Girls Know How to Learn in One Hour What Boys Learn in a Year • The Daily Lesson

Presented before you is a summary of the daily lesson as delivered by our teacher, the Rav, Rabbi Eliezer Berland shlit"a – yesterday after the Maariv (evening prayer), Tuesday, Isru Chag Shavuot, the night of the 8th of Sivan, Parshat Naso:

Today at 9:00 PM we finish the prayer. From now until Yom Kippur, we will finish every day at 9:00 PM. Whoever wants it shorter should go to the shtieblach (informal synagogues). Now we finished at 9:00 PM; all the girls say Tehillim (Psalms) until 11:00 PM, and afterwards learn Joshua and Judges. Learn about Abner who was his own goel hadam (blood redeemer), but he gave it up, and therefore he merited to be buried in the Me'arat HaMachpelah (Cave of the Patriarchs). The boys are finishing 10 pages of Gemara (Talmud) now. Chatzos (midnight) is at 2:03 AM. Now is the month where the sunset is the latest; one can sleep from 2:20 AM until 9:20 AM. Everyone should learn with his wife Chazkat Metaltelin 5 [from Likutey Halachot], and also about the daughters of Zelophehad and the mitonanim (complainers), which refers to those who complain. In Parshat Behaalotecha, one needs to raise the candles to the Keter (Crown). The woman is in the Keter; the woman does not commit sins. Job was a gilgul (reincarnation) of Jubal and needed to rectify that by dancing with the grandchildren. It is written that the moment they were born, even before the cord was cut, they would dance like calves being born. No woman, not even a cow or a heifer [is like this]—once everyone was Shuvu Banim, everyone danced. A five-minute-old baby would walk by himself in the house, go to light a fire, and then return to take the scissors to cut the cord himself. Suddenly he meets a shed (demon) and starts fighting with him. The demon said to him, "Say HaGomel (the blessing of thanksgiving) that I didn't kill you." The baby said to him, "You need to say HaGomel; if I weren't tied by the cord to my mother, I would have killed you." Just like there were some from the Yeshiva who met some Arabs in the Old City, and in the end, they told them that the Arabs are the ones who need to say HaGomel. So everyone should learn Birkat HaPeirot 5 [from Likutey Halachot] regarding the daughters of Zelophehad. And what is written—that Moses did not know [the law]—is because Zelophehad was not in the assembly of Korach and did not receive an inheritance. At the age of 695, Enosh began to get confused by the stories of Eve, and this is the matter of "cheret enosh" (the pen of man). Everyone needs to do the calculation, and the calculation shows that the girls receive more inheritance than the boys; in the end, the boys are the ones who are deprived. All this is brought in page 68 of Tractate Ketubot. Soon it will be Tisha B'Av; everyone needs to learn Yosippon (a historical work). Last year we finished at 11:30. Saying the Kinnot (elegies) is the greatest pleasure because through the Kinnot, all sins from all gilgulim (reincarnations) are atoned for. A girl learns in an hour what a boy learns in a year. Now the war has started anew; every girl needs to lengthen her skirts. All the girls finish the Tehillim (Psalms), and everyone learns Likutey Halachot, Birkat HaPeirot, with the Gemara in Ketubot 68 regarding the inheritance of daughters. These are all stories. It is written that in the future to come, from a branch of grapes, juice will come out like a faucet. It is written that Rabbi Joshua ben Levi saw oxen; they said to him, "These are clusters [of grapes], not oxen." Another year, another Amora (Talmudic sage) arrived and saw calves instead of clusters; they said to him, "You are the one who spoiled it." So Rabbi Joshua ben Levi also stole the sword from the Angel of Death, jumped into Gan Eden (Paradise), and refused to return the sword to him.