Listen: Rabbi Yekutiel Fish from Sod HaChashmal on the War of the Sitra Achra

There is no doubt that the suffering that the great genius and tzaddik Rabbi Eliezer Berland shlit"a endures is for all of us, for the Shechinah (Divine Presence). It pained me greatly when I told one of the heads of the yeshivot about the situation of the genius Rav Berland shlit"a, and he responded dismissively, saying, 'What does this have to do with me? Who cares?!' I replied, 'Just because he is the greatness of tens of thousands of families who are not from your circle, you will not pray, you will not feel pain, and you will respond with dismissal? Where have we reached?!' We see in the Gemara Gittin (57b) how great and severe the issue of the killing of Zechariah the Prophet is in Heaven—the suffering of a tzaddik of Israel. They slaughtered young men and maidens of Israel to quiet his blood, and yet his blood was still bubbling. We see that the suffering of the tzaddik is beyond our understanding and is terrible and awesome. The Sitra Achra fights with all its might to bend the stature of holiness, especially against such a tzaddik who has made many baalei teshuvah (those who have returned to Hashem). And the Sitra Achra fights with such tzaddikim more than with other tzaddikim, because it knows that if it can undermine their names, Heaven forbid, and stain them in the eyes of the world, then their words will not be heard and there will be no more baalei teshuvah.

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Although we are in the month of Nissan, the month of Geulah (Redemption), we must participate in the suffering of the tzaddikim, which is truly participating in the suffering of the Shechinah (Divine Presence).

Courtesy of Kav Knishta Chada