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"Elijah Accompanied Jacob Throughout the Exile" - Words of the Esteemed Tzaddik Rabbi Eliezer Berland shlit"a in Rechovot

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"Elijah Accompanied Jacob Throughout the Exile" - Words of the Esteemed Tzaddik Rabbi Eliezer Berland shlit"a in Rechovot

"Mount Hebron connected with Mount Moriah, because the whole matter is that the mountains connect together. "Tabor and Hermon shall rejoice in Your name" (Psalms 89:13), because all the mountains connected together. This is the work, "Tabor and Hermon shall rejoice in Your name," to go to the holy war. And this is the secret of Migdal Eder (274) mentioned in the parsha, "And Israel journeyed and pitched his tent beyond Migdal Eder" (Genesis 35:21), for from there the King Mashiach will come. And a woman who is remembered in Parshat Vayishlach can bring the King Mashiach. She only needs to intend that her mikvah falls in Parshat Vayishlach and then she can bring the King Mashiach."

"Migdal Eder is the secret of the Mashiach, where Leah's heels turn into Rachel's crown. This is what is written, "And Jacob sent messengers before him to Esau his brother, to the land of Seir, the field of Edom" (Genesis 32:4), the messengers are Elijah the prophet, as it is written, "And the messengers returned to Jacob" (Genesis 32:7), the initials spell Elijah. Elijah accompanied Jacob in all his ways, throughout the exile, for twenty years. Jacob constantly had revelations of Elijah, to see Elijah, to hear Elijah, to follow Elijah. Elijah went after Jacob and Jacob went after Elijah."

""And the messengers returned to Jacob, saying, 'We came to your brother, to Esau, and he is also coming to meet you, and four hundred men with him'" (ibid.). "Men with him," Ephron the Hittite, and his full name was Ephron ben Zohar, he was the prince of the dogs, he was a reincarnation of a dog. Therefore, Abraham had to subdue Ephron ben Zohar, and Jacob had to subdue Laban in order to inherit Edom."

"They were many, quarreling, like Jael, the wife of Heber the Kenite, "Her hand reached for the tent peg, her right hand for the workmen's hammer; she struck Sisera, she crushed his head, she shattered and pierced his temple" (Judges 5:26), both crushed and pierced. Two actions against circumcision and uncovering, for the Ishmaelites it is only one action, but for Israel it is two actions. "Through the window she looked, and Sisera's mother cried out, through the lattice."

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