A powerful and holy segula for elevating and renewing a person's mazal, from the Sefer "Kaf HaChaim" by the great Rabbi Yaakov Chaim Sofer.
In Sefer Bereishit 37:7, we read how Yosef tells his brothers about his dream, in which his brothers' sheaves bow down to Yosef's sheaf:
וְהִנֵּה אֲנַחְנוּ מְאַלְּמִים אֲלֻמִּים בְּתוֹךְ הַשָּׂדֶה, וְהִנֵּה קָמָה אֲלֻמָּתִי וְגַם נִצָּבָה, וְהִנֵּה תְסֻבֶּינָה אֲלֻמֹּתֵיכֶם וַתִּשְׁתַּחֲוֶיןָ לַאֲלֻמָּתִי׃
- "V'hinei anachnu me'almim alumim betokh hasadeh, v'hinei kamah alumati v'gam nitzavah, v'hinei tesubena alumoteikhem va-tishtahavena la-alumati" -
(And behold, we were binding sheaves in the midst of the field, and behold, my sheaf arose and also stood upright; and behold, your sheaves surrounded it and bowed down to my sheaf).
Kaf HaChaim, may his merit protect us, reveals that the Holy Name of Hashem is encoded in this pasuk—in the word קָמָה —the letters of the Name הקם, which helps elevate a person's mazal.
A person who feels that their mazal has stopped shining favorably upon them should recite this pasuk every Motza'ei Shabbat and on the yahrzeit of a tzadik, with the following kavanot.
When reciting:
- "V'hinei anachnu me'almim alumim betokh hasadeh, v'hinei kamah alumati" - (and behold, we are binding sheaves in the midst of the field, and behold, "my sheaf" arose) — have the kavanah: "my mazal" arose;
- "v'gam nitzavah" - (and also stood upright) - have the kavanah: "my mazal arose and became firmly established".
P'tihat Mazal in Tehillim
Tehillim 112:
כִּֽי־לְעוֹלָ֥ם לֹא־יִמּ֑וֹט לְזֵ֥כֶר ע֝וֹלָ֗ם יִהְיֶ֥ה צַדִּֽיק
— "Ki le'olam lo yimmot, lezekher olam yihyeh tzaddik" — (For he shall never be moved; the righteous shall be remembered forever).
In the 112th Psalm, which the Mekubalim call the "Psalm of wealth," the sofei tevot—the final letters of the last three words—form the Holy Name הקם, which, through "P'tihat Mazal," elevates a person's mazal.
It is also beneficial for "P'tihat Mazal" to read the letters of this Name in Tehillim 119:
— 8 pesukim for the letter ה
— 8 pesukim for the letter ק
— 8 pesukim for the letter מ.
(Based on a lesson by Rav Itai Aharon)
