"Because You Did Not Go Up Together, You Did Not Merit a House of Fire" — Words of the Holy Tzaddik Rabbi Eliezer Berland shlit"a

“For thus said Hashem of Hosts: Yet once more, in a little while, and I will shake the heavens and the earth, and the sea and the dry land. And I will shake all the nations, and the precious desire of all the nations will come; and I will fill this House with glory—said Hashem of Hosts. Mine is the silver and Mine is the gold—declares Hashem of Hosts. The glory of this latter House will be greater than the former—said Hashem of Hosts; and in this place I will grant peace—declares Hashem of Hosts.” (Chaggai, chapter 2). All of this refers to the building of the Beis HaMikdash that will be built in 5777

“Thus said Hashem of Hosts: Set your heart upon your ways. 8 Go up the mountain, bring wood, and build the House; and I will desire it and I will be honored (and I will be glorified), said Hashem” (Chaggai 1). Bring plywood, bring cardboard—back then there were no stones, there was no gold, there was no silver. “And I will be honored”—the letter hei is missing. Therefore, five things were missing in the building of the Second Temple, because the Jewish people did not go up (to Eretz Yisrael). Only 40,000 went up instead of millions. As Reish Lakish said to Rabbah bar bar Chanah: Because you did not go up together, you did not merit a House of Fire. For the moment everyone goes up to Eretz Yisrael, at that very moment a House of Fire would descend.

Everyone thinks only about his own house; no one thinks about Hashem. The Jewish people are being pursued; a new intifada has begun; they shot at a bus at Giv’at HaTachmoshet. Eighty years have passed and there are still intifadas and killings. Now it is 5777, the year of the Geulah—777. All the words of the prophet refer to 5777; this is something that happens once in a thousand years. Each and every Jew is a golden Menorah; he was in the Holy of Holies.

Whoever was by the Tzaddik Emes on Rosh Hashanah is sealed for life—but what is that worth if there will be a Holocaust and the whole world will be destroyed? If they throw an atomic bomb—like Obama signed an agreement with Ahmadinejad—the world has gone mad. Like when Princeton University wanted to give a Nobel Peace Prize to Hitler, yimach shemo, and Einstein, who worked there, opposed it—so they fired him.

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