"If You Nullify Yourself to Eliezer

A stunningly beautiful class delivered by our Master, Teacher, and Rabbi, the Gaon and Tzaddik, Rabbi Eliezer Berland shlit"a, in honor of the last day of Chanukah 5777. Regarding the "Story of Rabbi Eliezer and Rabbi Yehoshua" (Likutey Moharan), Shin-Ayin (370) corresponds to Ma (45); Yehoshua is the aspect of the Name Ma. If you become Ma (nullified like the question "what?"), then you merit the verse, "No eye has seen it, God, besides You" (Isaiah 64:3). There, in the story, he saw the light of the Leviathan; on Chanukah, we merit the light of the Leviathan. For Eliezer is the aspect of "No eye has seen it, God, besides You"—he sees things that no one else can see. In every "Eliezer," there is such an aspect.

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On Chanukah, we rectify the letter Kuf of the Aleph-Bet, because on Chanukah, we exit Gehinom (Purgatory). When Moshiach comes, there will be 12 gates of fire in Jerusalem, and everyone will have to pass through the gates of fire. Eliezer came to rectify the sin of Reuven, who advised the brothers to throw Yosef into the pit. Therefore, they threw Eliezer into a pit as well (Babylonian Talmud, Avodah Zarah).

If you nullify yourself to Eliezer, you will see things greater than the eye of the Leviathan. Therefore, he rectified the wasted seed that a person committed throughout their life, the [fallen] sparks of Adam HaRishon. For from these sparks, demons are created that mislead us.

Rabbi Eliezer is the son who sees God before his eyes every minute. Whoever merits the name Eliezer sees things that no one else sees, provided he is a tzaddik and sanctifies his eyes. When a person gives charity, he then sees Hashem.

Rebbe Nachman brings everyone back in teshuvah (repentance), like the story in the Gemara about Rav Nachman bar Yitzchak; the [main] work is to bring everyone back in teshuvah.