“Akedat Yitzchak” — Rav Dov Kook’s segulah for tangled situations
Once, an avrech (a young married yeshiva student) came to Rav Dov Kook (shlit"a) and complained about his situation. He had become “entangled” because of an apartment he had purchased and did not know what to do or how to extricate himself from the difficult situation in which he found himself—nothing was working; it was a vicious circle. He asked Rav Dov Kook to bless him with a way out of his difficult situation.
Rav Dov replied:
“I will give you an entanglement—but a positive and beneficial one—in place of the entanglement you are experiencing. This means reading “Akedat Yitzchak” attentively every day, with kavanah directed toward the pasuk:
וְהִנֵּה-אַיִל אַחַר נֶאֱחַז בַּסְבַךְ בְּקַרְנָיו
— “Ve-hinneh ayil ahar ne'ehaz ba-sevakh be-qarnav” — (And behold, a ram was behind him, caught by its horns in the thicket).
It is precisely through this verse that one can learn how to emerge from every “tangled situation.”
It is beneficial to repeat this pasuk separately as well [7 times, 17 times, or 24 times] as a segulah for escaping tangled situations.
May the merit of the tzadik, Rav Dov Kook, protect Am Yisrael!
(Relayed by a student of Rav Dov Kook (shlit"a)
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