A Person Comes to the World to Be Free

Yesterday, the night of Wednesday of Shabbat Shoftim 5778, August 14, 2018, the esteemed Rabbi Eliezer Berland shlit"a arrived at the wedding of the daughter of Rabbi Shimon Rubinstein, his faithful attendant. The wedding took place at the Negina Halls in Kiryat Sefer, where Rav Berland conducted the chuppah in front of a large crowd of family, chassidim, and people of action. After the chuppah, Rav Berland shlit"a stayed to bring joy to the groom and bride with holy dances. Here are words spoken by the esteemed Rabbi Eliezer Berland shlit"a.

"When a person speaks Torah, he guides all the worlds"

"All Shabbat the Rebbe did not sleep at all, the Rebbe danced all Shabbat, the Rebbe says that when a person speaks Torah, he guides all the worlds, and he acted accordingly, and returned home while the day was still great, and everything he did was contrary to the doctors, the doctor said it was forbidden to eat this – he specifically ate it, and when the doctor said about something specific to eat this - he specifically did not eat it, because he saw there was no substance in them, the doctor knows nothing of his life, when a person speaks Torah, he guides all the worlds, from every letter he utters, all the letters of the Torah await him to speak them, this is when a person speaks Torah."

"A person comes to the world to be free"

"Because there is a great question, the Rambam rules that a half-slave and half-free person is forbidden to eat the Passover offering, Rabbi Shimon bar Yochai says that a half-slave is indeed permitted to eat, because every half-released slave is considered released, and according to the Rambam, he must be fully released. The entire work of a person is to be free, a person comes to the world to be free, it is written "They are My servants" (Leviticus 25:55) and they expounded, and not servants to servants (Baba Metzia 10a)."

"If a person does not fail in the covenant, he merits to receive a new understanding – the fiftieth gate, "And Hashem your God will keep for you the covenant" (Deuteronomy 7:12), and the main foundation of the kedushah (holiness) of the body is not monetary sanctity."

(Edited from the leaflet Shevavi Or - a lesson given on Motzaei Shabbat Parshat Eikev in Cholon)

Gallery of photos of the esteemed Rabbi Eliezer at the wedding of the daughter of Rabbi Shimon Rubinstein

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,Photos courtesy of Shahar Eliyahu