"Now Everyone is Flying to Uman" - The Lesson of the Esteemed Tzaddik Rabbi Eliezer Berland shlit"a

Pearls from the holy words of our teacher, the esteemed tzaddik Rabbi Eliezer Berland shlit"a, as delivered from Ayalon Ramla on Monday of Parshat Ki Teitzei 5780, 4 Elul, 24.8.20 Berland in Hebrew means the land of bears. The Canaanites were once cannibals. "You shall not mistreat her because you have humbled her" (regarding a beautiful captive woman taken in war, Deuteronomy 21:14), how can such a thing be, taking a captive now she will do your chores and wash dishes? No, release her! A person who sacrifices themselves goes to war almost dying sees Hashem face to face, soldiers who go to sacrifice themselves for the people of Israel have all their sins forgiven. One who breaks a tooth of his Canaanite slave has a penalty, he is released, says the Jerusalem Talmud (Shevuot 27b) that Rabban Gamliel had such joy, he was so happy - the moment arrived to release his slave Tavi! (because he broke his tooth) such joy that doesn't exist in the world, here he releases his slave, Rabbi Yehoshua said to him: You need a court! The court must obligate you, you cannot release without a court! One who does not blemish the covenant of the lions will not be harmed! A person must not blemish the covenant, "and you shall guard yourselves from every evil thing" do not commit adultery, this is the entire parsha. It is forbidden to look at a woman, only the son can at his mother. "Face to face, Hashem spoke with you on the mountain from the midst of the fire" Deuteronomy 5:4 A person comes to the world for one thing: "Face to face, Hashem spoke with you on the mountain from the midst of the fire" to see Hashem face to face. Now everyone is flying to Uman, they must be in Uman, there is no such thing. Every year "Ki Teitzei" everyone flies. This is the last Shabbat in the land and then to fly. Here is Ayalon - "Sun, stand still at Gibeon and moon in the valley of Ayalon" here you see Hashem face to face truly! Whoever goes up on the roof sees Hashem face to face "Sun, stand still at Gibeon and moon in the valley of Ayalon" both the sun and the moon. "And the light of the sun will be like the light of seven days" sevenfold 7×7×7 Whoever lives 777 years will have all their sins atoned for. Whoever lives in Shlomi has all their sins atoned for, there is buried Buki ben Yagli, Hushi from Hushim, he was from Dan. (Someone asks the rabbi if he saw lions in exile as they tell, the rabbi answers:) There was a little one, I told him calm down, you will grow. They have a lookout on the roof to see that lions do not approach, in a second a jeep with guns arrived, they saw lions approaching, the lions know how to jump high, this is at Victoria Falls. In Tehran, a woman is not allowed to raise her sleeve a millimeter straight to prison, even the elevators are separate in hotels, men - women, Tehran is more fanatical than Mea Shearim. A person must see that he is not a slave against his will. "The one who frees his slave transgresses a positive commandment" what does the Rashba say? There is no such thing! A person freed his slave, it is the highest thing in the world to make him a free man. They murdered his wife, cut him into pieces, stole his children.. he says in Kiddushin there is no such thing as freeing for free "the one who frees his slave transgresses a positive commandment" a release document is the highest thing in the world, not a woman's divorce, a release document (for a slave) whoever merits a release document..,a release document is the highest thing, now everyone receives a release document today. The Rambam says a person can live 120 years. From today, from the passing of our Rabbi, the years are extended, a person can live 720 years. "To a foreigner you may lend with interest" a non-Jew is just a donkey, not a person, it is a reincarnation of a donkey. Donkey upon donkey until he converts. Therefore there is a mitzvah "to a foreigner you may lend with interest". The work of a person is to be ownerless, to be Petroushka, there was a woman called Petroushka, "ownerless Petroushka" (a Yiddish expression for a state where everyone does as they please). The mother of King David was called Nitzevet, whoever is called Nitzevet forgives all the sins in the world "my sheaf arose and also stood upright" she forgives all the sins in the world. Avidan ben Gidoni jumped into the sea, the Gidonites all committed suicide, the tribe of Judah stoned the tribe of Benjamin, they too jumped into the sea. The Rashba says a novelty to make a slave a free man, this is the greatest novelty that they release the slave, it is written that he transgresses a positive commandment! Now they are releasing Yisrael ben Rachel! Yisrael ben Rachel is released until Shabbat Nitzavim-Vayelech. There will be a discussion and they will accept the claims that everything was a lie by someone who wanted revenge, everything was due to pressures and confusion.. until Nitzavim-Vayelech released! I decree! Ki Teitzei, Ki Tavo, Nitzavim.. Vayelech. What the Rashba said that a person who frees a slave is not for free because he was a faithful slave day and night, now he deserves to be freed, it is like paying him a million shekels. He said "so-and-so my slave is a free man" it is obligatory! Is it established that he transgresses a positive commandment? There are a million excuses for this, the most truthful excuse is that he gave him pleasure, it is worth a lot. The Torah was given to Israel as slaves. Is there no good deed? They say to him release to the slave, what have you done?! This is the true novelty - certainly, he did not transgress a positive commandment! The heart - woe to anyone who has a heart! "Zebulun without heart and heart" they have no heart!

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