"Only Through Songs and Melodies Will the People of Israel Do Teshuvah!" • The

Before you is a summary from the daily lesson as delivered by our teacher, the Rav, Rabbi Eliezer Berland shlit"a – yesterday after the Maariv (evening) prayer, Sunday night, the 5th of Shevat, Parshas Beshalach:

So today is Shabbos Shirah (the Sabbath of Song), Parshas Beshalach – "Then Moses sang." The Rebbe [Rebbe Nachman] says, "Come, look [sing] from the peak of Amanah" (Song of Songs 4:8) – only through songs and melodies will the People of Israel do teshuvah (repentance); nothing else will help them. Because everyone is growing up as transgressors and apikorsim (heretics). Only if the girls say Tehillim (Psalms) now – there is time until Chatzos (midnight) – and the boys learn 4 pages of Gemara (Talmud). Until eleven o'clock, everyone should learn in Sanhedrin page 42, where they switched the beds. And the student screamed, he cried all night, "Why are they switching the beds?" Then the Rav said to him in a dream, "I did not protest the humiliation of a Talmid Chacham (Torah scholar), therefore I received such a funeral [procession]." Every [Egyptian] mother in Egypt at age 100 had eighty firstborns, while a Jewish mother had only one firstborn. Now we are finishing in five minutes, everyone will go home; the girls should lengthen their skirts to the ankle. Every day five soldiers are killed. Hezbollah advocates for democracy, it is in favor of freedom of expression—it can launch UAVs (drones). But Bibi [Netanyahu] is against freedom of expression; he doesn't let Hezbollah launch UAVs. Now Tamar Edri was killed in Nahariya. Everyone must see to it that such a thing never happens again. Now they are releasing two thousand four hundred terrorists; we ask that they do not wander around here. When the terrorists arrive, no one should go outside, and through this, we will merit the complete Geulah (Redemption) speedily in our days, Amen!