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"Anyone who merits to be in Shuvu Banim merits the 'Mouth of Akudim' to revive the dead" • The Daily Lesson from the Gaon and Tzaddik Rabbi Eliezer Berland shlit"a

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"Anyone who merits to be in Shuvu Banim merits the 'Mouth of Akudim' to revive the dead" • The Daily Lesson from the Gaon and Tzaddik Rabbi Eliezer Berland shlit"a

Before you is a summary of topics from the daily lesson as delivered by our teacher, the Rav, Rabbi Eliezer Berland shlit"a – yesterday after the Maariv (evening) prayer, Sunday night, the 8th of Kislev, Parshat Vayishlach:

Every day more children join. The Pischei Teshuvah (halakhic commentary) says in section 154 that children, by their nature, throw stones. The Shelah HaKadosh (Rabbi Isaiah Horowitz) says that the boys regained the "filth of the serpent" (spiritual impurity) during the Sin of the Golden Calf, but the girls did not give [their jewelry for the idol]. Instead, their ears were torn with the earrings [taken by force], so they remained for 40 years without earrings, and all the husbands died. If we divide 600,000 by 38 years, it is 15,822, which is the number of women who remained widows [each year], and double that for the children is 158,820. The children would dig the graves for their parents on Tisha B'Av (the 9th of Av); this is real—everyone cries, parting from their fathers every year. All the mothers scream; the entire camp is filled with their screams every year for 38 years until the final year. Therefore, Tu B'Av (the 15th of Av) and Yom Kippur are days of dancing for the girls, because the intellect of a daughter is infinitely greater than that of the boys, because they are in the aspect of Chokhmah d'Ban (Wisdom of the feminine name of God), and the boys are in Binah (Understanding). They are infinitely wiser. All of this is written in Tzad [likely Tzidkas HaTzaddik], two lines from the bottom, that the wisdom of the woman is infinitely greater than that of the man. Every woman should be a manager, a teacher, distributing tzedakah (charity) and not just receiving it; she can rule over the entire world. If she were a manager, there would be seminaries in Be'eri, Nir Oz, and Kfar Aza [communities near Gaza]. The girls are in captivity in the tunnels and trenches; for 14 months they have been throwing them half a slice of bread; they are there with tattoos. Devorah the Prophetess saved the entire world—"Did Hashem not command?" Devorah commands because the Tzaddik is Hashem; Devorah is [a manifestation of] Hashem. "Nashim" (women) is the numerical value (Gematria) of Eliyahu HaNavi (Elijah the Prophet). Every woman can bring the Geulah (Redemption) and bring all of the Jewish people back in teshuvah (repentance). "When breaches are breached" (Bifroa Praos)—for two hundred years they committed transgressions until Devorah came and "paid" (par'ah) all the debts. For 196 years, Devorah brought all of the Jewish people back in teshuvah. Today we only see the deterioration of the Jewish people. Every woman needs to smash her Xiaomi and her smartphone; every girl needs to lengthen her skirt to the ankle. As soon as you arrive home, there are 9 hours to sleep for 90 years. Whoever can stay awake should travel to Shechem (Joseph's Tomb), to Uman, to Morocco—no, to the Baal Shem Tov one can return. If they launch UAVs (drones), we will catch them and fly to Uman; within two hours we arrive, two hours back, six hours at the Tziyun (grave site of Rebbe Nachman), seven times Tikkun HaKlali (The General Rectification), Chatzos (Midnight Lamentations), Psalms. Every woman can bring all of the Jewish people back in teshuvah, and therefore the girls put red scarves on the windowsill, the red dress. Everything becomes white as snow, and then one must take her dress—a woman traveled to China and found a dress for a million dollars with all the diamonds. They told her, "No, you must give it to that woman from Shuvu Banim who found a dress in the trash before Pesach (Passover)." A million girls are crying, and there is an ocean flooding from the tears of the girls whose dresses were taken. Everything is already melting here; Alaska—maybe we'll move to the moon or Mars. In any case, a person must know that a woman has more intellect than a man; therefore, the woman is responsible for the entire house. Therefore, Rav Chisda says that for a daughter one receives two hundred, for a son one hundred. Rabbi David Oppenheimer says this is actual law, because the son doesn't study Gemara (Talmud), so he throws stones all day, and the police will take them, and they will leave prison at age fifty, broken and crushed. We haven't found that a girl throws stones, because the boy swallowed the "filth of the serpent" during the Sin of the Golden Calf, because they said they were going to dance, but in the end, they gave a kiss [to the idol], and the women should have hit their husbands with a club. Everyone was sentenced to death—15,822 [each year], nearly a million orphans every year, and they all dig graves for their father, knowing that father is dying. Moshe (Moses) succeeded in sweetening [the judgment] for all of the Jewish people, but whoever gave a kiss was sentenced to death. The filth returned to the boys, and therefore they throw stones. Thus, there is a question: who needs to protect the windows, the father or the one damaged? The Avkas Rochel writes that boys fail more in this; they are closer to sin. And everyone who breaks his Xiaomi and his smartphone, and every woman who lengthens her skirt, merits to reach the level of the Baal Shem Tov and merits the "Mouth of Akudim" (a high Kabbalistic level of light), for "Luz was the name of the city at first"—what does the Luz (the indestructible bone) have to do with this? Because in Luz people do not die. This is only through eating Melaveh Malkah (the post-Shabbat meal). Whoever skips Melaveh Malkah will not rise in the Resurrection of the Dead, because this bone does not benefit from any sin or anything else, only from Melaveh Malkah. For Melaveh Malkah is higher than all the [Shabbat] meals. The first [meal] is the "Nose of Akudim," the second is the "Mouth of Akudim," the third is the "Eye of Akudim," and Melaveh Malkah is the "Forehead of Akudim." Only Yaakov Avinu (Jacob our forefather) merited this, and anyone who merits to observe Melaveh Malkah merits the "Forehead of Akudim." And anyone who merits to be in Shuvu Banim merits the "Mouth of Akudim" to revive the dead, and in this merit, we shall merit the complete Geulah (Redemption) speedily in our days, Amen!

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