The Daily Strengthening from our teacher, the holy Gaon and Tzaddik, Rabbi Eliezer Berland shlit"a (may he live long and good days) – "Our body today (after the Primordial Sin) is the body of a serpent; it is forbidden for this body to be seen."

Sunday, 22nd of Nissan 5785 – "One who died (sanctifying Hashem's Name) on the spot merited Gan Eden (Paradise)."

At the end of Shmuel II (2 Samuel, Chapter 24), it is written "one million and one hundred thousand," but here in Divrei HaYamim I (1 Chronicles, Chapter 21), it is written "800,000." There are 300,000 missing; all of these died on the spot.

From Gad, David went to Dan. He said, "Now everyone will die because I am counting the People of Israel, and it is forbidden to count." He said that they should die from Dan, for in Dan there was the story with Michah and they made calves, and therefore Yerovam (Jeroboam) placed the calf in Dan. He said that they should die from Dan—if there is a plague and 300,000 die, then let them die from Dan.

Three hundred thousand died on the spot, and another 70,000 died in the incident of the Concubine of Giv'ah (Judges 19); they cut the Concubine of Giv'ah into 12 pieces. The Megaleh Amukos (a classic Kabbalistic work) says that the concubine came in the form of a serpent. A person suddenly meets a serpent—this is a woman he tortured 3,000 years ago. Already 2,000 years have passed; they took the woman and tortured her to death—just as they are doing now to our girls in Gaza, torturing them to death. They were lookouts and good soldiers, but this is what happened in the end. One who died (al Kiddush Hashem—sanctifying Hashem's Name) on the spot merited; he is in Gan Eden (Paradise) now.

We want everyone to be with us, but we did not merit it. Hashem took 1,500 boys and girls, the most righteous young men and women, in a single second. Within a second, they all died; whoever fled was shot. They were killed at the party (the Nova festival), but she who walked in tzniut (modesty) was not shot. She who arrived at the party by force—her mother, her brother, or her sister took her—was not shot. They did not shoot those who were modest. You are modest, you are covered—they don't shoot her. Because our body today (after the Primordial Sin) is the body of a serpent; it is forbidden for this body to be seen.

Behold, it is written here in the Tur (Orach Chaim, Siman 2) that nothing of the body should be seen. The Tur teaches how a person must dress: only under the blanket or in the bath, not in the room. Either a person dresses in the bathroom, the washroom, or under the blanket. We see here in the Tur, Siman 2, that a person should be careful not to reveal even one square centimeter of the body.

Like Kimchit (Talmud Yoma 47a), who never revealed her hair ("The beams of my house never saw the braids of my hair"), and so she had 7 sons who served as Kohanim Gedolim (High Priests). If she had 7, it would seem they all died (since there is only one High Priest at a time), but it refers to a case where someone speaks and saliva sprays from him, making the Kohen tamei (spiritually impure). He is then removed from his position until he is purified, which explains how the brothers became High Priests while their siblings remained alive. If one tzinora (spray), a drop of saliva, touched the Kohen even on his clothes, he became impure. Seven children became impure while the commanders called them outside. There was some troublemaker outside, a murderous brawl, so the commanders called the Kohen Gadol (to restore order).

Thus, Kimchit merited that all 7 of her children became Kohanim Gedolim (High Priests)—in the merit that not even a millimeter of her body was seen.