Anash Uplift Their Heels with the Holy Rav Rabbi Eliezer Berland shlit"a in Shacharit Prayer - Tremendous Vitality - "The Whole Essence of a Person is the Songs, Dances, and Tunes"

During the prayers in the last week of Parshat Eikev, the holy Rav Rabbi Eliezer Berland shlit"a uplifted the holy congregation that came to gather under the wings of the tzaddik. Rav Berland shlit"a, who as is his holy custom, sings the prayers with calmness and tremendous vitality, and instills this greatly in those who hear his teachings, emphasized last week the importance of uplifting the heels in prayer and holy dances. Here are the words of Rav Rabbi Eliezer Berland shlit"a on the yahrzeit of Rabbi Meir Shlomo zt"l in Bnei Brak.

"Without hands and without feet, this is the dancing, the dancing elevates the learning. Isaiah said to Hezekiah: Sing a song! But Hezekiah did not understand why, Parshat Haazinu is all about singing. The Baal Shem Tov says that the main thing is the song in its simplicity, this was Korach's work – he needed to sing, but he said: What do they think, that I am a singer? Am I a singer in the opera? Do I need to sing in the Holy Temple? He did not understand the essence of the song at all, the song with the mouth, the song delays the offering, if they brought an offering and the Levites did not sing, then the offering did not ascend, the limbs will ascend, but the offering did not ascend."

Anash Uplift Their Heels with the Holy Rav Rabbi Eliezer Berland shlit"a in Shacharit Prayer - Tremendous Vitality

"The whole essence of a person is just to sing, the whole essence is the songs, the dances, and the tunes. A person can say the prayer in five minutes without songs, instead of saying it for two hours with all the songs and tunes, but the main thing is the songs and tunes. "And He saw their distress when He heard their song" (Psalms 106:44), a person sings the prayer and it sweetens judgments for him – "when He heard their song." "You can sweeten, you just don't know how, but if it is in the way of our Rebbe, then our Rebbe guides you. We learned this now in Yoreh De'ah that through Rosh Hashanah the Rebbe guides the person, coming to Uman, the Rebbe already directs you, right, left, forward, what to learn, how to learn. If a person comes to Rosh Hashanah to our Rebbe, then the whole year is planned, the Rebbe plans for him the whole year, how he will learn, what he will learn, and how he will learn, how he will concentrate, and how he will see Hashem every second."

And elsewhere, Rav Rabbi Eliezer Berland shlit"a said, "The Rebbe's innovation in Torah 169 – "And it shall be, because you will listen... the covenant", you want to guard the covenant? You will merit through "And it shall be, because". You want Hashem to guard the covenant for you, then be "And it shall be, because", that the simcha reaches the heels – that you uplift the heels. The whole wedding is to uplift the heels – then Hashem guards the covenant for you, then you have no suspicion."

The words are edited from the Shivevei Or bulletin The photo courtesy of Shachar Eliyahu