It is not a secret that nighttime learning is particularly auspicious for zera shel kayama. The Kollel Chatzos office reports that they constantly receive requests from callers worldwide, asking to sponsor Kollel Chatzos’s talmidei chachamim, so that these talmidei chachamim will daven on behalf of couples waiting for children…
And the Kollel Chatzos office also reports that they constantly hear besuros tovos
that the talmidei chachamim’s davening has brought forth the long-awaited yeshuos.
This well-known, well-proven segula is described so eloquently and instructively by the Ben Ish Chai in
Keser Malchus (siman 160), “The husband and wife should sponsor the needs of a chabura (group), who
awaken to learn at Chatzos, and in this zechus, they will be blessed with zera shel kayama, and so they
should do constantly.”
This Thursday night September 8, 13 Elul is the yahrtzeit of the holy Ben Ish Chai. And while the Ben Ish
Chai’s segula is applicable every night of the year, it is particularly meaningful when performed on his
very yahrtzeit. Therefore, Kollel Chatzos dedicates this night as a special Leil Tefila for couples who are
waiting for children.
A delegation of Kollel Chatzos talmidei chachamim will also daven at the place designated as the
gateway for tefilos for children – the “Bais Isha HaShunamis,” the very place where Elisha HaShunamis
enacted a miracle and the Isha HaShunamis merited children.
So many of us know couples who are in pain and wish we could help… somehow. We may not be
doctors nor possess the key to life. Yet, this Sunday, we can all do something. Something meaningful,
something powerful. We can heed the call of the Ben Ish Chai on his yahrtzeit. We can partner with
Kollel Chatzos, sponsor the needs of the Kollel’s distinguished talmidei chachamim, and daven to
Hashem that this night storm the gates of zera Chaya v’kayama.
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Years had passed, but the talmid of the great mekubel, Rav Mordechai Sharabi, zt”l, did not give up
hope. For years, he carried his pain in his heart. He had performed all sorts of segulos, but was yet to be
blessed with a ben zachar. Still, he continued to daven, to hope, and to dream.
One night, his heart erupted with longing. He approached a group of talmidei chachamim who were
learning throughout the night and begged them, “You’re learning all night long. You’re accomplishing
such great things. Can you perform the segula of the Ben Ish Chai on my behalf, so that I be blessed with
a ben zachar?”
The talmidei chachamim responded yes…
And Hashem responded yes to their tefillos.
At the ripe age of seventy, this man became the father of a baby boy.
