There is indeed a traditional prayer and procedure to be followed when seeking G‑d's assistance in retrieving a lost object.
The following is recited:
Rabbi Binyamin said: All are presumed blind until the Holy One, blessed be He, enlightens their eyes. We know this from the verse:1 "G‑d opened her eyes and she went and filled up the water skin."2
(Say three times:) G‑d of Meir answer me!3
In the merit of the charity which I am donating for the sake of the soul of Rabbi Meir the Miracle Worker may I find (---) which I have lost.
Money is then donated to support the poor in Israel.
Did I forget to mention that you also have to get up and look for the object? :)
Yours truly,
Rabbi Menachem Posner
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Midrash Rabbah Genesis 53:14. |
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The origins of this statement is in the Talmud (Avodah Zarah 18a-b): |
Yerushalayim and Potomac, Maryland
He gave a prayer/psalm to my wife, with the proviso that in order for the psalm to work it needed to be said in Hebrew.
He then stated the Hebrew and word-by-word my wife repeated each word.
When she came to me with this story, she said that she subsequently found the lost item. When I asked her how quickly she found it, she said, "Immediately."
So the question is, does the psalm/prayer need to be said in Hebrew or is English also appropriate?
Watford
Baltimore, MD
Sydney, Australia
Victoria, Canada
I found this online because I don't have at work my aneini book, which has this prayer in Hebrew/English among other prayers. Great book by the way! Anyway, my package for work went missing with all my orders of the previous day in it. Thanks to Chabad I said the above prayer and gave a few coins to charity & walked over to the location it was supposed to be that others claimed that it was not there.
Guess what........ it was THERE!!!
I guess G-d wanted my prayer otherwise why would this package go missing when it always gets there everyday relatively fine :)
brooklyn, ny
Kiryat Arba, Israel