It Is Possible to Learn Only When the Prayer Is Accepted - Words of the Esteemed Tzaddik Rabbi Eliezer Berland shlit"a - Photo Gallery from the Buchbut Family Home

On the night of Wednesday, Parshat Shoftim 5778, the esteemed tzaddik Rabbi Eliezer Berland shlit"a arrived at the Buchbut family home on Adani Street in the Beit Yisrael neighborhood of Jerusalem. Rav Berland shlit"a held a reception there, as masses came to the neighborhood to greet the tzaddik.

The Holy Words of the Esteemed Tzaddik Rabbi Eliezer Berland shlit"a

"They Were Within the Desire Therefore They Died"

"And it shall come to pass, because you listen to these judgments, and keep and do them, that Hashem your God will keep with you the covenant" (Deuteronomy 7:12) – One must depart from the blemishes of the covenant, to conquer this desire, all died in the graves of desire - because they were within the desire therefore they died, all the six hundred thousand died. Rabbi Natan says they were within the desire, therefore they stumbled with the spies, stumbled with the calf, because everything begins when a person does not eradicate this desire, does not repel it, does not fight it, if he does not fight it, he will inevitably fall with the spies, with the calf, and now we are repeating the entire history, "and at Taberah, and at Massah, and at Kibroth-hattaavah" (Deuteronomy 9:22)."

"Only If He Cries Out the Prayer and Dances with All His Might Can He Depart from the Blemishes of the Covenant"

"The Rebbe says "And it shall come to pass, because you listen to these judgments, and keep and do them, that Hashem your God will keep with you the covenant," that only if a person jumps will he depart from the blemishes of the covenant - one must jump in dance. "And they cried mightily to God" (Jonah 3:8), if he is quiet he cannot depart from the blemishes of the covenant, only if he cries out the prayer and dances with all his might, with all his 248 limbs and 365 sinews, with his entire stature. The Rebbe says, "and everlasting joy shall be upon their heads" (Isaiah 35:10), "You have put joy in my heart more than in the time that their grain and their wine increased" (Psalms 4:8), that the joy should be in the heart, in the head, in the limbs, in the hands, in the feet, in the fingers, in every place."

"It Is Possible to Learn Only When the Prayer Is Accepted"

"A person needs to dance for several hours every day until the joy enters all his 248 limbs and 365 sinews, and then "and it shall come to pass" that he lifts his heels, he jumps to the roof, he needs to break through the ceiling with the dances. The main thing is the cries and the melodies, "and He saw their distress when He heard their cry" (Psalms 106:44), if a person does not sing the prayer it is not accepted, in the end he also cannot learn, because it is possible to learn only when the prayer is accepted, therefore the entire Torah is hinted at in the verse "and it shall come to pass, because you listen."

The words of the esteemed tzaddik Rabbi Eliezer Berland shlit"a were edited from the Shevivi Or bulletin.

Photo Gallery of the House Gathering at the Buchbut Family Home

[gallery link="file" size="full" ids="13418,13419,13420,13421,13422"] Photos courtesy of Shahar Eliyahu