"I am here crying out from a broken heart, because I met with one of the activists and he cried to me with tears. He asked, what is happening here? The public is not aware of the magnitude of the danger!"

The heartfelt cry of the esteemed Kabbalist Rabbi Shlomo Elmelich shlit"a about the public being asleep and not understanding the severity of the situation of our teacher, the esteemed Rav Eliezer Berland shlit"a, if we do not awaken quickly.

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These are the words of the esteemed Kabbalist Rabbi Shlomo Elmelich shlit"a

"After we sat for several meetings, we tried all the way not to burden the public, as is known, the pit does not fill from its own soil, as the Gemara in Berachot says. We know that the situation of our community is not simple, people here are barely making ends meet, but Baruch Hashem in the previous fundraiser of the one million two hundred, it was a three-day fundraiser, and the verse was fulfilled: 'I will pour out for you a blessing until there is no room to store it,' there was a blessing beyond all logic and reason, people donated from what they did not have."

"Someone transferred through me twelve hundred shekels, a person whose children sleep on a mattress, and he told me, we heard the holy call, we heard the need, and instead of buying beds for the children, we decided to give this money to Rav Berland, so that he may have relief, so that he may have it better, so that he can be released."

"People donated with unparalleled self-sacrifice. In this fundraiser, unlike the previous one, our hands are tied because there is already a plea deal, we need to operate transparently with the authorities.., all the income that comes in is for the expenses that the court does permit to collect for, for example: we know not everyone wanted to rent an apartment to our famous Rav in the media.., and it involved tens of thousands promised to the landlord. He asked for six months in advance to secure himself.., it is a large sum to which is added the maintenance of the apartment, a personal doctor, as the Rav has high blood pressure."

"Not every time is the Rav taken to the hospital, but almost every day or two the Rav suffers from high blood pressure, and they do not move him every minute to the hospital, therefore there is a personal doctor in the apartment along with private medical equipment. And yes, every time the Rav is hospitalized, they ensure he receives private care, and it costs a fortune."

"The team dealing with the Rav's issue and who have taken upon themselves this burden, if I could detail everything they committed for the Rav, they mortgaged their homes for this with supreme self-sacrifice. For example, the court asked that beyond the huge fine, they give another 199 thousand shekels from which there was no source to collect it. One of the activists rose like Pinchas, that same week they had his sister's wedding, and he took all the dowry money with his father's permission as a loan to release the Rav."

"The public must awaken, there are several avreichim, activists accompanying the Rav from the beginning of the affair until now, and they are caught between a rock and a hard place. On one hand, they have a huge burden, and the synagogue's association takes care of him and there are many expenses there, so all other expenses for the Rav must come from a new fundraiser. On the other hand, organizing a new fundraiser and turning to the public again is not simple. To explain that it is simply about maintaining the Rav's house, I can testify that for two months they did not have how to pay the security company, I had to raise them a significant loan to pay the security company."

"The security company threatened that if they did not receive payment, they would not provide security, and then, God forbid, the Rav would return to prison. Even if the rent is not paid, the Rav returns. We rabbis, without involving the public, conducted a fundraiser among ourselves. I, for example, am not allowed to tell, but to strengthen the public, right at the rabbinical meeting at Rabbi Michael Gol's house, I took out five thousand shekels for a donation. Another rabbi rose and donated another five, another rabbi rose and donated ten thousand, the rabbis, the community rabbis."

"Even before we went on a fundraising campaign, we already conducted a rabbinical fundraising campaign, just understand how necessary the fundraiser is."

"In fact, we decided at the meeting to collect a thousand shekels from every act, and I, of course, opposed it, after all, understand, even the thousand shekels donated, is it one-time or every month? In truth, in the next five months left for the Rav until Cheshvan to be released from house arrest, this burden should be on the public."

"Do not think a thousand shekels one-time and the person will say 'peace be upon you my soul'.., I say this without shame, there are rabbis who are ashamed to say it, but I say: I am ashamed, but every month we need to raise a thousand shekels from every family, the public needs to raise 200 thousand shekels every month.., regarding the lawyer's fees, we hope they will consider and not ask for a lot of money, because there was a trick here by the prosecution, as if they agreed to waive the previous third and suddenly the Tel Aviv prosecution does not agree.., this puts the system under pressure again."

"We need a lot of mercy from Heaven, the Rav's story is not over yet, I am updated on his health condition, and health-wise the Rav cannot sit one day in prison. Every day his blood pressure rises to heights that cannot be described, it is a danger to the heart. We always strive to bring joy to the Rav and not put him under stress."

"The guys who bear the burden, it is a team of true self-sacrifice, I truly envy them. We rabbis, Baruch Hashem, meet, but we have not reached the dust of their feet in their self-sacrifice, signing loans, fighting for the Rav's life, it is not a simple war, a war with the Sitra Achra, with the Sam"m literally."

"The Sitra Achra is fighting here with the true tzaddik of the generation and everyone knows, only they started again with the Rav, the corona started again in the country. Do you think these are simple matters? Now they are trying to put the Rav in prison - they are putting him under pressure and they are also entering into pressure."

"It is impossible to place all this burden on two or three people.., therefore we have placed people conducting a fundraiser in Kiryat Sefer for the expenses of our teacher the Rav."

"The public must understand that if the rabbis come out with a call here, they should think that our teacher Rav Berland came out with a call.., if, for example, the Rav was released in the beautiful years when the Rav spoke about redemptions, people would sacrifice themselves so much, what is different now? Because the Rav cannot speak, so everyone sits quietly? So everything will fall on these three?"

"I must inform you that they are already collapsing, if we do not rise like in Parshat Pinchas each of us and start also raising funds, not just donating a thousand shekels.., we cannot know where this will lead God forbid. We have no source of income to pay from, nothing is left."

"There is a problem here, people call me and say they are willing to donate if the Rav blesses them. I answer, gentlemen, understand, the Rav cannot bless anyone in the world today. Legally, he is not allowed to conduct fundraisers and engage with the public, but the rabbis represent our teacher Rav Berland."

"There is nothing to do, it is time to act for Hashem. If someone brings the rabbis 10 thousand, bring the names of the donors and we will pass them among the 7 community rabbis and they will all pray for them. I promise you that thanks to our teacher the Rav and our holy Rebbe the prayers will be fulfilled in full like the Rav's blessings literally. Because we are the messengers of the rabbis, the thighs of the tzaddik.., therefore I ask that everyone already come with 5 thousand shekels and ensure the five months until the release."

"I am here crying out from a broken heart, because I met with one of the activists and he cried to me with tears. He asked, what is happening here? The public is not aware of the magnitude of the danger!"

"This is what the tzaddik wants now, that everyone raise the money and help the Rav, this is an emergency fundraiser to save our teacher Rav Berland, and every shekel given should be thought of as being given into the hands of the tzaddik. And we have emunah in the tzaddik that the Rav sees from the beginning of the world to its end and we believe that the Rav accompanies spiritually all who donate and they will have success and divine assistance."

"Awaken, gentlemen, the situation is not simple - there are branches of Shuvu Banim all over the country and currently the call is to you outside Jerusalem.., whoever makes self-sacrifice for the tzaddik, he will do for him as well."

"There are talks from the Rav about the greatness and virtue of the tzaddik, and what a person merits when he is connected to the tzaddik, in this world and in the World to Come, talks of nullifying choice. If a person heard these talks, he would run to support the Rav, to support the Rav's house and all these expenses."

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