Rav Shai Graucher related a story. When Rebbetzin Batsheva Kanievsky, z”l, was about 14 years old, she noticed that her father, Rav Yosef Shalom Elyashiv, zt”l, would continue Davening (praying) for an exceedingly long time after taking three steps back at the end of his Shemoneh Esrei.
She asked him for an explanation to this, and he told her that before saying the standard ‘Yehi Ratzon’ at the end of Shemoneh Esrei, he said Perek 121 from Tehilim, “Shir LaMa’alos Esa Einai el He’harim. He explained that this was a Segulah from his grandfather, the Leshem, a noted Mekubal.
The Rebbetzin began to follow this practice as well, although she did not know what exactly it was a Segulah for. “Many years passed,” she said, “and my son-in-law told me an interesting story.
In Yeshivas Chevron, there was a group of 20 Bachurim who had not yet been successful in Shidduchim for a number of years. One day, it was brought to their attention that there is a little-known Sefer called Asarah Ma’amaros from the Rama MiFano (Ma’amar Chikur Din, Part IV, Ch. 17) that says that reciting this Perek of Tehilim at the conclusion of Shemoneh Esrei is a Segulah for finding one’s Shidduch.
They started doing this practice, and incredibly, within two months, each of them was engaged!” The Rebbetzin concluded, “When I heard this story, I realized that this Segulah that I had also adopted, was likely a reason in the Brachos we enjoyed in being able to marry off each off our children at a young age!”
Reprinted from the Parshas Toldos 5784 email of Rabbi Yehuda Winzelberg’s Torah U’Tefilah.
