Listen: Exclusive. Everyone Calls Him the Holy Man - Rabbi Katz, Rabbi of the Prisons in Johannesburg, Talks About the Righteous Rabbi Eliezer Berland shlit"a

"Due to my role as the rabbi of the prisons in Johannesburg, I have met the righteous Rabbi Eliezer Berland shlit"a several times." Rabbi Shabtai Katz begins his words to the 'Shuvu Banim International' team in a unique interview we conducted with him. "Rav Berland is imprisoned under terrible conditions - but he is always joyful," he says. According to him, the prison cell where the rabbi is held is very small, the size of 3 beds, without flooring, with a toilet corner without a fixed partition but a blanket, a very small table, and a box for books in the corner of the room. Visitors bring and take books for the rabbi at each visit.

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It is wintertime, at night the temperatures drop even below zero, and the cold penetrates the cell from the massive prison facility, which houses thousands of inmates. He did not notice if the rabbi had a heater, but he saw how the rabbi warms himself with movement and Torah study. "I do not know the rabbi's prayer times because he is always joyful and adorned with a tallit and tefillin, always holding holy books in his hand."

Rabbi Katz reports that the guards and police officers at the facility, as well as the inmates themselves, refer to the rabbi as "The Holy Man," and constantly come to him for blessings and to seek advice regarding their personal problems. The inmates behave with reverence towards the rabbi and always try to take care of him and ask what he needs.

He is amazed at how the rabbi is always in a positive attitude, not sad and complaining like the other inmates, and constantly repeats that everything will be good, everything is fine, and everyone helps him, and finally, he has the opportunity to engage in Hitbodedut as he always wanted.

He reiterated the rabbi's message to his community "The rabbi is always with us physically and spiritually, and we need to strengthen our emunah and bitachon in Hashem that everything that happens is for the best."

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