From the Letters of the Torah, Angels Are Created - Parshat Chukat - The Righteous Rabbi Eliezer Berland shlit"a

"And Moses sent messengers from Kadesh to the king of Edom..." (Chukat 20:14) "And know that through the spiritual forces, created from the letters of the Torah that he innovated, these forces are actual angels... and they punish the wicked, as in the aspect of 'For He shall give His angels charge over you... You shall tread upon the lion and the cobra...' (Likutei Moharan Torah 20).

The Rebbe says that with every letter of the Torah, you create angels! And these are actual angels! They are not like angels, not in the aspect of angels, not as if they were angels, but actual angels. The Rebbe says – know this! From every letter that you utter from your mouth, angels are created, actual angels! And they go and fight and protect the people of Israel.

When you speak words of Torah, you create angels, and these angels go and fight for you. Here there is some trouble, here there is some problem, there is some trouble for the people of Israel, they go and fight! From every letter, an angel is created, from every letter a person utters from his mouth, an angel is created, from every letter a person utters from his mouth in kedushah (holiness) and purity, an angel is created! From every saying, from every word in the Torah, angels are created! A great army of angels! "Hashem gives the word; the women who proclaim the tidings are a great host" legions of angels are created! Myriads of angels, millions of angels! And these are the angels that accompany us at every moment! These are the angels that go with us and guard us! As it says, "For He shall give His angels charge over you, to keep you in all your ways" and one must believe this with complete emunah (faith)!! One must believe that from every letter that is spoken, an angel is created - and this is called emunat chachamim (faith in the sages)!!!

Because what are the initials G, M, R, A? Gavriel, Michael, Raphael, Uriel, this is Gemara! To my right is Michael, to my left is Gavriel, in front of me is Uriel... You say letters, you create angels! If you said another word, there is the camp of Gavriel! Another word, there is the camp of Michael! Another! There is the camp of Raphael, Uriel... You said another word, you added more angels to the camp of Michael, to the camp of Gavriel, Raphael, Uriel, with every word you create angels.

"And Moses sent messengers to the king of Edom"... and Edom said to him, "You shall not pass through me, lest I come out against you with the sword" all this because of the lack of kedushah as mentioned above" (Likutei Moharan Torah 20) The Rebbe says in Torah 20 that the angels Moses sent after the sin of the waters of Meribah were weak angels, sick angels. Lame, blind, the angels Moses sent were created after the people of Israel sinned at the waters of Meribah and did not believe in Moses, even though these angels were formed from the pure sayings of Israel, their kedushah was diminished. Because when one does not believe in Moses, does not believe in the tzaddik, then the kedushah diminishes, and it is impossible to create strong angels, mighty angels from the letters. Not like the angels Jacob our forefather sent to Esau "And Jacob sent messengers before him" when Jacob sent angels to Esau, then all four hundred of Esau's warriors fled! The angels reached Esau and began to strike him as needed! He said to them - stop! They said to him – who are you that we should leave you? By whose merit should we leave you? He said to them – I am the son of Isaac! It did not help him, and they continued to strike him! He said to them – I am the grandson of Abraham! That also did not help! He said to them I am the brother of Jacob! They said to him – if you are the brother of Jacob! If you are the brother of the tzaddik! Then you are one of us! They said to him – why didn't you say from the beginning that you are the brother of Jacob? You would have saved yourself all these blows! If you are the brother of Jacob! You are our good friend! You even deserve kisses! Jacob our forefather succeeded in creating strong angels, mighty angels that performed actions in the world. A person needs to create such strong angels that will go and perform actions in the world, such angels that will go and roam the world and do whatever is needed.

Every word in the Torah is an atom! Every word in prayer in Tehillim is a missile! It's even more than an atom! If a person utters a letter from his mouth in kedushah and purity, then it's even more than an atom! Because every letter in the Torah is an angel! When you said a letter! You released an angel from your mouth! And an angel is stronger than an atom! Because when you send an atom, who knows if it will hit the target or not, but when you send an angel, it will surely hit the target! From every letter, angels are created, and these angels fight for us, they will fight for us against the wicked! They will fight for us against the terrorists! "Mashiach will conquer the whole world without firing a single explosive bullet" (Sichot HaSharfim Kodesh 2-2-67) Mashiach will conquer the whole world without war, all through prayer! All through Torah! Now this is the work!! We don't need rifles! We don't need guns! We don't need anything! When there is Torah and there is prayer, we don't need anything! Now we just need to create angels! We need to learn and pray in kedushah and purity! We need to guard our eyes! The more a person guards his eyes, then from every letter he learns and prays, he will create a stronger angel! And this angel will go and fight with the nations, with the terrorists, with the heretics, with the wicked. And according to the kedushah of the person, so are the angels created! Everything according to the kedushah! Therefore, all the work now is not to stop learning Torah! Not to stop saying letters! Not to stop creating angels.

Courtesy of the 'Tzama Nafshi' bulletin