A Letter from Our Teacher, the Holy Tzaddik Rabbi Eliezer Berland shlit"a

With the help of Hashem.

Tonight at 2:35 and 3 chalakim (parts), everyone is obligated to go to the Well of Miriam, from the age of 6, and whoever immerses tonight in the Well of Miriam will merit to receive the Torah as one receives it after forty days on Yom Kippur, with sounds and lightning, a flame of fire. Through this, the sealed sea will be split: “Of the increase of his government and peace there shall be no end” (Isaiah 9:6). Then, the breach in their wall will be sealed (Nehemiah 2), for it took fifty-two days to build the wall of the Second Temple (Nehemiah 6:15), because they built the wall through the Name of 52 (the numerical value of the word 'Ben'). The construction was completed on the day of the creation of the world, the 25th of Elul (according to Rabbi Eliezer), because the illumination of the Name of 52 begins on the 17th of Elul—Keter, Chochmah, Binah, Da'at of the Name of 52 (Yud 20, Heh 10, Vav 12, Heh 10). On the 25th of Elul, the illumination of the Name of 45 begins—Keter, Chochmah, Binah, Da'at (Yud 10, Heh 6, Vav 13, Heh 6 = 45). Then, one conquers the Land of Canaan, the acronym of 'Kinnor Naim Im Nabel' (A pleasant harp with a lyre), for in the month of Elul was the war of Sichon, it was in Elul (Tanchuma, Chukkat 24), and in Tishrei was the war of Og of Bashan. For Sichon draws from the left heel of Leah, and Og from the right, and Moshe in the month of Elul nullified the drawing of Sichon from the left heel of Leah. In the month of Tishrei, after the Hakafot Shniyot (second circuits), it is said, “And you shall turn in the morning and go to your tents” (Deuteronomy 16:7). When they finished the Hakafot Shniyot of Simchat Torah and everyone wanted to go to their tent, Moshe said to them, “First finish with Og, King of Bashan.” They all said to him, “But his drawing is from the right of the heels of Leah!” Therefore, Hashem said to him, “Do not fear him.” What is ‘Ot’ (sign)? It is from the ‘Ot’ of the Holy Covenant that Og had, for Avraham circumcised Og, who was one of those who entered his house. Therefore, it is said in the chapter ‘HaRoeh’ that Moshe was ten cubits, the axe was 10 cubits, and he jumped 10 cubits. The ‘Megaleh Amukot’ says that ten cubits means ten times the Name of 45, that Moshe was included in all ten of the Name of 45, which every person merits from Rosh Hashanah until Yom Kippur, for ‘Mah’ (45) in gematria is ‘Adam’ (Man), that only through the Name of 45 does a person merit to be a person. Therefore, on Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur, one is obligated to be in Uman, for then one merits the Name of 45 in perfection. The Granat writes in Bava Metzia 147, page 30, in the name of the Rosh, that when the forbidden is nullified by the majority, it turns into the permitted. On page 31, he adds: But if, Heaven forbid, someone identifies the forbidden, it returns to its forbidden state. On page 31, he writes that it is not specifically nine against one, but even one hundred and one against one hundred, and likewise a million and one against a million—the forbidden is always nullified. For if a person comes to the holy kibbutz and nullifies himself before the kibbutz, and does not stand out, but rather nullifies himself and performs complete teshuvah (repentance), then all the forbidden within him is nullified entirely. Therefore, it is written nine against one and not one hundred and one against one hundred, because the main thing is to be included in the letter Tet (9), which is appointed over the resurrection of the dead, which one merits in the month of Av, which is emanated from the letter Tet, and with greater elevation in the month of Elul, which is emanated from the letter Yud (10) (Sefer Yetzirah, Chapter 2). For in the bone of Luz, the letter Tet shines (Zohar, Terumah 154a), and therefore they live there forever. Therefore, the letter Tet was given in the second tablets, which Moshe prepared from the 1st of Elul until Yom Kippur, and his main work was to draw the letter Tet into the tablets, which they did not merit in the first tablets, and therefore they were broken. Now, through the letter Tet, they were not broken, as it is written in Tikkunei Zohar 40: “Do not say water, water,” for “He who speaks lies shall not be established before My eyes” (Psalms 101:7), for anyone who says “water, water” cuts the shoots and denies the essence. For the first tablets were only broken for appearances, and the first tablets, according to Reish Lakish ben Yehudah, are found in a separate Ark, and with them they go out to war and are victorious, and according to the Gemara Bava Batra 14, they are found in the same Ark. In the month of Elul, one merits to draw the letter Tet, which is the secret of the resurrection of the dead, into the tablets, in the merit of immersing in the Well of Miriam on the eve of Friday at 2:35 and three chalakim.