Humiliations? They’re Throwing Diamonds at You! The Daily Strengthening from the

The Daily Chizuk of our teacher, the Gaon and Tzaddik Rabbi Eliezer Berland shlit"a - Are they humiliating you? They are throwing diamonds at you! Accept the humiliation with love and build the Holy Temple!

Tuesday, 24th of Nissan 5785 – These are his holy words:

When a person merits, the more they humble him, the more they make him 'nothing' (Ayin, self-nullification), the more they turn him into dust and ashes.

"And let my soul be as dust to all" (the end of the Amidah prayer) - they are throwing diamonds at you.

Rebbe Nachman brings in Torah 277, they are throwing diamonds at you; when they humble you, they are throwing diamonds at you – do not throw them back.

They humiliate you and you humiliate them back – you have lost a diamond; they are building you a house out of diamonds (from the humiliations, the insults, and the disputes).

Benjamin stole the goblet (this is how the brothers accused him, when in truth the goblet was placed there by Joseph's servants in order to test the brothers) and for this, he received a severe beating.

Every blow that Benjamin received, he received another wall in the Holy Temple. If he had received a few more blows with love, he would have established the entire Holy Temple.

For every blow a person receives, every humiliation or every disgrace – he establishes another part of the Holy Temple.

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(Rabbi Levi bar Chama said in the name of Rabbi Chama bar Rabbi Chanina:) A strip [of land] would extend from the portion of Judah and enter into the portion of Benjamin (up to the altar), and Benjamin the tzaddik would grieve over it every day to take it, (as it is said: "He covers him all the day." Therefore, Benjamin the tzaddik merited to become the guest of Hashem, as it is said: "And between his shoulders He dwells"). (Zevachim 53b).

(Benjamin said to himself) I would have received a few more blows with love...