Hashem Forgives Only If One Does Teshuvah and Knows Who the Tzaddik Is

Uman Rosh Hashanah - Pearls from the holy words of our teacher, the Gaon and Tzaddik, Rabbi Eliezer Berland shlit"a, as delivered on 11 Elul, 31.8.20, in the midst of the Coronavirus period

Iyov (Job) was a reincarnation of Terach

Moshe said "Va'etchanan" (And I pleaded) - how much I have been pleading, already 515 prayers! Hashem says, do you know how to plead? You don't know how to plead at all! Learn from the Leviathan; it makes supplications until Hashem gives it what it requests. "Va'etchanan" is not... can you make it so that it will be your servant? "Moshe My servant is dead" (Joshua 1:2). He wants you to bring him Eskimos: "Can you fill his skin with barbed irons, or his head with fish spears?" (Job 40:31). In another 30 days it is Sukkot! All the sacrifices of Yom Kippur are drawn from the Leviathan from the 50th gate."

"If you knew the secret of the Leviathan, you would not have sinned! Everything would have been atoned for you! From the six days of Creation until today and until the end of the world! Hashem forgives everything, one only needs to do teshuvah (repentance), be like dust and ashes, and know who the tzaddik is."

"In Egypt, all the babies were supposed to die; the mothers were supposed to strangle them at birth. (The midwives Shifrah and Puah - Miriam and Yocheved - answer Pharaoh): "And the midwives said to Pharaoh, 'Because the Hebrew women are not like the Egyptian women; for they are lively; before the midwife comes to them, they have already given birth'" (Exodus 1:19). It was a large hospital with nurses; by the time they got from room to room, they had already given birth."

Amram divorced Yocheved

"Amram was the Leviathan (Zohar HaKadosh). 7th of Elul is the day that Miriam knocked on the table and said, 'Enough with this madness of divorce!' What will a child do without a father and mother? He immediately becomes secular! A child sees a father, mother, grandfather, grandmother, everyone is a tzaddik, so he will be too! What, is he now going to go and become secular? Go eat falafel in the streets?"

"....putting on 5 pairs of tefillin: Rashi, Rabbeinu Tam, Shimusha Rabba, Ra'avad..."

"The Leviathan is an eternal servant. When Jonah was swallowed by the fish, there were 600,000 little fish in the fish; he felt like he was in a health resort... We were in Tzalmon, a health resort! We came here (Ayalon Ramla) to get to know you... The Leviathan is at the North Pole; there is no land there, everything is ice. Under the ice is the Leviathan, where the entrance to Gan Eden is. At the South Pole it is minus 77, at the North Pole minus 20. You walk on the ice, boom, it cracks. Someone at the pole was flying with an airplane, the airplane collapsed on him."

"'Va'etchanan' (And I pleaded) to Hashem, I am pleading 515 prayers, Hashem says, do you know how to plead like the Leviathan?! 'Will he multiply supplications to you? Will he speak soft words to you?'"

"Everything depends on how the yichud (union) is; the child comes out only according to the yichud. Rabbi Meir asks Elisha ben Abuyah, 'Are you crazy?! You wrote so many books, Nachalei Elisha, Ma'alot Elisha... what commentaries you wrote on Etz Chaim, suddenly your brain turned?' He said, 'Everything depends on the yichud!' (Because the parents intended not for the sake of Heaven, only so that he would learn and fire would come out of him). But with Rabbi Akiva, it was a yichud of commoners! You say 'The end of a matter is from its beginning,' but Rabbi Akiva's mother didn't go to the mikvah at all! Just shepherds who fell in love with each other!"

"A commoner was forbidden to enter the house of a Torah scholar, because everything he touches becomes impure and requires immersion. All the furniture must be cleared from the room, afterwards everything he touches will be impure. Don't touch that! Don't drink from that cup! Rabbi Akiva was a commoner, he didn't understand, he thought they were just mocking him, humiliating him... Rachel was the greatest tzaddikah in the generation. She couldn't find any man, only one who wants to bite a Torah scholar like a donkey?! But in his life he never saw a woman (he had guarding of the eyes). She was the greatest psychologist in the world! Such a psychologist never existed in the world."

"...Iyov subdued the shell of a donkey; only Iyov merited to subdue the shell of a donkey. At a young age he already converted; he was Terach, he was suffering from the previous reincarnation. Iyov was a tzaddik, there is no justice here! Rather, he came to rectify from the previous reincarnation. As Rabbi Eliezer the Great said to Rabbi Akiva: 'If you had come to all the lessons, they would not have combed you with iron combs!' The wife of Turnus Rufus was Kozbi bat Tzur, one must rectify this! We came to the world to rectify all the generations."

"This generation is a generation of the Holocaust that happened 70 years ago, people are still alive... she was short, at age 16 they took her to Auschwitz, in her life she never spoke to a man. She was quick, she never saw a man in her life, getting off the train there was one of the Kapos, he said to her, 'Say you are 17.' She was startled, a man approached her! Say 17, she said 17, 17, it didn't help, straight into the fire, into the furnace. She was clever, 100 girls arrived, they surrounded them, they made a belt so they wouldn't see them, holding loosely to each other, she stormed them and ran to the right. Left was to the furnace, right they were saved, she mixed in with them and they didn't find her, and that is how she was saved."

"Miriam shone like the sun at noon! The camp did not move until Miriam was inside the camp. The clouds did not move, Miriam walked throughout the entire camp. The clouds did not rise when she reached the head of the camp. 'Remember what Hashem did to Miriam on the way!' Remember what happened to Miriam, what will you remember, that she had leprosy? A blemish in the tzaddik! Rather, Miriam was the head of the camp, Miriam saved children, Miriam [said], 'Father, bring back Mother, there is no such thing! I will enter into you with all my strength and all my mind!' 7th of Elul, like now, everyone is getting divorced, Amram is divorcing, everyone is divorcing. She screams: 'Enough, enough, enough, enough, enough, enough!!!!' Everyone returned all the wives! There was weeping in all the houses, children crying, weeping, screaming, everyone becoming secular without a father and mother. 'A wild man is born.' Age 40 is binah (understanding), a child is only desires! If they don't see a father and mother! A father sits at the head of the table and they sing the songs, and the father stays until the end, not that he falls asleep in the middle! He sings, he encourages the singing, he says some Torah thought, 'May the year and its curses end.'"

"Ezra established that we read the portion of 'Ki Tavo' before Rosh Hashanah. Once, they did not read the Torah in one year, but in three years, so only Zachor, Parah, Shekalim, and also Ki Tavo before Rosh Hashanah. A person comes to pass through all the curses; if you had come to the lesson, there would not have been iron combs!"

"...behind the door they hid the idols, they found it, looked, and left, they didn't check. For 31 years he was king, why were 30 iron spears stuck in him? Yehuda ben Bava is buried in Shfaram, today they travel to him, now they travel to him. 30 iron spears because he did thousands of idolatries as King Achaz from age 13, only doing idolatry, he knows nothing of what is permitted and what is forbidden... Rambam's laws, there was nothing, no book, he didn't learn to read or write. A person is serious, this is the Sitra Achra itself! The King of Aram, a person comes to the world to tell jokes! Milta d'shtuta (words of foolishness), every person should tell jokes, words of foolishness! He is forbidden to be sad even for a thousandth of a second! Let him tell jokes! Come home with a smile! Don't come home with depression... with a smile, joy!"

"They closed Uman?! Everyone is traveling to Uman today, there is no such thing, they will travel! It is not relevant to us!"

"They will travel to the Well of Miriam, Tzalmon... The Well of Miriam has a landing strip there with airplanes of 400 seats to Uman. 40,000 people land straight on the gravesite, no customs, no passports, no Corona, no Morona! Who invented this word at all?! Who invented it, it's someone's invention! Someone invented this word? It is a word of the Sitra Achra. 'Exalt the horn of Your Mashiach,' how did people fall into such mistakes to believe in such things?!"

"Hashem is One! She believed after she stood in the trial, she did not break, she shone like the sun at noon! Like when Rabbi Shmuel Shapira became Breslov, they brought him a shidduch (marriage match), one with a stain on her face. They got married, the next day the stain disappeared! What did a person come to the world for? To remove the stain! 'A Michtam to David, for I have taken refuge in You, You support my destiny,' the destiny screams! 'According to the destiny.' 'Even the inheritance of beauty is upon me... for at my right hand I shall not falter... pleasantness is in Your right hand forever!' It is all the heel, 'And it shall be if you listen to the heel (Ekev),' to jump the heels, put the name of Havayah before the eyes!"

"There is no lockdown on Uman! It is all a lie, someone here is lying!"

"'And it shall be if you listen to the heel,' we arrived in Athens, dancing, suddenly boom, all the barriers opened and everyone ran from their positions! Straight away we arrived in Uman. In a second, today we are traveling to Uman!"

"We came for 'Save Your people,' therefore a person comes to the world to catch a Leviathan with a hook. 'Va'etchanan,' what kind of 'Va'etchanan,' learn from the Leviathan! Supplications..."

"Iyov lived 210 years, because a person comes to live 210 years. Therefore David received 5 years from Avraham, 28 from Yaakov, and 37 from Yosef, a total of 70. He lived 70 and another 70 from the first man out of a thousand. Everyone from today will sign before Ma'ariv to live a thousand years. David HaMelech, Ben Ish Chai, this is David HaMelech, to finish the Tehillim until the morning. Now is the minute that David HaMelech appears and enters into each and every one. This is the minute and everyone will live a thousand years, everyone he enters now."