Prayer to Release the Shechinah from Exile on Pesach

One does not arrive at the Seder night without the special prayer from our teacher, the holy tzaddik, Rav Eliezer Berland shlit"a.

Master of the Universe, All-Powerful, bring the Shechinah out of exile. Just as on the Seder night of the Exodus from Egypt, they were given the tidings of the Geulah and the verse was fulfilled, "For striking Egypt in their firstborn," "from the firstborn of man to the firstborn of beast," from the firstborn of the maidservant to the firstborn of the captive, so too in this year, the year 5779 (Tav-Shin-Ayin-Tet), the year of "And with the coming of Mashiach" (numerical value 779), bring the Shechinah out of exile. May we merit to see eye-to-eye the return of Hashem to Zion, and may there no longer be widows and orphans among the people of Israel.

May we merit, like Queen Esther who hanged Haman on the day after Pesach, in the merit of her saying, "If I perish, I perish," that we all—the daughters of Israel—who were all rooted in the soul of Queen Esther, may we all merit to bring the Shechinah out of exile even now. And all the Hamans and all the haters of Israel, wherever they may be, annul their counsel and spoil their plans, and may their hands not achieve success.

And in the merit of all the suffering we have endured until now, may we, specifically, merit to bring the Shechinah out of exile. And just as You performed miracles and wonders for our ancestors in Egypt in the merit of the righteous women who did not despair of the Geulah, so too now, place in our hearts courage and wisdom, hope and faith, that we may merit in our own generation to see—we, our children, and our children's children—the Geulah in our generation, eye-to-eye, face-to-face.

And send us on the Seder night Elijah the Prophet in revealed form, and may we merit to see him eye-to-eye. May we merit in our lifetime to see the fulfillment of the verse, "And he shall turn the heart of the fathers to the children, and the heart of the children to their fathers," and may all our children and children's children, all of them until the end of all generations, walk in the way of Hashem, in the path handed down to us from our ancestors from generation to generation. May we all ascend the path that goes up to Beit El, "on the king's highway we will go," and may we not turn, Heaven forbid, to the right or to the left, and may we all do only the will of Hashem.

And annul for us all fallen desires and all evil loves, and may we want nothing in the world but the will of Hashem, in truth and in innocence, without any ulterior motive, Heaven forbid. And all our desires, which are in gematria "Moshe + 1," may they all be only to hasten the Geulah and to see the revelation of the two Mashiachs: Mashiach ben Yosef, who will fight the wars of Hashem, and Mashiach ben David, who will reveal the pure and holy faith to the entire world.

I beseech You, Hashem, may the festival of Pesach, which is the festival of freedom coming upon us for good and upon all Your people, the House of Israel, be the true festival of Geulah. May we merit even this year to eat from the Pesach offerings and the sacrifices in Jerusalem, the Holy City, which will be built from stones of shoham, kadkod, yashfeh, tarshish, shvo, and achlamah, and from all twelve stones of the Choshen, which will shine brighter than the sun. And the skin of the Leviathan You shall spread over the walls of Jerusalem, and its light will shine from one end of the world to the other.

And may we all merit that even in this Pesach, our entire bodies will be transformed into a holy and pure body like Adam and Eve before the sin, whose light shone from one end of the world to the other, and the apple of their heel shone brighter than the sun, and certainly their entire bodies, their heads, and their foreheads, which shone brighter than the light of the seven days.

And now, on this Pesach, reveal to us anew the hidden light that You concealed in the cleft of the rock, which You revealed only to Moshe and Elijah, for from the light of the cleft of the rock, the face of Moshe shone, and from the light in the cleft of the rock, the body of Elijah the Prophet was transformed into a torch of fire until he merited a chariot of fire and horses of fire. So too, transform all the fire in our hearts into a holy fire of the love of Hashem, as it is said, "A constant fire shall be kept burning on the altar; it shall not go out," which is the gematria of "The heavens were opened and I saw visions of God."

And just as a maidservant in Egypt merited at the Exodus from Egypt to see more than Ezekiel the Prophet and saw the entire Work of the Chariot and more than that, so too open our eyes that we may merit on the Seder night of this year, the year of "And with the coming of Mashiach" (779), to see eye-to-eye the entire Chariot. And in this merit, may we merit on the festival of Shavuot, which will be fifty days later, to hear literally all Ten Commandments and to see the holy Chariot eye-to-eye, and may we merit the complete Geulah and the building of the Holy Temple in the blink of an eye. Amen, Netzach, Selah, Va'ed.