Prayer on behalf of your children

Just a reminder that Sunday, May 24th, is Rosh Chodesh Sivan. It is customary to recite the prayer composed by the SheLah Hakadosh for parents to say on behalf of their offspring on Erev Rosh Chodesh. The SheLah Hakadosh said the optimal time for parents to recite this prayer is Erev Rosh Chodesh Sivan for that is the month when Hashem gave us the Torah, and when the Jewish people began to be called His children.

Rabbi Eli Mansour writes in http://www.dailyhalacha.com/, "But in those years that Rosh Chodesh Sivan falls out on a Sunday, and Erev Rosh Chodesh falls out on Shabbat, we would then say the Tefilah on Friday, the day before Erev Rosh Chodesh Sivan. We have a rule that says, that the day before Rosh Chodesh is called Yom Kippur Katan. It’s like a miniature Yom Kippur. People have a custom to fast that day every month. People have the custom to say Tehillim. It’s a day of Teshuva. But when Rosh Chodesh comes out on Sunday, obviously you don’t fast and you don’t make all these Tikunim on Shabbat, so it’s usually pushed off to the Friday or even the Thursday beforehand. Therefore, we do not read this Tefilah on Shabbat, hence we read it before Shabbat."

http://www.dailyhalacha.com/Display.asp?PageIndex=68&ClipID=888

I spoke to my Rav, who advised me to say the prayer on Thursday, May 21st.

Click here to access the tefila in Hebrew. Click here to access the tefila in English.

For a brief biography of the SheLah Hakadosh, click here.