"And There We Will Go Up and Be Seen"

As he does every year, and after two years in which he was imprisoned and could not make the pilgrimage, our teacher Rabbi Eliezer Berland shlit"a ascended in the early morning hours—Thursday, the eve of the seventh day of Passover—to the remnant of our Holy Temple, to pour out his heart together with hundreds of our community members:

At 1:56 AM, our teacher Rav Berland shlit"a departed from his home toward the Western Wall, accompanied by hundreds of our community members. Indeed, at 2:10 AM, he arrived at the Western Wall, and after kissing the holy stones of the Wall, he began reciting the Tikkun HaKlali eight times in succession together with all of our community members in a fiery blaze—for over an hour and a half of reciting the Tikkun HaKlali for the salvation of the people of Israel, at the very same time that rockets were being fired at them by those evildoers toward Sderot and the Gaza envelope.

After an hour and a half of Tikkun HaKlali, our teacher the Rav shlit"a concluded with Kaddish, sung with melodies and burning fire together with all of our community members who had arrived in the meantime, even from outside the Holy City. After the Kaddish, our teacher Rabbi Eliezer Berland shlit"a poured out his prayers for the entire people of Israel for long moments, as he kissed the stones of the Wall and departed with the song, "Awake, my glory; awake, psaltery and harp: I will awake the dawn..."

At 3:50 AM, he returned to his holy abode to continue the service of the holy days and the Shacharit, Hallel, and Musaf prayers in his home.

Photos courtesy of "Keren HaTzaddik - Netzach Netzachim".