A Fiery Lesson Explaining Why All Synagogues Were Closed - The Righteous Rabbi Eliezer Berland shlit"a

Recently, there is a feeling of deep soul-searching among the people and particularly within the community of the devout. This was well expressed by the righteous Aharon Stern shlit"a, "My teachers and rabbis, how difficult this day is for the Jewish people, like the day the Holy Temple was destroyed. On this day, entire communities were forced to leave thousands of synagogues across the country (and the world) with terrible weeping and go out to pray in the street." Our teacher, the esteemed righteous Rabbi Eliezer Berland shlit"a, explains in a lesson full of fiery passion why all the synagogues were closed? [audio mp3="https://www.shuvubanimint.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/שיעור-הרב-ברלנד-מצלמון-חוהמ-םסח-תשפ-יום-ב.mp3" autoplay="true"][/audio]

"People see clearly that they fought with Hashem, they fought with Shabbat, they thought they were higher than Hashem. Chana says, "For there is none besides You, and there is no rock like our God" (1 Samuel 2:2), it is impossible to fight with Hashem. If a person wants to fight with Hashem, he cannot - Hashem says to do an hour of Hitbodedut, hopefully by August 31st the corona will stop, so they can travel to Uman, if not, they won't be able to travel to Uman either."

"Now all the synagogues are closed, because everyone speaks lashon hara today. Today all the synagogues are just for lashon hara, they are just nests of lashon hara. It is written about Esau "When you become restless, you will throw his yoke from off your neck" (Genesis 27:40), they told me in Kfar Chassidim when I was still a Lithuanian, I was a 17-year-old boy, that 'when you become restless' means to devour the mitzvah 614. There are 613 mitzvot, but 'restless' is 614, it's one more. There is one additional mitzvah, which is to speak lashon hara, to investigate sometimes it is allowed if you are making a match, you want to know if she is a good girl, kosher, will listen to her husband, she is not a street girl who roamed the streets. When it is for a good purpose, it is allowed to investigate, but to believe it is forbidden! It is for a good purpose, you want to take a lecturer for your yeshiva, so it is allowed to check and investigate, but just to speak lashon hara about Jews? For what?"

"So if you seize the 614th mitzvah, the mitzvah to speak lashon hara, then it's over - now we will close all the synagogues for you, you cannot control the world, "and you will throw his yoke from off your neck" (ibid)."

"When a person takes a mitzvah like lashon hara, which is only to be cautious and careful, for matchmaking - and you go and turn this mitzvah into serving Hashem. As Rabbi Natan says, do not take the mitzvah of dispute and lashon hara. This was with Dathan and Abiram who spoke lashon hara about Moshe Rabbeinu, contentious."

So Moshe Rabbeinu said, now I understand, you speak lashon hara, therefore you are in bondage."

"It is written and they cried out, as soon as they cried out they were redeemed. "And they believed in Hashem and in Moshe His servant" (Exodus 14:31), as soon as they believed in Moshe they were immediately redeemed. The moment they knew that Moshe is the true tzaddik they were immediately redeemed."

"They could have said dreamer about Moshe and not been redeemed.."

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Our teacher, Rav Berland shlit"a, shows us the way we can immediately come out of the lockdown and not have to remain closed until the end of August. Our teacher Rav Berland reminds us of the difficult battle for Shabbat, where they fought to open all businesses and entertainment on Shabbat, the result was that all businesses and entertainment venues were closed, not only on Shabbat.

Our teacher Rav Berland adds and reminds us that we did not want to pray to Hashem and do Hitbodedut, the result is that we are all in isolation against our will - it is impossible to fight with Hashem.

We see that the words of our teacher Rav Berland shlit"a revolve around the difficult issue of baseless hatred and lashon hara, which is essentially a war with Hashem, and the flaw in emunah in the tzaddik, the foundation of the world, who speak lashon hara about Moshe Rabbeinu and do not believe he is the tzaddik, the foundation of the world.

Everything centers on one point, which is a war with Hashem, but Hashem shows us that it is simply impossible.