Rabbi Eliezer Berland to be released from prison today

See all the news about Rabbi Eliezer Berland on the Shuvu Banim International website.

After 12 months of sitting in prison on crimes he didn't commit the court is allowing for an early release read all about it on Shuvu Banim International

New articles at Shuvu Banim International website

• Recording of Rav Berland: “Don’t respond to the people who are against us! Every word is a diamond.” - "Don't throw the diamonds back at them."
• Exclusive interview with the lawyers who pleaded with Rav Berland not to make a plea bargain
• Interesting sources describing the coming of Moshiach
• The connection between Rav Berland and Israel’s fires
• Rav Elyashiv’s Psak: It’s forbidden to stay in prison for a second longer than necessary
• Rav Dov Kook: The fires currently spreading in Israel are because of the terrible persecution of Rav Berland
• Listen: “Often it is best for a person to admit to things that he didn’t do and to end the story.” Attorney Ephraim Dimri on the reasons that brought about the plea bargain of Rav Eliezer Berland shlit”a: - "Obviously, if the Rav shlit"a was allowed to stand trial while a free man or even under house arrest we would deal with the case to the end and we would not come to a plea bargain - he would be acquitted.":
• Interview with Rav Berlands attorney about the plea bargain “Until he gets a chance to prove his innocence he can sit 1 1/2 to 2 years in prison” - “It’s better to be smart than to be correct”:

Much more at the Hebrew site שובו בנים

New posts! New website! Must read!

Dear world,

There is amazing stuff on the new website Shuvu Banim International en.shuvubanimint.com or to get there quickly just type RavBerland.com, don't miss out!

There's no shortage of articles on the web about Rav Berland, but the only ones worth reading are on the official website - browse through them a little and maybe you'll have a little more insight about why the Tzaddikim of all generations were persecuted in such harsh ways.

Parshas Hashavua is up on the Shuvu Banim International website

The Essential Point Between Kindness and Saintliness from which G-ds True Voice is Heard

When Hashem Yisborach chose to create the world for the purpose of showering His creations with goodness and so that all will recognize His greatness and merit clinging to Him, blessed He be – before any of that took place, before creation, He delegated a certain point, a point which is both light and vitality! All of the souls were drawn down from that point, and then each and every person was created from that point. “And I will speak to you from between the two Cherubs.” Man was created from ‘between the two Cherubs’. That point was drawn down from between the two Cherubs. Every person must find his way back to that point. Every person must return to his root and include himself within that point. The whole purpose of our current lifetime as well as our past lifetimes is to elevate us to that wondrous point, which is the letter “Yud”. That is why we are called, “Yehudim” (Jews); we were named after that “Yud”. The essence of a Jew – a Yid, is that little point. Every person must see to it that his entire being, his very essence – will turn back into that little point, that simple point; into the letter “Yud”. Rebbe Pinchas of Koritz said, “What is the purpose of the point on a crown? The word crown means “non-existent”. Who can merit attaining a crown? Who can merit attaining that point? Only one who is humble.” (click here to continue reading on the Shuvu Banim International website)

Exclusive interview! Hear about the early days of Shuvu Banim and how Rabbi Berland created the leading Rabonim of what later became the pillars of the generation

Here how Rav Arush and other leading Rabbi's became religious in Shuvu Banim through Rabbi Berland. On the Shuvu Banim International website click here

The Tzadik Rabbi Eliezer Berland shlit"a reveals where he is in a lesson delivered yesterday Aug. 7.

 click here to listen to the lesson on the Shuvu Banim International website

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An important message from the translator of Knishta Chada - Shuvu Banim International

It is an extremely difficult if not impossible task, when someone is in midst of a serial thriller and is required to begin translating from the chapter he is holding at in a way that gives the reader an understanding of the story.  All the more so when someone tries to decipher the life of any individual, the simplest of human beings, and put into words in a comprehensive way even a small part of his life-story and all the intricacies it involves.  But when talking about an individual who is a Tzadik, of which every word of his, every action, involves infinite depths and is correlated with a multitude of divine and sub-divine reasoning, an individual who does not share any of the selfish feelings and emotions which is the driving force behind most peoples’ words or actions – the task cannot even begin.

So when I was recently asked to translate the Knishta Chada journals which has just come out with issue #42 I questioned whether this is a futile task.  Knishta Chada, an Aramaic term for “a single congregation” comes from the teaching of the Holy Zohar which asks: We are taught that the redemption can only come about through repentance, if so, how can it be that each person from all corners of the earth repent at same time in order to merit redemption? So Rabbi Eliezer in the Zohar answers “I promise you that even if one congregation “Knishta Chada” does wholehearted redemption, in their merit everyone will be redeemed”.  When another Rabbi Eliezer, Rabbi Eliezer Berland, opened his Yeshiva over 40 years ago, he named the Yeshiva “Knishta Chada” for he had a vision, to gather a group of people who will bring the redemption to the entire world.  Later the name of the Yeshiva was changed to “Shuvu Banim” (return the children) which connotes the same idea as the Gemara says “As soon as the people do teshuva they will be redeemed as the verse says “return you wayward children, and I will heal you”. Over the years the Yeshiva has continued to grow with tens of thousands of lost Jews who have found their way to Judaism with the help of the Tzadik Rabbi Eliezer Berland, and today the Yeshiva has become Shuvu Banim International as it reaches out to Jews worldwide.

Seeing that the main task of Knishta Chada / Shuvu Banim is to bring lost Jews back to their creator we’ve decided to write no matter how impossible it may be to bring the “magic” into words. For we have seen in the past two and half years, with the Hebrew journals, that even when the Tzadik is not as accessible as he was before, the words and stories, though far from describing the “whole truth”, have a power to connect to people in a way which is beyond comprehension. Rebbe Nachman teaches “Stories of Tzadikim bring the light of Moshiach to the world and push away much darkness and pain from the world”. This we have witnessed with our very eyes.

Rebbe Nachman also teaches that as much as the side of good has the power to heal the entire world, so too there must be many obstacles and controversies which the “other side” places before a person to prevent him from seeing the truth and thereby healing his soul. It is our prayer that the stories of light and truth will banish the darkness and falsehood in the world so that the natural thing can happen – the neshama which is a portion of G-d can connect once again to its creator.

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