Heart-Wrenching Tears: Rabbi Kluge shlit"a Explains Where the Troubles for Israel and the World Come From

"Measure for Measure"

The esteemed Rabbi Moshe Menachem Kluge shlit"a, head of the Rachel's Tomb institutions, joins in protest and attributes what is happening to the people of Israel and the world to the persecution of the esteemed tzaddik Rabbi Eliezer Berland shlit"a. Rabbi Kluge, who at the beginning of his words still manages to maintain a steady voice, soon begins to weep bitterly, enumerating the injustices that Rabbi Berland shlit"a and the Shuvu Banim community are enduring.

"Peace and blessings, I admit that I am afraid, I know I will speak words that some people will not leave unchallenged and I will receive my share - perhaps I will also "merit" to be called Moshe Menachem Kluge, may his name be erased."

"I will find myself in an important group with many tzaddikim, many very important rabbis who do great and wondrous things for our Rebbe and absorb systems of defamation and harm from every direction."

"But yesterday, one of the great poskim called me to his home, it was not easy to get there because of the curfew. I was astonished to hear an instruction - you must act, you are a Breslov chassid and you are at Mother Rachel, things are happening here that have never happened before, things are happening here that will make every heart tremble."

"Day by day, dozens are injured and die, orphans and widows, thousands of people are in distress - the fire is burning, you are obligated to act."

"The Rambam writes that despite the concealment of the Divine countenance, measure for measure still exists. Things are happening here that anyone who looks a little will see measure for measure in the clearest way, the rabbi tried to detail the matters one by one."

"They took a rabbi (the esteemed tzaddik Rabbi Eliezer Berland shlit"a), a Jew who gives a Gemara class in the daily page with dedication in front of hundreds of people - police cars arrived and took him to prison, and he is still sitting in prison. Measure for measure, unfortunately, all the Rebbes, all the rabbis and heads of yeshivas are in isolation, there are no more classes, gatherings, assemblies, everyone sits alone."

"They slandered, gossiped, defamed, and despised an entire community in the ugliest and most cruel ways, in the not really ultra-Orthodox media, in the secular media, even in the global media of the non-Jews."

"They defamed a Jew (Rabbi Berland shlit"a) with an entire community (Kehillat Shuvu Banim) of thousands of people, unfortunately, this is what is happening even now, measure for measure - in the global media they publish that the Jews are the ones who brought the plague. On the networks, they call it - the Jewish virus."

"They welded doors so that the community could not enter, unfortunately, the police welded synagogues. Synagogues are closed and locked - the Divine Presence weeps."

"It was easy to see how everything is directed, how everything plays out, there are people here with interests. They want to ignite a fire, to achieve their interests and they will do it at any cost."

"Naturally, everyone would want to save another neshamah, here something completely different happened, people called for rescue. They ignited the entire diaspora as a fire center, something severe happened - they called Rabbi Berland, may his name be erased, Shabtai, they were ready for them in advance with some rescue and the cries operate, to which media they are interviewed, how they defame another defamation. How they launch another wave of bloodshed against Rabbi Berland, another wave of detestation, to detest everyone associated with a certain community."

"I want to ask, if the matter were really true, how painful it would be for every Breslov chassid. Jews who were with us for years, we traveled together to Uman, we went out together for Hitbodedut, we strengthened together, we served Hashem together, we took charity from Rabbi Berland. Suddenly certain people with interests arrived, sat and planned thus and thus we will do, the operation will succeed, there are simply targets here, one will even swear on a Torah scroll that he did it. They quarreled among themselves who will swear to erase this community (Kehillat Shuvu Banim) and the Jew (Rabbi Berland shlit"a) at its head."

"We all know how much our Rebbe and Rabbi Natan poured ink to strengthen us in prayers. If the story had really happened, they would have gathered secretly and thought about what to do. But, this thing never happened (all the accusations against Rabbi Berland), there was no such direction, all this time, years, no prayer was mentioned."

"They made illustrated leaflets, etc., but not once was there a prayer about it, but there are targets here to harm and detest. My teachers and rabbis, the fire is burning and everyone needs to take a bucket and help. Even I, though small, must cry out, terrible things are happening here every day."

"We are obligated to see where we went wrong, where we did and where we did not do. Each one knows how much evil and division of hearts between a person and his fellow entered his heart."

"I searched in the Chafetz Chaim and the sayings of Chazal about what to speak, but it is clear that the most severe is the shaming of faces and lashon hara, dispute. How happy I was that I left those courts and came closer to Breslov Chassidut. I was happy with my portion, but the evil inclination does not rest, the people of the tzaddik, the people of our holy Rebbe, and all the tzaddikim work with them in the rectification of the world to bring people to teshuvah and ignite the hearts to serve Hashem. And what is happening here? The evil inclination succeeded in dressing in their service of Hashem."

"A dispute for the sake of Heaven in Jerusalem, blood dripping from every direction for the sake of Heaven. The measure of contention does not allow us to admit it, but this is what is happening on the ground. Another wave of defamation in the media, more bloodshed for everyone from this community."

"I don't want to describe what I experienced, but blood is being shed. One example: a head of a kollel who went through terror, he is not a Breslov chassid, but he managed to integrate into the head of the kollel. He held two avrechim from Shuvu Banim in the kollel, he couldn't withstand the pressure. For a period he didn't come to the kollel, what is being discussed here? You want to save Judaism, so you need to remove these avrechim, sons of baalei teshuvah who didn't learn Torah in their youth? Avrechim who disconnected themselves from their families, returned to Torah, and here we found how to rectify the world, to ensure the avrechim are distanced from the kollel!"

"Where do they take such cruelty from? The posek told me about children from Shuvu Banim who were in a Talmud Torah not of Breslov, at a certain stage they were told not to bring the children to the Talmud Torah anymore. The principal said: I know the children are good and the families are good, but I can't withstand the pressure. Since the beginning of the school year, the children have been without a framework, wandering at home and in the streets, because these "tzaddikim" had targets - to erase the Shuvu Banim community at any cost."

"Terrible horrors, where are the words to describe this, they take a child who learns Mishnayot, etc., and his whole life is cut off. This is happening beyond the door, enough severe things to shake the whole world - let's be truthful and ask forgiveness from Hashem and try to rectify this. I ask the people of Israel to say we made a mistake, and whoever's desire for victory does not allow him, let him postpone it for two months."

"The Rambam says: "Prophets prophesied..., but they saw the dispute and did not reach its end." I cry out in the name of the multitudes of Israel who cry and weep, it has already taken the blow. We must be brave, I made a mistake, I was swept into a dispute. Instead of being a holy fire, we are busy with how to fight and kick it."

"The stage of redemption, the holy Ari could not execute because the wives of two of his students quarreled among themselves. The dispute ended the redemption, and we are a few hundred years after that, how much bloodshed of Israel there was, how much service of Hashem of the tzaddikim there already was. We want to reach redemption, who knows how much we are guilty here, how much we are sticking spokes in the wheels."

"Twenty years ago I was with my teacher and rabbi, Rabbi Morgenstern, a dear Jew approached him regarding a dispute. And as much as the year 5760 was capable of redemption, Rabbi Morgenstern said: Look, it won't be because we are caught in a dispute. And here twenty years of service of Hashem have passed, but the evil inclination does not rest and has introduced a dispute."

"The Chafetz Chaim said that the way of the evil inclination is to introduce a person to the measure of evil and victory, and then the evil inclination shows him many permissions. I don't want to describe what slaughter was here, what cruelty, I want to teach merit."

"The evil inclination succeeded in its mission and stuck Breslov Chassidut in a dispute for 7 years. And this is the measure: to rejoice in the downfall of others, to take revenge and harass."

"We made mistakes, there were things here that should not have been done against the Shuvu Banim community, and against anyone who did not cooperate with them. I, along with many, were afraid to speak so that they would not harass us. I heard myself from Rabbi Kenig from Safed two years ago, there was a family there where the husband was connected to Shuvu Banim, and the wife was connected to Rabbi Kiwak, how Rabbi Kenig was agitated about how they allow a few young activists - to decide in such systems and destroy entire communities?"

"I have a friend who does not belong to the opponents, but from time to time listens to their line to vent from the talks. I asked him: Aren't you afraid that this is called a sect of receivers of lashon hara?"

"Yesterday I was with the posek shlit"a who in my presence called Rabbi Shimon Shapira. He asked him, don't you think there is measure for measure here for what they are doing to Rabbi Berland? Rabbi Shapira answered: I know, I am afraid, I do not sleep at night, I cry every night about this. I am afraid to do anything now."

"I call on every Jew to make a strong prayer, that we may escape from the evil inclination of victory. I plead with those who have a part in the persecution of Rabbi Berland, you have the power of victory in kedushah. You are surely holy souls who were swept into a dispute, but enough, give a break of two or three months until the anger passes."

"Perhaps everyone will try to say during the days of the Omer count the Tikkun HaKlali to rectify the matter, that Hashem will illuminate our hearts, illuminate our minds, subdue our stubborn necks and we will do His will truly."

"In the letters of the Baal HaTanya, he writes that most of the suffering and troubles of Israel are due to disputes for the sake of Heaven - let us pray that we will not have a part in a dispute."

Rabbi Kluge Part 1

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Rabbi Kluge Part 2

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Rabbi Kluge Part 3

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