Prayer for the Month of Sivan 5776 by the Esteemed Rabbi Eliezer Berland shlit"a

The secret of the festival of Shavuot, the secret of the Giving of the Torah, the secret of the resurrection of the dead that ceased its contamination, and then it is fulfilled: "For Your dew is a dew of lights, and the earth shall cast forth the dead," "I said, you are gods, and all of you are sons of the Most High." And then all the children of Israel ascend to the 'Resha D'lo Ityada' (the Unknowable Head), to the three first [sefirot] of the Ancient of Days, to the air between the skull and the hidden brain, and the skull with its seven tikkunim (rectifications) is the crown of Arich Anpin, and the skull which is the Binah of the Resha D'lo Ityada.

For through Moshe proclaiming the Ten Commandments on Shavuot, which are the ten rectifications of the Resha D'lo Ityada, and everything is included in the Yesod of Binah of the Resha D'lo Ityada, and therefore the skull which is filled with the dew of crystal, the dew of lights, for "Your dew is a dew of lights, and the earth shall cast forth the dead." And about this it is said: "Light is sown for the tzaddik, and joy for the upright of heart." And about this the children of Israel said: "And the manna was like coriander seed, and its appearance like the appearance of crystal," there is the crystal and the shoham stone.

And about this the Rambam says in Hilchot Mechirah 22:14 that the 'appearance of crystal' cannot be sold, for it cannot be valued with the gold of Ophir. And about this it is said regarding Achashverosh: "Hanging by cords of fine linen and purple, and couches of gold and silver upon a pavement of alabaster, and stone of white, and yellow, and black marble," the secret of 'the female shall encompass the male,' that all merit to be transformed from kingdom to crown. And this is the secret of "And the silver is given to you," the secret of longing, "As the deer pants for the water brooks, so my soul pants for You, O G-d." And then all the judgments are sweetened, "And the people to do with it as is good in your eyes."

And therefore the resurrection of the dead is at the end of the sixth millennium, when the sefirah of Yesod is completed in the ultimate perfection, after which there is no further perfection. And at the moment of the molad (new moon) we will merit to see Hashem face to face, and we will merit to ascend up to the 'Notzer' (Guardian) constellation that is in Arich Anpin, for all the worlds have an ascent on Shavuot that does not exist at any other time of the year. And from the Notzer in Arich we ascend to the crown in the Ancient One, and in the hairs of Adam Kadmon is the name Yud-Hei-Vav-Hei, where the root of the souls of Israel is, in the secret of the Holy Ancient One, in the secret of 'Amram', 'Amar Neka' (pure wool), the root of the souls of all Israel. For if Amram had stood in his faith without any deviation, and had not feared the decree of Pharaoh, "Every son that is born you shall cast into the river," and had not divorced Yocheved, then no one would have divorced his wife, and there would not have been the two destructions that begin on the 9th of Tammuz and the 17th of Tammuz and end on Tisha B'Av. For when there is no shalom bayit (peace in the home), Hashem destroys the Holy Temple, and everything is because the essence of the divorces was in the months of Tammuz and Av, as brought in the Ten Sayings. But in the merit of Miriam, in whom the verse was fulfilled: "The words of the wise are heard in quiet" (Kohelet 9), and she entered the Sanhedrin and stopped the divorces, even though she was a girl of 5.5 years old, and she merited in this merit that the Clouds of Glory would not rise until the litter of Miriam stood at the head of the camp [Sefer Yalkut Shimoni on the verse "Remember what Hashem your G-d did to Miriam on the way when you came out of Egypt," which hints at the litter of Miriam that stood at the head of the camp].

And this is the secret of "And they came to Elim, and there were twelve springs of water and seventy palm trees." The Revealer of Depths says: when a person reaches the level of 'Elima' - 'Keli-Mah' (my vessel is what), then he becomes the source of all the abundance, in the secret of "Yosef is the provider," in the secret of 'twelve springs of water and seventy palm trees.' And he is included in all the twelve tribes and the seventy souls of the house of Yaakov, and then "Your arrows are sharp, they shall fall in the heart of the king's enemies," in the secret of "From the ivory palaces" = 'Va'etchanan', the secret of the 515 prayers that Moshe prayed, and every prayer is included of seven years, so that it ends in 5793, which is then the final date for the Geulah and the building of the Holy Temple. For the two goats that are offered on Yom Kippur are against the two goats of the festival of Shavuot, for the festival of Shavuot and Yom Kippur are all in one aspect, that then all the sins are atoned for from the sin of Adam HaRishon. And the secret of "One silver bowl" that we read on the eve of the festival of Shavuot in this year [a leap year, and if not, then immediately after the festival of Shavuot] silver bowl = 930, that the princes, by each one bringing a silver bowl, they merited to rectify all the sins of their tribe from all the generations until their root in the sin of Adam HaRishon.

And Nachshon did not agree that they should write the title 'Prince' in his portion, and therefore he merited that every Shabbat night we say: 'Accept my prayer like the offering of Nachshon,' and he merited through the 21 offerings that he brought to continue rectifications and thoughts of teshuvah for all 21 kings, from Yotam son of Uziyahu who grew up in the cemetery, and only saw tombstones from the day of his birth all the days of his life, and never in his life wanted to put a royal crown on his head [Sukkah 45b], and up to Menashe who for 22 years served idolatry and slaughtered every single day a thousand people.

That the rectifications that we read this year on the eve of Shavuot, they go from the sin of Adam HaRishon and all his 930 years, until the end of all the generations, for on this festival of Shavuot, in the merit that we will intend during the molad, it is possible to already finish all the rectifications in the blink of an eye and to see the building of the Holy Temple. For on Pesach was the betrothal and on Shavuot the marriage, and the Tablets are the Ketubah (marriage contract). For "Do not murder" means not to shame one's fellow, for then the redness goes and the whiteness comes, and all the laws of lashon hara (evil speech) are included in 'Do not murder'. For the first generations, their sin was revealed and their end was revealed [Yoma 9b], for on idolatry, bloodshed, and forbidden relations it is possible to do teshuvah, as it is said in Parashat Bechukotai: "And they shall confess their iniquity." But in 'Ki Tavo', which goes on the final exile, it is not written 'and they shall confess', for on baseless hatred a person cannot do teshuvah, for he thinks that he did a mitzvah.

And if Amram had not blemished that small blemish, in that he believed the decree of Pharaoh, then all of Egypt would have done teshuvah, and they would not have drowned in the sea, and they would have sent Israel out of their own will, and we would have said the Song on Pesach, and there would have been no need to be reincarnated in Chizkiyahu, and Egypt would have done teshuvah long ago, and it would have been fulfilled: 'Five cities speaking the language of Canaan and all of them swearing in the name of Hashem Tzevaot, and there would be an altar to Hashem in Egypt and near its border.' For 'Amram', the secret of 'Amar Neka', the secret of the hairs of Adam Kadmon, was the root of all the souls of Israel.