"One Jew Can Subdue a Million Enemies" • The Daily Lesson from the Gaon and

Presented before you is the full daily lesson as delivered by our teacher, the Rav, Rabbi Eliezer Berland shlit"a (may he live long and good days) – yesterday after the Maariv (evening) prayer, Monday night, the 19th of Sivan, Parshat Shelach Lecha:

"So today there are ten killed—eight in Rafah, a tank exploded at eight in the morning, and two in Metula are seriously wounded. The entire land is a front today—north, south, east, west. In all places, thousands of missiles are flying; except for Jerusalem, there are missiles everywhere today. There is nowhere to hide, there are no mamad (fortified) rooms. There are no shelters; they didn't build shelters. No one imagined such a cruel war. Every day, ten holy and pure young men are killed; they indeed entered directly into Gan Eden (Paradise), but we want them here. We know that anyone killed Al Kiddush Hashem (for the sanctification of God's name) while defending the homeland goes straight to Gan Eden, directly without any judgment. But we need them here to do teshuvah (repentance).

And every girl needs to see that she can be a principal or a teacher—every girl, fourteen, fifteen, sixteen, seventeen, eighteen. Until eighteen, the mind is open. Clear—every girl. Every boy, until the age of eighteen, the mind absorbs everything; whatever they are taught, it absorbs. Afterward, the mind begins to weaken until it reaches full degeneration at age eighty; only two-thirds of the mind remains, one-third is already gone. Everyone already has dementia. So the girls need to know that from the age of fourteen, fifteen, eighteen, while their minds are open, they must study. Whoever is grown now, it doesn't matter. We must already prepare all the studies for next year. Each one needs to be a principal or a teacher; there will be a thousand principals. There are a thousand girls here in the community—a thousand principals! Each principal opens a seminar for a thousand girls. There will be a million girls doing teshuvah (repentance), keeping Shabbat, and praying, reciting the entire Book of Tehillim (Psalms) every day. Until the war ends, we must finish the entire Book of Tehillim every day. A chapter of Tanakh (Bible)—every girl who knows a chapter of Tanakh every day can be a principal. Each one needs to study the Tanakh as if it is happening today. Like Gideon—even though [his family] served idols, he had grain for seven years. He said—he asked the angel, 'Where are the miracles?' He went to thresh wheat; he didn't know the laws at all. He was an am ha'aretz (unlearned person); he went to thresh wheat on the holiday. He asks the angel, 'I don't understand, I heard of such miracles, where are the miracles?' When studying Tanakh, one must feel as if it is happening right now. The moment you feel it is happening now, then it happens like it did for Gideon. The entire commando unit is called 'Gideonites'; there is a Gideon unit. Gideon refers to those who go with mesirus nefesh (self-sacrifice), three hundred against a million. One Jew can subdue a million! 'One of you shall pursue a thousand'—one can pursue a thousand people—'and two of you shall put ten thousand to flight.' Three hundred people are enough to subdue a million Philistines, a million Canaanites like the sand of the sea. Every girl can be like Deborah the Prophetess and like Jael, who subdued Sisera with thousands of soldiers. They had four billion soldiers—it is written one hundred thousand times forty thousand, which is four billion soldiers. And two women subdued them. One woman can subdue the entire world, the entire army of the whole world. On the condition that she recites the Book of Tehillim every day—ten chapters of Tehillim every day—then she can subdue the whole world, and through this, there will be the complete Geulah (Redemption) speedily in our days, Amen!"‏.