BS"D BR"H ISSUE 32 IYAR 5774
The arrest and the redemption
In the article "the story of the arrest and redemption"
the story is told about what happened over 200 years ago when the chassidus movement
was just beginning and the alter Rebbe of Chabad R' Shneur Zalman of
Liadi - the Ba'al Hatanya and Shulchan Aruch Harav brought thousands of people
towards Chassidus and there therefore arouse fierce opposition against him. In
those days a group of "misnagdim" (opposers) tried to stop him
in every possible way from relating the teachings of Chassidus to the common
people. The leader of the Misnagdim was Avigdor the Chief Rabbi of Pinsk who after seeing that all the efforts of the Misnagdim to stop the Rav and
cool off the Chasidim was not succeeding and the Rav’s community just grew
larger and larger, his influence growing and spreading to other villages and cities
- Avigdor decided to take action. In the year 5559 he went to the Russian authorities
with false accusations against the Rav in order to get him arrested. He said to
his friends the misnagdim with content that this will finally destroy the
Chassidus movement.
Avigdor's intention was so-to-speak "leshaim
shamayim” (for the sake of heaven) "a holy purpose", he argued that the Ba'al Hatanya is bringing
new ideas into Judaism that destroy the “true” way of the Torah, new
things that were never heard of in Judaism and he must be stopped at all costs.
They therefore made up lies and accusations that he is rebelling against the
King of Russia.
Sure enough the government took it seriously and soldiers
were sent immediately to arrest the Rav, to bring him to the capital to investigate
the story and to decide what to do with him. The soldiers arrived to the Ravs
house and when they entered his room they found him donned with his Tallis
and Tefilin in middle of davening. They went to the outer room
and sat there to eat until the Rav finishes his prayers. In the meantime the
Rav turned to a local Jew by the name of Rav Doober Litman who was inside the
room with him and told him that he wants to flee and hide. The Rav took off
his Tallis and Tefilin, took them in his hand and escaped through the back
door. When they got to a river the Jew lifted the Rav on his shoulders and crossed him the river until they
reached the cemetery and there in the cemetery the Rav hid. After a while the Jew
was able to find a wagon and took him to a hotel called "sirakaratniya"
where they both hid for a certain period of time. In that whole period the authorities
pressured the students of the Rav tremendously in order that they reveal to
them where the Rav is hiding. In the beginning they threatened that they will
burn down the whole city, afterwards when they saw that the threat is not
working they spoke to them with soft words and said "understand,
eventually we will find the Rav so save aggravation from all of us. Reveal his
hiding place for everyone's benefit and also for the benefit of the Rav's
trial". Some of the rav's students went to the Rav and told him about all
the pressure that the Government is putting them through in order to get them
to reveal his hiding place. The Rav answered "I had to flee for a period
of time like it says in the torah ‘And Yaakov fled’ but it is now time for my
hiding place can be revealed”. The people did that and the soldiers came to the
Rav and arrested him with iron chains and took him to prison in a special black
wagon for people who rebelled against the king. The news of the arrest spread all
over the country and in every city amongst the Chassidim there was mourning
fasting and crying.
There is a special "Tikkun" (kabalistic term for specific acts
which work to rectify the world in a spiritual sense) of "Yaakov
fled" like we wrote about in previous Knishta Chada journals in the
name of the Ramcha"l about the fleeing of Moshe Rabeinu and how through
that Hashem appeared to him by the burning bush and that was the beginning of
redemption even though the actual redemption itself only took place later
on. We also mentioned about the fleeing of Rashbi (Rabbi Shimon Bar Yochai)
that the Ramchal says that only through the fleeing were the secrets of the
holy Zohar which is termed ‘the beginning of redemption’ were revealed to him,
like it says there "with this sefer the Jewish people will go out
of galus”. But there is an even higher tikkun of "And he is bound
in chains among all the exile of Jerusalem and Judah" (Jerimiah 40 1)
like we will bring later.
On the day that the Ba'al Hatanya was released from prison, the 19th
of Kislev, the Ba'al shem tov and the Maggid memezritch who passed away a few
years before appeared to him and told him that the reason of his imprisonment
is because there was a kitrug (accusation) in heaven due to the fact
that he publicizing Chasiddus which includes hidden secrets of the Torah, and ‘the
honor of Hashem is to hide it'. So the Ba'al Hatanya asked his teachers, “Should
stop publicizing the Torah of Chasiddus?” They answered, “Just the opposite! Continue
on with greater strength because through your imprisonment you mitigated
everything! Now permission was given from Heaven to reveal"! Therefore the
period of time that the Ba'al Hatanya was imprisoned was 53 days which is like
the number of chapters in his book "Tanya". Thousands of Jews
around the world especially Chabad Chasidim celebrate the day of 19 Kislev as
"Chag Hageulah" (Holiday of Redemption) because this was a great day
in which the secrets of the Torah were allowed to be revealed, and through this
the prophecy will be fulfilled "your wellsprings will spread outwards",
which is what the redemption of the Jewish People depends on.
Also Yosef Hatzaddik when chains of iron were
put on him after being greatly humiliated when witnessed him in the center of
town in terrible shame after he ran away from Potifar's wife and was arrested
without any clothes in middle of the city – a horrible scene! It was clear to
all the Egyptians that Yosef Hatzaddik is the biggest adulterer in
the world and certainly they wrote the whole story in the Egyptian newspaper
that even his own brothers sold him and threw him out of his country and
afterwards he was caught red-handed doing terrible sins. The whole Egypt said
that if his brothers don't want him in their country then we don't either want
him here! “Abusers should be deported” “Egypt is not a safe haven for fugitives”.
His brothers sold him just for a pair of
shoes and the Egyptians thought that even that wasn’t a fair deal since he
wasn't worth even worth a pair of shoes. All this was probably written in all
the Egyptian newspapers together with his picture as he was caught there in the
center of town in terrible shame and humiliation.
However, as the story reveals, after all of
this, and specifically due to all this humiliation and him being placed in
jail, Hashem brought it about that Yosef will become the king of the world and
the verse says "And besides him no one can raise his hand or foot in the
entire land". Everything turned around! He became the king over everyone! As
it says “Yosef is the leader he is the sustainer of all the people”, and from
all over the world people would come to him to receive sustenance. He then saved
the Jews from hunger and paved the way for the future Geulah (redemption).
This is what we wrote about in the previous Knishta Chada jounal in the name of
our holy teacher Rebbe Nachman of Breslov that the more the tzaddik becomes
degraded the more he will be raised up higher to greatness in the end (see
there).
Also the story of King David that from the
day he was born no one wanted him he was always shamed and distanced even in his
own family and when Shmuel Hanavi said to his father Yishai that
he came to anoint one of his sons as the king of Israel Yishai brought
all of his sons and left Dovid with the sheep since it was clear to him that
Shmuel didn't intend to anoint Dovid. After Shmuel told him specifically that
there must be another child and Yishai denied that he has another child until
he was forced to bring him. So the midrash says “Just as Yosef was rushed from
the pit in order to receive the kinghip, so to Dovid was rushed from after the
sheep”. Then Dovid praised Hashem and said "I thank You for You have
answered me and become my salvation" and Yishai answered "the stone
that the builders despised has become the cornerstone" and then all of
Dovids brothers who all the time humiliated him answered "This emanated
from Hashem it is wondrous in our eyes" then Shmuel said "This is the
day Hashem has made let us rejoice and be glad on it". That's how Dovid
received the kingdom. But Dovids entire life was filled with redifos (being
chased by his enemies) as is known which continued until Dovid Hamelech was
already old and only then did the redifos from all off his enemies and
haters finally end and in his zechus and through all the redifos was the
beis hamikdosh built and will be rebuilt in the future. Dovid the King
of Israel lives eternally!
Moharant and his opposers
Our holy teacher Rebbe Nachman says (Likutei
Moharan 228) that every tzaddik who is involved in kiruv rechokim,
bringing people close to Hashem, must face lots of opposition, in his words "there
necessitates that there be machlokes on the one who brings people to teshuva
and makes converts, that he shouldn't have any peace whatsoever, so then
whoever comes close, is doing it for real”. He says that Hashem himself makes
sure that there will be machkokes on him. We see in all the past
generations from the time of Avrahom Avinu (our forefather Abraham), that every
tzaddik that was involved in bringing his generation close to Hashem suffered
tremendously from redifos and humiliation and opposition; but the
tzaddikim suffer it gladly for the sake of heaven.
It's known that Reb Noson the student of
Rebbe Nachman was almost killed by his opposers and was literally in life
endangerment. After the misnagdim saw that they weren’t successful in
killing him since the minister appointed guards to protect him they went to the
authorities and paid a large sum of money and made false accusations against
him in order to imprison him. They told the authorities two reasons why he must
be arrested: 1. He considers himself a prophet and messiah and is misleading
people 2. He holds a printing press without a license. When the police arrived
with a group of investigators to Breslov to Reb Nossons house and didn't find
anything the misnagdim appointed from themselves 12 false pairs of witnesses
who sweared falsely and gave a lot of money to bribe and strengthen the lies
until they succeeded in their actions and the police handcuffed Reb Nosson in
front of the chasidim and Reb Nosson went into jail in the worst cell possible
together with murderers and thieves, who as soon as he got there all started to
attack him and beat him until the officer heard his shouting and moved him to
another cell.
In the second cell it was permitted to bring
in some seforim with paper and a
pen and there Reb Nosson wrote one of the most amazing teachings in Lekutei
Halochos (yayin nesech 4) there he refers to his arrest and explains in a
deep way how there can be a situation in which people who are very religious and
even Chasidim yet they can sink to such a low level that they permit themselves
to kill another Jew and say it's leshem shamayim “for the sake of
heaven”, and that it's a mitzva to persecute him. How they say this especially
about the tzaddik hemes (The true Tzaddik of the generation) who brings
the light of Moshiach to the world they explain with all kinds of false
explanations that according to the torah it's a mitzvah to persecute him to the
ends of his soul. R Noson warns there that there is a danger for every person
to fall in their trap if one is not shomer his bris enough (guarding
the convent), because all the confusions come from not being shomer habris.
Even people who keep the whole torah but in this area they leave off and they
say just the opposite; that shmiras habris is not so important
and you don't have to have extra holiness and they excuse themselves that for “sholom
bayis” it's permissible to do what's wrong, and from that they come to
switching around the whole torah and say about impure that it's pure and what's
pure they say it's impure and it's a mitzvah to chase the tzaddikim as we saw
in the past generations. This is the main reason why the galus is so
long, because if people would believe in the tzaddik haemes of the
generation everything would be fixed. He continues and says the secret of his
arrest, and these are his words: "And because of our great sins in galus
it is considered like Hashem himself is sitting in prison like it says
'and he is imprisoned in chains' and as it's brought in the Zohar (tikunei
hazhor) many times that about him it is said ‘a prisoner cannot free
himself from prison etc' and this thing is only with repentance etc' to break
his own prison etc' because the main strengthening of exile g-d forbid is by
this item that we spoke about a little that the main power of the yetzer
hara which is the exile of the soul is by taking the light from above which
is the light of the torah, and shaping it opposite from the truth and because of that all the
paths become to him like a straight way since a he makes sins into good deeds,
especially the sin of machlokes quarreling. Because this is the main bechinas
galus hashchina (aspect of the exile of the divine presence) what each
person causes with his sins and especially by this area when he is smart in his
eyes and makes himself new mitzvos to permit spilling blood and similar
things - Hashem should save us - which happens by shaping the light the
opposite way which is considered as if he is holding and imprisoning the shechina
in prison and jail literally, since he holds the simple heavenly light in his damaged
mind and ruins and shapes the light the opposite way due to the great power of
free-will that hashem yisbarach G-d gave to people. It's as if hashem
yisbarach must let his holy light be caught in this persons mind against
his will which is literally like a jail
and prison of the shechina as is mentioned in chapter 63 of
Likutei Moharan on the saying of Rabeinu z"l that R' Shimon said to R' Akiva when he sat in
prison ‘Rabbi teach me torah etc' because when we form Hashem's light down into
this world (teaching torah to the wrong minds) that's like imprisonment etc' as
it says ‘your king is bound in chains etc' but when we shape the light in holiness
in line with Hashem's will that is very pleasurable to Hashem. Learn that
teaching (of Rebbe Nachman) well because when the torah comes to a student who
is not good he receives the light of the torah in his damaged mind and shapes
the light the opposite way. It comes out that he is holding Hashem's light
against his will which is literally prison, and even more so these opposers who
ruin very much and greatly turn around the light of the truth through there damaged
minds which is full of impure thoughts until they shape the light of the torah exactly
the opposite way which is literally jail and prison of the shechina the
main exile of the shechina, and even more so when the opposers
strengthen themselves even more and chase and deliver another Jew into prison,
literally, G-d forbid. It's like the shechina is with him in prison since
'I am with him in sorrow', woe to those who cause all of this evil to their
souls. This is what it says 'and his hand was holding the heel of esav' the
heel signifies when esav will be stronger at the end of the exile, b’ikvita
d’mshicha ‘at the heels of redemption’ and he will want to step with
his heel on the heads of Israel as in ‘overpowered me has his heel’, then
specifically "his hand" which signifies emunah (faith) tefila
(prayer) as it says (of Moshe) 'and his hands were faith etc' - stretched
out in prayer’, these hands are holding the heel (of Esav) to knock him down
and lower him through this (through prayer) for ‘our only power is with the
mouth’ to hold on to the profession of our forefathers, that is, to scream out
to Hashem from wherever he is.
This is the aspect of the verse said about
Shimshon 'who bites the horses heels and his rider falls backward, to your help,
Hashem, I yearn 'etc' because Shimshon was the aspect Moshiach as is said in
the midrash, and all this is merited through the aspect of ‘to your help
Hashem I yearn’, by never giving up hope from the mercy of Hashem ‘even if a
sharp sword is on his neck’ chas vshalom, only to hope to His help always
and to cry out whatever the circumstance, and through this even if he is under
the horses heels he will overcome and defeat the enemies as in 'who bites the
heels of the horse and his rider falls backward'.” See this whole teaching, we
couldn’t bring it call since it long, but it is very important.
The zohar (mishpatim
114) speaks about the secret of ‘the tzaddik in iron chains’ which is
"to tie the 'samech mem' under the hand of Hashem, and his companion
who is the bad maid under the hand of her owner, they and all of their
companions and all of their helpers, will be chained in chains under your
hands". The Ramchal (who himself
had a lot of opposition until he was imprisoned) explains in the sefer adir bamarom part 1
"Hashem wanted the tzadddik to suffer affliction as it's brought in
Chaz"al (Sanhedrin 98) and that is
what he suffers the afflictions of the sitra achra “other side”
for am yisrael The Jewish Nation. This is to do bad for the evil side
and about this is said "where he bent over there he fell" because all
of the places where the evil side have a holding when they rule, there they
become trapped like a bird in a trap that cannot run away afterwards when the holiness
is stronger, those levels themselves will become chains on their own necks to
surrender them underneath the holiness and to take the revenge that must be
taken. In this way will be found all the levels of the evil side that ruled
over am yisrael and over Moshiach to close their light and to antagonize
them tied and standing in the future. Also Moshe was put in the river since he
was also in the shell of Egypt in order that Egypt will be tied up underneath
him afterwards. The shechina never leaves the souls to drown in the galus
and even more so these souls. It says "and she saw that he is good"
that the sehchina was with him "because when the tzaddik is locked
and closed in the klipos he takes from them all their power until
nothing will be left of them and only through this will be their final downfall and am
yisrael will go out of their ruling and this is the secret of Moshe in the
house of Pharaoh and Esther in the house of achashverosh 'and afterwards they
will go out with a big fortune" since through that will be the geulah.
Rabeinu says (sipurei masiyos) there
are tzaddikim who take upon themselves suffering and the rulers lead them in
chains" that is the cripple without feet. We saw in the story of the
Ba'al Hatanya that after he did the
pasuk "and Yaakov fled" he wanted his students to reveal his hiding place in order to do the tikun of
"he is imprisoned in chains" which is higher and through that there
became chag hageulah. Also the Ba'al Hatanya like R' Noson was in the
beginning in the worst cell and suffered terribly until they moved him to
another cell –it's impossible to imagine how much the tzadddikim suffer for us.
The Tosfos Yom Tov
It's possible to write a whole book about
tzaddikim who were imprisoned by their opposers but since the Rav mentioned in
the last lecture on Tuesday 13 Nissan about the Tosfos Yom Tov we will also
tell about him. In the year 5389 his opposers bribed and put him in prison and
he was chased from city to city and it was said about him that he is the
biggest criminal in the world and in his trial he was sentenced to death and
only through a miracle was he saved. In the merit of all these redifos
he merited that in the end his seforim were accepted in am yisrael and
his explanation is one of the main explanations on the mishnayos.
Today we are in the year 5774 and everyone
thinks that the world is much more liberal than ever before -much more
democratic but we see (even though many things are still hidden) that history
repeats itself and just like those days 200 years ago the 'Avigdors' of our
generation continue to chase the tzaddik emes in every place with
all their power. As R' Matisyahu Deitsh the Rav of Ramat Shlomo said that only
after it's written in history will we understand what really happened here but
now we have to be careful that chas vsholom we shouldn't fall to the fate of the
'avigdorim' even if now they appear as good and sincere people. Rav Dietsh said
imagine to yourselves if the whole moetzes gdolei hatorah would place a cherem
on the gerrer Rebbe chas vshalom and would forbid him to join a
minyan and his wine is yain nesech that’s how it was in the time of the
Ba'al Shem Tov that they put him in cherem.
In the past 50 years we see the Rav serving
Hashem with such avodos that cannot be found at all in this generation
and even in the previous generations we didn't hear from such avodos with
such miseras nefesh and we saw that all the
amazing things that Rabeinu and R' Noson did
happened by the Rav even more so
bechinas pi shnayim(twice as much) Rabeinu says in torah 66
that the student can reach the power of pi shnayim from his rabbi but
it's all through the power of his rabbi as we explained in the previous letters
about the tremendous power of Rabeinu hakadosh who said "I can make a sincere
person literally like me" but one thing was missing to us all these years
–that the Rav didn't have terrible opposition and redifos like Rabeinu
and R' Noson had but now we see in the recent years that it happened to the
Rav because when R' Noson moved to a
different city the opposition quieted down but the Rav continues to be chased
throughout the world and he does everything with tremendous happiness with a
happiness of mitzvah that can't be described at all. We will write a few
stories that we heard what happened with tzaddik hador but the full
story will be revealed and understood only in the future.
A war in Hashem
The main goal of the tzaddik's enemies is
that people should stop doing tshuva and coming close to Hashem
yisbarach as Rabeinu explains (sichos Haran 38) that really they are fighting
against Hashem yisbarach himself but since they are ashamed to speak against
Hashem instead they speak against the tzaddik. Those bad people saw hundreds of
students of the Rav who came to be with him on Pesach in Zimbabwe and since
Purim there was every day long prayers and wonderful shiurim and
tremendous burning to Hashem. 50 years since the Rav opened the yeshiva we
didn't see such things and those enemies that saw that all their efforts that
they're moser nefesh (self-sacrifice) to stop the tzaddiks influence in
the world but nothing helps. In the beginning when they expelled the Rav from
yerushalayim people walked to Beitar every Shabbos 4 hours by foot and when
they made the false accusations about the Rav it didn't either help them since
everyone continued to come to him and when he was expelled from Israel to Morocco
it didn't either help them since also there they came and they worked very hard
to expell him from Morocco and it didn't either work since people continued to
come in middle of the African jungle with even greater amounts from ever before
even people who they succeed in furthering in the beginning through all their
lies and accusations now they came to the Rav to ask forgiveness. Because of
all of this the students sang on Purim the song "Utzu eitza
vsufar". But those bad people don't give
up and like in the time of the
Tosfos Yom Tov and the Ba'al hatanya R' Noson and the rest of the tzaddikim ,they
are fighting against the `Rav with mesirus nefesh as if it's lshem
shamayim a jihad war and they paid thousands of dollars to the top people
in the Zimbabwe government and went to the big journalists in Africa to place
false accusations against the Rav in order to arrest him and they looked for an
excuse to arrest him so they said that his visa was expired. Since when did we
ever hear that a person is dressed with prisoners garments and handcuffed only
because the date of the visa expired a couple of days ago (even though that was
also a lie) but with money you can do everything as is known to everyone the
way things work over there. So the police came to the Rav like they came to the
Ba'al Hatanya who was with tallis and tefilin and when the Rav
heard that they came to arrest him he made a bracha shecheyanu since
until now the Rav did the tikun of vayivrach yackov and now he
felt the big zechus to fulfill the pasuk "and he is bound in
chains among all the exile of Jerusalem" in order to atone for am
yisrael as it's written "Now that he has been released from captivity
and judgment…for he had been removed from the land of living an affliction upon
them that was my people's sin". But "He submitted himself to his
grave like wicked men" since through that there will be a downfall for the
wicked ones as we explained above because "he would see offspring and live
long days and the desire of Hashem would succeed in his hand"(Yeshayahu
53)
We brought in the previous letters the Midrash
in yalkut yeshayahu about the tzaddikim who suffer for am yisrael
and even though they take upon themselves all the suffering of the
world and all the generations they do it with such happiness and tremendous
love like we see by the Rav. We wrote this before they arrested the Rav and
then we skipped what's written there that the tzaddik goes also in to prison in
order to atone for am yisrael as
we wrote above in the name of Rabeinu in Sipurei masiyos.
We wrote about the wanderings of the Rav that when he left Morocco and arrived in
South Africa and we explained the pasuk" and Yaakov went to Charan"
that Rabeinu z"l had intentions with all his wanderings and travelling to
repel Hashems anger and we wrote that exactly in those days of the Ravs
traveling there was a meeting of the leaders of countries in Geneva to make an
agreement with Iran to let them finish building the nuclear bomb and in a wondrous
way exactly then the Rav landed and finished his wanderings in the world
everyone was shocked that the French president said that he is not signing on
the agreement and because of his refusal to sign the whole agreement was
cancelled and is was postponed for another 5 months to April 8-9 in Vienna and
on April 7 they sat to write the agreement and that was exactly the day the
police came to arrest the Rav in
Bulawayo .The Rav sat in interrogation for long hours and the next day went to court and on April 9
left Zimbabwe and when he arrived in the airport in Johannesburg they held him
for a couple of long hours and wanted to send him back to Israel and at the
same time there was mass prayer at the Kossel for the Ravs success. We
were in contact by telephone with the people who were with the Rav and
miraculously the second that we finished the last Kaddish at the Kossel
they let the Rav in to Johannesburg! And there was great happiness even though
we want the Rav here in Israel we were happy that the will of the Rav was done
that he wanted to continue his galus and tikunim. It was also known
at the same time that the meeting between the leaders of the world in Vienna
ended.
A nuclear bomb landed in Israel
This time it isn't so simple like last time
as we wrote in letter 30 the Ravs words in the shiur from 3 in Adar 2 and on 10
Adar in the notice of the atzeret (mass prayer) that the Rav said that
already in another month a nuclear bomb will land in Israel and in the zechus
of the prayers and the tikun hakllali it will transform to candies.
And in letter 31 we brought the tefila that the Rav wrote a few years
before his galus that we should daven for him that he should emerge from"
the decree of the terrible expulsion from the holy land" and we saw that
the Rav sees everything upfront and arouses us to tear heavens in prayer and if
that won't be enough he will take upon himself everything as it's written (moed
katan 16) 'Hashem decrees and the tzaddik nullifies the decree '. Therefore the
atzeret was also for the Ravs success and also to nullify the decree of
the atom bomb because one is tied up with the other one. A month after the Rav said these words on the
7 of Nissan the Rav took upon himself hamtakas hadinim (to mitigate the judgments)
through his arrest to turn everything into candy. Exactly 30 days afterwards on
the 10 of Nissan in Israel the horrible picture of the Rav with handcuffs was
shown. There was no one with a Jewish heart that wasn't shocked when he saw
that picture. We heard of people that when they saw the picture they did kriah
and some sat on the floor and cried. Literally a nuclear bomb landed in Israel
and the Rav took it upon himself.
We spoke with one of the Ravs students who
came back from Johannesburg and we didn't tell him what we wrote about the Rav
that through his arrestment he stopped the decree of the nuclear bomb and he
alone told us that he heard from the Ravs daughter who was with the Rav when he
left Zimbabwe that the Rav said to her "when I was handcuffed and dressed
with the prisoners clothes I felt like I'm holding the atom bomb in my
hand".
Everything turned into candy
From the beginning, the intentions of the
evil misnagdim was to publicize such a picture and they planned how to
do it that the Rav will be dressed like that for 10 minutes and for a second
they will take of the kippah from his head and someone will stand at a
certain angle in order to take a picture of the Rav in that second. They paid a
lot of money in order to bribe the police and the media in order to get such a
picture which they can show to the whole world and say look who are your rabbis
–the biggest criminals since they know that people are chozer betshuva
just from seeing the Rav therefore they wanted to dirty his name that people
should stop becoming religious. But it did just the opposite! It had a
boomerang effect because people became religious just from seeing that picture.
Now people see the truth. It's clear who the people are who are chasing the Rav
everywhere and the Rav takes everything with love. The Rav once said that when
Iran will throw an atom bomb towards Israel all the torah learning that’s
learned in the yeshivas in Israel will disrupt the winds and the bomb
will return and land on them. The same thing happened here they wanted to throw
an atom bomb on the torah world and dirty the Rav figure in order to damage the
tshuva movement but in the end it fell on them and the tshuva movement
is growing and multiplying itself from minute to minute. Rav Chaim Ness told us
that he goes around in Tel Aviv and all the non religious people come to him
and want to know what's happening with Rabbi Berland they want a word of chizuk
a small story and are very aroused from everything. He does gatherings in
Tel Aviv with hundreds of participants and gives out kippot that has the
Ravs name printed on it and these people take upon themselves to wear the kippah
for the Ravs success they come in the masses to become religious! And it's
all in the zechus of those people who distributed the picture and chase
the Rav nonstop. Its years that the Rav is shouting there are no chilonim(non-
religious) in am yisrael! There are no rishaim(evil people) in am
yisrael! because only the outer appearance looks like that but everyone are
believers the son of believers and the light of the torah is found in them as
it says the "the eternal life he planted in us" but a drop of truth
has to be given to them and then they
awaken. The anti religious media denies that and continues together with Lapid
to try and stop the stream of the tshuva and torah learning in Israel
since they see that soon all of am yisrael will be religious but it
doesn't help them at all because everything that they do stop it only helps us
because when everyone sees that they are throwing young boys in to jail because
of the terrible crime that they are learning torah and also they saw when Rav
Yoram Abargel was handcuffed for no reason and everyday they see Rav Berland
being chased by them in the whole world that gives tremendous power to the tshuva
movement because the truth is now revealed to everyone. This is what we
wrote in letter 28 on the pasuk tzadiK katamaR yifraCh "the
tzaddik will blossom like a palm tree" that it's the sofei teivos KoRaCh
because through Korach himself will the truth be revealed.
This is one of the responses we received
after the picture was publicized "I'm not a Breslover Chassid and until
today I had no opinion in the matter but when I see such a picture I begin to
understand that the Rav suffers for us. "Our sickness he takes upon
himself".
Also many Rabbis who didn't speak until now about
this subject suddennetaly say their opinion and support in favor of the Rav and
they themselves come closer to the Rav. We heard stories of people who were
considered big opposers of the Rav who completely changed. When they saw the
picture they called up the Rav to obey their support and to ask forgiveness.
We saw something very interesting recently.
The few people who still oppose the Rav fell into such despair that they put
out their own "knishta chada" with the same logo and headline
that everyone should think that it's us but it was full of lies and bad
language against the Rav and whoever saw their letter immediately saw without a
doubt who these people are. And how far down do they go to use the headline of
a known paper and fill it with lies and blasphemy in the name of rabbis. The
first who called us were the rabbis themselves and their students who said that
it's all lies and things that were never said and now they understand who are the
people who are persecuting the Rav. They say that from this they see the
greatness of the Rav and how much people are fighting against him and he
suffers everything quietly as it's written in Yeshayahu 53 "He was
persecuted and afflicted but he did not open his mouth like a sheep being led
to slaughter or a ewe that is silent before her shearers he did not open his
mouth. Now that he has been released from captivity and judgment who could have
imagined such a generation? For he had been removed from the land of living an
affliction upon them that was my people's sin" but even so we are
beginning to see also "He submitted himself to his grave like wicked
men…for he bore the sin of multitudes and prayed for the wicked (yeshayahu 53.
It came about also tzaddiK katamaR yifraCH (the last letters KoRaCH) that
through korach himself will the truth be revealed and in the end they will say
we have all strayed like sheep each of us turning his own way and Hashem
inflicted upon him the iniquity of us all".
Rabbi Akiva's hand washing
In the
pictures that were shown after the arrest you can see the Rav holding bottles
of water even when he is handcuffed. Everyone wonders about this and ask since
when is it so urgent for the Rav to drink water? Whoever knows the Rav knows
that that the Rav never asks for something to eat or drink ,only if it's given
to him he eats a little and drinks a few sips and there are known stories that
the Rav went for days without eating or drinking because no one brought him any
food and he was busy with avodas hashem and learning so what are those
bottles of water that he is holding with such care? We investigated and heard
that the Rav was concerned that he should have water for washing his hands since
the Rav is very strict about washing his hands before every prayer and at his
arrest the Rav didn't know where he would be and for how long so the first
thing he made sure that he would have water for washing his hands. It's exactly
like the gemara tell about Rebbe Akiva how he was moser nefesh for the mitzvah of netilas yadayim when
he was imprisoned and didn't even think of drinking even though it was life
endangered since he didn't eat or drink for a couple of days and when the chachamim
heard and how he was concerned even
in such situations to keep the halacha they said if in his elderly so –in his
youngness even more so and if in prison so –when not in prison even more so . The
same thing we saw by the Rav.
Simcha of the mitzvah
Recently the Rav spoke in the shiurim
a few times about Nachum ish gamzu that his greatness was that in
every situation he was in he said it's the best that can be! It's different
than what Rebbe Akiva said "all for the best "that in the end it will
be good but there is an even higher level to see that now it's the best! We saw
this by the Rav. He was in such happiness and hislahavus when they
arrested him and afterwards when they persecuted him in Johannesburg he looked
as if he is doing the biggest mitzvah and he is doing it with his whole heart
with happiness of the mitzvah. The Rav left Zimbabwe like a king wearing his tallis
and tefilin and the whole plane received him with great honor and
with tremendous happiness and they sang si'u shearim rosheichem
The zechus to suffer for the tzaddik
When they were forced to leave Zimbabwe close
to Pesach most of anas"h who
stayed in Zimbabwe from Purim travelled to Johannesburg by bus men women and
kids . It's was very close to Pesach and literally like yetzias mitzrayim(leaving
Egypt) they left in a hurry but this time not only did they not have time to
bake matzos there wasn't even time to take them along and they left all the 600
kilo of matzos over there! They rented 4 buses and left for the long journey.
One of the buses got stuck on the way and they were delayed in Africa 24 hours with
almost no food or drinks in tremendous suffering. It's brought in the reishis
chochma in the name of tana dvei eliyahu that the passuk says
"he is suffering from our sins "meaning that just like the tzaddik
suffers from our sins since we cause him to suffer so to whoever wants that the
tzaddik shouldn’t suffer from our sins should suffer himself. This is brought
also in sefer Chasidim that one Chassid suffered for his sins and said this reason. We won't
know until the next world how much these people helped the tzaddik with all
that he goes through for us but it's clear that it's a very big zechus to
each and every one that was stuck there just like
every person who comes to the tzaddik with mesiros nefesh that it's
impposible to describe the zechus. R' Noson once said that even if the
whole way was full of knives I would crawl on my hands and feet in order to get
to Rabeinu. In the time the bus was stuck the Rav was held up in the airport.
Anas"h called up the Rav and told him that their stuck and there isn't any
food or drinks and there are small children so the Rav said to dance and in an
hour everything will be okay. Sure enough afterwards a few blacks came with
bananas fruit and drinks and an hour later another bus came to take them.
People think there is a limit to how much can
a person persecute the tzaddik and afterwards they will give up but one thing
we can learn from them –never to give up! Just like they continue to persecute
the Rav everywhere and cause him anguish so to we have to follow the Rav and
his advice with mesiros nefesh. Before the Rav and his students arrived
to Johannesburg the enemies already worked hard to cause him anguish over there
and in the airport they didn't want to let him in. The Rav was delayed for long
hours and the whole time was extremely happy and calm and the Rav prayed with
anas"h mincha and maariv with songs and they danced. In the meantime the
border police checked up about the Rav since the enemies told them that they
shouldn't let him into Johannesburg and they brought them all the articles from
the media where it's written that the Rav is wanted in Israel and is thrown out
from every place. They didn't succeed and the Rav was let in to Johannesburg
but even there the enemies weren't quiet and kept on chasing the Rav and they
sent letters to all the rabbis and advertised in the local newspaper all those
false accusations that the Rav was accused of in Israel and they tried to cause
that the local Jews would not take in anyone. But this also didn't help them
since Jews are rachmonim bnei rachmonim and they opened up their homes
and put up a huge tent for everyone and cooked all of the meals for Pesach and
all this only a few days before Pesach. Besides a few local people who believed
the lies and tried to cause a commotion no one paid attention to them. After
Pesach the local newspaper revealed the truth and wrote everything- that the
Rav is a real tzaddik and it's all false accusations. It was a big Kiddush
hashem and those who at the beginning believed the lies and didn't let
anyone in to their homes completely changed and came to help those who stayed
in any way they could. The evil enemies worked hard to stop the Ravs students
from being with their rabbi on Pesach and they hired the services of the
"hawks" who are like the secret police in Israel and are higher
ranking than the regular police and are above the law and the locals told us
that they are corrupt people and it all works by them with bribery. They
searched the Rav the whole holiday. In the meantime some of the rabbis in
"shuvu bonim gave shiurim to the local people on Pesach in their homes and
they were very impressed from them and wanted them to stay after Pesach.
On chol hamoed the Ravs students
succeeded in reaching him. In the morning he was in a hotel in the city and the
hotel owners gave them a big hall and they prayed shachris with the Rav.
Even one minute to see the tzaddik and
to pray with him was worth the whole effort and mesiros nefesh to reach
him as we mentioned in the previous letter the passuk "it's better one day
in your courtyard then a thousand" that it's better to do avodas hashem
with the tzaddik even one day than to serve hashem in another place a thousand
years. They said that the prayer was literally "olam haba" for
a couple of long hours and the Rav was the whole time in tremendous happiness-
they danced and jumped and sang and said hallel and read from the small sefer
torah that goes along with the Rav to every place and they prayed musaf
and started to say tikun haklali and all of a sudden the Rav
disappeared! No one knew where he is. They went outside and saw the Rav go in
to a car and the car drew off. He saw in ruach hakodesh that the
"hawks " are coming to search him as we saw in the story of the Ba'al
Hatanya that the soldiers came in middle of the prayer and he ran out through a
side door so to the Rav left the prayer and went down the emergency steps
because the Rav decided to do "and Yaakov ran away". This is what happened. One of the Ravs
students was staying by one the wealthy Jews of Johannesburg and when the Jew
heard that he is going to the Rav he said take my Jaguar car since I want to
have the merit that you will travel with it to the Rav and maybe I will also
merit that the Rav will travel in my car. But the student didn't want the
responsibility to drive with such an expensive car in a country that he is not
familiar with and the roads are in the opposite directions like in England so
he said that he will take a taxi but the person was the stubborn until the guy
agreed. So he took the jaguar and right when he arrived there the Rav walked
out to him and went in to the car and told him to drive. Whoever drove once
with the Rav saw a wondrous thing that anywhere in the world the Rav knows all
the directions as if a map is spread out in front of him and sometimes the Rav
directs the driver without looking up and his eyes are in the sefer and he says
when to turn right or left (as it’s related in the book uman-the yearning that
destroyed walls) So the Rav told him exactly where to go. In the meantime all
of anash when they saw that the Rav left they thought the Rav drove to
the shul since it was planned that there the Rav would give a shiur so everyone
took taxis and when they arrived there was a Jew standing outside and warned
them the "hawks" are searching for the Rav over here. So they said we
are also searching for the Rav and they went in and saw a group of
"hawks" waiting for them and they started to ask questions if they
know Rabbi Berland and if they know where he is staying. They had with them a
booklet with pictures of the Rav from different stages in his life which they
received from those people in Israel who hired their services to search for the
Rav. They looked at one of the rabbis of the community who looks similar to the
Rav and they thought that it's the Rav so they asked him for his passport but
it wasn't on him it was at his house so they took him in to their car and drove
to his home to see his passport and in this time the Rav succeeded in escaping
and traveled far away from there. In middle of the way all of a sudden another
car came and the Rav went in to the second car and that happened a few times.
The whole time the Rav was tremendously happy and lively and danced like at the
weddings with bridge dance that the Rav does at weddings and said a lot of
jokes and sang songs with joy of the mitzvah of "Yaakov ran away"
unbelievable! We heard that now the Rav sits in his room and learns the whole
day and night and the Rav said to one of anash how happy he is that he was
arrested in Zimbabwe since he received such lights from that and he said that on hour of his
learning is like 50 years that he previously learned. On erev shvii shel
pesach he learned the whole day and at 10 o'clock at night there was a
blackout and the Rav was in big sorrow that he couldn't continue learning he
said I wanted to learn until 12 but probably hashem wanted me to sing songs.
On Tuesday isru chag Pesach there was
a mass prayer in Shuvu Bonim on Ido Hanavi Street in Jerusalem with hundreds of
participants. The speakers were Rav Matisyahu Deitsh shlit"a the Rav of
Ramat Shlomo and the son in law of Rav Moshe Halbershtam zt"l and Rav
Moshe Menachem Kluger shlit"a the head of mosdos kever Rachel.
Afterwards we merited to hear a wonderful shiur from the Rav through the
telephone for an hour and a half. The shul was jam packed even though only a
day before it was notified and hundreds were still in Johannesburg.
Rav Deitsh said "I had heard that the
community had fallen apart and when I came here I thought I would find here
20-30 people. I'm very happy to see such a holy community. We literally see
here "eternal Israel won't lie"!
Rav Matisyahu Deitsh spoke and said "I
am very moved to stand and speak here when in front of my eyes is the holy and
beloved figure of the Rav and it's possible to say that is a concept of the shechina
in galus. Afterwards he spoke about the way the torah was transferred
in the course of the generations to klal yisrael starting with Moshe Rabeinu
who gave us the torah at mount Sinai and later on Rashb"I who revealed the
secrets of the torah and afterwards the
Ari Hakadosh who brought it closer to our minds and then the Ba'al Shem Tov and
his students and Rabeinu who brought it even closer to avodah masit for
instance there is the holy heichal(chamber) very very high and no one
knows about it until someone comes and reveals to us that there is such a heichal
which is what Rashb"I revealed. Afterwards someone comes and brings a
picture of the heichal and then we start to understand how is looks (that's the
Ari) and then comes someone and he shows how the heichal is built and then
another one comes and simply starts building the heichal and says here is the
heichal!...Then Rav Deitsh said try to imagine the fierce opposition that the
Ba'al Shem Tov had and the worst things were said about him and all of the gdolei
yisrael said it! For instance if today the moetzes gdolei hatorah were
to go against the Gerrer Rebbe and would put him in to cherem and say
that his wine is yayin nesech(a non Jews wine) and it's forbidden for
him to participate in a minyan that’s how it was by the Ba'al Shem Tov! And
also by Rabeinu that they burnt his seforim!
That’s how it is in all the generations- every tzaddik that brought more
of am yisrael to hashem there was a terrible decree on him! But today
who remembers those misnagdim? Almost nothing was left from them! But
the words of the tzaddikim are alive and standing! Also by us all those who
speak against the Rav in the future it will be history just like all those who
spoke then against the Ba'al Shem Tov
and against Dovid Hamelech and all of the tzadddikim in the course of the
generations. That’s how it will look when the truth will come out and in the
meantime we have to be strong.
Then Rav Deitsh said that we have to know
that the Satan himself is fighting with us! Since such a holy community like
Shuvu Bonim with true ovdei hashem one of the most illustrious
communities that am yisrael has and the satan looked for different ways
that no one imagined in his mind to ruin it. Only the satan who is a angel of
hashem could do such a thing! But we have powers against the Satan! He said
that he remembers his father in law the gaon hatzaddik R' Moshe
Halbershtam zt"l who was a member
of the badatz eida hachareidis and one of the greatest poskim of the
generation and one of the biggest tzaddikim of the generation who was myuchas (lineage) to many of the tzaddikim of previous
generations and was a grandson- son after son to the 'Divrei Chaim' of
tzanz and a grandson of the 'Noam
Elimelech' the Belzer Rebbe and the Rofshitz Rebbe …and was close to all gdolei
hador and had connections with all of them but when he would mention
moreinu harav shlit"a it would be with special admiration and with great
honor! He said that it's known how his father in law was so given over to the
community and always was amazed at the special avodas hashem of shuvu bonim. He brought the pasuk "Thus
said Hashem I recall for you the kindness of your youth the love of your
nuptials your following Me into the wilderness into an unsown land" and said we are now in the period of time of
"your following Me in the desert "and that time is most beloved
before hashem when klal yisrael were in the desert in complete darkness and
didn't know what's going to be but came about the pasuk "your following
Me" with closed eyes and with true
faith in Hashem and true faith in the tzaddik emes and in that zchus
we will see "the love of your nuptials". About this time can be said
"it's a time of distress for Yaakov" but "from this will he be
saved". He said we have to learn from Napoleon who said that the secret of
his success is that his army started off with the victory song already at the
beginning of the war. We have to start singing the victory song! The Satan is
not looking for the Rav he doesn't want
to put the Rav in jail or in handcuffs. Nothing! He knows that the Rav nothing
bothers him whoever knows the Rav knows that nothing bothers him! I had the zechus
to learn with the Rav hour after hour and in the future I will also merit with
Hashems help and I saw that all the rough things that happened to him didn't
bother him at all! But here in the holy community the Satan wants to break each
and everyone and that we can't let him do! He ended off saying" I have no
doubt that the day will come in hashems help very soon and we will meet here
and we will have a big reception for the Rav and there will be tremendous
happiness! The happiness will break all the walls! In hashems help there won't
be any more anguish! We will then sing a new song and we will understand the
kindness that Hashem did with us" I recall for you the kindness of your
youth the love of your nuptials" with Hashems help there won't be any
sorrow! Everyone will have a salvation for what he needs! From this will sprout
a big salvation for all of klal yisrael! And very soon we will merit to the
coming of Moshiach with great pity and kindness Amen V'Amen!
After Rav Kluger spoke Rav Deitsh stood up
and added" I sat here and remembered whole nights that I merited and will
future merit that I learned with the Rav the holy torah. I think it's forbidden
for us to talk about the greatness and holiness of the Rav. All the words just
reduce since the Ravs greatness is not fathomable! The power! The great light of
the Rav! I can say that even in torah learning -baruch Hashem I grew up my
whole life between sages and gdolei yisrael- the tremendous power of the
Rav in the revealed and hidden torah and avodas hashem is impossible to
speak about! I wanted to say that we have to leave here with kabalot"afterwards
Rav Deitsh requested from someone to go around with a paper and everyone will
write what good thing will he take upon himself to nullify the decree such as
hours of learning tikun haklali hisbodedus etc'. Rav Deitsh himself said he is
taking upon himself an hour of learning
for the Ravs success. Whoever wants to add on his name to the list with the
item he took upon himself can e-mail us knishtachada@gmail.com
or by mail or call 0548407573 and we will pass it on to the Rav.
Rav Moshe Menachem Klugers words
"it's with awe and fear to stand here in
this holy place this holy of holies the
house of prayers of the Rav shlit"a the house of the holy community it's
literally awe and fear to stand before the public to speak. We are very very
small to speak at all to whatever's concerning the Rav shlit"a. Whoever's
connected to the community and to the Rav knows the avodas hashem the
holiness the spirit of holiness that the Rav put in to am yisrael the mesiros
nefesh the concern of the Rav for am yisrael and for the holy
shecina (divine presence)"it's frightening to even open the mouth
to speak. He said that recently he was by a few gdolei yisrael "I
saw how the true tzaddikim those who truly fear Hashem how they have fear and
honor and great respect for the Rav shlit"a. When I was by one of the
great tzaddikim at the yartzeit of R' Aharon hagadol of Karlin he told me 'you
should know we are talking about someone that’s similar to R' Aharon hagadol of
Karlin who is known to have been machzir betshuva 80000 ba'alei teshuva'.
Who is like the Rav- may hashem extend his days and years peacefully- who gave
his soul and didn't care about anything only this –to bring Jews to their
father in heaven'. Just as R' Ahron hagadol had upon himself great wars and he
was expelled from the city with humiltaion and curses as it's known. You should
know that that's what happening here. Moreinu Harav is involved in this item
with mesiros nefesh and the yetzer hara went out to war against
him and wants chas vesholom to quiet this power! R' Kluger continued and
said" I’m not saying anything new everyone understands this and feels
simply that what's happening here it's not for no reason that the whole world
is turning upside down all the media is turning upside down about some rabbi
that some thing not reasonable is said about him –it's certainly that there is
a war against him! Against this whole holy community! But as R' Matis
shlit"a said in hashems help we will win. It's correct that there is a
power here that it's like stronger than us but we have a power that with this
we will win with Hashems help since all of the angels in heaven and all of the
tzadikim are waiting that Jews will come and serve Hashem truly and will redeem
and raise the honor of the tzadikim and the honor of holiness. We have to be
smart to leave here with great wealth like we learned when we left Egypt that am
yisrael when they fall down afterwards they go out with great wealth not to
go through this like just another thing that we went through rather the
opposite to leave with great wealth! Who doesn't know? Everyone knows that the
holy chabura of shuvu bonim is a chabura that in the whole world
there isn't such a chabura! I can't forget tens of years ago when I was
a young teenager and then a married man when you would see a teenager or a
young married man from shuvu bonim come to the Kossel it would look like a
contingent from the army not like some poor guy coming to say a chapter of
Tehilim –and leaves. They would march like soldiers going into battle. I'm not
exaggerating that’s what it was whoever saw it with a true eye always saw that.
Who doesn't know this secret? It's a special avodas hashem that can't be
found in the whole world if it's the long prayers if it's the intense learning
if it's the long steady hours of learning gemara ktzos hachoshen
and all the things that the Rav puts in. Such success such things the Rav
succeeded in bringing in here! But the yetzer hara wants to weaken that
he wants to quiet it in such a way…our job is "and afterwards they went
out with big loot" everyone from the holy and pure community has to take
responsibility what can I do that the holy goal of the Rav will grow bigger?
What can I do in the chabura? How can I strengthen myself and the guy
sitting next to me and my neighbor and my son and those who I have influence on
him? There is no doubt that everyone in this community has the power like the gdolei
hador in other places! It's not exaggerations! It's clear as the sun! he
finished off with these words" when a tzibur comes and scream 'we
want the Rav we want the leader of holiness we want the bitul to the holiness'
there is no power- not for the media and not for the police and not for
anything else that wants to damage. In the power of these prayers and the chizuk
that we strengthen one and other and we are strong in every holy thing in
Hashems help we will tear the decree and we will continue that it will be
"for the Jews there was light and joy and happiness "bracha
vhatzlocha in the most revealed and successful way to the Rav and his
followers Amen.
Rav Eliyahu Ifargan shlit"a
It was told to Rav Eliyahu Ifargan
shlit"a all that’s happening recently with the Rav that he was taken in
handcuffs and afterwards was expelled from Zimbabwe and that in the end it
turned out that the ones who caused everything were the enemies of the Rav who
instigated against him and all that happened with him and his students on the
way to Johannesburg and in Johannesburg etc'. When he heard all this he sat down
on the floor in middle of the shiur to participate in the galus and
sorrow of the shehcina and said" Rav Berland took upon himself
exile and humiliations again before Pesach like Rebbe Eliezer Hagadol that when
he was put into cherem it was before Pesach. Everyone has to participate
in his sorrow and the sorrow of the shechina. According to Kabalah and
Rabeinu opposition and exiles and humiliations that the tzadik takes upon
himself is to take off the fierce judgment when the evil side persecutes with
different persecutions and not every tzadik can dare to take such an exile and
humiliations in such a way therefore we have to know that the tzadik suffers
because of us and his galus is for our good and we shouldn't sit each
one under his vineyard and fig tree and not participate in his exile and
sorrow. When the Creator of the world will ask in the next world the tzadikim
what did you do for am yisrael? Everyone will say this and this etc' and
then Hashem will explain his question and will say to them but who took upon
himself exile for them who agreed to suffer for them who agreed to take from his
bread for participating in the sorrow of the shechina. Such a big tzadik
who is the breath of our nostrils moshiach Hashem which is the soul of
Rebbe Eliezer Hagadol is rolling in dirt all because he chose that himself and
Hashem does good through a good person and bad through a bad person as it's
known may Hashem save us. So who can stand in the anger of the big kitrug of
those who bloat themselves with pleasures and false
publicity and eat plenty at the time that the shechina is in exile and
the tzadik emes is rolling in dirt. Woe to that shame that they
don't try to participate in the sorrow of the shechina in the sorrow of
the tzadik. I have a kabalah from my forefathers that the
evil side is growing in these days and getting more powerful from day to day as
we see with our eyes. Therefore all those who participate in the sorrow of the shechina
and the sorrow of kneses yisrael and the sorrow of the tzadik in
this hard time causes to ease up from the sorrow and with this he gets more
power to bring the geula(redemption). This is what's said in tikun
chatzos "the nations have entered into your inheritance they have
defiled the Sanctuary of your holiness they have turned Jerusalem into heaps of
rubble. They have given the corpse of Your servants as food for the birds of
the sky the flesh of Your devout ones to the beasts of the earth".
Therefore we will pray and ask from the Creator of the world that he should
ease the sorrow of the tzadik and through that the sorrow of shechina
and we should merit in seeing him quickly and Hashem should tell him to return
and the big tikkun that this pure and awesome person took upon himself
should end. All the participants will take upon themselves a good deed and
extra torah learning in order to ease this holy person's sorrow and I'm warning
all those that listen to me and all those who came to the shiur no one should
dare to open his mouth against this holy of holies. And whoever dares to do
that it's literally like he 's speaking against the shechina. Woe to him
and to his children and praiseworthy to that one who closes his mouth he will
merit to bounty of holiness and PESHA(sin) will become SHEFA(bounty) through
"forgiving the sin Amen Vamen.
When the Rav was in Morocco Rav Ifargan
travelled to him and they spoke for an half an hour.
Rav Shalom Arush shlit"a
20 Nissan 5774 the fifth day of Chol Hamoed
Pesach Rav Shalom Arush spoke in a shiur to his students in yeshivat chut shel
chesed after shachris and said" woe to him who has bad thought about my
Rabbi woe to him I'm not jealous of him not in this world and not in the next
world". Even if he just has a bad thought about him woe to him. A person
has to be completely stupid to have bad thoughts about a person who opened the
way to Uman a Jew who built up Breslov. All Breslov would be nothing without
the Rav! Nothing! Without the Rav there wouldn’t be anything in Breslov I know
that he did everything. I know very well what he did. Why did he decide to take
upon himself exile and opposition and humiliations we don't know. He decided to
take it upon himself so that’s it. How can we interfere with the avodah of
tzadikim?! That’s not our job. But to question him woe to that one who has bad
thoughts about him woe to him! In my yeshiva it's important to me that everyone
should be in peace with all of am yisrael and for sure with all the
tzadikim of the generation…we can't understand what the tzadikim go through.
What do you understand?! You understand in tzadikim?! You don't understand in
tomato salad (laughs) you understand in tzadikim?! It's very important to me
that in the yeshiva they will use the middah of peace to be in peace
with all of am yisrael also with those poor people who oppose us we are
at peace with them also those who oppose us and degrade us we also love
them-they just don't have knowledge. Thank god a little knowledge we got from
Rabeinu Hakadosh who said "peace is according to the knowledge whoever doesn't
have knowledge is in opposition. Opposition comes from lack of knowledge and
peace comes from knowledge. I'm asking everyone to pray for the honor of my
teacher my Rabbi Eliezer ben etya. He's going through many humiliations and
opposition. I have tremendous sorrow what this tzadik is going through so much
humiliations and opposition that it's not understandable at all!! It's
forbidden for us to stand aside we will pray that Hashem will redeem us …(it's
possible to hear this at this number 0583287777 ext.43)
R' Dovid Abuchatzera shlit"a
We wrote in previous letters the words of R'
Dovid Abuchatzera who said great words about the Rav shlit"a and his
exile. Recently someone was by him and again asked him about the Rav and what's
said about him so he said "Rav Berland is number 1 in shemiras habris and
certainly there is no point in paying attention to all those words".
Rav Mordechai Gross shlit"a. One of anash
was lately by the big posek Rav Mordechai Gross shlit"a the Gava"d of
'chanichei yeshivas' and told him thay he is a student of Rav Berland and immediately
Rav Gross said how is he feeling? All the time I pray for him"!in 5771 on yesod
shebyisod the Rav and Rav Gross went to the grave of Yosef hatzadik in
shchem together with 3000 Jews.
One of the rabbis in Johannesburg called up
the chief rabbi Rav Yitzchok Yosef and asked him if he should take in anas"h
so he said it's a mitzvah to give them all their needs so he asked and what is
your opinion about Rav Berland? So Rav Yosef answered him if my father (Rav
Ovadya Yosef zt"l) honored him I rely on my father. They also asked him'
but Rav Berland has strange things' so Rav Yosef said every tzadik has strange
things. We previously wrote the words of Rav Ovadya Yosef zt"l who told
his grandson when he came to ask him about the rumors against Rav Berland and
when he entered his room Maran said "you're going to speak now about an
angel of Hashem! Be careful! Whoever speaks against him is playing with fire!
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