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Fear of Fears! The Tzaddik Rav Berland Prophesied About the Attacks in Colombo, Sri Lanka

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Fear of Fears! The Tzaddik Rav Berland Prophesied About the Attacks in Colombo, Sri Lanka

Fear of fears!!! The tzaddik Rav Berland prophesied about the attacks in Colombo, Sri Lanka 'to see and not believe'.

On Sunday, 21.4.19, during the intermediate days of Passover, the country of Sri Lanka, near India, experienced a series of terror attacks, mainly in the capital city of Colombo. The toll of the attack reached over 250 dead and hundreds injured. The esteemed tzaddik, our teacher Rabbi Eliezer Berland shlit"a, astonishingly said in the weeks before that attack that he wanted to travel to Sri Lanka with his students and hold the Seder night there.

Rav Berland shlit"a continued to speak extensively about Sri Lanka and traveling with his students, saying he wanted to dance there until the morning light, as it is known according to the words of Rebbe Nachman that dancing brings about the nullification of decrees and judgments.

He spoke about this many times, expressing his desire to travel to Colombo, for a whole week before the attacks, in front of hundreds of people in the prayer hall, and also in home gatherings. To the extent that outsiders asked, what is this Colombo?

These are the words quoted directly from the esteemed tzaddik Rabbi Eliezer Berland as they were said before the murderous terror attack - "The Rav is traveling to Colombo, Colombo is in Sri Lanka. At 9:00 in the morning, we travel to Colombo on Friday (the eve of Seder night) and arrive at 5:00 PM. Sunset is at 19:30. The Seder night will be held from 22:00 until 4 in the morning. After that, there will be dancing until 10 in the morning and we will pray Shacharit until 4 PM."

"Anyone who wants to join the trip should register with Nachman Yishai, the address is Colombo, Queen Victoria Street 148. We have already rented a hall for Seder night and everyone can join, but do not move the phone - it is a matter of life and death."

"So Colombo, everyone is requested to fly on the Rav's flight to Colombo."

And we ask - why would the tzaddik say such things before the difficult events in Colombo occurred? If not that the tzaddik saw exactly what was going to happen! Here is what Rav Berland shlit"a said after the attacks.

"Because what they did in Colombo, they wanted to do in Eretz Yisrael, that was the plan, we had intelligence information. They wanted to do it in Eretz Yisrael in Jerusalem, but at the last moment it changed for them, so I told everyone to travel to Colombo. We already said a week before, we announced, in every lesson we said, we emphasized to travel to Colombo. Some already bought tickets. In every lesson, we said Colombo, Colombo, no one understood what the Rav was talking about - now they understand."

"In Colombo? Colombo or Colombia?" Everyone answers in Colombia, in Colombia. "How did he get to Colombia, he was supposed to get to Colombo because of the explosion there. I asked to travel to Colombo, I pleaded, no one listened, we could have stopped all the explosions, they wanted to do it in Jerusalem and they didn't succeed."

"Just telling stories about what happened in Colombo, for two weeks I pleaded for them to travel to Colombo. I have been pleading for a week, travel to Colombo, and he bought tickets, poor Natan Weiss. Cancel it, I told him, if he had traveled, he would have nullified the decree. Because even for non-Jews, nothing should happen, because the whole world is written on the palm of the hand, the whole world is inscribed on a person's palm. Whoever knows how to read can know what will happen in Colombo, what will happen in Colombia, these are two opposites, one is west and one is east."

This story caused a great stir, here is the video with recordings before and after the attacks, and you can clearly hear in the recording how the Rav says he wants to travel to Colombo for the Seder night (which is a day before the attack). And tens of thousands of people were strengthened by this.

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