Rabbi Hoffman in the
Utah Wilderness

Prayers and Psalms for Community Members

Please daven for:

Yehoshua Meshullam ben Sara Leah. Updates on Josh are available at www.CarePages.com. Please note that the name of his page is "joshhoffman"; there are no spaces between the two names.

Sarah Yehudis Krisel bat Chaya Faiga [Moreh Yehudis Fishman]
Devorah bat Chanah [Translator of Sacred Fire]
Ben Tzion Aryeh Moshe ben Sarah Leah [Ari Hoffman]
Chayyim Jonathan ben Miriam [Jonathan Blaine]

Suggested Psalms:
For Israel and Klal Israel: 20, 83,121,130 and 142.
Tikkun ha Klali [general remedy]: 16, 32, 41, 42, 59, 77, 90, 105, 137, 150
Your age: It is beneficial to read the chapter of Tehillim for your age; thus if you are 30, read Psalm 31.

From "Jewish Spiritual Practices" by Yitzhach Buxbaum:
"The rabbis took the Hebrew word for psalm, mizmor, from the root zamar, "to make music," and related it to another form of that root (zmr), zimair, which means "to cut off" or "prune." Thus, the Psalms were said to be very effective in cutting off and fighting negative spiritual forces, pictured often as trees or briars and thorns."

From "The Bratzlaver Seder ha'Yom, #14":
You should find yourself and everything that happens to you in the psalms that you say. And all the thanksgivings in the Psalms you should say about yourself, for the kindnesses that G-d has done with you all your life."