The daily strengthening from The Rav, the holy Tzaddik Rabbi Eliezer Berland shlit"a — Are they humiliating you? They’re throwing diamonds at you! Accept the humiliation with love, and you build the Beis HaMikdash!

Tuesday, 24 Nissan 5785 — these are his holy words:

When a person merits, the more they humble him, the more they make him into “mah” (ayin—nothingness, self-nullification), the more they turn him into dust and ashes.

“And may my soul be like dust to all” (at the end of the Amidah) — they are throwing diamonds at you.

Rebbe Nachman brings in Torah 277: they throw diamonds at you. When they humiliate you, they are throwing diamonds at you — don’t throw them back.

They disgrace you and you disgrace them back — you lost a diamond. They are building you a house of diamonds (from the humiliations, insults, and controversies).

They accused Binyamin of stealing the goblet (that’s what the brothers accused him of, even though in truth the goblet was placed there by Yosef’s servants in order to test the brothers), and because of this he received brutal beatings.

Every blow that Binyamin received earned him another wall in the Beis HaMikdash. If he had received a few more blows with love, he would have completed the entire Beis HaMikdash.

For every blow a person receives—every humiliation or every disgrace—he establishes another part of the Beis HaMikdash.

(Rabbi Levi bar Chama said in the name of Rabbi Chama the son of Rabbi Chanina:) A strip of land extended from the portion of Yehudah and entered the portion of Binyamin (up to the altar), and Binyamin the Tzaddik would feel anguish over it every day, wanting to remove it, (as it says: “He hovers over him all the day.” Therefore Binyamin the Tzaddik merited to become a host for Hashem, as it says: “And between his shoulders He dwells”). (Zevachim 53b).

(Binyamin said to himself:) If only I had accepted a few more blows with love…