Chapters of Heichalot: "Thus They Will Disgrace the King Mashiach"

A wonderful testimony from a veteran student of the Kaf HaChaim Yeshiva from the mouth of Rav Lugasi shlit"a, these are his words.

"I studied at the Kaf HaChaim Yeshiva about 30 years ago. I met Rav Lugasi and asked him: 'Did you know that Mashiach will sit in prison?'

Rav Lugasi: "Are you referring to Rav Berland?"

I answered: "Did you know there is a Midrash called Pirkei Heichalot that says Mashiach will sit in prison?"

Rav Lugasi: "I am not saying whether Rav Berland is the Mashiach, but it certainly pains me that he is in prison, a Jew of his advanced age. I will tell you something about Mashiach that I heard from Rav Berland himself in 5775. Rav Berland said in a lesson: 'Pray strongly that in 5775 there will be redemption, because if not, it will only come in 5781'. Rav Lugasi continued to tell me, I am not a chassid like you, but I heard this from Rav Berland."

I asked: "Could it be that everything happening now with the coronavirus is hastening us to Mashiach in 5781?"

Rav Lugasi: "Surely these are processes in the redemption."

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It is written about the humility of Mashiach as the humility of Moshe Rabbeinu, what was is what will be. Just as many opposed Moshe, he only prayed for them; on the contrary, as much as Datan and Aviram embittered his life, he still opened the sea for them. And so with Rav Berland - Aba Turtsky asked Rav Berland to release a recording against those who disgrace him and issue a court against him, that they should be punished so that they would fear, how do people not fear to pursue the tzaddik?

Rav Berland replied to him: 'I want to release a recording that I forgive them and pray for them to have only good things.'

Natan Salmanovitz, the son of the kabbalist Rabbi Yaakov Moshe Salmanovitz from Bnei Brak said: "We need to publicize the Midrash Pirkei Heichalot that speaks about Mashiach. People who read what is written there automatically say it resembles what is happening to Rav Berland. Therefore, we only need to publicize Pirkei Heichalot and everyone will be amazed at how similar it is to what is happening to Rav Berland."

I made an experiment: "Living near me are several avrechim from the Ponevezh Yeshiva, I asked one of them, if I tell you that Mashiach is sitting in prison and they will say about him that he is an adulterer, thief, murderer, etc., would you say I am crazy?"

The avrech from Ponevezh answered: "Sure, what a thing to say about Mashiach!"

I told him: "Tzaddik, you study Gemara all day and you do not know that there are explicit ancient Midrashim that tell exactly these things that will be said about Mashiach, that he will be disgraced, put in prison. People do not understand that the entire reality that Rav Berland is going through is written and it is not the invention of some student or foolish chassid."

In the Midrash Pirkei Heichalot it is written that the people of Israel will say about Mashiach: "At that time Israel will turn to another mindset and disgrace Mashiach and say Woe to us that we followed this madman Hashem said to them, you call him mad now see his light that was surrounding him as it is said (Psalms 50:3) and around him it stormed greatly and all who believed in him will not be erased from the book of life (Pirkei Heichalot Chapter 35). It is difficult to understand how the words of the Midrash are truly being fulfilled, how the people of Israel will repent for abandoning Mashiach and murmuring against him!"

"In the last lessons before the exile, Rav Berland said about himself, once every 200 years a neshamah (soul) descends to the world that has never sinned. Rav Berland took a pen and emphasized this writing in the Rambam's book. And Rav Berland answered one of the questioners and said: From the age of 3, I have not even had a sinful thought."