"There is a mitzvah that everyone adds - to speak lashon hara about another! He can study the Chafetz Chaim a million times forwards and backwards with the commentaries, but when the evil inclination comes to speak, he immediately says the five sections that are obligatory, and if not, there is Gehinnom and no World to Come, he will lose the entire World to Come if he does not speak."

On Thursday, Parshat Chukat, 1st of Tammuz 5755, exactly 25 years ago, the holy words were delivered by the righteous Rabbi Eliezer Berland shlit"a, words that have become more and more relevant to the times, like a prophecy about the future.

"A transgression is only when a person adds to the 613 mitzvot that a person adds to the 613 mitzvot. It is written: 'Which 613 and you have removed its yoke from your neck,' if a person decides to add to the 613 mitzvot, there is a mitzvah that everyone adds, which is to speak lashon hara about another. This mitzvah always includes five sections that must be spoken."

"There is such a huge Chafetz Chaim with who knows how many thousands of commentaries, but there are five sections that must be spoken. The whole world goes with these five sections. He can study the Chafetz Chaim a million times forwards and backwards and with the commentaries, but when the evil inclination comes to speak, he immediately says the five sections that must be spoken, and if not, there is Gehinnom and no World to Come, he will lose the entire World to Come if he does not speak."

"So we see that if one does not follow the true tzaddik, nothing will help, it is good that we study the Chafetz Chaim here, it is a great merit to study words of Torah, but to not speak lashon hara, one needs the true tzaddik, one must know that I am nothing, less than dust and ashes - then you will not be able to speak about anyone, even if it is a mitzvah and an obligation."

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"As Reb Noson truly writes in prayer 134 and even if it is a mitzvah, I do not want such mitzvot. I do not want these mitzvot, I do not want these mitzvot, I am a person, I do not know, one transgression they gave him to transgress, not to speak lashon hara, they will tell you it is a transgression, you are committing a transgression, why are you not speaking? This transgression I want, it is enough for me, this transgression not to speak lashon hara. And even if they come and tell you it is a mitzvah and an obligation and you must speak, this transgression let me adopt it."

"Reb Noson writes in prayer 134, there is here Likutei Tefilot, he says there is a mitzvah, there is one transgression I want to adopt, one transgression, one transgression I want to adopt, not to speak lashon hara. Even if they tell me it is a mitzvah, these five sections you must, all your works will praise you, Hashem, and your chassidim will bless you, they will speak of the glory of your kingdom and tell of your might to make known to the sons of man his mighty deeds and the glorious majesty of his kingdom."

"Master of the Universe, abundant in kindness and truth, have mercy on me and guard me and save me from evil speech and from lashon hara, that I should not speak any evil word about any Jew in the world, finished I will not speak even about the smallest of the small, the least of the least, and God forbid not about the tzaddikim of the generation. Because generally the world, the Rebbe says to judge the wicked favorably, so generally the world judges the wicked favorably, but the tzaddikim are judged unfavorably. I am one of those who judge the wicked favorably, but what about the tzaddikim, do they not need to be judged favorably?"

"A person wants to be such a great tzaddik, so now they need to kill him? Because he studies Gemara and Torah 24 hours and stays up at night, so he said something not according to my understanding? He studies my perspective? So now he deserves death because of this? Another heavenly voice went out to kill him?"

"So a person must first judge the tzaddikim favorably, then he must judge the wicked favorably. And if he can judge the tzaddikim favorably, then it is also a sign that he can already judge the wicked favorably, but we should not speak about any person in the world because generally people judge the wicked favorably, and about the tzaddikim they speak, they pour fire and brimstone on them. If he is such a tzaddik, then why did he do this and that, such a tzaddik, then why does he not understand this and that?"

"What I understand is that I am truly a lesser person, the least of the least understands this, so how does this tzaddik not understand this? So now they need to kill him for this. So, Master of the Universe, I am the smallest of the small, the least of the least, that I should not open my mouth about any person in the world, even if they tell me it is a mitzvah and an obligation, I will not, who am I to speak about any Jew, all the more so not about Jews who study Torah for hours, stay up at night, guard their eyes. What, it is not my perspective? So what! The tzaddikim of the generation and the righteous of the generation who study 24 hours, they are simply guarding their eyes in kedushah and modesty, and Baruch Hashem, we benefit from them. They are educating our children, what do we want?"

"Who says I am the tzaddik, I do not know anything, I would like to know how to pray and study, if only I knew how to have intention, and the wise and the understanding will truly see once in their lifetime to speak one true word. The wise, if only one true word would come out one moment before passing."

"Now I am speaking, this is a lesson, a lesson is not words of truth, words of truth are only in private chambers. A person in private chambers, there he pours out his heart before Hashem, there he is in Hitbodedut under the blanket truly, a blanket that is called truth. The Rebbe says there it is called truth, the Rebbe says, all men of truth fight for the truth."

Truth is to say a chapter of Tehillim in private chambers, that is called truth, only this is truth, a chapter of Tehillim in private chambers with tears and a broken heart, that is called truth, the rest of all the truths are all a big lie, let Hashem lead the world. No one manages the world here, maybe just destroying the world. He says, and righteousness will be for us, because to keep and do all this mitzvah, Hashem our God, and which He commanded us, and there should be for me aspects of truth. When a person has already begun to be a man of truth, only this is called truth, everyone is truth, and this truth and that truth, fighting for this truth, in the end, a person will enter there to Japan, will be in the sect of pure truth and will destroy the world. What is this truth, this pure truth."

"There is one Cantiver who returns from pure truth ten Jews, here the most famous wrote a book of pure truth, in short, I read his history a few years ago, he hated the Jews, he wanted to kill all the Jews. What did the Jews do to him? He barely knew them! Now an article came out."

"There is always a joke that one German spoke with someone against the Jews, he poured a million people and really, really it is true, 50 million Jews, fire and brimstone, they are the most murderous, the most criminal, after all, they slaughtered, the Jews are to blame, it is all the Jews' fault, why everything that happens in the world is because of the Jews, it is really like that. So they feel, the non-Jews feel that certainly the Jews are to blame for everything, and it is really true, because really the Jews are to blame if every Jew would pray a little better, then there would be no wars. So they are right when they shout the Jews are to blame for everything, and it is not for nothing."

"The Gemara says, this is what people say, everything comes from above, every word comes from above, we just need to know its root. In short, there was a German who poured fire and brimstone, in the end, he says yes, but all this except for Mr. Cohen. Someone passes by, the Jews, and so they are, they are robbers, murderers, exploiters, and loan sharks, sucking the blood of another, except for Mr. Cohen, except for Mr. Cohen. They asked him: And except for Mr. Cohen, do you know anyone? No! Except for Mr. Cohen, I do not know any Jew, that is the answer."

"Now I just read a story about someone who returned to teshuvah, he said he was like this, he was in a kibbutz and he loved horses, he went to California and found a horse ranch there, went and became the best cowboy there, the best groom. And everything really practical, they did not know he was Jewish, no one knew he was Jewish, and now they need to bring him back to teshuvah. This Nazi was pouring, he started talking about the Jews, there are some Jews, they are some kind of monsters with horns, sucking the blood of another and taking it, and after drinking all the blood, they are not satisfied."

"He said, listen, do you know I am Jewish? He said yes, so apparently except for you, you are a good Jew, this is a true story. And this already brought him back to teshuvah, after that he noticed that all the cowboys there hate Jews with a deadly hatred, no one had ever seen a Jew in their life, and it took him a process of a year or two until he realized."