Tikkun HaTina (Rectification of Offense) - Rav Mordechai Sharabi

Tikkun HaTina (Rectification of Offense) - if you have wronged someone without cause...

Chazal teach that many of the difficulties in a person's life may be caused by ordinary offenses he has committed against someone else. Undeserved, suppressed, long-standing, mutual—people experience all kinds of grievances throughout their lives. Not all of them pass without leaving a trace. An offense may be the reason a person's life does not work out, that he is constantly ill, or that nothing succeeds no matter what he undertakes; he is denied parnasah, never has enough money, and faces debt, continual trials, and suffering. Mekubalim teach that there are proven remedies for this as well. 1. A segulah for Tikkun HaTina (Rectification of Offense) from the mekubal Rabbi Mordechai Sharabi The mekubal Rabbi Mordechai Sharabi (alav ha-shalom) said more than once that if someone, for example, “mitakev zivugo” (his zivug is delayed), this is most likely because during his lifetime he wronged someone—this very fact prevents the blessing from entering his life. To remove such a blockage, Rav Mordechai Sharabi gives a segulah—“baduk u-menuse” (tested and proven). Take a “ke'arát mayim” bowl (preferably a new one) filled with water on Yom HaChamishi (Thursday—the day the Torah is taken out), and place the bowl by the door next to the mezuzah (on the mezuzah side), while you stand opposite it at that same doorway. [Why by the mezuzah? It is said of the mezuzah that it protects a person from all sides, both inside and outside. In other words, the mezuzah protects the soul from evil and the body from all misfortune.] Beforehand, set aside 70 coins (one shekel each in Israel, and the corresponding currency in other countries), having washed them thoroughly in advance. Take the coins in your hands and recite the entire Hallel—Tehillim 113–118, and when you reach the pasuk: - “Ana Ado-nai hoshi'a na” - throw one coin into the bowl of water. Repeat this phrase another 69 times, throwing a coin into the bowl of water each time, with kavanah for forgiveness—“mechilah”—if you have wronged someone. Continue the psalm to the end. Then remove the 70 coins from the water, drink a little of the water after reciting a berachah (you may also refrain from drinking it), then wash your hands and face and pour the water over yourself. Give the 70 coins—shekalim—hand to hand (not through a tzedakah fund) to a poor person who asks with an outstretched “yad” (near synagogues). This method is highly effective for rectifying an offense you committed against someone during your lifetime. It helps open one's mazal, removes all blockages in life, and clears the way for a zivug hagun, parnasah, and healing. Afterward, it is good to recite: Verses from the Sefer “Iyov”, the book describing a person who endured the greatest trials in life, recited during Ayelet HaShachar seven times with repentance and a request for forgiveness—even if a person does not remember whom he offended or when—can remove the sword of Damocles hanging over him. This is also one of the strongest segulot against “ayin hara”: אִיּוֹב הָיָה הוֹלֵךְ בַּדֶּרֶךְ וְהָיָה שָׁרוּי בְצַעַר, וּפָגַע בּוֹ אֵלִיָּהוּ הַנָּבִיא זָכוּר לַטוֹב וְאָמַר לוֹ: אִיּוֹב מִפְּנֵי מָה אַתָּה שָׁרוּי בְצַעַר, מִשׁוּם כְּאֵב ראש? אָמַר לוֹ הֵן. אָמַר לוֹ: לֵךְ אֶל הַיָּם גִּנּוֹסַר וּטְבל בּוֹ, וְתִתְרַפֵּא. וּמִי שֶׁרִפֵּא לְאִיּוֹב הוּא יְרַפֵּא אוֹתִי / אֶת פְּלוֹנִי בֶּן פְּלוֹנִי מִכְּאֵב לֵב, וּמִכְּאֵב רֹאשׁ, וּמִשְׁאָר כְּאֵבִים וּמִינֵי חֲלָאִים – בְּתוֹךְ שְׁאָר חוֹלֵי יִשְׂרָאֵל. אָמֵן [repeat 7 times] “Iyov hayah holech ba-derech ve-hayah sharuy ve-tza'ar, u-faga bo Eliyahu HaNavi, zachur la-tov, ve-amar lo: Iyov, mipnei mah atah sharuy ve-tza'ar, mishum ke'ev rosh? Amar lo: hen. Amar lo: lech el ha-yam Ginnosar u-tvol bo, ve-titrape. U-mi she-rippe le-Iyov, hu yerape oti / et Ploni ben / bat Ploni (state your name together with your father's name) mi-ke'ev lev, u-mi-ke'ev rosh, u-mi-she'ar ke'avim u-minei chala'im—betoch she'ar cholei Yisrael. Amen”! Translation (Iyov was walking along the road and was in sorrow when he encountered Eliyahu the Prophet, may he be remembered for good. He said to him: “Iyov, why are you sorrowful? Is it because of a headache?” Iyov answered him: “Yes.” He said to him: “Go to the Sea of Galilee and immerse yourself in it, and you will be healed.” And the One who healed Iyov will heal me (state your name), son/daughter (state your father's name), from heartache, headaches, and all other pains and illnesses, together with the other sick people of Israel. Amen.) P.S. Be considerate of other people. The Torah repeatedly and explicitly calls upon us not to oppress widows and orphans, and also speaks indirectly of those experiencing tzarot and yissurim (suffering and trials), as illustrated by Hannah, Iyov, David's mother, and others. Read more here: Hannah and Peninnah Hannah and Peninnah — a Reward for Tzarot, or: Do Not Oppress Adael bat Nitzavet Nitzavet bat Adael—mother of David HaMelech See also the Yanuka Gaon's Prayer for Forgiveness for Offenses A Prayer for Forgiving Wrongs by the Gaon Yanuka – A Segula for Healing (Based on a video lesson by Rav Israel Nissim Lugassi; a lesson by Rav Yanuka (shlita)—Sefer “Zichron Yaakov Yosef” (7), in the name of Rabbi Pinchas of Koretz (zt”l))

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