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Parshat Ki Tavo by the Esteemed Tzaddik Rabbi Eliezer Berland shlit"a - "The Main Thing is the Cries to Hashem Day and Night"

Parshat Ki Tavo by the Esteemed Tzaddik Rabbi Eliezer Berland shlit"a - "The Main Thing is the Cries to Hashem Day and Night"

""And we cried out to Hashem (Deuteronomy 26:7)" - A person needs to reveal the deep waters, the deep advice that will bring him out of the depths of Sheol and below, as it is written "Deep waters are the advice in a man's heart""

The advice is revealed through cries

"And the main thing is the cries to Hashem day and night, at every hour we cry out to Hashem, and we need to draw the advice through the cries "And they cried out to Hashem in their distress." For all the advice is revealed through cries to Hashem. Baruch Hashem, we sleep well, eat well, drink, and are joyful, this is wonderful up to 120 years, up to a million years! But the question is, where will we reach with the eating and drinking? Where will we reach? If we do not cry out to Hashem, where will we reach? Because when we eat well and sleep well, then naturally the advice disappears, there is no advice! Breslov is only cries to Hashem, everyone needs to cry out to Hashem to get out of their depths of Sheol, to get out of their forbidden sights, from forbidden thoughts, one must constantly cry out to Hashem, one must reveal the advice of our Rebbe "Deep waters are the advice in a man's heart" one must reveal the flowing stream – our Rebbe is "a flowing stream" it is gushing springs, one needs to dig a few centimeters and the waters immediately burst upwards, if a person gives one true cry to Hashem then entire geysers will emerge, rivers of water will emerge, all the advice on how to get out of the depths of Sheol will be revealed to him, even when a person is in public he can cry quietly "From the depths I called you, Hashem" a cry of the heart from the depths."

All the advice is drawn through the seven voices

"All the advice is drawn through "the voices" there are seven voices: "The voice of Hashem is upon the waters, the voice of Hashem hews flames of fire, the voice of Hashem shakes the wilderness... the voice of Hashem makes the hinds to calve and strips the forests bare" – there are such voices that strip forests, that uproot trees, there are such cries that uproot the trees! Such cries we need to cry out to Hashem! At the time when Hashem gave the Torah, He gave the Torah with such voices that the whole world trembled, all the mountains were uprooted from their place, and we need at every moment to awaken the seven voices of the giving of the Torah, Hashem can give you such voices, such cries that all the mountains will be uprooted from their place, that all your foreign thoughts, all the bad habits, all the desires, all the evil you received in your genes, in your birth, everything will be uprooted! All things will be uprooted from their place."

Hashem cries out to us every moment and when a person cries out to Hashem he awakens the upper voice

"Rabbi Shmuel Shapira, one of the great chassidim of Breslov, would cry from Maariv until morning until he would vomit blood, his veins would burst from his throat, he would be bleeding and yet he would cry out to Hashem, and because of this he had such holy and pure grandchildren and great-grandchildren. We need to restore the crown to its former glory in Breslov, we need to cry such cries to Hashem, such voices until the advice is revealed, the advice is revealed through the voice of Hashem, because Hashem speaks to us every second and every minute, Hashem cries out to us every moment. When a person cries out to Hashem he awakens the upper voice, the voice of Hashem, and then all the deep advice is revealed to get out of the depths of Sheol. So even if a person has long side-locks and a long beard, everything is wonderful! He has a great appearance! If he does not give cries to Hashem then he will sink into the depths of Sheol and below with the side-locks and the beard."

"If you have merited to be a baal teshuvah, you have merited to return in teshuvah, then prove that you are a baal teshuvah - prove it! Give cries to Hashem, do not leave the Gemara, do not leave the Likutei Halachot, do not leave the siddur, cry out to Hashem "I do not want to fall anymore! I do not want to go to the places I used to be, I do not want my children to go through what I went through"! You are now captive, you are in the depths of Sheol, Esau found prey! He trapped you, the klipot trapped you, cry out to Hashem "Please Hashem save now" "Hashem save", you were not born a tzaddik, you are now at age 20 just starting to learn, it is a billion times harder, a billion times harder but the reward will also be a billion times greater! The harder it is for a person, the greater the reward will be, if you cry out to Hashem the world will be built, there will be salvations, wars will be nullified, you will cry out to Hashem and you will bring thousands back in teshuvah."

Through the cries one ascends to the level of Binah - the secret of redemption

"To reach any point of kedushah, any point of Judaism, you need to cry cries to the heart of the heavens, because surely you have no desire to learn, surely you have no desire to pray, does a person change in a second? After all, it is the same lady in a different dress, it is all the same thing, you just put on a shtreimel and a long coat. A person says, if so, why did I become a baal teshuvah? Indeed, you became a baal teshuvah so that you would cry out to Hashem, so that you would scream to Hashem, and this is the advantage of a baal teshuvah! That it is hard for him to learn Gemara, it is hard for him to pray, it is hard for him to sing Shabbat songs, it is hard for him to endure in the yeshiva for so many hours, and therefore he begins to cry and scream, and through this, says the Zohar, he merits and ascends to the highest and most exalted places, he ascends to the level of Binah where the secret of redemption is. But a person who was born a tzaddik from "Meah Shearim", what does he need to cry for? He sings the Shabbat songs easily, he prays, he sits in the yeshiva quietly, he does not feel he needs to cry out to Hashem, he just continues along the path, and about him the Zohar says - he only ascends to the level of Yesod. And indeed, even one who was born in "Meah Shearim", he too can be in the aspect of a baal teshuvah, he too can cry out to Hashem like a baal teshuvah, and this is only if he merits to feel his lowliness and his lack and sees how far he is from Hashem."

"A person needs to believe that Hashem is looking to perform miracles and wonders for him every moment, as it is written "and His wonders to the children of man" – Hashem wants to do wonders with us "In You our fathers trusted... to You they cried and were delivered" – the miracles and wonders are according to the cries, they are according to the screams, because the salvation of a person is ready every second and every moment to come, in whatever trouble he may be, in whatever place he may be, even in the heart of the sea, even in the middle of the desert, Hashem has directed all of creation, all the systems of the world to help the world! All the salvations he needs are already prepared! He just needs to give one cry to Hashem, one true cry."

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