Emotional: Comforting Mourners at the Avraham and Solomonovitch Family Home in

Our teacher, the holy Gaon and Tzaddik Rabbi Eliezer Berland shlit"a, arrived to offer condolences during the shiva at the home of the Avraham family in Mevaseret Zion, where a member of our community, Nachman Solomonovitch, and his brother—may they live—were mourning the passing of their mother, of blessed memory.

May her soul be bound in the bond of life.

The visit was moving; our teacher, Rav Berland, entered the family home and comforted the hearts of the family members with warm words.

"Did she live here for 60 years? And she always kept Shabbat, she was always keeping Shabbat, sometimes like this, sometimes like that?"

"She was very ill; for 35 years she had Parkinson's," the family replied.

Our teacher, Rav Berland shlit"a: "Woe is me."

The family: "She had heart attacks; her entire back was scarred."

"It is a pity she did not come to live by us; I would have healed her. If she had come to live in the 'Choma' (the wall/community), we would have healed her."

The family: "But she loved you very much, Rabbi. Every time they spoke against you in the media, she would get upset."

Our teacher, Rav Berland: "Oy, oy, they are still talking today, they do not stop. Not for a second, they do not stop for a second. You were in interrogations. You were."

One of the mourners: "No, I was not."

Our teacher, the Rav: "Every shekel that someone brought me, 'Why didn't you pay taxes on 10 shekels?' With the help of Hashem, the main thing is that she is in the hall of Rebbe Nachman. She donated a lot to the yeshiva; now she is in the hall of Rebbe Nachman."

"Like Devorah the Prophetess, like Miriam the Prophetess, there are halls. It is written in the Zohar that there are halls for women. Every woman who passes away is found either with Yocheved or Miriam; we just learned about Yocheved."

"We just learned about Yocheved in Parshat Vayera, Yocheved who was born between the walls, she completed the seventy souls. She was born exactly as they entered the wall, like the Jaffa Gate, that was the gate of Cairo, the gate of Alexandria, that is where Yocheved was born, inside the gate."

"She merited to live 250 years; it is written in the Rambam that she lived 250 years. Moshe lived 120 years, his eye did not dim, and his vigor did not fade. One must live in a place of tzaddikim, then his eye will not dim and his vigor will not fade."

"But she is living now with the tzaddikim, now she is in the halls of the tzaddikim, and she was the most righteous woman in the world."

The family: "She is buried on the Mount of Olives."

Our teacher, Rabbi Eliezer Berland: "Whoever is on the Mount of Olives goes straight to Gan Eden."

Nachman Solomonovitch: "Rabbi, this is my brother."

The Rav: "This is your brother? Was this your mother? Yes, you are two brothers."

Our teacher, Rabbi Eliezer Berland, in response to one of the family members who asked for a blessing for a suitable shidduch: "Get married today, nu, what is the problem? One must get married today, even at age 100, it does not matter. At age 100, it is forbidden to be without a wife for even a thousandth of a second. As soon as one is born, one must marry him off."

"Here in Parshat Vayigash, regarding Chetzron son of Peretz, they married at age one. Chetzron and Chamul were the most righteous; they married at age one and passed away at age 120; they were married for 119 years."

"At age one they marry them off, at age 13 they already have a home."

Our teacher, Rabbi Eliezer Berland, answering the family member who said that if one chases after something, it only moves further away: "Yes, it is forbidden to chase. If you chase after something, then it runs away. Every woman is good; there is no bad woman, the man makes the woman bad. What does a woman already want? To eat an omelet in the morning and drink a cup of coffee and a slice of bread with a little butter. That is all, that is all the woman wants."

"A Holocaust survivor told me, 'All through the Holocaust I dreamed that the war would end and I would eat a slice of bread with butter and a cup of coffee.' This was a woman who went through the entire Holocaust, I read it in some book. There was no food in the Holocaust, they only received thin soup, mud like that, mud. The Holocaust ended, now every morning a slice of bread with butter and a cup of coffee."

"We could have already been a superpower. If everyone brought 10 children, we would multiply by 5, every couple brings 10. Today we are 12 million, we would be 18, now we are 12, so we would reach 60 million within a year. If every couple brings a child every year, then within 20 years we are 60 million."

"When we see a gentile saving a Jew, they say he is from the seed of Jews. In Poland, one hundred thousand Poles saved Jews. Now the Poles have boycotted Holocaust Remembrance Day because they themselves were the Nazis."

"Every year they destroy us; assimilation is three hundred thousand a year, in three years one million. We were 18 million after the Holocaust, we were 12, we went up to 18 and returned again to 12 million."

"In America, everyone is assimilating; he goes to university and marries a gentile woman, and she marries a gentile man. Whoever goes to university is poison, not just the content, but the mixing and the life of licentiousness."

"She was the most righteous woman, she kept Shabbat. And she has, thank God, grandchildren and descendants—now she is in the hall of Rebbe Nachman."

May it be the will that this article and the words of our teacher, the holy Gaon and Tzaddik Rabbi Eliezer Berland shlit"a, be for the elevation of the soul of Dalia bat Sultana, of blessed memory.