Kupat Tzedakah for Hachnasat Kallah

Kupat Tzedakah for Hachnasat Kallah

There is a beautiful segula, tried and tested over the years by the mothers in the “Sila Tehilim” WhatsApp group. This segula, like a Jewish tradition, is passed down from one person to another: from a mother who successfully married off her daughter to another Jewish mother who dreams of the same. Here is what to do: take a beautiful gift box for a Kupat Tzedakah and lovingly decorate and cover it with shidduch-themed photographs—beautiful invitation cards will work as well. Make a slot in the top for tzedakah, and begin setting aside tzedakah in it every day before reading Tehillim for a shidduch. This may be an amount equal to the gematriot of the words “kallah” (55), “shidduch” (340), “chatan” (458), “Hachnasat Kallah” (590), or simply three coins of any denomination—the choice depends on the currency of your country of residence and your means. Tehillim for a Shidduch (you may choose): 1) Psalm 30 twice—the Hebrew designation of Psalm 30 is ל. The great Kabbalist Rabbi Avraham Abulafia was the first to draw attention to the two letters “lamed” in mirror image, which form the shape of a “heart.” (For many years, in “Odnoklassniki,” this was precisely how we practiced reading Psalm 30 twice for a shidduch.) The Hebrew word for heart—“lev” לב—is made up of the letters “lamed” and “bet.” Since the numerical value of the letter “bet” is 2, the word can be interpreted as “two lameds”—a hint that the two “lameds” form a heart, as Rabbi Avraham Abulafia taught in “Imrei Shefer 3.” 2) Psalm 32—the gematria of the word “lev”; 3) Psalm 68—“G-d brings the lonely home”—this refers to finding one’s partner; Tehillim 68 – On First and Second Marriages 4) Psalm 121—a segula to read it from the 15th of Av through the 25th of Elul—40 days; 5) Reading the entire Book of Tehillim for 40 days; 40-Day Reading of Tehillim for a Shidduch in a Special Order Before the first reading and the first donation, say that all the tzedakah collected will be given for the mitzvah of “Hachnasat Kallah.” When the box is full, give it to its intended recipient. Be wholehearted in this mitzvah; those who treated it lightly and dismissively did not see results. Try to fill the Kupat Tzedakah generously (many people filled theirs to overflowing), so that the happiness of your children will also overflow in your lives! (The “Sila Tehilim” website expresses its deepest gratitude to Zhannochka Svistova)