On Monday night, the eve of the 9th of Marcheshvan, some members of the Shuvu Banim community in the Torah city of Bnei Brak entered the holy residence of The Rav, Rabbi Eliezer Berland shlit"a, for a strengthening shiur.

Below are the topics and some of the words of chizuk that The Rav shlit"a shared during the shiur:

The Rav shlit"a opened the shiur by speaking about the halachic disputes the brothers had with Yosef. He also spoke about the abundance that existed in the time of the Beis HaMikdash, as brought in the Gemara in Menachos—that the lambs for the daily offering were the size of camels. Later, he said that if a person does not learn Gemara, then his entire mind becomes “turned upside down,” and that this is what led to the terrible failure of senior government and military officials in the war: because they do not learn Gemara, their minds are turned upside down. He explained that one of the disputes between Yosef and the brothers was whether brothers of a “shifchah charufah” inherit from the father. The Rav also spoke about those who “moved the sun.”

Afterward, he spoke about the killing of Hevel, and detailed four different approaches as to when Kayin killed Hevel. Toward the end of the shiur, he spoke about the power of niggunim and songs—that Noach and Kayin did not know this secret: that it is possible to bring people back in teshuvah through songs. He said that if Iyov had known the secret of niggun, he would have brought the entire world back in teshuvah, and he would have made it so that there would be no blind or deaf people at all. In closing, he spoke about how, if Shaul had waited for Shmuel just one more minute, he would have merited an eternal kingship. And he said that if a person merits to completely nullify himself to the Tzaddik, he can merit an eternal kingship.

Below is documentation from the shiur: