Parents in the generation of plenty
M
y heart tells me, the Shelah Hakadosh wrote, that Erev Rosh Chodesh Sivan is an auspicious time to recite this tefillah, since it’s the month in which the Torah was given….
Tefillas HaShelah is the tefillah everyone says. Not because of the e-mail deluge, but despite the e-mail deluge. There are parshas Hamahn reciters during Tuesday of parshas Beshalach, and iced-coffee donors on Reb Shaye’le’s yahrtzeit and whole-Tehillim-sayers on Rosh Hashanah night. These demographics don’t always overlap. But Tefillas HaShelah is where we all meet.
Because all parents, however the therapists of 2039 might retroactively diagnose us — maybe in this very magazine — want the best for their children, and the best means all that the heilege Shelah packed into his timeless tefillah.
Since he articulated Jewish parents’ hopes and dreams about 400 years ago, the text hasn’t changed, though one imagines that in the ensuing years parents have read different things between the lines.
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