Listen: Rabbi Moshe Tzanani Speaks on the Information Line About the Challenging Reality of Our Teacher Rabbi Eliezer Berland shlit"a

When the people of Israel were about to enter Eretz Yisrael, Hashem elevated the entire nation and subdued them before Moshe Rabbeinu. It is written in the Zohar, 'In the great and terrible wilderness which you saw,' that you saw the Satan bound before the camp of Israel. We have no concept of the power of the tzaddik, everything is like child's play for him, everything is prepared and arranged for him and planned before him. And when the Rav returned from the north, he asked someone who was with him how many moves ahead he had planned, that person answered two or three, the Rav shlit"a retorted to him - I planned three hundred moves ahead.

The tzaddik manages everything, but, we need to do our part, meaning, to fulfill what the Rav shlit"a commands us to do. Prayers, Tikkun HaKlali, because everything the Rav does is to sweeten judgments over the people of Israel. He gives over his soul and body completely, we do not know what will be and how it will be, we only know that we are in good hands and everything will be the best it can possibly be. Indeed, the final redemption will be through 'it was reversed,' everything will turn from one extreme to the other. For we are in the final redemption, this is the end, there has never been anything like this from the beginning of time, all the trials and the terrible war that is here. The Sitra Achra sees that this is the end so it fights a terrible war, when all the war finally focuses on the tzaddik. Today it is revealed what was on the surface, the Sitra Achra knows that the entire redemption is through our teacher Rabbi Eliezer Berland shlit"a, therefore it makes all these terrible attempts. 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 between Mordechai the tzaddik and the people of Israel and if God forbid he had succeeded, a great catastrophe would have come - '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 be with him and believe in him and listen to what he commands them. As it is said, 'Give strength to God' (Psalms 68). Although we are nothing compared to him, nevertheless he uses our efforts. As our Rebbe said: 'It is no wonder that the Baal Shem Tov reached such tremendous levels, he had such awesome students. Therefore, one must ask to be truly attached to the Rav shlit"a, like the daughter of Rebbe Nachman dreamt after his passing that Rebbe wants to enter the synagogue and circles of people are blocking his way with force. She saw the holy Rebbe advancing while someone in front of him shouted, 'You shall not pass!' Rebbe advanced and he moved. So it was with all the others until Rebbe entered the synagogue and sat on the chair. So too in the final redemption when all the Sitra Achra is raging and storming – Rebbe will finally sit on the chair, the tzaddik will sit on the chair. And there will be a complete redemption and we will merit wonderful things.

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