Parshat Ki Tavo by the Esteemed Tzaddik Rabbi Eliezer Berland shlit"a

"And we cried out to Hashem (7:7)" - A person must reveal the deep waters, the deep counsels that will extract him from the lowest depths and below them, as it is written, "Deep waters are counsel in the heart of a man."

Counsels are revealed through cries

"And the main thing is the cries that one screams to Hashem day and night; every hour one cries out to Hashem, and one must draw down the counsels through the cries, 'And they cried out to Hashem in their distress.' For all counsels are revealed through cries to Hashem. Thank Hashem, we sleep well, eat well, drink, and are happy—it is wonderful for 120 years, for a million years! But the question is, where will we arrive with the eating and drinking? Where will we arrive? If we do not cry out to Hashem, where will we arrive? For when one eats well and sleeps well, then naturally the counsels disappear; there are no counsels at all! Breslov is only cries to Hashem; everyone must cry out to Hashem to emerge from his own lowest depths, to emerge from his forbidden sights, from his forbidden thoughts. One must constantly cry out to Hashem; one must reveal the counsels of our Rebbe, 'Deep waters are counsel in the heart of a man.' One must reveal the 'flowing stream'—our Rebbe is a 'flowing stream,' these are flowing springs; one needs to dig just a few centimeters and the water immediately bursts upward. If a person gives one true cry to Hashem, then entire geysers will emerge, rivers of water will emerge, and all the counsels on how to emerge from the lowest depths will be revealed to him. Even when a person is in public, he can cry out quietly, 'From the depths I have called You, Hashem'—the cry of the heart from the depths."

All counsels are drawn down by the 7 voices

"All counsels are drawn down by the 'voices.' There are seven voices: 'The voice of Hashem is upon the waters, the voice of Hashem hews out flames of fire, the voice of Hashem makes the desert tremble... the voice of Hashem causes hinds to calve and strips the forests bare'—there are such voices that strip forests bare, that uproot trees; there are such cries that uproot the trees! Such are the cries one must scream to Hashem! At the time that Hashem gave the Torah, He gave the Torah with such voices that the whole world shook, all the mountains were uprooted from their place, and one must every moment 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 opinions, all your bad habits, all the desires, all the evil that you received in your genes, in your nature, everything will be uprooted! All things will be uprooted from their place."

Hashem cries out to us every moment and when a person cries to Hashem, he awakens the Supernal Voice

"Rabbi Shmuel Shapira, one of the greatest Breslov Chassidim, would cry from Ma'ariv until the morning until he would vomit blood; the veins in his throat would burst, he would be dripping blood, and yet he would cry out to Hashem, and in the merit of this, he had such holy and pure grandchildren and great-grandchildren. We must restore the crown of Breslov to its former glory; we must cry out such cries to Hashem, such voices until the counsels are revealed. The counsels are revealed through the voice of Hashem, for 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 Supernal Voice, the voice of Hashem, and then all the deep counsels to emerge from the lowest depths are revealed. So even if a person has long sidelocks and a long beard, it is all wonderful! He has a magnificent appearance! If he does not give out cries to Hashem, then he will sink into the lowest depths and below them with the sidelocks and the beard."

"If you have merited to be a ba'al teshuvah (penitent), if you have merited to return in teshuvah, then prove that you are a ba'al teshuvah—prove it! Give out cries to Hashem, do not abandon the Gemara, do not abandon the Likutey Halachot, do not abandon the Siddur, cry out to Hashem, 'I do not want to fall anymore! I do not want to go to the places I went to before, I do not want my children to go through what I went through!' You are now a captive, you are located inside the lowest depths; Esau found prey! He hunted you, the kelipot (shells) hunted you; cry out to Hashem, 'Ana Hashem Hoshia Na' (Please Hashem, save now), 'Hashem, save.' You were not born a tzaddik; you are now at age 20 and just starting to learn—it is a billion times harder, a billion times, but the reward will also be a billion times greater! The more difficult 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, you will bring thousands more back in teshuvah."

Through the cries, one ascends to the Sefirah of Binah - the secret of the Geulah

"In order to reach some point of holiness, some point of Judaism, you need to scream cries up to the heart of the heavens, for certainly you have no desire to learn, certainly you have no desire to pray. Does a person change in a second? After all, it is the same lady in a different cloak; 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 ba'al teshuvah? Truly, you became a ba'al teshuvah so that you would cry out to Hashem, so that you would scream to Hashem, and this is the greatness of a ba'al 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 hold on in the Yeshiva for so many hours, and therefore he begins to cry and scream, and through this, the Zohar says, he merits and ascends to the highest and most exalted places; he ascends up to the Sefirah of Binah, which is where the secret of the Geulah is. But a person who was born a tzaddik from 'Meah Shearim,' what does he need to cry for? He sings the Shabbat songs with ease, he prays, he sits in the Yeshiva quietly, he does not feel that he needs to cry out to Hashem; he simply continues to walk in the furrow, and about him the Zohar says—he only ascends up to the Sefirah of Yesod. And in truth, even one who was born in 'Meah Shearim,' he too can be in the category of a ba'al teshuvah; he too can cry out to Hashem like a ba'al teshuvah, and that is only if he merits to feel his own lowliness and his own lack, and sees how far he is from Hashem."

"A person must believe that Hashem is looking to perform miracles and wonders for him every moment, as it is written, 'And His wonders for the sons of man'—Hashem wants to perform wondrous miracles with us, 'In You our fathers trusted... to You they cried out and were saved.' The miracles and wonders are according to the cries, they are according to the screams, for the salvation of a person is ready every second and every moment to come, in whatever distress 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 that he needs are already prepared! He only needs to give one cry to Hashem, one true cry."