A Letter from Our Teacher, the Holy Tzaddik Rabbi Eliezer Berland shlit"a, Written from Within the Walls of Prison for the Time of the Molad of the Month of Elul

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A letter from our teacher, the righteous Rav, Rabbi Eliezer Berland shlit"a

With Hashem's help Tonight, 2:35 and 3 chalakim, everyone is obligated to go to Miriam’s Well, from age 6, and whoever immerses tonight in Miriam’s Well will merit to receive the Torah after forty days, on Yom Kippur, with thunder and lightning, a flaming fire; and through this, the sealed mem will be split open—“For the increase of the dominion and for peace without end” (Isaiah 9:6)—and then the breach of the walls will be sealed up (Nehemiah 2), for it took fifty-two days to build the wall of the Second House (Nehemiah 6:15), for they built the wall through the Name Ban, and the building was completed on the day of the creation of the world, the 25th of Elul (according to Rabbi Eliezer), for the illumination of the Name Ban begins on the 17th of Elul—Keter, Chochmah, Binah, Da’at of Ban [yud 20, heh 10, vav 12, heh 10]—and on the 25th of Elul the illumination of the Name Mah begins—Keter, Chochmah [45]. And then they conquer the land of Canaan—an acronym: “kinnor” = Binah, Da’at [yud 10, heh 6, vav 13, heh 6]—“pleasant with a harp,” for in the month of Elul there was the war with Sichon; it was in Elul (Tanchuma, Chukat 24), and in Tishrei the war with Og in Bashan. For Sichon draws sustenance from the left heel of Leah, and Og from the right heel; and Moshe, in the month of Elul, nullified Sichon’s drawing of sustenance from the left heel of Leah. And in the month of Tishrei, after the second hakafot, it is said: “And you shall turn in the morning and go to your tents” (Deuteronomy 16:7)—that once they finished the second hakafot of Simchat Torah and everyone wanted to go to his tent, Moshe said to them: First finish with Og king of Bashan. They all said to him: הרי his sustenance is from the right side of Leah’s heels, and therefore Hashem said to him: “Do not fear him.” What is this “sign”? From the sign of the holy covenant that Og had, for Avraham circumcised Og, who was among the members of his household. And therefore it is said in the chapter “HaRo’eh” that Moshe was ten cubits, and the axe ten cubits, and he jumped ten cubits. “Megaleh Amukot” says: ten cubits פירושו ten times Mah—that Moshe was comprised of all ten of the Name Mah, which every person merits from Rosh Hashanah until Yom Kippur. For “Mah” in gematria is “Adam,” for only through the Name Mah does a person merit to be an אדם. And therefore on Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur one is obligated to be in Uman, for then one merits the Name Mah in completeness. And the Granat writes (Bava Metzia 147, daf 30, in the name of the Rosh): when the forbidden is nullified in the majority, it becomes permitted; and on daf 31 he adds: but if, God forbid, someone identifies the forbidden, it returns to its forbidden status. And on daf 31 he writes: that it is not specifically nine against one, but also one hundred and one against one hundred, and likewise a million and one against a million—always the forbidden is nullified. For if a person comes to the holy gathering and he is nullified opposite the gathering, and does not stand out, but rather is nullified and does complete teshuvah (repentance), הרי all the forbidden within him is nullified completely. And therefore it is written nine against one and not one hundred and one against one hundred, for the main thing is to be included in the letter tet, which is appointed over the resurrection of the dead—this is merited in the month of Av, which is emanated from the letter tet, and with יתר שאת in the month of Elul, which is emanated from the letter yud (Sefer Yetzirah, chapter 2: הוזחטי לנס צעק). For in Luz the letter tet shines (Zohar, Terumah 54), and therefore they live there forever. And therefore the letter tet was given in the second Tablets, which Moshe prepared from 1 Elul until Yom Kippur, and the essence of his avodah was to draw the letter tet into the Tablets—something they did not merit with the first Tablets, and therefore they were broken. But 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 stand before My eyes” (Psalms 101:7). For anyone who says “water, water” cuts down the plantings and denies the fundamental, for the first Tablets were not broken except for appearance; and the first Tablets, according to Reish Lakish ben Yehudah, are found in an Ark by themselves, and with them they would go out to war and be victorious; and according to the Gemara (Bava Batra 14) they are found in that same Ark. And 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 Miriam’s Well, toward the light of Friday, 2:35 and three chalakim.