The Daily Strengthening from The Rav, Rabbi Berland shlit"a — “For Gog and Magog before Moshiach to come, they would have to wade in blood up to the knees; but song sweetens the decrees”

“Two handbreadths of time” (Pirkei d’Rabbi Eliezer 28)

“And I said to you: In your blood, live!” (Yechezkel 16:6) “Let me take revenge for one of my two eyes” (Shoftim 16:28)

Wednesday, 28 Nissan 5783 — “Shimshon took only ‘revenge for one of my two eyes’; the second eye will be taken together with Moshiach.”

These are his holy words: Through song, we wipe out all the wicked. If King Chizkiyahu had sung one more song, Gog and Magog would have come immediately.

Because Gog and Magog is only 25 years before the end of the sixth millennium, but they want Gog and Magog to happen immediately, as Rabbi Menachem Mendel of Rimanov said (Rabbi Menachem Mendel of Rimanov, 1745–1815, was a renowned Chassidic Rebbe, one of the first four early disseminators of the Chassidic movement in Poland.) — he said they would have to walk in blood up to the knees, and only then would they be able to return to Eretz Yisrael; then all the decrees would be sweetened.

Up to the knees in blood—indeed, they came up to the knees in blood.

Rabbi Naftali of Ropshitz said (Rabbi Naftali Tzvi Horowitz of Ropshitz, 1760–1827, was a Rebbe in Galicia and the founder of Ropshitz Chassidus) that it is possible to sweeten it with less blood—so it truly was.

And this is written in Pirkei d’Rabbi Eliezer, chapter 28: Yishmael is destined to do evil to the entire world and will also conquer Rome. Then the whole world will come to wage war against them.

The main thing is the blood of the covenant—“And I said to you: In your blood, live!” (Yechezkel 16:6).

“Two handbreadths of time” (Pirkei d’Rabbi Eliezer 28). Forty minutes before sunset on Friday afternoon, corresponding to the time of the Geulah—this is two-thirds.

Sunset is two-thirds before the end of the sixth millennium, because each “hour” is 42 years—41 years and 8 months, a total of 158 months.

The letters of “the seventh” are 5782—tav-shin; after that comes an ayin; ayin and yud is “p.” After 5782 comes 5783—now is the year of Moshiach; now is the year of the revelation of Moshiach—and there are 28 years until the end of the sixth millennium.

Then Avraham saw the bird of prey that he would need to fight approaching. There was Shimshon the mighty—“Let me take revenge for one of my two eyes” (Shoftim 16:28). Shimshon took only “revenge for one of my two eyes”; the second eye will be taken together with Moshiach.

Shimshon will come with Moshiach; Shaul will also come with Moshiach—this is written in the Gemara (Sukkah 52b).

Shaul did not commit any sin. His “sin” was that he did not nullify himself to Shmuel. Shmuel is the letters of “from Shaul.” Shaul’s entire “sin” was that he never had a sin—he never sinned in his life; he did not speak “from Shaul.”

In the Gemara (Sukkah 52b) it is written who will come with Moshiach: seven shepherds and eight princes among men—this includes Adam, Yishai, and Shaul. Shaul will also come with Shmuel the prophet, together with Amos, Tzefanyah, and Tzidkiyah. Some have the version that Chizkiyahu is in place of Tzidkiyah.