Listen: Rabbi Moshe Tzanani Speaks on the Information Line About the Challenging

When the people of Israel were about to enter the Land of Israel, Hashem raised the entire nation up and humbled them before Moses our teacher. It is written in the Zohar, 'In the great and terrible wilderness which you saw,' that you saw the Satan bowed before the camp of Israel. We have no concept of the power of the tzaddik; everything is like child's play to him, everything is prepared, arranged, and planned before him. And when Rav Berland returned from the north, he asked someone who was with him how many moves ahead he had planned; that person answered two or three, and Rav Berland shlit"a remarked to him, 'I planned three hundred moves ahead.'

The tzaddik manages everything, but we must do our part, meaning, to fulfill what Rav Berland shlit"a commands us to do. Prayers, Tikkun HaKlali, because everything the Rav does is to sweeten judgments over the people of Israel. He sacrifices his soul and body completely; we do not know what will be or how it will be, we only know that we are in good hands and everything will be the best that it possibly can be. Truly, the final Geulah will be through 'it shall be turned around,' everything will be turned from one extreme to another. Because we are in the final Geulah, this is the end; there has never been anything like this since the days of old, all the trials and the terrible war that is here. The Other Side (Sitra Achra) sees that this is the end, so it fights a terrible war, with the entire war ultimately focusing on the tzaddik. Today, what was on the surface is being revealed; the Other Side knows that the entire Geulah is through our teacher, Rabbi Eliezer Berland shlit"a, therefore it makes all these terrible trials. But, it will not help; the tzaddik rises higher and higher together with his people. Because it is written that Haman the wicked wanted to separate Mordechai the tzaddik from the people of Israel, and if, Heaven forbid, he had succeeded, a great Holocaust would have arrived—'to destroy, to kill, and to annihilate,' this is the decree of destruction that was nullified. And why? Because the tzaddik, despite his great power, needs to receive his strength from the people of Israel. That the people of Israel should be with him, believe in him, and listen to what he commands them. In the aspect of, 'Give strength to Hashem' (Psalms 68). Even though we are nothing compared to him, nevertheless, he uses our service. Just as Rebbe Nachman said: 'It is no wonder that the Baal Shem Tov merited such immense levels; he had such awesome students.' Therefore, one must ask to be truly attached to Rav Berland shlit"a, just as the daughter of Rebbe Nachman dreamed a dream after his passing that Rebbe Nachman wanted to enter the synagogue, and there were circles upon circles of people who were bullyingly blocking his path. She saw that the holy Rebbe was advancing while in front of him was a man shouting at him, 'You are not passing!' The Rebbe advanced and he moved. So it was with all the rest until the Rebbe entered the synagogue and sat on the chair. So too in the final Geulah, when the entire Other Side is noisy and raging—the Rebbe will finally sit on the chair, the tzaddik will sit on the chair. And there will be a complete Geulah and we will merit wonderful things.