Prayer Gatherings Across the Country Against the Criminal Imprisonment of Rav

In light of the criminal conduct of the judicial system against our teacher, the holy Gaon Rav Eliezer Berland shlit"a, despite his difficult health condition which is only worsening, the conduct toward him is becoming even more cruel and illogical. A Jew of nearly 84 years old is rushed for medical treatments and long, life-saving surgeries, and almost immediately afterward is returned to prison. And again, he is rushed to hospitals, and again they hasten to return him to prison. All this, while our teacher Rav Berland is the oldest detainee in the entire prison system. Furthermore, no trial has begun against him, and he is detained until the end of proceedings - currently for over nine months already.

The Rav's students, his many followers and admirers, are constantly organizing special prayer rallies, along with reciting the 7 Tikkun HaKlali every day and the like. However, the situation has become beyond a matter of life and death and a tangible danger to life; therefore, the Rabbinical Committee of the holy community of 'Shuvu Banim' gathered and made a decision to go out and protest.

Every day, avreichim go out to various points in the country and stand with protest signs, facing a public that is being exposed to the truth that the general media does not tell. These are the words of the Mekubal, the Gaon Rabbi Shlomo Elmaliach shlit"a, in a call to all the avreichim of 'Shuvu Banim', the Rav's students and admirers, along with anyone who has a Jewish heart - to come and demonstrate.

"We are standing to protest in the street and there is great interest from the public; many people stop and take pictures. Of course, police arrived and tried to clear us, but they have no reason to do that; we are behaving appropriately."

"In the meantime, we are receiving many very good responses."

"We ask all the yeshiva boys not to come to the demonstrations, especially those from our teacher Rav Berland's yeshiva for boys, 'Chochma V'Daat'. However, we ask the avreichim of the yeshiva to commit themselves with self-sacrifice to the protest demonstrations; it is truly a sanctification of Hashem's name. I feel a real sanctification of Hashem's name here. I very much ask you to come every day to the protest demonstrations; Rebbe Nachman said that 'there is no despair in the world at all'."

"At 13:45, we gather at the prayer hall on Ido HaNavi Street in Jerusalem, from there we go out together to the protest route - it is really causing echoes in the world."

"Know that those who participate in the protests will have a merit and a share in the release of our teacher, the holy Gaon Rav Eliezer Berland shlit"a - this is higher than pidyon (redemption), higher than everything."

For further details, you can contact the Shuvu Banim operations officer, R' Aharon Schwartz, at Tel: 0533-155-313

Holy scenes from the protest demonstrations against the illegal imprisonment of our teacher, the holy Gaon Rav Eliezer Berland shlit"a

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