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

Awe-inspiring!!! The tzaddik Rav Berland prophesied the terror attacks in Colombo, Sri Lanka—'to see and not believe.'

On Sunday, April 21, 2019, during Chol HaMoed Pesach, the country of Sri Lanka, near India, experienced a series of terror attacks, primarily in the capital city of Colombo. The toll of the attack reached over 250 dead and hundreds injured. The great gaon, our teacher, Rav Eliezer Berland shlit"a, had said in a puzzling manner in the weeks leading up to that attack that he wanted to travel to Sri Lanka with his students and conduct the Seder night there.

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

He spoke about this many times, that he wanted to travel to Colombo, for an entire week before the attacks, in front of hundreds of people in the prayer hall, and also in home gatherings. To such an extent that people from the outside asked, 'What is this Colombo?'

These are the words quoted directly from the mouth of the great gaon Rav 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 AM on Friday (Erev Seder night) we travel to Colombo and arrive at 5:00 PM. Sunset is at 7:30 PM. The Seder night will be held from 10:00 PM until 4:00 AM. After that, there will be dancing until 10:00 AM and we will pray Shacharit until 4:00 PM.'

'Whoever wants to join the trip should register with Nachman Yishai, the address is 148 Queen Victoria St., Colombo. We have already rented a hall for Seder night and everyone can join, but do not move the phone—there is a danger to life in that.'

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

And we ask—how could the tzaddik say such things before the difficult events in Colombo occurred? If not for the fact 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 switched for them, therefore I told everyone to travel to Colombo. We already said it a week earlier, we announced it, in every lesson we said it, we emphasized to travel to Colombo. Many had 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 needed to get to Colombo because of the explosion there. I requested to travel to Colombo, I begged, no one listened, we could have stopped all the explosions, they wanted to do it in Jerusalem and they didn't succeed.'

'People are just telling stories about what happened in Colombo, for two weeks I begged them to travel to Colombo. I have been begging for a week, travel to Colombo, and poor Nathan Weiss bought tickets. Cancel it, I told him, if he had traveled, he would have nullified the decree. Because even for the gentiles, it is forbidden for anything to happen, because the whole world is written on the palm of the hand, the whole world is mapped out on the palm of a person's hand. Whoever knows how to read can know what will happen in Colombo, what will happen in Colombia; these are two opposites, this is to the west and this is to the east.'

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