Please Pray for the Rabbi Not to Depart Before Passover

A "Mazal Tov" blessing is hereby offered to the crown of our head, to whom silence is praise, our teacher, the holy Gaon, Rav Eliezer Berland shlit"a, on the occasion of the "king's birthday" - as he turns 81 today, the 23rd of Tevet.

Our blessing, the blessing of a simple person, is that we merit that he lengthens his days over his kingdom, with greater intensity and greater strength, and that he merits to expand his borders with students, in such a way that the entire world will return to their source. May all his enemies and haters fall beneath him in a fall from which there is no rising, and may the blessing of Bathsheba to David be fulfilled in him: "May my lord King David live forever." Amen.

The 81st birthday celebration of the holy Gaon, Rav Eliezer Berland shlit"a

During the public celebration of the "king's birthday," the holy Gaon, the Rav, wrote a short but highly significant prayer regarding the necessity to pray for the health of the tzaddik.

[caption id="attachment_14531" align="alignnone" width="482"] The holy Gaon, Rav Eliezer Berland shlit"a, writes the prayer for his 81st birthday[/caption]

[caption id="attachment_14530" align="alignnone" width="482"] The prayer composed by the holy Gaon, Rav Eliezer Berland shlit"a, for his 81st birthday[/caption]

Content of the prayer - "Please pray for the Rav that he does not depart before Pesach, but rather that he lengthens his days until 210 years"

Photos courtesy of Shahar Eliyahu