the seed of my seed forever any blemish or defect, but only peace and truth and good and upright in the eyes of God and in the eyes of man, and may they be masters of Torah, masters of Scripture, masters of Mishnah, masters of Talmud, masters of secrets, masters of mitzvah, masters of acts of kindness, masters of refined traits, and may they serve You with love and inner fear, not external fear, and grant each one of them their needs with honor, and grant them health and honor and strength, and grant them stature and beauty and grace and kindness, and may there be love and brotherhood and peace among them, and may You provide them with suitable matches from the seed of Torah scholars, from the seed of tzaddikim, and may their matches be like them in all that I have prayed for them, for one memory ascends here and there.

You, Hashem, know all secrets, and before You are revealed the hidden thoughts of my heart, for my intention in all these is for the sake of Your great and holy name and for the sake of Your holy Torah, therefore answer me, Hashem, answer me, for the sake of the holy fathers Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. And for their sake, You will save children to be branches resembling their root, and for the sake of David Your servant, the fourth leg of the chariot, who sang with Your holy spirit.

A Song of Ascents: Happy is everyone who fears Hashem, who walks in His ways. When you eat the labor of your hands, you shall be happy, and it shall be well with you. Your wife shall be like a fruitful vine in the innermost parts of your house; your children like olive plants around your table. Behold, thus shall the man be blessed who fears Hashem. Hashem shall bless you out of Zion, and you shall see the good of Jerusalem all the days of your life. Yes, you shall see your children's children. Peace be upon Israel.

Please, Hashem, who hears prayer, may the verse be fulfilled in us, "And as for Me, this is My covenant with them, says Hashem, My spirit that is upon you, and My words which I have put in your mouth, shall not depart from your mouth, nor from the mouth of your seed, nor from the mouth of your seed's seed, says Hashem, from henceforth and forever."

May the words of my mouth and the meditation of my heart be acceptable before You, Hashem, my Rock and my Redeemer.

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