"And Khamenei and All the Enemies of Israel Shall Be Finished" ◇ Purim Kiddush from the mouth of the Gaon and Tzaddik Rabbi Eliezer Berland shlit"a

As is the custom every year after the Shacharit (morning prayer) and the reading of the Megillah (Scroll of Esther) on Purim day, our teacher, the Gaon and Tzaddik Rabbi Eliezer Berland shlit"a (may he live long and good days), conducts a Kiddush (sanctification over wine) for Purim, seasoned with milta d'bidichuta (words of humor).

Before you is the full Kiddush with the lesson that followed, as delivered by our teacher and Rebbe shlit"a on Shushan Purim 5786:

"And the heavens and the earth and all the enemies of Israel and all their hosts and all their armies shall be finished (Vayechulu)—Haniyeh, Hassan Nasrallah, Mohammed Deif, and Yahya Sinwar, together with Khamenei, who is now in the 'Stronghold of the Gods' and has ascended to the place of Gehennom (hell), from which he shall not emerge for all generations, along with all their army, with Macron and all their wicked company. And God finished (Vayechal) on the day of Purim His work which He had done, and He rested. This means there will be no more wars, no sirens, and no missiles; and He rested from all these missiles which He had made. And God blessed the day of Purim and sanctified it, for on it He rested from all His work which God created to do. Savri (by your leave);

Blessed are You, Hashem our God, King of the Universe, Who creates the fruit of the vine.

Now it is Purim 5786, 'a crown to her husband' (Proverbs 12:4), 'a crown of beauty.'

First of all, in the merit of Queen Esther, who did not surrender and entered [to the King], saying, 'If I perish, I perish.' Now, Ahasuerus was a 'Litvak' (a rationalist/opponent); he was among those who oppose Shuvu Banim. He said, 'I am not impressed by the scepter, not by two hundred cubits, and not by a thousand cubits—stop trying to work your magic on me.' For him, the law is the law; let the law pierce the mountain (a Talmudic idiom for strict justice).

Now they are hanging Queen Esther, and they prepare the gallows, a tree fifty—one hundred cubits high. And then the Angel arrived, and I don't want to tell you what he did to him. Simply put, he [the Angel] learned in Shuvu Banim—but don't you learn from this—he gave him such a slap (patch), such a blow, just like they gave Nebuchadnezzar such a slap. It is written in [Sanhedrin] 92, page b, that he also received a slap.

And Pharaoh also received a slap. It’s not worth it for you to read this; it’s not for you. Don’t learn from this. 'And the nostrils of wrath' (vacharei af) it is written, in Zevachim 107 in the Daf Yomi (daily page of Talmud); we have already skipped fifty pages ahead.

For Moses our Teacher was accustomed to giving those same slaps. He gave slaps many times. And everyone needs to learn all the Gemaras (Talmudic volumes); now it is Purim, now it is seven o'clock, at ten will be Ma'ariv (evening prayer), so from now until then, finish all of Perek Chelek (the eleventh chapter of Sanhedrin). See how Nebuchadnezzar received a slap, and learn Yalkut Shimoni chapters 1 and 2.

See how Ahasuerus received a slap because he did not want to have mercy on Esther; now you will have mercy on her! And the slap that Moses gave—skip over that, it’s not for you. So this is in Zevachim 107; now learn from 107 until the end. 'A land rained upon in wrath'—here, there are no missiles and here there is no flood. And here, there is not a single missile in Jerusalem!"