Every Movement of the Tzaddik is According to the Word

On the night of the first day of Parshat Ki Teitzei, August 19, 2018, the Gaon HaTzaddik Rav Eliezer Berland shlit"a arrived in Kiryat Sefer and held a home gathering and public reception there.

Words of the Gaon HaTzaddik Rav Eliezer Berland shlit"a

"Through the two birds, one restores the 370 myriad lights"

"Adam HaRishon had 450 myriad lights, 'If a bird's nest chances to be before you' (Deuteronomy 22:6). 'Bird' (Tzipor) is 370; this alludes to both the 450 myriad lights of Adam HaRishon and the 370 myriad lights that were taken from Chava. All of this must be restored through the two birds brought by the metzora. The moment a person draws down the 370 lights that were taken from Chava, this is the power of 'Ekev' and 'Re'eh'."

"Every movement of the tzaddik is according to the Dibbur"

"A person comes into the world to know that everything belongs to Hashem. Everything he does, everything he speaks, everything he thinks—it is all according to the Dibbur. Yosef HaTzaddik, who danced for 22 years, had a question; he was always in a state of questioning. He was already 48 years with a question about his father Yaakov. Yaakov passed away at 147, and from the burial of Rachel, when Yaakov was 99, 48 years passed during which the questions arose for Yosef HaTzaddik on their own. A person has all kinds of questions, all kinds of wonderings, all kinds of perplexities. Yaakov said to him: 'Know, this was all according to the Dibbur.' Every movement of the tzaddik is according to the Dibbur; the tzaddik does not make a single movement that is not according to the Dibbur—every movement of the tzaddik, every thought of the tzaddik."

Yosef asked - "Why are you not burying her in the city of Beit Lechem?"

"The tzaddik decided to bury Rachel on the road—in the middle of the road. He asks him: 'Father, is this a dog? Is this a cat? One does not bury a dog or a cat in the middle of the road. Why are you not burying her in the city of Beit Lechem, which was close?' This is all according to the Dibbur. 'Know that I see what will be in 4,000 years—3,000 years, that no one will be able to reach Beit Lechem anymore. Days will come when it will no longer be possible to reach Beit Lechem, only Shuvu Banim will arrive, and I want all of Am Yisrael to arrive.' This is what our father Yaakov said. Our father Yaakov is not satisfied that Shuvu Banim arrive; he wants all of Am Yisrael to arrive—women and children, infants of a day, every minute and every second that they can arrive."

"I see what will be at the end of days"

"Yaakov explains all of this to Yosef, so that he will know that everything is according to the Dibbur. 'I do not do things for no reason. I do not just bury a person in the middle of the road; it is all according to the Dibbur. Every movement is according to the Dibbur, because I see what will be in 4,000 years. I see everything.' 'At the end of days' (Genesis 49:1), Yaakov saw—it pained him. Yaakov saw what would be in 4,000 years, and then everyone fell into despair."

"A person who does not finish Shas has no Tzelem Elokim"

"We must learn all the Gemaras, we must learn all of Shas. A person who does not finish Shas has no Tzelem Elokim. It is forbidden for you to speak with him, it is forbidden to be in his presence, because he is an apikores. A person who does not learn Shas is a complete apikores; he is destined to be an apikores, because there is nothing to repel the impure thoughts."

"The three partitions of the brain nullify the lust of immorality"

"There are three partitions in the brain, and this is 'And it shall be Ekev,' that through the dancing one ascends from the heel to the head, to the three partitions of the brain that nullify the lust of immorality. A person needs to only learn Gemara all day, to be a 'hunchback' (bent over) and not lift his head from the book, and then a person can repel all the impure thoughts, all the questions he has, and then we will merit the complete Geulah, speedily in our days, Amen."

Words of Rav Berland shlit"a edited from 'Shivvei Or'

Photo gallery from the public reception in Kiryat Sefer

The photos are courtesy of Shachar Eliyahu