Evil is subdued in the world on 7th Adar
Excerpt from the shiur given by Rav Eliezer Berland on the 7th Adar, 5778, in Mailiya
On the 7th Adar, all the klipot (forces of evil) in the world are subdued. There is no klipa that is not subdued on 7th Adar. Today, all the klipot are being subdued…
Rav Natan explains that a tzaddik after his passing can execute and finish more than he could when he was alive. After his death, he can execute an infinite number [of things]…
In the month of Adar, the whole world accepts [Hashem’s] Malchut (kingship). In the month of Adar, Mordechai accepts Malchut on behalf of the whole world. It’s written in the verse:
“And Mordechai came out before the King dressed in the blue and white robes of Malchut and with a big, golden crown.” (Esther 8:15).
This was the crown of Adam Kadmon[1], because on Purim we rise up to Adam Kadmon….
On the 7th Adar, we can merit to have the Leviathan
From here came the [soul] root of Amram…and Moshe was born from Amram. It’s written: “And a man went from the house of Levi and took the daughter of Levi” (Shemot 2:1). It just says ‘a man’ it doesn’t say who. It just says ‘daughter of Levi’ it doesn’t say who, because this was the daughter of the Leviathan….
Because now, on the 7th Adar, we can merit to the Leviathan. It’s written in the Zohar on Ki Tisa: “ant hu leviathan” – the Tzaddik is called the ‘Leviathan’. The Tzaddik is the Leviathan who swallows the whole world, because the world stands on just one fin of the Tzaddik.
The whole entire world stands on just one of the Tzaddik’s fins, the whole world stands on one of the Leviathan’s fins.
The Tzaddik can heal every single person with one word of prayer
A single letter of the Tzaddik, a single letter of prayer with kavana (intent), the whole world stands on this single letter. [With just one letter,] it’s possible to heal all the illnesses. Rabbi Meir had a student who was reciting mishnayot to try to heal someone. [Rabbi Meir] told him: one Mishna is enough; one letter is enough, it’s enough that the Tzaddik says just one word. It the Tzaddik says a single word, he can heal every ill person in the world, there is no ill person that the Tzaddik can’t heal.
… Mordechai healed all the invalids, Mordechai merited to heal all the sick people in the world, and to revive all the dead. Because on Purim, this is the time of techiyat hameitim (the revival of the dead).
So Rabba shected (slaughtered) Rabbi Zeira. That was the moment when Rabba shected Rabbi Zeira, and the second after he slaughtered him he revived him, because Rabbi Zeira entered into the fire [of Torah learning]…
In the past, everyone was in the fire. Rabbi Zeira recited tehillim amidst fire, Rabbi Eliezer and Rabbi Yehoshua learnt Torah in the fire, Rabbi Elazar ben Arach brought fire down and burnt up a whole forest. Rabbi Eliezer and Rabbi Yehoshua sat and learned in the basement of a blazing house for three days. They brought a super-tanker, but it didn’t extinguish the fire.
Tzaddikim sit in the midst of fire.
With Yonatan ben Uzziel, every bird that flew over his head was immediately burnt – in another four hours, we’ll go and pray shacharit (the morning prayers) by Yonatan ben Uzziel. If we merit, we will see the whole mountain aglow with [spiritual] fire…
We read on Rosh Chodesh, in Hallel, that ‘the Yarden flowed backwards’. The Yarden flowed in reverse, the whole of the Yarden reversed it’s flow. It saw Yosef’s casket “And Moshe took the bones of Yosef with him” (Shemot 13) because Moshe took Yosef’s bones – even Moshe, who was the highest of the high, was obliged to join with Yosef HaTzaddik, because everyone has to join together with the Tzaddik.
Now, it’s the yahrtzeit of Moshe Rabbenu – Adar 7th. Everyone needs to join with the Tzaddik. We came here to join with the Tzaddik, with the soul of Moshe. And that’s why everyone travelled three hours, being terribly jolted around – and everything solely to be united with the soul of Moshe, with this wondrous soul, who gave over the Torah.
[1] A kabbalistic term.
The whole shiur can be heard in the original Hebrew on the Breslov Line, which you can dial from within Israel on: 058-328-7777 and from outside of Israel on: +972-58-328-7777.
