Listen: New. Avraham Understood That It Is Impossible to Receive the Infinite Lights Only Through Servitude. The Righteous Rav Eliezer Berland shlit"a

What does a normal person do when they are in trouble? They try to calm down, cry out to Hashem, and plead for their life. What does the tzaddik, the foundation of the world, do when he is burdened with suffering? He sings to Hashem, believing with all his heart that everything is great mercy with the purpose of bringing down many more infinite lights.

"Everything is infinite lights, everything is vessels for infinite lights," begins our teacher, the righteous Rav Berland shlit"a, in his holy lesson. "It is written 'Your descendants will be strangers in a land not their own, and they will be enslaved and oppressed for four hundred years.' I read in the Haggadah of Rabbi Baruch Ashlag where he asks why Avraham does not argue? What is this four hundred years? He should tell Hashem to reduce it a bit, like he said in Sodom: 50, 45. Why does he not argue? Why does he accept the decree of exile with such love and good spirit?" And he answers - Avraham understood that it is impossible to receive the infinite lights only through servitude, therefore he asked: 'How will I know that I will inherit it,' Avraham knows that it is impossible to receive any gift from Hashem except through servitude and suffering".

"Avraham Avinu was before the giving of the Torah and there was not yet Torah with which to build vessels, therefore he had no choice, in order to receive infinite lights they had to 'Your descendants will be strangers in a land not their own, and they will be enslaved and oppressed for four hundred years.' Every time a person has some servitude or trouble, it is only to prepare vessels for infinite lights, every trouble is to prepare infinite vessels, so when a person is in trouble they should not throw away the pain like Yosef the tzaddik." "When a person is in trouble, make a window, 'Make a window for the ark,' every trouble is a window for infinite lights and therefore one should not ask for less trouble at all, as much trouble as possible creates vessels for more infinite, because Hashem is truly infinite, the kindness of Hashem is above the heavens, beyond all imagination, beyond all idea."

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