Before you is a letter of encouragement that Rabbi Eliezer Berland shlit"a wrote today, the 25th of Elul—the day the world was created—for those privileged to toil in the tent of Torah in the city of longing, Uman, by the holy resting place of Rebbe Nachman zy"a:

A LETTER OF ENCOURAGEMENT TO THE KOLLEL IN UMAN

Holy ones of the Most High, who have dedicated their entire lives to learn and to teach all of Shas, and all of the Shulchan Aruch, and all of the Rambam, and all of the Turim—by day and by night—177 without interruption and without weariness, turning nights into days in order to learn and to teach the Torah of Hashem. And through this—because they merit to learn all of Shas and to learn beside the holy and awe-inspiring tziyun—they, and their wives, their sons and their daughters, until the end of all generations, will merit to enter Gan Eden with their bodies—177 and to witness the complete Geulah speedily in our days, and the coming of Moshiach ben David, amen, forever and ever.

With the blessing of Torah and with great love Eliezer Berland