Only Through the Study of Gemara Can One Play Music • The Daily Lesson from 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, 21st of Iyar, Parshas Behar-Bechukosai:

On Wednesday, there will be buses to Yosef HaTzaddik (Joseph the Righteous); everyone must travel to Yosef HaTzaddik. Everything is in the merit of Yosef HaTzaddik; Shimon is the soul of Yosef HaTzaddik. The Mekalel (the Curser) wanted to create a hole from Asiyah (the World of Action) all the way to Atzilus (the World of Emanation) to see the Chariot of Ezekiel, to show the four angels to all of Israel literally. Hashem brought Cain down into three parts – the Mekalel, Korach, and Yisro (Jethro) – Nefesh, Ruach, and Neshamah (the three levels of the soul). Yisro informed everyone that everything was a lie, all the sorcery; he showed everyone that the idols do not speak. It is written "with a human stylus" (Cheret Enosh) – that Enosh had a stylus with which he made the idols speak; everyone believed the idols. Like Gehazi, who suspended two calves in the air that cried out 'I am [the Lord]' and 'You shall not have [other gods].' They brought twelve silver bowls. A bowl of nine hundred and thirty [shekels] corresponding to the years of Adam HaRishon (the first man). Enosh caused the entire generation to sin; it took only eight years. "Then it was begun (Huchal) to call" – "Az" (Then) equals eight. When he reached the age of six hundred and ninety-five, he received all the doubts and confusions from his grandmother, Chavah (Eve), who told him that the Serpent said that before the Holy One, Blessed be He, the Tree of Knowledge was created, and whoever eats from the Tree of Knowledge will create the world; this confused him for eight years until the age of seven hundred and three. Adam HaRishon should have acted more through song and melodies. All that we study Gemara (Talmud) is only for the sake of the melodies – "Raise a song and sound the drum" (Se'u Zimrah u'Tnu Tof). Only through the "Se'u" – that a person "carries" (noseh) the Torah – can he play music. Everyone is requested that when a missile is launched, they should not panic and should walk slowly to the Mamad (protected room). Mephibosheth could not reach David, and because of that, there was the entire destruction. Iyov (Job) says, "I was eyes to the blind and feet to the lame, I was a father to the widows and orphans." Make it so there are no blind, no lame, no orphans, and no widows – the Tzaddik can do all of this. When Sarah was blessed with a child (nifkedah), everyone was healed; when a woman is blessed with a child, the whole world is healed because it is the greatest miracle that now Hashem is creating a child. Everyone should study Likutei Halachos (the collection of laws by Reb Noson) with his wife until Chatzos (midnight); there are five hours. Now Mashiach (the Messiah) needs to arrive before Shavuos; it only depends on a person studying Likutei Halachos – "and live by them" (v'chai bahem). It is possible to study seventeen pages until the morning. For young men (bachurim) until the wedding, there is no burden; they must study everything.