The Ben Ish Chai's Prayer For Tu B'Shevat
Received via e-mail from Rabbi Tal Zwecker:
The Bnei Yisaschar (Month of Shevat, 2:2) writes that "A person should pray on Tu B'Shevat to find a kosher, beautiful, mehudar esrog with which to fulfill the mitzvah."
This prayer for a beautiful Esrog and song for Tu B'Shvat was composed by the great author of Ben Ish Chai.
The Bnei Yisaschar (Month of Shevat, 2:2) writes that "A person should pray on Tu B'Shevat to find a kosher, beautiful, mehudar esrog with which to fulfill the mitzvah."
This prayer for a beautiful Esrog and song for Tu B'Shvat was composed by the great author of Ben Ish Chai.
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The Tenka Rov, Rabbi Shlomo Zalman Friedman zt'l, in sefer Chemed Shlomo says to also daven for parnasa (livelihood)on Tu BiShvat because "Ilan" (tree) is a symbol of livelihood and it also has the same numerical value (91) as the first letters of poseach es yodecha (which means Hashem opens his hand).
It's interesting because I read in the Halacha Yomit from the writings of Rav Ovadia Yosef Shlit"a the following:
ומכל מקום, אף שביום ט"ו בשבט לא דנים ממש מה יעלה בגורלם של האילנות באותה שנה, מכל מקום כתב רבינו יוסף חיים מבבל, שידוע הוא, שיש קבלה ביד חכמי אשכנז ז"ל, שצריך לבקש ביום ט"ו בשבט באופן מיוחד על האתרוג, שיזדמן לישראל אתרוג טוב ויפה בחג הסוכות
This would imply then that the Ben Ish Hai himself said that this Minhag came from Hachmei Ashkenaz.
There are also 2 small tefilos for a nice esrog in Likutei Tefilos
Here is a link to PDF of Likutei Tefilos online. The tefilos for esrog on on pages 72-73.
http://www.moharan.com/pages_album/texte_livres/liktef.pdf
Make sure to print the tefilot before Shabbat.
Over shabbos it was questioned whether or not you can actually say these tefillahs since they might constitute bakashot which are forbidden on shabbos. I accidently did not recite them today because of that question and because I did not have time. I was also told there is a question about having four cups in a TubiShvat seder because it might contitute adding on a mitzvah which is also prohibited.
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Since Shabbos was the only time to say these tefilos (since Tu Bshvat came out on Shabbos), many poskim permit the saying of these tefilos. Ask your local Orthodox Rabbi.
Ben Ish Chay was very well familiar with Sifrey Chasidus.
see the sefer "Nitei Gavriel" where he brings a 15 Shvat tefilah for Esrog and says it is permissible to recite on Shabbos because it is a "tefilah" and not a"techinah" .
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