A Seal Within a Seal • A New Prayer from Rabbi Eliezer Berland shlit"a for “Zos

Tonight, the night of Zos Chanukah, at the time of lighting the Chanukah candles, all of the House of Israel are sealed for good life and peace. Before you is a new prayer written by The Rav, Rabbi Eliezer Berland shlit"a, for Zos Chanukah:

THE FIFTH SEAL

Today, at the time of lighting the 8 Chanukah candles, is the secret of the fifth seal—“a seal within a seal”—for the flask of oil was sealed with “a seal within a seal” [Tosafos, Shabbos 21a]. This is the secret of the fifth seal.

For the first seal is on the eve of Rosh Hashanah, during Selichos. The second seal is on Rosh Hashanah, on the first night—when true Tzaddikim are sealed immediately for good life and peace—together with their wives, their children, and their children’s children, until the end of all generations.

The third seal is made on Yom Kippur, at Ne’ilah—and Zos Chanukah contains the inner secret of Yom Kippur. And Hosha’ana Rabbah is the secret of the fourth seal, for then everyone is sealed immediately for good life and peace.

And the fifth seal is made on the night of Zos Chanukah, at the hour when one lights the eight candles. Then even complete resha’im who do Teshuvah are sealed—together with their wives and the seed of their seed forever—through the merit of “the hidden intellect beyond every thought, the broad rivers, the streams of Emunah.” All of them, and all generations, are sealed immediately for good life and peace—for years of salvation and compassion, open miracles and wonders, just as in the time of Mattisyahu the Kohen Gadol and his sons, who were all sealed for good life and for everlasting generations.

And the descendants of Mattisyahu and Yehudah HaMaccabi and their other four brothers never went into exile; rather, they always merited an abundance of good life, and sons and sons of sons—grandchildren and great-grandchildren—until the end of all generations. And all of them walk in the way of Hashem, on the path that ascends to Beit-El, and they merit the single Eye of compassion, as it is written: “For eye to eye they shall see when Hashem returns to Zion”—the Eye of Atika, the one Eye of compassion.

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