On Monday night, the 24th of Nissan, Parshat Shemini, a lesson was held at the residence of our teacher The Rav Eliezer Berland shlit"a (may he live long and good days) for the students of the Breslov Yeshiva in the city of Beitar Illit. The lesson lasted about forty minutes; before you is a summary of the topics delivered during the lesson:

Bein HaZmanim (the intersession break) is the time to study double; there is no mashgiach (spiritual supervisor) over your head to ensure that you study only during the sedarim (scheduled study sessions)—one can also study at night. Gevurah shebeGevurah (Strength within Strength) is to sit and study, and this is harder than everything; being a commando soldier is easier than sitting and studying Gemara (Talmud) for an hour.

After every hour of study, one must dance. In Kotzk, they danced for three days without stopping. Every person has a Divine spark that can burn the entire world, but he has mountains of dust upon his heart from an abundance of despair and sadness; the tzaddik (righteous person) blows away the dustiness.

The Chasam Sofer zt"l (of blessed memory) says that they should have held the hillula (celebration of the passing) of Rabbi Shimon bar Yochai on Tiferes shebeTiferes (Beauty within Beauty), because then it is Hod shebeHod (Splendor within Splendor) in Ohr Chozer (Reflected Light). Rabbi Zilberman did not light the bonfire on Lag BaOmer; no one understood why until the news arrived at ten at night that Hitler had committed suicide and the war ended, and then he lit it.

Abba Tachina Chassida saw a dying man and agreed to abandon everything in order to save him, and the sun shone for him anew. Now we are emerging from the serpent. Yagnon was a prophet from the House of Ephraim who, forty years before the Exodus from Egypt, said that the time had come because he calculated from the birth of Isaac. Everyone left Moses, even the seventy elders.

The Ma'ayanah Shel Torah says that the sea split again for Dathan and Abiram. The Mothers (the women in Egypt) did not want to divorce, but they had no choice until Miriam came and knocked on the table and said to her father—Amram, you are worse than Pharaoh.

When a person says a specific hour that he is returning home, he must stand by it. There were three types of mothers: 1. Those who wanted to give birth in the fields, "and they shall blossom from the city like the grass of the earth." They brought plows, but the Egyptians wanted to deny the miracles. 2. They threw them into the Nile, and the angels took them out and moved them to the other side where it was "and He made him suck honey from the rock and oil from the flinty rock." Like the Well of Miriam that would provide water without end... and through this, great abundance will be influenced in all the worlds, and everyone will get married by Shavuot, and at the meeting (shidduch date), they will tell about Eliezer who was against the match. And everyone needs to ask at the meeting whether she is like Abigail daughter of Nachash. David used two ropes to kill and one to keep alive; Balak feared that David, who would descend from him, would cut off Moab, and he advised him to put a barrel with a thousand snakes under the Beis HaMikdash (Holy Temple).

Once there was Bein HaZmanim (intersession break) because they had to walk on foot to their home, which was a two-week walk away. There is the story of the son of the Tosafot Yom Tov zt"l who tore the red scarf from the wife of the central consul and saved her from a raging bull. And so, years later, he was able to save his father in Vienna through that same person. Whoever finishes the Shas (the entire Talmud) within 24 hours will merit a shidduch (marriage match) within 24 hours.