One Must Honor One’s Wife – The Daily Chizuk from Rabbi Eliezer Berland shlit"a

The daily chizuk from the first lesson of our teacher, the Gaon and Tzaddik, Rabbi Eliezer Berland shlit"a, "A husband is obligated to honor his wife and appreciate everything she does for him"

Wednesday, 4th of Nissan 5785 – These are his holy words:

"The Zohar says: If you do not know how to say to your wife: 'Many women have done valiantly, but you excel them all' (Proverbs 31:29) - do not get married."

"Who told you to get married? Who asked you to get married?"

"One must tell her every day: 'Many women have done valiantly,' not tell her: My mother cooked better, my sister cooked better, the neighbor has tastier food - then one must go straight to the Rabbinate."

"Or now before Passover, the wife works with tweezers, with needles; in the wooden beds there are many cracks. She works on this for three days and three nights, not sleeping and not eating, removing all the crumbs of the wafers that were eaten all year long."

"And he, poor man, was just in Uman and for three days did not eat, there is a war there. Now he arrives for Passover, he arrives with a package of wafers and lies down on the bed. He didn't eat for three days, I understand him, I am for him, I am on the side of the men, but he eats the wafer inside the bed after the mother cleaned all the crumbs."

"You are now bringing her 2 kilos of wafers, bringing them because you didn't eat for three days, because you were in Uman and there was no food, now there is a war, there is no food there. Until you crossed the borders and everything, today you don't need passports, you cross without passports."

"All the beds filled up with crumbs again, after she cleaned for three days, and you are her son, she has nothing to do - but a husband, one goes straight to the Rabbinate and that's it."

"So if the husband does not understand that he must honor what his wife does for him... - especially now when doing the cleaning for Passover."

A happy and kosher Passover to us and to all of the people of Israel, for the coming year in a rebuilt Jerusalem.