Har Bracha and the Crimson Thread • The Daily Lesson from the holy Tzaddik Rabbi

Before you is the complete daily lesson, as delivered by The Rav, Rabbi Eliezer Berland shlit"a, last night—Tuesday night, the eve of 29 Av, Parshas Shoftim, after the Ma’ariv prayer:

“In the previous parsha we learned about Har Gerizim. Every person is obligated to be there at least once in his life—on the Mountain of Blessing. We must travel tonight as well to Har Bracha—no one is exempt.

And now we are already reading about the Eglah Arufah, which is like the Parah Adumah. Rabbi Nosson writes in Hilchos Pikadon that the Parah Adumah, and the Sa’ir LaAzazel, and the Eglah Arufah—these are all done outside, all three of them outside. Because the Sa’ir LaAzazel is thrown from the mountain—Har Azazel is on the way to Beis Lechem—and there they throw it.

And it was only in the days of Shimon HaTzaddik that the crimson thread would turn white. Because immediately one must travel to Shimon HaTzaddik: after the Kosel, we go to Shimon HaTzaddik—because only he can sweeten the judgments, the crimson thread.

For the daughters go out dancing—both on the fifteenth of Av and also on Yom Kippur. They do not stop dancing, because for them the crimson thread turns into white. A woman has a red dress; she places it by the window, and by morning it becomes white.

Therefore the women go out dancing, because all the red threads, and all the red scarves, and all the red dresses—everything turns white by the light of morning. And therefore they only dance—both on Yom Kippur and on the fifteenth of Av.”

To watch the replay of last night’s Ma’ariv prayer with singing and niggunim—the lesson begins at 54:49

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zujh_sc4zTc&ab_channel=%D7%A9%D7%95%D7%91%D7%95%D7%91%D7%A0%D7%99%D7%9D