Rishon L’Tzion HaRav Shlomo Moshe Amar Shlita released a kol korei and an accompanying tefilla to be recited due to another year of limited rainfall to date. In his letter dated today, 25 Teves, the Rishon L’Tzion explains that this winter is following the previous ones, with limited and inadequate rainfall, compelling us to act.
The Rav points out that our actions are the cause and the situation demands action, to begin making a personal reckoning regarding our actions, behavior, and to bring our hearts closer to avodas Hashem.
The Rav quotes the Gemara in Taanis in which our fathers would fast beginning 17 Cheshvan. The Rav begins to detail the tefillos and actions in such a situation, another drought winter.
The document contains the Rav’s letter, as well as the tefilla to be recited, to call on Hashem to please have mercy on the People and bestow upon Am Yisrael in Eretz Yisrael and abundance of rainfall.
(Yechiel Spira – YWN Israel)
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4 Responses
can you please post the tefillah here?
what on earth is he talkinmg about? becase over a week has gone by w/o rain? please.
cheshvan and teves (which is not yet finished) alone have already given more than half of a years supply.
the cheap puppet is just a stooge for the gov’t that refuses to repeal the water tax and wants to fool people into thinging there is a water crisis justifying the tax.
Of course, we still need to daven for rain and apparently we have been doing a good job to date since we have had a ton of rain including much gishmei brocho (friday nights, and also many nights while we are all sleeping.)
woe to one who is receiving Hashem’s blessing and ignores it.
I’m not the type to leave comments but #2 just got my blood boiling. The disrespect shown for an adam gadol like Rav Amar is beneath contempt. You may not agree with him but you still can show some derech eretz. Frankly, i’m very dissapointed that YWN editors didnt catch this one before it was posted. It would behoove them to issue an apology of some sort.
#1 – get yourself a ספר תהילים.
#2 – I liked your “woe to one…” ending, as if someone who writes so viscously about a Talmid ChaCham, really cares about what HaShem wants of us.