Musar untuk Bilangan 7:11

In Nissan, on the other hand, although the Divine Name shines with total mercy, which is why it is forbidden to fast, it is not customary to go to the cemetery to pray beside the graves and recite supplications. This is in order to lend special sanctity to this entire month. How then can we conduct ourselves towards those holy souls as one company towards another, as mentioned above? To this end it is fitting that one adopt the custom of our holy teacher Rabbi Yeshayahu Segal, author of Shenei Luchos HaBris (Part II, beginning of Pesachim). He recommended that from the first of Nissan one should read every day the verses of the inauguration offerings of the twelve leaders as recorded in Parashas Naso (Bamidbar, Chapter 7-8), one prince each day. Then after one has recited the verses pertaining to that day’s offering, he should recite this brief supplication: May it be Your will, Hashem our God and God or our fathers, to shed light this day in Your abundant mercy upon the holy souls that are renewed like the birds, chirping their praises and praying on behalf of Your holy people Israel. Master of the Universe, allow those holy birds to enter the sacred place concerning which it is stated, “No eye has beheld it other than You.” May it be Your will, Hashem my God and God of my fathers, that if I, Your servant, am descended from the tribe of Such-and-such, about whose leader I have read this day from the Torah, then please cause to shine upon me all the holy sparks and lights that are intermingled with the sanctity of this tribe. And let me be arrayed in the sanctity of this tribe so that I may have understanding and insight into Your Torah and Your awe to perform Your will all my days, myself and my offspring and their offspring from this time forth forever. One should do this every day, for it is an upright custom that is fitting to adopt.