The Servant of a King is a King
The King Brought Me To His Room There was a magnificent and spectacular palace that was inlaid with precious stones, gold, and diamonds. In it were chandeliers lighting every corner with precious light. In the hallways there was one of the king’s old strong servants. It had been many years that he had been living in the palace and courtyard and serving the king with loyalty and dedication. However, suddenly somebody called him and said, “Excuse me, please!”
A child called with a loud voice to one of the servants in the kingdom. “Yes, little boy.” It was a little boy who was barely 3 years old and was already situated in the courtyard of the kingdom. That boy was the prince of the king, the son of his exalted majesty.
Without any delay, the servant moved forward towards the child, despite his older age, and fulfilled the boy’s request very quickly and very well, and in the best way that he could do. Because he knew the boy was the prince, and he was nothing except a servant…
Pull Me And After You We Will Run This is the way of the great tzaddikim. They fill every moment and every minute and every second with the King. And therefore they are working for Him with selfless obedience, humility and absolute lowliness. They experience the feeling of servitude completely and they serve Him faithfully. With earnestness they serve every single Jew in the world because he is also a son of the mighty King Of Kings.
This is the way of the gaon, the tzaddik Rabbi Eliezer Berland, Shlita. During all of his days he sees himself as a servant. With all his senses, he is a servant who is doing everything for his Lord. A servant every moment that his soul is within him, fighting with all his strength and power for the honor of the King of Kings.
Thousands of rivers and many oceans cannot shut down the strong love and the mountains of admiration of the thousands who seek his face. The older people of blessed memory of former generations will testify that even in other generations there was not found a tzaddik with such righteousness, such a magnificent person such as this. He is a servant of Hashem and you will not see a change in his customs or character, neither when he is in his room nor when he is surrounded by thousands of followers and students. He always puts other people first, until his strength and body fails.
You never see him resting for a moment. He does not rest. Every moment that he is in the hallway or in the palace, he continues to love and laugh from one end of the world to the other, without looking to the side at the people who surround him in the palace. He does not look at the falseness, grace, or useless beauty of material things that are found in the palace because he is nothing but a servant of the King. Indeed he is even willing also to give up completely his share in olam haba. If he understood that this would give satisfaction and delight to the King of Kings.
Even though he is very wise and has a lot of knowledge, he delves deep into details. The way he is thinking, the great righteousness in his lofty soul, is the deepest genius of the way that he studies. His wonders, his kindness, his saintliness, his help in listening to every single person, is in the aspect of a ladder, standing on the ground with its head going to the heavens. He has no intention for people to tell him he is righteous. He feels his duty is to get deeper in Torah, and to be a servant of Hashem, because he is nothing but a faithful servant to Hashem and to His holy Torah.
In the hands of the faithful servant are all the keys of the courtyards of the kingdom, palaces of Torah, prayer, holiness, joy, children, healing, marriage matches, livelihood, faith, repentance, joy, individual and collective redemption. What servant has all of this? Do these even belong to him? Is all this because of his strength? Does he have an interest in them? He has no interest except to have a vision of the pleasantness of Hashem and to dwell in His palace.
We Will Rejoice And Be Glad In You He is walking in the palace of the King in the midst of serenity, great enjoyment, and joy. His heart is aflame always in the kingdom of the King of the World. Therefore it is not hard for him to work for Hashem. He doesn’t mind making a joke of himself. He doesn’t care what he looks like. He just wants to work for Hashem. Even with complete suffering of the body and soul, he gets stronger. And makes others stronger every minute in spirituality and physicality. Even giving his full attention to others and studying Torah while standing and not moving for as many as eighteen hours without sleeping. And also praying while standing for many hours.
And he is not finished. He continues. Without a moment of distraction. Without any tiredness; without any desire to rest. Every day, every moment, the Rav serves and fights with all of his strength. With huge strength, with awesome control, he continues to stand guard, in the great war to guard and to protect all of the awesome breaches. He fights against the appearances and the fetters of this world that are trying to hurt the souls of Israel in this orphaned and miserable generation.
The Rav is doing all this with an endless cleaving of faith to his Blessed G-d. This is the work of the tzaddik Rav Eliezer Berland, Shlita, in every place that he goes, all of his life. He does this on joyous occasions, peaceful and quiet, and l’havdil, even in times of difficult tests, and sickness, until even life risk, Heaven protect us, in small rooms or big rooms, supporting large groups and small groups.
As long as his neshama is within him, the servant won’t say that he is thirsty or hungry or “I am tired”. He continues his holy work until he faints, or until his strength gives out, to help people, and save people, and to pray for people. This is the work of the Blessed Creator. To give strength to souls who have been crushed, to have mercy, and to help everybody. He works hard and cries out in order to arouse mercy in all the worlds for all of Yisrael in general and every Jew in particular until he can merit to return the world in redemption and to raise the Shechinah from the dust.
May Hashem lengthen his days for his holy work that protects the nation of Israel in this orphaned generation. Also may we merit the coming of the Righteous Redeemer for the redemption of the tzaddikim, and the coming of our righteous Moshiach soon in our days, Amein.
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Eliezer Eved Hashem — Chapter 1 of 26
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