In the Wake of Rising Antisemitism Worldwide • Prayers from the Holy Tzaddik

In the wake of the growing antisemitism throughout the world against the Jews of the Diaspora, following the “Swords of Iron” war taking place in the Holy Land—here are several prayers that The Rav, Rabbi Eliezer Berland shlit"a, wrote in the past for the Jews of the Diaspora, and which are fitting for these days.

To merit being saved from antisemitism and the hatred of the nations in the world; and that we should do only good with them and draw them close to Hashem; and that we should merit to stand firm through all the trials that stand before us—those who want to destroy us; and that we should accept everything with love; and that we should merit the revelation of Moshiach ben David

To be saved from antisemitism

Master of the World, Almighty One, from Whom no plan can be withheld: as long as we are in the exile among the nations, save us from antisemitism and from the hatred of the nations. Help us do only good with them, and through this, draw them close to His blessed service—“by day” 96 and “by night” 87 = 177. And they will learn Torah “by day” 96 and “by night” 81 = 177. And through this we will enter, with our bodies, into Gan 53 Eden 124 = 177.

As the Gemara says in Pesachim 87: A certain priest asked Rabbi Chanina, “What do we think about for 24 hours?” He answered him, “For 24 hours you think only about how to eliminate all the Jews.” The priest said to him, “I swear by the Roman army: with this we begin the day and with this we end the day. This is all our contemplation and our thoughts, our aspiration and our hope—to be rid of this people in the blink 305 of an eye 130 = 435.”

And in the merit that they do not succeed, and we stand in the test and accept everything with love—in that merit Moshiach 358 ben 52 David 24 = 435 will come, in the blink 305 of an eye 130 = 435.

To merit to ascend to Eretz Yisrael and not be harmed by it in any way; to sell everything for full value; and to merit to leave the impurity of the lands of the nations in which we have become entrenched; and to break all the obstacles—most of which are primarily obstacles of the mind

To ascend to Eretz Yisrael

Master of the World, Almighty One: grant me the merit to ascend to Eretz Yisrael with exalted mesirus nefesh. Let me leave all my assets and all my property that I have in the Diaspora, leaving nothing behind and leaving no trace—only that I should sell everything with the greatest speed, for full value. Let me not lose even a single penny because I am ascending to Eretz Yisrael, and let me not be harmed by any damage through the ascent to Eretz Yisrael.

For we no longer have the strength to remain in the exile of the Diaspora even for one more second, because we want to ascend to the land of our fathers that You gave to our fathers—to Avraham, Yitzchak, and Yaakov—“a land flowing with milk and honey.” For Eretz Yisrael is holier than all the lands of the world, and in it Hashem your God chose, from all the treasures of the world.

Please, Hashem, grant me the merit to ascend to Eretz Yisrael with mesirus nefesh, and bring us to Your holy mountain. For the strength of endurance has already failed us to remain in the Diaspora. And on the other hand, we have already become entrenched here in the Diaspora in the impurity of the lands of the nations, and we do not know how to free ourselves from it.

And now we turn to You with kneeling and prostration. Help us, Hashem our God, to come to Eretz Yisrael in the blink of an eye. Help us break all the obstacles and all the delays—for the main obstacle is in the mind.

To merit to listen to the true Tzaddik and to spread his teachings and his prayers in every city and city—and it is an obligation to spread them, so that one should not become liable by the judgment of Heaven for having delayed the Geulah

To be saved from the war of Gog and Magog

Master of the World, Almighty One: grant me the merit to be among the Tzaddikim who have already reached their complete purpose. But guard me from those who have not yet reached the goal of their level—so that they should have the power to bring all of Am Yisrael back in teshuvah.

And grant me, and all Your people Israel, the merit to bring all Your people, the House of Israel, back in teshuvah. And these conditions are firm and established—nullified by nothing, subject to no change, and without any shaking.

And I will merit to guard the entire Torah, with all its details and fine points, and I will not budge even a hairbreadth. And I will merit to spread the teachings and the prayers of The Rav throughout the entire world—until there will not be a single person in the whole world who will not have some prayer from The Rav.

For this is like the concept of a Torah scholar who has reached the level of being able to rule in halachah but does not rule—whose punishment is greater than one who does not rule at all. So too, we should not slacken and not weaken from spreading the prayers. And we will merit, day and night, to go from city to city and from settlement to settlement.

For in our generation, all of Am Yisrael are thirsty for the prayers of The Rav—even non-Jews, and even from other nations. And all the nations want all the prayers translated for them; all of them want all the prayers of The Rav translated into all seventy languages, and into all languages immediately, in the blink of an eye.

And through all the nations reading the prayers of The Rav, Hashem will save them from the war of Gog and Magog. For our work is only to spread the prayers to them, and to bring the entire world back in teshuvah.

And anyone who does not spread them will be judged in Heaven in the blink of an eye = 435 for not spreading them. And he will be judged for having delayed the Geulah and not having hastened it through spreading the prayers—in the blink of an eye {= 435}. For through this, Moshiach 359 ben 52 David 24 = 435 would have come—who is obligated to be revealed immediately in our days through the Tzaddik Yesod Olam = 435, in the blink of an eye = 435—so that he will be revealed in the blink of an eye = 435, still in our generation.

For these prayers will be read even when Moshiach comes, and they will not stop reading them even for one second all the days of their lives. And this will be the personal avodah of each and every person: to read the prayers every single day, even when Melech HaMoshiach comes.