Message from the Rav: "In looking at the Rav, I saw that he is very ill" - What Rabbi Eliezer Berland shlit"a wants from us today

Many from the Orthodox Jewish community turn to us and express disgust at the one-sided, brutal, and biased conduct against the esteemed Rabbi Eliezer Berland shlit"a and thousands of his community members. Today, after the severe persecution against the great sages of Israel in recent times, it is already understood that the conduct against Rabbi Berland is a frightening milestone in this religious persecution. Everyone knows that boundaries have been breached, and that Rabbi Berland will not be the last on this path of persecution. Everyone has been marked, the anti-democratic silencing, and the efforts to dictate what a great rabbi in Israel is allowed to say, only increase and intensify from case to case.

To enter a Gemara lesson in the daily page early in the morning, when the study hall is crowded with learners with open Gemaras. Dozens of masked security forces throwing stun grenades and brandishing their weapons. If they had waited another two or three hours, they could have taken the Rav quietly from his home and prevented all the unnecessary terror. But no, this is exactly their desire, to delegitimize anything that smells different from the secular mainstream that has taken over the leadership of the state. The frightening power backed by the prosecution, the mobilized media, and their henchmen.

Anyone who has not yet awakened, and does not understand that this is not about a controversial Rav, should wipe the sleep from his eyes. You are next, your community, your Rav, etc. And if they do not come directly to you, then the content of the studies in your child's institutions and anything similar will be confiscated from the leaders of Judaism and entrusted to those who hate Judaism and tradition.

I dreamed of the Rav last night, one of the important rabbis connected to Rabbi Berland told me

"In the dream, I was told that our teacher Rabbi Berland is here in the room (I don't remember if it was in the hospital, or in the prison clinic). I entered the room, there were two beds, on one lay the Rebbetzin Tehila, may she live, ill (God forbid). The second bed was Rabbi Berland's, but the Rav was not lying down, he was standing by the bed."

"Rabbi Berland was very ill, looking at his face I saw he was very ill, something frightening, but he still radiated light, simcha (joy), and hope as usual. Rabbi Berland spoke and strengthened the people around him as usual, then he saw me, extended his hand towards me, I approached and took his hand. The hand was cold and weak, I kissed his hand, and began to tremble and cry."

"Rabbi Berland asked me in astonishment, "Why tremble and cry? There is no need!"

"I immediately understood in the dream that we are entering into sadness and worry by choice, but by our will, we can get out of it whenever we want, and be in simcha."

"This is what Rabbi Berland wants - this is the message the Rav came to convey to me in the dream."

"In the morning I remembered that I had a dream with the Rav, but I didn't remember anything from it. Until suddenly everything came back to me as clear as day."

The path of our teacher Rabbi Eliezer Berland shlit"a throughout the years has been one of complete emunah (faith) and bitachon (trust in Hashem) in the reality of Hashem. The Rav was not afraid for a moment, as he always brought the verse from the Book of Esther (5:9) "And when Haman saw Mordechai in the king's gate that he did not stand up or move".

Our teacher, the esteemed Rabbi Eliezer Berland shlit"a, prayed all these years to enter captivity, there are high processes of the tzaddik to clarify the souls of Israel that are strongly held in the klipah, and the Rav in his great stature knows what is needed to extract them. We must strengthen ourselves in the power of the elder of kedushah and not let the surrounding events enter our minds and cool us from simple Jewish emunah - as Rebbe Nachman said, all the deeds of the tzaddik are secrets of secrets.