A Lesson for the Residents of Bat Yam in the Home of Rabbi Eliezer Berland

Last Monday night, the eve of the 7th of Adar—the yahrtzeit of Moshe Rabbeinu—a group of students of Rabbi Guy Abergel shlit"a in Bat Yam merited to enter for a special shiur, for those who had not yet merited to enter the holy inner shiur.

Before the shiur, the esteemed chassidic Rav, Rabbi Meir Malka shlit"a, spoke about the importance of the campaign that is taking place in these days—For Our Sake and for the Sake of Our Generations—in order to save the institutions of Shuvu Banim – Nechamas Tzion from closure, G-d forbid.

After that, The Rav, Rabbi Eliezer Berland shlit"a, entered for the shiur and began with words of Torah about the days of Purim. He then spoke about the greatness of Purim, and that one does not need to get drunk on Purim.

Afterwards, he spoke from the Gemara in Horayos—that all of Am Yisrael brought an Asham, as brought on daf 6a there. He then spoke about Ur Kasdim, and how Avraham Avinu made a mockery of Nimrod the wicked, who thought he was a god. He then spoke about the story of Manoach and Tzelafonis in Sefer Shoftim, chapter 13. Along the way, he touched on topics from the Daf Yomi—regarding Nazir. He then spoke about the enormous fruits that the spies took from Eretz Yisrael, and brought the Gemara in Kesubos that in the future they will return to that size, and he brought additional aggadic teachings from the Gemara there.

After that, he spoke about the daughter of Yiftach—that according to the Abudraham, he did not actually slaughter her, and she merited to reach a level of complete singular devotion. Toward the end of the shiur, he again brought the sefer Kol Bo, which speaks about the severity of drunkenness on Purim, and that one should only become pleasantly uplifted, not drunk—because through drunkenness a person can, G-d forbid, descend rather than ascend on Purim.

After that, he spoke about the idea of “Rejoice, Zevulun”—that in the merit of Zevulun, everyone returned in teshuvah.

He then returned to the matter of the spies, and calculated from “And it was evening and it was morning” that the final Geulah will be twenty-eight years before the end of the sixth millennium. At the conclusion of the shiur, he spoke from the verse, “And Hashem your G-d will add to the people like them and like them a hundred times,” and from Rashi who says that one must double each number twice—resulting in a number above a billion trillion (30 zeros). He then spoke about how there was a plague because David counted the people, and that the fact that seventy thousand died in a single second was because Avishai ben Tzeruyah was equal in worth to seventy thousand men. He concluded by saying that Tzeruyah was like a stone, without any desires, and in that merit she was privileged to have her holy sons.

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