The Daily Chizuk from the first shiur of The Rav, Rabbi Eliezer Berland shlit"a: “A husband is obligated to honor his wife and appreciate everything she does for him.”

Wednesday, 4 Nissan 5785 — these are his holy words:

“The Zohar says: If you don’t know how to say to a woman, ‘Many daughters have done valiantly, but you surpass them all’ (Mishlei 31:29) — don’t get married.”

“Who told you to get married? Who asked you to get married?”

“You need to tell her every day: ‘Many daughters have done valiantly’—not tell her: My mother cooked better, my sister cooked better, the neighbor has tastier food—because then you immediately need to go to the Rabbinate.”

“Or now, before Pesach, the wife is working with tweezers, with needles—wooden beds have lots of cracks. She works on it for three days and three nights, doesn’t sleep and doesn’t eat, taking out all the crumbs from the wafers he ate all year.”

“And he—poor guy—was just in Uman and for three days he had nothing to eat; there’s a war there. Now he comes for Pesach, he arrives with a package of wafers and lies down on the bed. Three days he didn’t eat—I understand him, I’m for him, I’m on the side of the men—but he eats the wafer in bed after his wife cleaned up all the crumbs.”

“Now you bring her 2 kilos of wafers—you bring it because you didn’t eat for three days, because you were in Uman and there was no food; now there’s a war, there’s no food there. Until you crossed the borders and everything—today you don’t need passports, you cross without passports.”

“All the beds get filled with crumbs again, after she cleaned for three days—and you’re her son, so she has no choice—but a husband? They go straight to the Rabbinate, and that’s it.”

“So if a husband doesn’t understand that he must honor what his wife does for him… especially now, when we’re doing the Pesach cleaning.”

A happy and kosher Pesach to us and to all of Am Yisrael—next year in rebuilt Jerusalem.