"Whoever Goes with the Tzaddik Can Conquer Everything, Even Without a Heart"

A Lesson Delivered by Our Teacher, the Holy Rabbi Eliezer Berland shlit"a, on Monday, Parshat Chukat, 28th of Sivan 5776

Our teacher Rav Berland shlit"a explains in the lesson the three songs mentioned in the parsha:

1. The First Song - The Miracle of the Arnon Valleys

(Numbers 21:14-15) Therefore it is said in the Book of the Wars of Hashem: Vahev in Suphah and the valleys of Arnon, and the slope of the valleys that extends to the seat of Ar and leans to the border of Moab.

2. The Second Song – The Song of the Well

(Numbers 21:17-20) Then Israel sang this song: Rise up, O well, sing to it! The well dug by princes, carved by the nobles of the people with the scepter, with their staffs. And from the wilderness, a gift, and from the gift, Nachaliel, and from Nachaliel, Bamoth, and from Bamoth, the valley that is in the field of Moab, at the top of the peak, which overlooks the wasteland.

3. The Third Song - The Victory over Sihon and Og

(Numbers 21:27-30) Therefore those who speak in parables say: Come to Heshbon, let it be built and established as the city of Sihon. For a fire has gone out from Heshbon, a flame from the city of Sihon; it has consumed Ar of Moab, the lords of the high places of Arnon. Woe to you, Moab! You are destroyed, people of Chemosh! He has given his sons as fugitives and his daughters into captivity to Sihon king of the Amorites. We have shot them down; Heshbon is destroyed as far as Dibon, and we have laid waste as far as Nophah, which reaches to Medeba.

The Holy Words of Our Teacher Rav Berland shlit"a

All the Work is to Speak (Prayer, Torah)

Today is Shabbat Shira, the Song of Miriam's Well, there will now be miracles, and we will see Miriam's Well with our own eyes going before us, bringing us all the salvations in the world, and everyone will study the parsha today, from Chapter 20, being in Miriam's Well, "And speak to the rock" (Numbers 20:8), just to speak, all the work is just to speak, just to speak to the rock, and after that, it was necessary to pass through Edom.

"There is No Forgiveness Forever for Those Who Oppose the Tzaddik"

Because earlier we learned about Korach and Shelach Lecha, Shelach Lecha begins with a tree and ends with a tree, "Is there a tree there or not" (Numbers 13:20) and then "A man gathering wood on the Shabbat day" (Numbers 15:32), who wanted to continue the Tree of Life, therefore you fall in the wilderness, he wanted to cancel the graves, and this was forbidden, because it is written in the Zohar that every day they are revived anew at midnight and they die anew, because Rabbeinu Bachya says that for this there is no forgiveness, for the spies there is no forgiveness, to oppose the tzaddik who goes with a pillar of fire and cloud, there is no forgiveness forever, therefore they are revived, and he, the gatherer, wanted to cancel death, to continue the Tree of Life, gathering wood, is there a tree or not, this is the Tree of Life, so Hashem said I do not forgive you for this, therefore it is written "He died in his sin" (Numbers 27:3), this was his personal sin, it was his personal transgression, he did not intend to oppose Moshe, only to cancel the Tree of Knowledge and strengthen the Tree of Life, as the Zohar says in Shelach Lecha.

[caption id="attachment_48322" align="alignnone" width="482"] The Fire of Dispute on the Tzaddik[/caption]

"Whoever Immerses in Tiberias in Miriam's Well Will Live 120 Years"

And now we are in Miriam's Well, this is the Tree of Life, and whoever immerses in the Kinneret will live the full one hundred and twenty, especially on Shabbat Shira, about which it is said the Song of the Well, "He crouched, he lay down like a lion and like a lioness, who will rouse him? Those who bless you are blessed, and those who curse you are cursed" (Numbers 24:9): And here are these three songs, "Then Israel sang this song: Rise up, O well, sing to it! The well dug by princes, carved by the nobles of the people with the scepter, with their staffs. And from the wilderness, a gift, and from the gift, Nachaliel, and from Nachaliel, Bamoth" (Numbers 21:17-19), like "His eyes are red from wine, and his teeth white from milk" (Genesis 49:12): Bamoth, and then we merit to Bamoth - through Miriam's Well, and then live forever.

[caption id="attachment_48369" align="alignnone" width="482"] The Kinneret - Miriam's Well[/caption]

Because Miriam's Well, Rashi says, is the Sea of Tiberias "the face of the wasteland" (Numbers 21:20) is written in Shabbat 34, this is opposite Mount Carmel, but it could be that this is also called Carmel, if not then it is two places. Therefore, we received the song, "Therefore it is said in the Book of the Wars of Hashem: Vahev in Suphah and the valleys of Arnon" (Numbers 21:14), Arnon is the fiftieth gate, fifty gates of understanding, this is written in the Zohar Shelach Lecha on page 62.

"And the slope of the valleys that extends to the seat of Ar and leans to the border of Moab: and from there to the well" (Numbers 21:15-16), because Miriam's Well from there is the resurrection of the dead, "and you have kept the children alive" (Exodus 1:17) this is from the female of Pardeska, Miriam's Well is from the female of Pardeska, the secret of the right of life, the secret of the right of eternal life, the left side of Mashiach ben David, about which the Chatam Sofer says in part 6 Choshen Mishpat, that whoever merits to be Mashiach ben David, Mashiach ben David does not want to be Mashiach at all, opposite of Korach who wants to be the High Priest, "And from there to the well, it is the well of which Hashem said to Moshe, gather the people and I will give them water" (Numbers 21:16).

The Spies Did Not Want to Ascend to the Fifty Gates of Understanding (Redemption, Eretz Yisrael)

After that, the third song, "For Heshbon is the city of Sihon king of the Amorites, and he fought against the first king of Moab and took all his land from his hand as far as Arnon" the valleys of Arnon are the fiftieth gate, fifty gates of understanding, and then the song begins: "Therefore those who speak in parables say: Come to Heshbon, let it be built and established as the city of Sihon", Heshbon - the account of the world, because Heshbon is exactly the gematria of Rabbi Shimon bar Yochai 466, and therefore we must also be with Rabbi Shimon bar Yochai.

"Let it be built and established as the city of Sihon: For a fire has gone out from Heshbon, a flame from the city of Sihon", because Sihon king of the Amorites, Og king of Bashan in gematria is a thousand, a thousand gates of kedushah (holiness). "For a fire has gone out from Heshbon, a flame from the city of Sihon, it has consumed" now on Shabbat Shira we consume all the enemies, nothing remains of the high places of Arnon, and we ascend to the fifty gates of understanding. And the spies sinned because they did not want to ascend to the fifty gates of understanding, they wanted to remain in the 49 gates of understanding.

"Woe to you, Moab! You are destroyed, people of Chemosh! He has given his sons as fugitives and his daughters into captivity to Sihon king of the Amorites", because the daughters come from the crown of the foundation, the daughters are the rectification, "A woman of valor is the crown of her husband" (Proverbs 12:4), and in our parsha it is the opposite "We have shot them down; Heshbon is destroyed as far as Dibon, and we have laid waste as far as Nophah", we see that a person falls with women until Nophah, he is constantly in breaches of the covenant with his wife until the nose. "Which reaches to Medeba".

"And Israel dwelt in the land of the Amorites: And Moshe sent to spy out Ya'azer" this is the most important, that Moshe sent them to spy out Ya'azer and they conquered Ya'azer by themselves – this is the opposite of Shelach Lecha where they failed in the mission, everyone needs to learn the verse "to spy out Ya'azer, from here we learn that if two spies conquered an entire city, then the twelve spies that Moshe sent could have conquered Eretz Yisrael in one moment, because whoever goes with the tzaddik can conquer everything, even without a heart, that is, even if he is not prepared, and does not prepare himself properly, "and to plow without heart and heart" (1 Chronicles 12:34). Hashem is with you.