MK Rabbi Moses in a Fascinating Interview About Rabbi Eliezer Berland shlit"a

MK Rabbi Menachem Eliezer Moses of United Torah Judaism visited the institutions of the Shuvu Banim community this week. Here is a fascinating interview conducted with him following the visit. "I was deeply impressed by your impressive institutions, the Talmud Torahs and the kindergartens. The teachers, the melamdim (Torah teachers), the educational counselors—this is truly a highly professional staff. I saw children there who are blossoming and glowing. Children who understand Gemara, understand Talmud, and learn with depth (iyun)," Rabbi Moses began his words.

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"I remember the Tzaddik, Rabbi Eliezer Berland shlit"a, from back in the Bnei Brak period, after my marriage and his marriage. I will reveal a secret to you: I bought him his first Shtreimel. We were neighbors, and I remember that his Kiddush on Friday night would lift up the entire Shikun Hey neighborhood in Bnei Brak. He would only make Kiddush at 11 or 12 at night, when his voice would literally hew flames of fire. In his Hisbodedus, we saw very interesting things."

When hearing this testimony about Morinu Rabbi Eliezer Berland shlit"a and the compliments regarding the institutions he established, one could forget that this is one of the veteran Members of Knesset and mistakenly confuse this for one of Rabbi Berland's close students. But no, MK Moses, who has known Morinu Rabbi Berland shlit"a, in his words, since his youth, is the one voicing these words here.

"Baruch Hashem, his students learn and walk in the light of their teacher, Rabbi Berland shlit"a. I wish for them to have more relief and for the institutions to have more relief. I remember his dancing after Kiddush; after all, he was the son-in-law of MK Rabbi Eliezer Shaki from Shikun Hey. Later, he moved to Shikun Chazon Ish in Bnei Brak, and there he began providing lodging for young men who were baalei teshuvah (returnees to the faith) in his home. I myself saw how, as a result of this, he had no place left to sleep and was forced to sleep in the bathtub."

"Later, late at night, Rabbi Berland shlit"a began doing Hisbodedus in the orchard near Nadborna, and this disturbed the residents of Ramat Gan who lived nearby. This led to the arrival of the police. Baruch Hashem, at that time I was already a public figure, and I had the privilege of releasing the Rav shlit"a from the police in a very original way. It turned out that the commander of the Ramat Gan police was the son of a Breslov Chassid who understood that, all in all, this is a Tzaddik meditating in the field."

The interview is courtesy of Kav Breslov - 02-800-8-800, from the USA 1-845-640-0007,  from Europe 4420-380-7-3333

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