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Listen to the Righteous Rav Berland shlit"a and Simultaneously Read the Complete Transcript - "Choice is the Highest Thing"
--- On Wednesday in ten days – on Thursday we will read Bereshit, we will read about the sin of Adam HaRishon, because Adam HaRishon wanted there to be choice – (Did I buy for the kosher man – did I buy for a kosher man?) --- Choice is the highest thing, because a person has choice and he chooses good, and therefore a person is higher than the angels. Because the entire wedding is for the sake of the holy union, "and they shall become one flesh," but only if it is without lust. Whoever has lust, even between a husband and his wife, they go to Gehenna. Anyone who performs this union with lust will not leave Gehenna, not even at the resurrection of the dead, because he --- because it is written --- all --- to connect the Shechinah with Hashem, and if he did it with lust, then he will never leave Gehenna, not in this world, not in the World to Come, not at the resurrection of the dead. He takes the holiest thing and makes it the most impure thing, so he can never leave Gehenna, not even at the resurrection of the dead, and not even after the resurrection of the dead, because he takes the holiest thing, "and they shall become one flesh," because flesh, because the Name of Hashem, Hashem is the Elokim, he takes the – (the flesh?) and turns it into an impure thing, into the greatest impurity. And therefore there is no Geulah, and therefore there is no Beit HaMikdash, and therefore there is no Holy of Holies. When one builds a Sukkah, it is a Holy of Holies. The Sukkah is a Holy of Holies; every law of the Sukkah is learned from the Holy of Holies – one by one, and one and two, one and three tefachim. So the entire Sukkah is found in the Holy of Holies. And the moment a person built a Sukkah and did not intend for it to be a Holy of Holies, then he is liable for death and he will never leave Gehenna. When building a Sukkah, one must intend for it to be a Holy of Holies, like a real Holy of Holies, and the person is like the Kohen Gadol --- Holy of Holies, and now he must be a Holy of Holies. Now, for seven days, one is in the Holy of Holies, literally in the Holy of Holies. Therefore, we learn about the Sukkah from the Keruvim. What are the Keruvim? It is ten. Why are the Keruvim ten? Why is it ten? It is the Ark. How do you reach ten --- not the frame, because the Keruvim, the Keruvim, the wings, this is how you do it, this is how you do it, the wings are ten tefachim above the Ark. So from the wings, not from the Ark, not from that – people learn, they don't know what they are learning at all ---- so a person needs to know how to learn from ten tefachim to learn Sukkah. And according to Rabbi Eliezer, this is the Clouds of Glory; according to Rabbi Yehoshua, according to Rabbi Akiva, it is Sukkahs literally. So --- when do you make Sukkahs? What, in Tishrei? No, that is a mistake, a real mistake. Ah, you are Shuvu Banim, I understand --- that is a mistake --- or did they do it, when did they start walking with the Clouds of Glory? It was on that same day, the 15th of Nissan --- so Shuvu Banim are confused, I always knew they were confused. Why are you Shuvu Banim? They make Sukkahs in Tishrei. Tell me, is that true? That logic, when did the Clouds of Glory begin? On what day did the Clouds of Glory begin? It is good that you don't know, that is the best, that is the smoothest. A person doesn't know, so he is always kosher, always --- so the Clouds of Glory began on the 15th of Nissan. So people do everything backwards. When people arrived at Shuvu Banim, they do everything backwards; I don't know what happened to their brains --- Shuvu Banim, so everything, the woman is acquired, the woman is not acquired, it is in one way they will come to you and in seven ways they will flee before you. So the Sukkah is seven tefachim, this is against the enemies running --- in seven ways they will flee. We read in Ki Tavo, 98 in Ki Tavo, we read 98. And 98, why is Ki Tavo 98? 98 curses, and now they are bringing 98 lambs from Wednesday, from Thursday they start to sacrifice 98 lambs, 13, 12, 11, 10, 9, 8, 7, that is exactly ninety-eight. So everything is 98, the lights of the pure, all of this brings, brings --- Rabbi Menachem Mendel of Shklov, in any case --- Rabbi Menachem Mendel of Shklov, to start learning Rabbi Menachem Mendel of Shklov, he was a student of the Ari, a student of the Gra. So he says, what is the 98? Why is it 98 and why is it "an arrow until it pierces his liver" (ch-tz)? Because now they are piercing the liver, piercing "an arrow his liver." Now is the moment that they pierce everything, they don't leave any trace, "an arrow his liver." So our work is to pierce "an arrow his liver." A person comes to the world to pierce "an arrow his liver," and therefore it is 98 lambs and it is 98 curses --- 49 and another 98, that is exactly 147, that is exactly the gematria of Nachman with the kollel. So that only Rebbe Nachman --- that a person can be in all the kibbutzim and it is not --- anything --- "the wind shall carry them away," it is written in the Midrash of the Haftarah of Yom Kippur, and "all of them the wind shall carry away" --- "He will choose him" --- double, because the world was created only for the sake of the holy union, and therefore one must intend on Yom Kippur for the union of the Holy One, Blessed be He, and His Shechinah --- Rachel rises, Rachel rises in Kol Nidre, she rises to the Keter of Binah, and after that in Barechu she rises to the Malchut of Binah, and after that in Shacharit, Chesed-Gevurah-Tiferet, Netzach-Hod-Yesod, Netzach-Hod-Yesod and Chesed-Gevurah-Tiferet, and after that she rises to Chochmah-Binah in the repetition of Shacharit, after that she rises to Da'at in the repetition, and after that in Mussaf, Chochmah-Binah and in the Keter she rises to the Keter of Zeir Anpin, to the Keter of Binah she rises --- that is only in Mincha, when Mincha arrives, the ascents of Zeir Anpin begin, Zeir Anpin begins to rise, because the woman does not have a beard, the woman does not have a beard, she does not have tefillin, she does not have tzitzit, everything she receives from her husband --- hand tefillin, to intend to exempt the woman from the obligation. When a person intends, he --- that the tefillin that I am putting on, I am putting on for you, because --- this is against the head --- the Malchut. So if a person does not intend this, then he will never have children, the children --- I don't know how to intend the intention of the tefillin, so, and therefore his wife miscarries, and therefore his wife will have children who are disabled and blind and with a heart defect, and he doesn't know how to intend --- when he puts on the tefillin. So if a person knows how to intend when he puts on tefillin, he knows --- and then they merit that Rachel connects with Leah, and the heels of Leah become the Keter of Rachel. This is what we are now --- on Simchat Torah, in the Keter, the Keter becomes a shoe. All the work is to turn the Keter into a shoe, and therefore "a pauper for the sake of shoes," because a person should sell everything he has and buy shoes for his feet. So Rabbi Akiva said that you should sell everything, but do not walk without shoes. How can you walk without shoes --- he reached such holiness of the Holy of Holies, because everything was a Holy of Holies, because the brothers walked in the land, it was a Holy of Holies. The Sukkah is a Holy of Holies, one does not need shoes. Where a person is in the Holy of Holies, there are no shoes --- it is forbidden to enter. "No prosecutor shall become a defender." Why did he not wear gold garments? Because the calf was of gold, so "no prosecutor shall become a defender." So why outside? Because --- it is inside, inside the Sukkah is a Holy of Holies, literally. It atones for all the sins, for all the gilgulim, everything that a person sinned in all the gilgulim, the Sukkah atones for him, on the condition that he decides to stop. Not like an Arab who travels to Mecca and after that he does double --- once a year in --- the Christian, may his name be erased, he puts in ten dollars and next week he gives twenty, it becomes double. He does double every time, after that he puts in forty, after that he puts in eighty, that a collection should be made for him, a collection should be made for him. I said that they should make a collection so he will have from where. He doubles the sins every time, he needs to double the dollars. He doubles the dollars according to the sins that he doubles, because always a person, as he gets older, he doubles his sins, as he matures he doubles his sins. A child is innocent, he does not commit sins, it is also not considered a sin for him because it is all without knowledge, but from the age of twenty it is already knowledge, so woe is me, from the age of twenty he is already liable for Gehenna, he will not leave Gehenna, not even at the resurrection of the dead, it is impossible, what he --- so there is no atonement for this. He created demons and spirits, it is impossible. We need to turn the demons into holy souls, only the tzaddik can. Without the tzaddik, a person cannot, there is no tikkun for this --- there is no teshuvah for this, because you created demons, you created an atom, you created hydrogen, you created plutonium - so the tzaddik, he can turn this, so therefore you need to come to the tzaddik. Without the tzaddik there is no teshuvah for this, none, because it is all demons. Every drop is 400 million cells, another drop, another 400 million, if --- a million drops, then that is 400,000 billion trillion demons that he created, and then the world is destroyed and it becomes the First World War and the second and the third and the fourth --- it is all demons that a person creates --- creates endless demons and endless spirits, 400,000 billion trillion he creates every time, so there is no teshuvah for this and there is no teshuvah for this, so therefore they come to the tzaddik, the tzaddik, he brings us back in teshuvah.
Yitgadal v'yitkadash.
--- Surrounded by fire --- the Bar Mitzvah on Yom Kippur, today, Monday until tomorrow after Ma'ariv, the Bar Mitzvah is surrounded by fire, a flame of fire, and it is possible to see this fire. The Tannaim saw the fire. The fire, now if you will be a groom today, you will say "Behold you are betrothed to me," you are surrounded by fire. Whoever decides to be a groom --- groom, you will be surrounded by fire. The moment a person decides to be a groom, a Bar Mitzvah groom, then everything has passed, because a groom, because the entire Bar Mitzvah is a preparation for the moment of the holy union, "and they shall become one flesh." Next Thursday we will start reading Parshat Bereshit, that the whole matter is possible only by learning Gemara. If you do not learn Gemara, it is words of Torah that are poor in one place and rich in another. Only the Gemara unites, because "the lips of a Kohen shall guard knowledge, and they shall seek Torah from his mouth." What unites a groom and bride is only the Gemara --- a person wants there to be a connection between groom and bride, he must learn Gemara 24 hours. Only by learning Gemara 24 hours, then there can be a connection between groom and bride. And therefore, whoever wants a prayer for ten children, let him prepare 10,000 shekels, twenty children 20,000 shekels. After he prepares, he will see that he will have, not that he prepares a shekel every day, that is not --- that comes out to 355 shekels per day in a year, 36,500 in ten years, no --- but that is only after three years it will reach ten thousand, 10,095, 360 is 1,080 and another --- that is another 15, so that is 10,095. So I spoke with a great lawyer, he said that I should cancel this, that it is impossible like that --- good, the children will arrive and money I will not receive, so what did I gain in the business? So in any case, a person needs to know that the Bar Mitzvah groom --- at the chuppah, so that is a chuppah of fire --- the glory of Hashem, a chuppah of fire, "and for glory I will be within her," the chuppah --- on the groom and bride, it is a chuppah of fire, and the groom is surrounded for three days by fire, and everyone is surrounded by fire. And when Rabbi Eliezer and Rabbi Yehoshua entered the cellar, everything started to burn like on the Carmel five years ago. The Carmel burned five years ago, in 5773, the Carmel burned for seven days and seven nights until they brought a super tanker that drops 80 tons of water every 5 minutes, it goes to the sea, it takes like 80 tons --- they brought from Greece, from Russia, the Russians participated, the Greeks participated, the Greeks thought that the Beit HaMikdash had already burned for the third time, they were actually happy, they saw that the entire Carmel was going up in flames. In the future, the Torah will be given on the Carmel, "like Carmel in the mountains, like Tavor in the mountains, and like Carmel in the sea." It will come that the Andes, the Andes surrendered --- with the Andes --- they ate each other, the Andes is very high, 7,000, we will travel to the Andes --- I warn you, to Guatemala on the way to the moon, we will connect Guatemala with the moon, you will bring five Mercedes, on the moon there are many Mercedes for free, the problem is how to transfer it, but there is --- a tunnel - to America --- in Florida, go down into a spaceship, sneak in and you will arrive at the moon --- you will bring a Mercedes --- what Mercedes, it is all free there, a production line, it goes automatically --- every minute a Mercedes, you distribute here to everyone, a billion, I need a billion Mercedes and a billion dollars, there they print money on the moon, there is no law there that it is forbidden to print, there they print everything --- spaceships to --- every spaceship a billion dollars, you commit, we are finished. So immediately after Chanukah you fly to New York and from there to Miami and from there --- you sneak into a spaceship and as soon as you arrive at the moon you notify us --- Mercedes and dollars --- so we will get out of debt and there will be no debts and there will be a million students every month, a million new students, there will be a million, there will be a building of a thousand floors, every floor a thousand students, a thousand times a thousand is a million. So now fire is descending, because the moment the Bar Mitzvah is here, then we are all surrounded by fire. So Rabbi Eliezer and Rabbi Yehoshua sat and learned Chumash, so everything became surrounded by fire. So they brought a super (tanker), they call it a super tanker, 80 tons every 5 minutes, they lowered the Kinneret, it didn't help. In the end, he decided, it was Abuya, Abuya they called him, he wore asbestos, with clothes of asbestos, he entered into the fire, went down to the cellar, down, down, to look for where the short circuit was. So he sees Rabbi Eliezer and Rabbi Yehoshua sitting and learning the Parshah, "And this is the blessing with which Moses, the man of God, blessed... Let Reuben live and not die," because Reuben was liable for death, Reuben committed the greatest crime that ever was since the creation of the world, so he had to die, so "Let Reuben live." So he crossed the Sambation, the sons of Moses, the tribe of Reuben crossed, everyone who was born in the Sambation can topple walls. The girls grow up in closed walls, closed courtyards, the moment a girl leaves from there, she looks at the enemies and everyone burns, she has fire in her eyes because she did not see anything impure, she did not see --- she did not see any male in her life, she doesn't even know at all what a male looks like, so she only looks at the enemies. So Marrakech, they came to destroy Marrakech, it was a Jewish kingdom, so --- you were in Marrakech? Marrakech was a Jewish kingdom, so there was a Jewish king there, so they came to kill him, all the gentiles, so they told him to travel to the Sambation, bring from there a young girl. They went to the Sambation, they brought a young girl, she looked, one look, everyone burned. Hashem immediately took her to heaven, He said, "This is not how you win in wars, you can say Tehillim, say Likutei Tefillot, an hour of hitbodedut, not to look, and everyone burns." So what do I want? That they should do teshuvah, that if everyone looks and everyone burns, then when will they do teshuvah --- all this is written in Sefat Emet, 33, he passed away before you were born, Masoud, Rabbi Masoud from Rosh Pinah --- before that --- in 5735 he passed away --- one needs to see again in the book of Rabbi Masoud, wherever he would look, everything would go up in flames. The Rabbi, they called him Rabbi Masoud, and he, and he, from his grave, snakes would come out and they would not harm, whoever would arrive not good at the grave, a snake would come and bite him, only whoever immerses in the mikvah can prostrate himself on his grave in Rosh Pinah, which Rosh Pinah, Baron Rothschild built it, Rosh Pinah and Mishmar HaYarden, the woman sold her jewelry. So he met Baron Rothschild, "My wife does not sell the jewelry," so he was one undercover, it was from Interpol that wanted to return him to Israel, he got on the ship, so he sees one undercover following him 24 hours. After that he said, "In your merit I had the Shabbat, for the first time in my life I felt Oneg Shabbat" --- now Shabbat is coming, they will have to sing Shabbat songs, Chol HaMoed until the morning, there will be dancing, the Rabbi is already free on Shabbat, the Rabbi is already free, there will be dancing here until the light of the morning without stopping, they will only dance and sing (The audience: Amen) Amen, Amen.
Yitgadal v'yitkadash...
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