Translated from the hebrew 'Knishta Chada' newsletter issue number 44 (EMERGENCY EDITION, DUE
TO THE THIRD INTIFADA)
“Tzion baMishpat t’pade’, v’shaveha
b’tzedaka - Zion shall be redeemed through justice and her penitent through
charity” (Isiah 1:27)
Rav Berland’s prophecy about
the Intifada
Nine months ago, the
Knishta Chada newsletter (editions 39-40) publicized a message that Rav Berland
sent out to all of Am Yisrael. In that message, the Rav called upon on all of
Am Yisrael to stop the new Intifada. He wrote then: “We are in a new Intifada,
and it’s a terrible Intifada that will spread around the globe. It’s impossible
to stop it [by natural means].” (read it here in english)
The Rav then quoted a passage from
the Rambam in his work called Hilchot Yesodei HaTorah, (The fundamental
laws of the Torah 7:7), which says the following: Anyone who goes in the way of
Torah, (ie, they are genuinely God-fearing Torah scholar), and who says that
they have received a prophecy, we are obligated to believe him, in the same way
that we would believe two witnesses. The
Rav continued: “This is a vision of the end of days. Yaacov Avinu (the
patriarch Jacob) was afraid to reveal what was going to happen in the end of
days.”
Nine months ago, the Rav
then went on to describe the new Intifida. He said that: “The whole world is
behind this Intifada, and is encouraging it and urging it on – every single
country in the world. The international community will applaud every additional
Jew that is murdered and killed. Everyone is cursing Hitler, and upset that he
didn’t ‘finish the job’. So now, they’re relying on the Ishmaelite’s [to do it
for them]. As the verse says: “And Esav went and took Mahalat the daughter of
Ishmael” (bereishit 28:9).
Self-sacrifice is required to
overturn the harsh decrees
The Rav also said in that same publicized
message 9 months ago that every single Jew has to be prepared to sacrifice
themselves for the sake of Kiddush Hashem (sanctifying God’s greatness)
– but that the true mesirat nefesh, or self-sacrifice, required was in
the area of guarding the eyes. Rav Berland said: “If a man guards his eyes,
this is true mesirat nefesh. If a man guards his eyes, then there will
be sweetening, because all of the harsh decrees on Am Yisrael are only brought
about by lack of guarding the eyes. Every time a man opens his eyes (looks at
forbidden things), another Jew is stabbed, another Jew is killed.”
At the time of the Purim miracle about
2500 years’ ago, Mordechai the Tzaddik went out to the streets of the city,
tore his clothes and cried out that Am Yisrael was facing a decree of utter
destruction. Most of the Jews of that
time ignored him. It was only after nine years, when the decrees of Haman began
to materialize, that the Jewish community saw that Mordechai was right. Rebbe
Nachman of Breslev says that the true tzaddik sees the world through a clear
looking-glass, and that he sees all of the decrees before they are decreed, and
that he undertakes much suffering upon himself and shows great mesirat
nefesh (self-sacrifice) in order to wake the Jewish nation up, and prevent their
blood from being spilt.
But unfortunately, we don’t
listen to him.
How we can stop the third
Intifada: Pidyon Nefesh
In that same message nine months ago the Rav
set out a clear path for how Am Yisrael could prevent the current Intifada, so
that it wouldn’t materialize. At that time, he sent out a message saying that:
“All of Am Yisrael must join together now. There is going to be another Intifada
and every Jew is in danger. Everyone is obligated to give a pidyon nefesh
(redemption of the soul) from $10 upwards, every Jew without exception. One
person can give $10, another $60, and someone else $100, until we reach $600,000
(which is a single dollar for each of the 600,000 soul roots for the people of Israel).
Every Jew, everyone without exception, should ‘raise up an offering’ and give
at least $10 as a pidyon, until we reach $600,000, and through this we
will sweeten the new Intifada, and we will merit the complete geula (redemption)
speedily in our days, amen.’
The Rav made a lot of effort to try
to wake Am Yisrael up at that time, and we reached a sum of about $90k –
nowhere near what was required in order to sweeten the harsh judgments hanging
over the 600,000 souls of Israel. Then the Festival of Sukkot 5776 arrived, and
with it came the beginning of the prophesized Intifada; when the shootings,
stabbings and other attacks began in Eretz Yisrael everyone saw that the
prophecy of the Rav had indeed materialized, and the Knishta Hada hotline suddenly
got a lot of calls. People now remembered what the Rav had said nine months
ago, and wanted to give the pidyon money to save Am Yisrael. But the way
you can sweeten a judgment before the decree is finalized and goes out into the
world is different from how you can sweeten it once it’s already materialized.
Given that we are now ‘after the
decree’, the Rav wrote an additional letter that explained that the way to stop
the Intifada is now through the verse: “Kol haktoov le hayim be
yerushalayim” (lit: ‘all who are written for life in Jerusalem’). Rav
Berland explained that now, the way to ‘give life’ to the residents of
Jerusalem and Eretz Yisrael is by donating an amount that is equal to the words
‘to life’, leychayim, which equals 98 NIS, in addition to praying for
them, that nothing bad should happen to them.
Why Pidyon Nefesh works to
remove harsh judgments
The language that Chazal use to
describe money, is damim, which literally means ‘blood’. When
there are harsh decrees hanging over Am Yisrael, they can only be sweetened by
immense amounts of mesirat nefesh, or self-sacrifice from the Jewish
people, which often entails the spilling of blood.
But there is another way of
sweetening the decrees.
Instead of spilling of blood literally,
God forbid, it’s also possible to fulfill the requirement to ‘spill blood’ by
the self-sacrifice required in giving money, or damim. If you give
whatever amount you’re able to give, with mesirat nefesh, then you
fulfil the verse that states: ‘charity saves from death’ (Proverbs 10:2, 11:4). A pidyon
nefesh like the one described above, where each person gives a fixed amount,
is called pidyon hakollel, or ‘communal redemption’, and this sweetens all
of the judgments that are currently hanging over the nation of Israel, which
means we won’t see any more blood spilt in our country. May
we only hear good news, Amen.
The text of Rav Berland’s most recent letter, written on the 1st of Cheshvan 5776 (Oct. 14th, 2015)
For the benefit of the public, below
you can find an English translation of the full text of the recent letter that
Rav Berland wrote on Cheshvan 1 5776 (October 14, 2015):
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1st of Cheshvan 5776 תשע"ו = 776 ‘biyat haMoshiach’ (The gematria of
‘776’ equals the words biyat haMoshiach in Hebrew, ‘the coming of
Moshiach’).
To all of Am Yisrael, in every
place, shalom u’vracha (peace and blessings), God is with you, that you
should live.
I’m writing this after the
terrible murders that occurred on the first days of Succot, with the assistance
of the European Union and its supporters, and that are continuing even now, and
which haven’t stopped for even a moment. All the nations of the world, without
exception, are rejoicing over the fact that the blood of Israel is being spilt
like water. The Angel of Death has risen up and is beckoning to us through the
window, and is now spreading to all parts of the world, [ready] to stab all Jews
simply because they are Jews. All of the nations of the world are rising up
against us here, ‘with one voice’, in order that the name of Israel will be
forgotten from the world.
‘Moav and HaGarim, Edom and
Amalek, the Philistines, the dwellers of Tzur’ (Tehillim 83:6), they are all coming ‘with one voice’,
to destroy, kill, and annihilate Jewish men, women and children in one day (Esther 3:13). Each day, our
suffering is greater than the day before, and every moment we hear and read
about new casualties. And there is no
one to speak up for us! In fact, just the opposite, with every nation rushing
to blame Am Yisrael [for the situation], saying that we’re worse than the
Nazis.
The first priority of every
nation of the world is to extinguish the seed of Israel from the face of the
earth. Today, there is no Jew who can be certain of his life, not in Eretz
Israel, and not in any other country, either.
[Just as they are coming against
us ‘with one voice’] we also need to act ‘with one voice’, and every Jew,
wherever they live in the world, needs to donate 98 NIS to fulfill the verse ‘kol
hakatoov lechayim be yerushalayim’ [explained in detail above]. They should
send their communal redemption to [details below] and it will be distributed among orphans and poor families of Israel.
In the merit of Rabbenu haKadosh
[our holy rabbi] who will save us from all bad, and in the merit of the holy Torah
Your faithful servant,
Eliezer Berland.
(Every head of the family should
donate 98 NIS which is for the protection of the entire family, each month as long as the killing continues. The gematria of 98 = ‘one voice’,
and also equals lechayim, ‘to life’. The 98 NIS is also to balance the
98 curses found in the Torah, and will sweeten the judgments hanging over Am
Yisrael. The money goes to feed orphans, widows, and poor families of Eretz
Yisrael)
How to donate
You can give your ‘communal
redemption’ for you and your family in the following ways:
Telephone: Call 24hrs a
day excluding Shabbat hrs in Israel and USA. (Israel) 052-718-6265, (USA) 1-917-284-9657,
(UK) +44 238 228 0223
Email: moked318@gmail.com
Via Paypal
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