Listen: With Hashem's Help, You Will Dance Until Morning - Miracles of the Holy Tzaddik Rabbi Eliezer Berland shlit"a
"The matchmaking of the children of Israel is as difficult as the splitting of the Red Sea," how true are these words in our generation and how necessary is the blessing of the true tzaddik.
It is told in the Midrash (Bereishit Rabbah Parsha 68) that a matron asked Rabbi Yossi ben Chalafta, "In how many days did the Holy One, blessed be He, create His world?" He replied: "In six days." She said to him: "And from that time until now, what has He been doing?" He replied: "The Holy One, blessed be He, sits and makes matches: the daughter of so-and-so to so-and-so." She said to him: "Is this His craft? I too can do this; I have many servants and maidservants, and in one short hour I can pair them." He said to her: "If it seems easy in your eyes, it is as difficult before the Holy One, blessed be He, as the splitting of the Red Sea." Rabbi Yossi ben Chalafta left her, and what did she do? She took a thousand servants and a thousand maidservants and lined them up in rows and said: "This one will marry that one, and that one will marry this one," and she paired them in one night. The next day they came before her – this one's head was wounded, this one's eye was drooping, this one's arm was dislocated, this one's leg was broken. She asked them: "What is with you?"
This one said: "I do not want this one," and this one said: "I do not want that one," and immediately she sent and brought Rabbi Yossi ben Chalafta. She said to him: "Rabbi, your Torah is true, and all that you said is beautiful and praiseworthy."
"We heard that a blessing from the holy tzaddik Rabbi Eliezer Berland shlit"a works wonders and miracles," Rachel begins her miracle story. "Therefore, we approached the gabbai of the Rav shlit"a and submitted the names and ages of the daughters for a blessing. We added that we do not understand the reason for the delay in finding their match, as they are successful and from a good home, and the matter is simply puzzling."
"We heard the Rav shlit"a say in a recording that one should perform a redemption of the soul and that by Passover there will be miracles - with Hashem's help, you will dance until morning - and indeed, so it was. Even before we finished the "Sheva Brachot" of the first daughter, and already the next day we closed the engagement of the second daughter, exactly as the Rav shlit"a said."
"We thank the gabbai who made the effort to send us the recording of the Rav shlit"a, it greatly encouraged us and filled us with much hope. And of course, we thank the Creator of the world, for you were His messengers, for all the kindness He did with us. Although we prayed a lot, we saw with our own eyes how the blessing of the tzaddik was effective."
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