Preparing for the Release of the Special Book on the Three Weeks - From the Letters of the Esteemed Rabbi Eliezer Berland shlit"a

As we approach the Three Weeks, which begin on the 17th of Tammuz and continue until the Ninth of Av, a special book by the esteemed Rabbi Eliezer Berland shlit"a is set to be released in honor of this significant time. The book is still in the holy handwriting of Rav Berland shlit"a, and efforts are being made to publish it in a well-edited, eye-catching edition.

In anticipation of the exciting event of the book's release, we are beginning to publish selected excerpts from it, especially following the words of our teacher, Rav Berland shlit"a, from the past week. In a conversation with one of his students, he emphasized the importance of spreading the book Megillat Ruth, and he said: "This book will cleanse all impurity and judgments from the world. There are such judgments and impurities in the world, but my books and writings, the teachings and prayers, cleanse and purify all the judgments and impurities from the world."

"There is no grasp on the tzaddik"

"The spies said, 'Our wives and children will be taken as plunder' (Numbers 14:3). They told the people, if Moses did not enter, surely our wives and children will be taken as plunder without Moses. How can we conquer the land without Moses? How can we fight the giants? And indeed, their mistake was that they did not know that Moses has no body at all, the body of Moses is an illusion, when you see the tzaddik with a body, it is an illusion, (Meshech Chochmah) for the tzaddik there is no difference if he is alive or dead, no difference if he is with the body or without the body, and therefore no one saw how they buried him, the angels took him, he made fifteen miles in one step on Mount Nebo, 'and no man knows his burial place' (Deuteronomy 34:6), it does not mention his yahrzeit, because for Moses it is beyond all human grasp, it is not the body, it is not the beautiful nose of Moses, or the beautiful eyes of Moses. 'The skin of his face shone,' Moses is something entirely different that has no grasp, there is no grasp on the tzaddik."

"And this is the entire Ninth of Av, this is the entire destruction of the Holy Temple, that the tzaddikim are people who have no grasp, whether they are alive or not alive. The tzaddik lives, the tzaddik dies, the tzaddik is with us, not with us, we see him with our eyes, or we do not see him with our eyes, the moment we think we see the tzaddik, then he is present, and when we do not see him, he is not present? This is already a blemish in the faith of the sages, it is a sign that you have no faith in the tzaddik, because the tzaddik is truly divinity, the tzaddik is the divinity that descended to earth, it is truly a manifestation of divinity."