Do You Have a Question? Cry Out to Hashem! • The Daily Lesson from the Gaon

Presented here is the complete daily lesson as delivered by The Rav, Rabbi Eliezer Berland shlit"a, on Tuesday night, the eve of 6 Elul, Parshas Ki Seitzei, after the Ma’ariv prayer:

“When Rivkah the righteous was three years old, they made a shidduch for her. They immediately contacted me to ask whether I agreed to the shidduch. I said that I do not agree in any way—I am from Turkey; I do not want any ‘Turkey’ in my family. They only think about money; they are barely religious.

But Eliezer did not listen to my voice. He went ahead and made the shidduch, and in the end Esav came out of it—just as I told him.

‘And her pitcher was on her shoulder’ (Bereishis 24:45)—the initial letters spell Esav.

But Rabbi Meir of Dzikov explains that Eliezer wanted to return home without the shidduch, because I told him to cancel immediately. Yet he was ‘silent’ (Bereishis 24:21)—he decided that he would overcome the kushya.

The Rebbe Nachman says in Torah 46: kushya—its initial letters are ‘Hear, Hashem, my voice; I call out’ (Bereishis 27:7). You have a kushya about the shidduch? Cry out to Hashem!

He cried out to Hashem, and Hashem showed him that ‘silent’ has the gematria of ‘Yaakov Esav’—five hundred and fifty-eight—so he understood that what they made was only the klipah, only the klipah.

But how do you bring down the klipah? Only through dancing!

And this is ‘Wash your feet’ (Bereishis 18:4). Rebbe Nachman says in Torah 10: ‘Wash your feet’ means to make the feet spring, to bounce the heels.

And we should already merit the complete Geulah and Techiyas HaMeisim speedily in our days, Amen!”

To watch the replay of last night’s Ma’ariv prayer with singing and niggunim — the lesson begins at 39:52

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FdNgPhZOByk&t=2664s