Hair-raising words from Rabbi Ofer Erez shlit"a, on the life-threatening situation involved in participating in the redemption of captives of our esteemed teacher, the righteous Rabbi Eliezer Berland shlit"a. These are his words.

"In the last three months, I have spent a lot of time with the students of our teacher Rabbi Berland, who are devotedly involved in all his medical and legal needs. I also had two long conversations with Attorney Amit Hadad and Attorney Rotem Tubul."

"From a legal perspective, we are in a very complex system, the prosecution and the court system are fighting against our teacher Rabbi Berland in an incomprehensible way. It is not understood even by secular people, not religious and believers, to the point that they do not understand what the whole battle is about, and certainly, it is not as it seems. The attorney told me that there has never been such a thing, that for such types of accusations to put the rabbi in detention. That the rabbi at his age, and in his condition, is sitting in detention on accusations that are on the verge of delusion and unreality. Their devotion to keeping the rabbi in detention is not understood."

"I sat with the young men who are involved in this day and night, and it involves endless details and endless battles. The rabbi has his ways in a very settled manner, to the point that seemingly, several times it appeared from the rabbi that he did not want to be released. Today it seems that our teacher Rabbi Berland wants to be released, and in addition, his medical condition is terribly severe."

"On the eve of Yom Kippur, I spoke with the rabbi in a very calm and settled manner, and I asked him if he wants us to take all these steps. We know how much our teacher Rabbi Berland has sacrificed himself for each one of us, so we must do our part."

"From a medical standpoint, we must say 7 Tikkun HaKlali every day and pray for our teacher Rabbi Berland. His condition is very complex, but the rabbi has spiritual strengths that we do not understand. Even on the medical side, there is a very big battle, literally over every document and medical report. There is no logic in this, neither Torah-based, secular, nor from the nations of the world. Let's say they don't hold that the rabbi is a rabbi, it doesn't matter, but we are talking about an 84-year-old Jew, our teacher Rabbi Berland has 26 different illnesses."

[audio mp3="https://www.shuvubanimint.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/עופר-ארז-פדיון-שבויים-1.mp3" autoplay="true"][/audio]

"Every day we deal with the involvement of various doctors from different fields to treat the rabbi, it's a battle because there are those who complicate every step we take - to manage all this requires a lot of money. It must be noted that everyone currently involved in the matter of our teacher Rabbi Berland, receives no salary. Everyone volunteers with great devotion. However, the expenses of the attorneys and all the associated costs are very high."

"The final decision regarding the expenses is made by the rabbinical committee, I only convey the information to them. We try to save as much as possible, but most things are a matter of life and death or close to it. Therefore, in the meeting of the rabbinical committee, we decided to go to the public and announce a fundraising campaign for the redemption of captives. If they heard the amounts, and all this to provide our teacher Rabbi Berland with basic assistance."

"I cannot elaborate, but in one of the petitions, it was stated that every person in Israel is entitled to basic needs, but even this was lacking for our teacher Rabbi Berland. "Surely he has borne our griefs and carried our sorrows" and we considered him stricken, smitten by God, and afflicted. But he was wounded for our transgressions, crushed for our iniquities; the chastisement for our peace was upon him and by his stripes, we are healed" (Isaiah 53:4-5). I do not understand, it is beyond my comprehension, but from the little we understand - we see that our teacher Rabbi Berland has taken upon himself all the sufferings of the generation."

"If they heard the details, they would understand that it is not within human bounds what Rabbi Berland takes upon himself and suffers - very extreme and severe things. Any other person, the strongest and bravest, could not withstand one day of what Rabbi Berland goes through during this entire period. Therefore - helping the rabbi's cause is a merit. Only the future will reveal to us what is happening here, truly tales of ancient times this whole process."

"The rabbinical committee set a participation of 520 shekels per family, all going directly for actions for our teacher Rabbi Berland. This is a mitzvah of charity, redemption of captives, and a life-saving act of the highest order."

[audio mp3="https://www.shuvubanimint.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/עופר-ארז-פדיון-שבויים-21.mp3"][/audio]

"A small example, a medical question arose, and yesterday at seven in the morning, one of the activists spoke with two attorneys for an hour and a half on the phone to see how to deal with it. These are early morning calls, night calls, seven attorneys are dealing in Amit Hadad's office with the matter of our teacher Rabbi Berland."

"In the last petition, we requested opinions from five top attorneys in Israel, in addition to the work of the rabbi's attorneys. They read material over 400 pages and said that a better petition could not be submitted. In the last two weeks, there have been more than 8 legal petitions just on the matter of our teacher Rabbi Berland."

"The petitions are really about difficult matters, after surgery, they took the rabbi out with handcuffs. Every sensible person understands that the only place the rabbi can escape to is the hospital. Right after the surgery, they handcuffed the rabbi to the bed, and there was another petition about this. The rabbi suffered severe pain in his hand and they refused to let him be examined, we petitioned and it was discovered that indeed his hand was broken. By the way, after two weeks the cast got wet and they refused to replace it, the prisoners cut it off and removed it. And these are just small details, there are much more urgent matters."

[audio mp3="https://www.shuvubanimint.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/עופר-ארז-פדיון-שבויים-3.mp3"][/audio]

To participate in the emergency campaign for the redemption of captives of the righteous Rabbi Eliezer Berland shlit"a

Center for Assistance and Kindness in the name of Moharan of Breslov to save our teacher the righteous Rabbi Eliezer Berland shlit"a - for direct donation Click here

For donation via phone, contact - 0527-184-729

To listen to the words of the community rabbis and to raise the holy donation by credit card (100% to the redemption of captives fund) call now *9148 extension 10