Rabbi Aharon Yosef Luria - the Slonimer Rebbe

Rabbi Aharon Yosef Luria ben Tzvi Hirsch - the Slonimer Rebbe (1888-1919) Yahrzeit - 27 Shevat Burial place - Tzfat Rabbi Aharon Yosef Luria of Tiberias (1894-1969), the eldest son of Rabbi Tzvi Hirsch Luria of Tiberias (1882-1952, one of the heads of the Ohr Torah Yeshiva) and the well-known Slonimer Rebbe in Tiberias. An outstanding Torah scholar, a holy man and a devoted servant of G-d. In the days before World War I, Rabbi Luria very much wanted to travel to Slonim to visit the Rebbe, author of "Divrei Shmuel", but was unsuccessful. In 1929 the Slonimer Rebbe, author of "Beit Avraham", visited Eretz Yisrael, and Rabbi Aharon Yosef became very close to him, considering that period the light of his existence (in a letter he wrote that from the moment he met the Rebbe, he became like a flowing spring). In those same years he also began to study Kabbalah, and his knowledge in this field was evident. He wrote several books: "Sefer Refuot HaNefesh", "Likkutei Divrei Chachamim" and "Avodat Pnim".   On his Yahrzeit, a proven Segula - the Prayer of Rabbi Aharon Yosef Luria   a   "Ribono shel Olam, I beseech You with supplications: help all Your people Israel, and also let me trust in no one but You alone; let me not hang my hope on any man, but only on You. Help cannot come to me from man, only from You; and without Your help it is not possible even to cross the threshold of a door without Your strength, it is not possible to move - I do not rely on anyone at all, only on You, on Your mercy and kindness, which are without measure. Ribono shel Olam, we need You every moment and every instant, at every single step - there is nothing good without You, and, Heaven forbid, nothing bad without You. Ribono shel Olam, I beseech You with supplications: help me merit to guard my eyes from seeing evil, and to merit weighing every word that leaves my mouth; let me merit that my heart be humbled before You, and that all my deeds be fitting and pure." [Repeat 3 times and ask for your personal needs and for all of Am Yisrael].   May the merit of the Tzadik protect Am Yisrael! (https://www.tfilah.org/tfilot/tfila_niflaha/)