Enough, Isn't It a Shame About All the Suffering and Losses in Body and Soul? The Holy of Holies Gates Did Not Open Until David's Disgrace Was Erased

Throughout the land today, prayer gatherings, acceptance of the yoke of Heaven, recitation of the Pitum Haketoret, Parshat HaMenorah, etc., took place. May it be the will of Hashem that the prayers of Your people, Israel, be accepted favorably and may our prayers join with all of Israel. Exactly as our teacher, the esteemed Rav Rabbi Eliezer Berland shlit"a, has instructed all these years - not to separate from the community, always to be included with Anash, with the entirety of the people of Israel.

However, we must continue to voice the Torah's warning, the admonition of the great kabbalists and tzaddikim who repeatedly said - as long as Rabbi Eliezer Berland shlit"a is in detention, all of Israel will be in detention with him. We hope for only good and complete healing for all Israel in the land and the world, but here is a small portion of what we have repeatedly warned, along with the words of the greats of Israel from past generations.

It's a shame to continue suffering needlessly; those who can protest and warn should rise and do so, it's a shame for more God-fearing Jews to fall victim to this difficult situation.

And already Mohara"sh warned in his holy book Likutei Halachot (Orach Chaim - Hilchot Shabbat Halacha 6), and there he also revealed the cure for Corona - "For the true tzaddikim can rectify and heal every person in the world even if he is greatly ill in soul and body. For just as one who disgraces a Torah scholar has no healing for his wound as our Rabbis of blessed memory said, and as this matter is well explained in this Torah, so too the opposite, a good measure is much greater for one who believes in the tzaddikim and their disciples, who are the true Torah scholars, there is no wound in the world in body and soul that will not have healing through them, as in the aspect of 'and for all his flesh it is a healing' said about the Torah."

What is clearer and more evident than the words of Rabbi Natan. They disgrace the Torah scholar and there is no healing for his wound, and it is simply seen that there is no cure found for Corona. But, Hashem is good and does good to all, and He decreed that a good measure is greater than the measure of judgment, therefore if we rise and protest the disgrace of the Torah scholar, Rav Berland shlit"a - surely the judgments will be sweetened from upon the people of Israel.

Words of the Kabbalist Who Merits the Public

And as we have brought several times the words of the kabbalist Rabbi Menashe Amon who said, anyone who disgraces a Torah scholar has no healing for his wound, as long as Rav Berland is in detention, more cities and places will enter the danger of Corona, and unfortunately, these words have already come to fruition and our eyes are consumed.

I sat with distinguished Torah scholars and tried to understand the meaning of this scandal. Are the matters not clear and painful enough? Perhaps the attempt to understand the connection between the disgrace of Rav Berland, a distinguished Torah scholar according to all opinions and methods, a famous tzaddik God-fearing (and this is not according to his students who hold him as an angel of Hashem), was difficult until now. But now that Rav Berland is in detention and from that moment Corona arrives in the land and does not stop wreaking havoc in the world - and the whole world enters detention together with the tzaddik, what more is needed for us to open our eyes. So apparently people do not understand that this is not about some divine achievement of a hidden kabbalist (and God forbid we do not belittle any tzaddik), but it is about an explicit halacha that is being trampled almost without anyone speaking up.

Shulchan Aruch Yoreh De'ah 243

V) It is a great sin to disgrace the sages or to hate them (Jerusalem was not destroyed until they disgraced the Torah scholars there - Rambam). And anyone who disgraces the sages has no portion in the World to Come and is included in 'for he has despised the word of Hashem'.

"On the day Rav Berland was arrested, the Corona disease was discovered in the land, and the Rav said, 'when the tzaddik is in isolation, the whole world is in isolation'", shared Rabbi Ofer Erez shlit"a in his lesson from home following the Corona situation. "All we know is that Rav Berland is performing tremendous and wonderful rectifications in the world, and fortunate is he who is saved from the dispute about the Rav. On the contrary, one should hold on to Rav Berland, connect with the Rav, be in contact with him."

"There is no doubt that all the actions of Rav Berland now are the final clarifications before the redemption." Thus far his words.

How Will the Gates Open?

When King Solomon finished building the Holy Temple, the sacred vessels were placed in their place (Babylonian Talmud Shabbat 30.). At the dedication of the Temple, when Solomon wanted to place the Ark of the Covenant in its place in the Holy of Holies, he encountered a problem. 'The gates clung to each other' and refused to open, Solomon tried with twenty-four songs and praises, but was not answered. King Solomon continued to try to open the gates, but to no avail. King Solomon was left helpless and did not know what to do. Until Solomon said: "Hashem, God, do not turn away the face of Your anointed, remember the mercies of David Your servant" and he was answered. Only when Solomon mentioned his father David, who so longed to see the building of the Temple and did everything possible to hasten its construction, was his prayer answered.

The Torah warns "Do not stand idly by the blood of your neighbor", you see your brother being harmed or about to be harmed, you are obligated to warn them. It is not a time to be silent!

Enough. They tried and are trying everything, but to no avail. And just as the gates of the Temple did not open even before the King of Israel until David's disgrace was removed, the gates of Heaven are waiting to open to our prayers by us rising and protesting the detention and disgrace of the esteemed Rav Rabbi Eliezer Berland shlit"a.

Words of Rabbi Ofer Erez courtesy of Netzach Netzachim channel and edited from the full lesson given by Rabbi Ofer from his home following the Corona situation