A New Letter from Our Teacher the Rav shlit"a for the Dates 6-8 Tammuz 5776 "Every time there is supposed to be a revelation of the Shechinah and redemption for the Jewish people, the opposite suddenly occurs... But through exile to the diaspora, we receive the light of new nullification, and thereby there will be no more destructions, God forbid..."

In Hashem's Name

Letter from the esteemed tzaddik Rabbi Eliezer Berland shlit"a on the days of 6th, 7th, and 8th of Tammuz

The awe-inspiring days of the 6th, 7th, and 8th of Tammuz, the holy and awesome days of the martyrs of Uman in the year 5528, four years before the descent of our holy and awesome Rebbe's neshamah (soul) to the world, which was supposed to be a year of redemption, as Mohara"n explains in Hilchot Chovel B'Chavero 3. These three days, when about thirty thousand souls were killed for the sanctification of His blessed Name in the most unusual deaths in the world, which had not been seen since the beginning of time. Every time there is supposed to be a revelation of the Shechinah and redemption for the Jewish people, when the spirit of life from above descends, and it is a time of favor for the revelation of the honor of the Shechinah, suddenly the opposite occurs, as in "You gather their spirit, they expire" [Torah 66]. For the Tosefta in Bava Metzia 114 reveals to us about the revelation of Elijah the Prophet, remembered for good, to that widow, about whom it is said, "I have commanded a widow woman there" [1 Kings 17:9]. And the holy Zohar in Pekudei 186b asks, when did Hashem command her? But before the neshamah descends to the world, Hashem commands it all the paths and routes it must go through, whom to visit, and whom to support. Therefore, it is written "give" and read "give" says the holy Zohar, that in the merit of giving Elijah the Prophet her last handful of flour, Hashem gave rain upon the earth, and thereby everyone cried out, "Hashem is the God, Hashem is the God," and Nadav and Avihu received their rectification, for which they were destined to bring down fire from heaven, only they consumed it a moment before their time of revelation. They said, "When will these two old men die," which Dathan and Abiram did not say, only "Why do you exalt yourselves," but they did not dream, God forbid, of the death of Moshe and Aaron, especially since Moshe and Aaron are the father and uncle of Nadav and Avihu. The "Ten Sayings" explains in the saying "Investigate Judgment" that what Nadav and Avihu said, "When will these two old men die" [Sanhedrin 52], refers to the verse at the end of Mishpatim 24:1 - "And to Moshe He said, 'Come up to Hashem, you and Aaron, Nadav and Avihu, and seventy of the elders of Israel, and bow down from afar.' And Moshe alone shall come near to Hashem..." After the heavenly voice proclaimed, "The elders of Israel up to here, and Nadav and Avihu up to here," Nadav and Avihu saw that Aaron was going with Moshe, and they were sure that Aaron would ascend with Moshe to the heavenly firmament [Megaleh Amukot 99]. And who is it that ascends to heaven and descends, for apart from Elijah the Prophet, no one merits to descend from heaven. Therefore, Nadav and Avihu understood that Moshe and Aaron are now ascending to heaven and presumably will not descend again. For Moshe merited three times after forty days to descend, and Elijah the Prophet, about whom it is said in the Zohar Ki Tisa 190, "Hashem said to him, 'What are you doing here, Elijah?'" The Zohar in Parshat Naso expounds, "What are you doing here," do not read "here" but "mouth," if you want the mouth of Moshe Rabbeinu, peace be upon him, you must go to all the covenants and be like a baby weaned from its mother, like a weaned child on my soul. For it is impossible to receive the divine light that multiplies itself every second unless a person merits every moment anew and every new second to be like a baby anew, as our Rebbe explains in Torah 219, "In His saying, 'How'" [Eicha 2], "In His purple garment," about which it is said, "Hashem reigns, He is clothed with majesty, Hashem is clothed, He has girded Himself with strength," for the garments of Hashem's splendor are renewed every moment and second with greater force and strength. They can only be attained by "If a man hides in secret places, and I do not see him," only when a person becomes completely nullified, only then "I will see him" = "When will I come and appear before Hashem." Only then can he see in the majesty of Hashem in His garments of splendor, for in the place of His greatness, there you find His humility. And as Hashem grows and exalts, so every moment and second, a person needs more and more to nullify himself from existence every moment and second. This is the secret of all the terrible killings in every generation, for in every generation, Hashem reveals Himself more and more with greater force and strength, and therefore a person needs to nullify himself more and more to the infinite light, for the light of Hashem, blessed be He, multiplies itself every moment and second, and so it will be until the end of all generations. And in the resurrection of the dead, there will be true nullification, for anyone who has pride, his dust will not be stirred for the resurrection of the dead, for in the resurrection of the dead, they will reach true nullification, which is the secret of the red heifer, and the passing of tzaddikim atones like the red heifer. This we read before the 6th, 7th, and 8th of Tammuz, about which it is said, "And he shall slaughter it before him," says Midrash Rabba, "And Elazar took," this is Nebuchadnezzar, who filled the role of the High Priest to burn the heifer, the entire people of Israel, in the aspect of "They have given the carcasses of Your servants as food for the birds of the sky, the flesh of Your chassidim to the beasts of the earth." Therefore, the highest level is that of the frog, which says [Proverbs 25:21-22], "If your enemy is hungry, give him bread to eat, and if he is thirsty, give him water to drink, for you will heap coals of fire upon his head." And the flesh of Rabbi Akiva was sold in the market, says the Ari, this was the flesh of demons, but Rabbi Akiva himself, who then merited the secret of the head tefillin [Megaleh Amukot 72, 173], and all precious things his eye saw, for things that were not revealed to Moshe were revealed to Rabbi Akiva [Midrash Rabba 19], for Moshe only merited the aspect of "You shall see My back," the knot of the tefillin, and Rabbi Akiva merited the secret of the shin of the tefillin. This is by being included in the tip of the letter dalet of "echad," which Moshe wanted from the spies to tour the land, "I set my heart to seek wisdom" [Sefat Emet], that they would ascend from Binah to Chochmah in the secret of "to tour the land" [initials Leah], but they went from Rechov to Bo Chamat [initials Rachel] and remained in the aspect of Rachel. Therefore, it was decreed that night that all the destructions would come until the end of all generations, for we do not merit to reach the aspect of Leah, in the aspect of "And Leah's eyes were weak," the secret of weeping, which is the secret of rectification [for "In Your Name they rejoice all day" initials weeping], for through weeping every night at midnight, a person can reach the secret of nullification and rectification, that every day he will reach a completely new nullification that has never been before. And thereby we can receive the new divine light of every day, which is in the aspect of "double portion," which is what Elisha asked from Elijah the Prophet, to merit every day to a new nullification of double portion, yes, until we can receive the new divine light of every day, which is in the aspect of "double portion," and then we will no longer need the rectification of destructions, but we will merit every day to the aspect of the resurrection of the dead, that we will have vessels of humility and lowliness to see Hashem face to face, and we will not need the aspect of "In His purple garment," but we will merit the eternal light of eternity, which is the light of our holy and awesome Rebbe, the light of nullification. Therefore, a person needs from time to time to leave the land and go to the diaspora to receive the light of new nullification [Evening Prayer 4], and thereby there will be no more destructions, God forbid. 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