A Lesson for Group Leaders Across the Country at the Home of the Gaon HaTzaddik

As on every day in recent weeks, this past Wednesday night as well—on the night of the 2nd of Adar—group leaders from across the country came in for a lesson at the home of The Rav, Rabbi Eliezer Berland shlit"a

The Rav opened the lesson with a question: Why does Parshas Terumah bring in the subject of the Nesi’im (tribal leaders)? He also spoke about the greatness of Nachshon ben Aminadav—how, because of his profound humility, he did not agree that they should write about him “Nasi of the children of Yehudah,” as they did for the other Nesi’im.

Later in the lesson, he made the calculation that the twenty-one offerings correspond to the twenty-one kings of the House of David. He then spoke about the matter of Menashe, who would kill one thousand people in a single day, and how he returned in a gilgul in a story he told about someone who smashed idols and was killed for it. They did not want to provide for his widow, until he came in a dream and said that he was Menashe, who comes in every generation to rectify the matter of idols.

After that, he spoke about the greatness of those who come to the Tzaddik:

“A person knows: I have done sins—so it’s only right that I should come to the Tzaddik. One day a person realizes that all his life he has done nothing but sins, and he starts searching for the Tzaddik. Because if you come to the Tzaddik—then the Tzaddik can fix everything, atone for everything, all the gilgulim. But if you do not come to the Tzaddik, like King Shaul…”

He continued with the story of Manoach and Tzelalponis: how the angel came to them and warned Shimshon’s mother (Tzelalponis) not to drink wine. He also spoke about how Shimshon made a mistake when he said, “She is right in my eyes,” and he said that no matter what a person goes through, it is forbidden to say, “It is right in my eyes.” He then spoke from Likutei Halachos, in Hilchos Yayin Nesech, that Shimshon was meant to be Melech HaMoshiach.

After that, he spoke about the obligation to learn Torah and Gemara, as brought in Torah 1, and also in Torah 101—to learn with iyun (deep study). He explained that the Geulah requires tremendous mercy, and that one merits this through learning Gemara. He also spoke from Torah 105 that one must learn with iyun and understand one matter מתוך דבר (from within another), and he spoke about this at length. He then spoke about the holiness of a person. Later in the lesson, he spoke about Amram, who divorced his wife, and that if he had not divorced Yocheved, all the Egyptians would have done teshuvah. At the end of the lesson, he spoke about the greatness of dancing, and that Chizkiyahu did not dance—and if he had danced, he would have subdued all the enemies in the war of Gog and Magog, and the complete Geulah would have come.

After more than fifty minutes of the lesson, The Rav shlit"a concluded with Kaddish and went out to Maariv with a great crowd, from the balcony of his home.

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