Bnei Torah in the city of Rechasim who have drawn close to Shuvu Banim ○ A summary from the shiur

Some of the Bnei Torah in the city of Rechasim merited to draw close to the great light of The Rav, Rabbi Eliezer Berland shlit"a. Many of those who have drawn close are avreichim—Bnei Torah from the city. These dear אנשי שלומינו from Rechasim merited to enter “into the inner sanctum” on Monday night, the eve of the 10th of Sivan, before Ma’ariv, for a special shiur from The Rav shlit"a.

The Rav shlit"a opened the shiur with the topic of Miriam the Prophetess. The Midrash says on the verse “And He made them houses” that Pharaoh did not see them and could not kill them. The Rav said that the same thing happened with Yehoshua and Kalev in the house of Rachav. From here he taught that the Tzaddik “sees, yet is not seen.”

He then spoke about the recent terror attacks, and about how those murdered in them were our brothers. He said it is forbidden to have any grievance against anyone—even in one’s heart. When a person carries a grievance, that is why tragedies like attacks happen. He explained that this was the mistake of Rabbi Akiva’s students: the twenty-four thousand were pairs, and they had a grievance in the heart that they did not uproot completely. Therefore, to this day during Sefiras HaOmer we observe customs of mourning—to remind all of us that it is forbidden to be makpid, even in the heart!

Afterward he spoke about the holiness of the home, and he mentioned the words of Rabbi Nosson in Likutey Halachos—that the entire wedding is only in order to bring Moshiach. From there he moved to speaking about shalom bayis, and he mentioned that the Rambam writes, “And he shall gladden his wife”—that the husband is commanded to make his wife happy, while the wife is exempt from making her husband happy. Later in the shiur he returned again to shalom bayis, and then said that the worst thing is divorce, because then the children go off and become secular, and so on.

After that he spoke about the matter of Ur Kasdim and said thatAvraham was not born circumcised because he wanted to be “commanded and to do.” He revealed that there is Hashem in the world. He spoke about the Flood and said that the whole matter is to connect Yaakov and Rachel; and when there was a Flood, it was a connection with Rachel, for Hashem washed away all the wicked. He also said that every time a person is humiliated, it is for his benefit. He repeated again and again that a person’s greatest “lovers” are his enemies—because they transfer all their mitzvos to him and take from him all his aveiros. The more they disgrace him and lower him, the more they cleanse him of all blemishes. And so it was with Noach, when the whole world argued with him and told him, “A flood will come upon you…” After that he spoke about the matter of Mikdash Shimi and Chonyo.