Listen: Awaken from Slumber, From the Depths I Call to You, Hashem. Rav Meir Malka shlit"a, Student of the Esteemed Tzaddik Rabbi Eliezer Berland shlit"a, Calls for a Cry

A unique figure among the students of the esteemed tzaddik Rabbi Eliezer Berland is Rav Meir Malka shlit"a, humble and modest, yet known for his wisdom and chassidut. Like all of Israel, Rav Malka shlit"a also feels the pain of the desecration of holiness caused by the situation of our teacher, the esteemed tzaddik Rabbi Eliezer Berland shlit"a. These are his words spoken with the blood of pain and suffering.

We are in days about which it is said, "It is a time of trouble for Jacob, but he will be saved from it" (Jeremiah 30), from the trouble itself salvation is built. Especially since our teacher and rabbi, the esteemed tzaddik Rabbi Eliezer Berland, is where he is in such a terrible place. Such lowliness and humility in which we find ourselves, "For our soul is bowed down to the dust; our belly cleaves to the earth" (Psalms 44). May it be His will that the continuation of the verse "Arise for our help, and redeem us for the sake of Your kindness" (ibid.) be fulfilled in us. It is important that we at least strive to connect ourselves to this knowledge, this is a terrible sorrow and lowliness for all of Judaism, for all of Breslov, for the entire matter of Rebbe Nachman. This is humility, trampling of kedushah (holiness), through whom do we even know our holy Rebbe if not from the esteemed tzaddik our teacher Rabbi Berland shlit"a. And where is this source of light found?! May Hashem have mercy, who can describe or say.

We have left the days of Monday, Thursday, Monday, which are fasted by the correction of the ancients, to increase supplications and slichot! Because, even if we do not initiate fasts on our own, when it comes from the correction of the ancients, we must seize it like a good cake. All this is fitting for us to do in order to connect ourselves a bit more to the pain and sorrow, because the distractions of time for each person and forgetfulness, God forbid, bring apathy into the heart, therefore it is fitting to do something and awaken from slumber. The ordinance for these fasts appears in Siman 178 in the Shulchan Aruch, that if for one's own sorrow one must fast, all the more so for the sorrow of our teacher and rabbi Rabbi Berland shlit"a.

If we merit a true cry of pain, it will be for benefit and salvation. In the holy piyutim of the Monday, Thursday, Monday fasts corrected in the siddurim, there are such awakening words, may we merit to connect to them. "Arise, Your congregation, from its fallen state" (Slichot Monday, Thursday), we are in a fallen state, which continues downward and downward. And in the continuation of the piyut, we see that there are terrible counsels of the Sitra Achra in the general creation, and things are clothed as we see with our eyes. As deep as the pain is, so should be the depth of the cry. "From the depths I have called to You, Hashem" (Psalms 130), the greater the trouble, the deeper the cry must come from.

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