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Kiddush Hashem: Such a Gathering Has Never Been - Unity and Unconditional Love Echo Through the Walls of Ramla Prison

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Kiddush Hashem: Such a Gathering Has Never Been - Unity and Unconditional Love Echo Through the Walls of Ramla Prison

"Lift up your eyes round about and see: they all gather together, they come to you" (Isaiah 60:4)

The days of Mashiach, this was the feeling of those who came to the prayer assembly, protest, and outcry before the return of our teacher, the esteemed tzaddik Rabbi Eliezer Berland shlit"a, to prison.

People from all walks of life came, all shades of Israeli society were seen crying out in pain in front of the walls of Ayalon Prison in Ramla. Everyone in true unity and unconditional love, which is so rare in our regions lately.

"I have never seen anything like this," was one of the sentences heard by those who were privileged to participate in this awe-inspiring and exalted event. Cries and tears in prayer, followed by holy dances and simcha (joy) of emunah (faith), because the Eternal of Israel does not lie, and everyone believes that in the end, kedushah (holiness) will prevail over evil and the tzaddik will continue the journey of redemption until he completes everything for the good, with Hashem's help.

It was interesting to meet people who did not know the Rav, but were strengthened in their attachment to the truth after seeing the persecution campaign by the media and the judicial system that forgot what justice is. For those who truly observe and examine find quickly a holy community, the holy and pure people of the tzaddik, "Shuvu Banim" in Jerusalem, in Eretz Yisrael, and around the world.

Such prayers may have never been seen, cries and supplications in the recitation of the chapters of Psalms of the Tikkun HaKlali and the "selected chapters" that our teacher revealed to the world. Cries reaching the heart of the heavens in an emotional event of accepting the yoke of the Kingdom of Heaven.

Alongside the people of Israel, servants of Hashem and God-fearing scholars, came tzaddikim, about whom it is testified that they are among the 36 hidden tzaddikim: the kabbalist Rabbi Golan Ma'alma shlit"a, the kabbalist Rabbi Sheinfeld shlit"a, the kabbalist Rabbi Stern from Bnei Brak shlit"a, and many other good and righteous ones that the space is too short to contain, and of course, the great rabbis, students of our teacher Rav Berland shlit"a, all came.

Chassidim alongside Litvaks, Sephardim alongside Ashkenazim, Haredim alongside national religious, religious alongside secular, those who put on a kippah to join with nearly three thousand worshippers who came. Even the police officers who secured the event seemed to participate in the prayer.

The feeling was of sweetening the judgments, that the tzaddik gathers all the neshamot (souls) connected to him to sweeten decrees from the enemies of Israel. Precisely from the severe persecution against him, our teacher Rav Berland shlit"a succeeds in doing what all the tzaddikim of the generations tried to do - to unite the people of Israel. And where? Not at the Kotel and not at the Cave of the Patriarchs, but in front of the walls of the prison in Ramla.

Fortunate are we to have merited, there is no doubt that this unity assembly has acted greatly in the heavens. Watch the replay here:

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