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"First of all, a person needs to get married, then we make calculations about a house and where to find livelihood" - Words of the esteemed tzaddik Rabbi Eliezer Berland shlit"a from Motzaei Shabbat Bereishit

"First of all, a person needs to get married, then we make calculations about a house and where to find livelihood" - Words of the esteemed tzaddik Rabbi Eliezer Berland shlit"a from Motzaei Shabbat Bereishit

On Motzaei Shabbat Bereishit, the esteemed tzaddik Rabbi Eliezer Berland shlit"a visited the home of his student, Rabbi Eliyahu Meirav shlit"a. The Rabbi delivered a lesson on the topics of the parsha and sang extensively with the community. These are the words of the Rabbi shlit"a delivered at Rabbi Meirav's home.

"A woman comes into the world to give birth to the King Mashiach"

"Every woman comes into the world to give birth to the King Mashiach, every woman should pray from the moment of her birth that she can give birth to the King Mashiach. 'And Lamech said to his wives' (Genesis 4:23), first of all, a person needs to get married, Lamech got married first, then we make calculations about what will be with a house, where to bring livelihood from. It's not pleasant for me to tell, but after Lamech got married, he killed Cain and his child. He crushed Tubal-Cain after he saw that he killed Cain, 'For I have slain a man for my wound, and a young man for my hurt' (ibid)."

King Saul was the reincarnation of Lamech

"Hashem avenged the vengeance of Cain after seven generations from Cain to Tubal-Cain, but Lamech received another 77 generations. Lamech was a prophet and knew he would come in reincarnation as Saul. In the verses, it is hinted that Lamech would come in reincarnation as Saul in another 77 generations. King Saul was the most righteous in his generation, 'Saul was one year old when he became king' (1 Samuel 13), he behaved with kedushah (holiness) like a one-year-old child. A woman has no sins, Yom Kippur comes and everything is forgiven for her, women on Yom Kippur only need to go out dancing in all the streets. Instead of entering the synagogue and crying, the police come to the houses and require them to go out dancing. "There were no better days for Israel than the fifteenth of Av and Yom Kippur" (Taanit 4:8)."

When the Holy Temple is built, women will dance on Yom Kippur

"With Hashem's help, the Holy Temple will be built today, and on the next Yom Kippur, every woman will go out dancing. After the Holy Temple is built, women will not need to pray, not do anything, they will only dance. And all this is hinted at in the verse, 'And Methuselah lived after he begot Lamech seven hundred eighty and two years, and begot sons and daughters' (Genesis 5:6): 'year' - 'sh', 'begot' - 'v', 'et' - 'a', 'Lamech' - 'l'. Therefore, Joseph was only dancing for all 12 years in prison, 24 hours only dancing. And this is the secret that our Rebbe says, that redemption can only be brought about through dancing. 'And it shall come to pass, because you listen' (Deuteronomy 7:12) means that the heels are lifted, the heels are danced."

Redemption will come when Leah's sole connects with Rachel's crown

" 'He bites the horse's heels and its rider falls backward' (Genesis 49:17), the whole matter is to connect Leah's heels with Rachel's crown, from Leah's sole becomes Rachel's crown. 'Humility is the fear of Hashem, what fear made a crown for her head, humility made a heel for the sole' (Etz Chaim, Gate 38, Chapter 3). Therefore, redemption will come when from Leah's sole the crown of Rachel is formed, because the entire stature, the entire reality of Rachel is made from Leah's sole. Because Leah prayed all her life for her match, a person should pray from the age of 3 to have a son who is a Torah scholar, a son of Torah."

Leah prayed all her life not to fall into Esau's hands

"Leah would go every day to the crossroads to hear stories about Esau, that he is a robber, a murderer, he killed Nimrod, took Nimrod's coat. Because the coat of many colors that Nimrod took from Adam the first, and whoever wears it, the animals bow to him. Jacob, who took the coat from Esau, hid it in the land, because with it Esau could have been king over the whole world, and when Mashiach ben David comes, he will find this coat."

In the future, Rachel will roll through tunnels and be closer to Jacob

"Leah wanted a match like Jacob, but they told her that Jacob belongs to Rachel and you cannot change the decree. Leah said that through prayer everything changes, so it happened that Laban himself switched the match. Laban feared that if Rachel married, Leah would not have a match, because the moment the younger marries, it becomes a million times harder for the older sister to marry. 'And Laban said, It must not be done so in our place, to give the younger before the firstborn' (Genesis 29:26), because younger is 10 times Leah, Leah = 36, younger = 360. Leah was all prayer, therefore she merited to marry first and also to be buried in the Cave of Machpelah. It is written that in the future, Hashem will make tunnels and Rachel will roll to the Cave of Machpelah and be closer to Jacob than Leah."

" 'Refrain your voice from weeping, and your eyes from tears' (Jeremiah 31:15), Leah has already finished crying, she is in the Cave of Machpelah with Jacob, but Rachel cries all the time. 'Thus says Hashem, Refrain your voice from weeping, and your eyes from tears, for there is a reward for your work', from the first of Tishrei there was no Tikkun Rachel, but from Wednesday night after Rosh Chodesh, we will return to say in Tikkun Chatzot."

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