Published: The Tikkun of the Three Weeks with the Scroll of Eicha by the

In preparation for the Three Weeks that will begin on the 17th of Tammuz and continue until Tisha B'Av, a special book by our teacher, the Gaon and Tzaddik Rav Eliezer Berland shlit"a, has been released in honor of this special time. The book was edited from the holy manuscript of Rav Berland shlit"a, and great effort was invested in producing it in a well-edited, eye-pleasing edition.

As we published the first article from the holy book "Tikkun of the Three Weeks" with "Megillat Eichah" and promised that we would continue to upload more articles from it, here are more of the holy words of Rav Berland shlit"a:

"Because Elijah, who merited to ascend to heaven in a whirlwind, merited to be in the category of a bird, and merited to be an angel. The Zohar says that Elijah was truly an angel; he was not a human being at all. The Maggid Meisharim says that Elijah was not born of a woman at all, which is why it is not written who his father was, because he was an angel, and of him it is said, 'And a bird shall fly over the earth.' So what was the secret that Elijah merited, that after he is taught how to speak, he continues on and says the same words: 'And he said, I have been very jealous for Hashem, the God of Hosts, for the children of Israel have forsaken Your covenant, torn down Your altars, and slain Your prophets with the sword, and I alone am left, and they seek my life to take it' (I Kings 19:14)? Rather, in truth, Elijah the Prophet saw the Sitra Achra (the Other Side) coming to prosecute against Israel. Here lies the entire secret of the true tzaddik, which was Tisha B'Av, that we now merit the revelation of the tzaddik, and here is revealed the entire way in which the true tzaddik sweetens all the judgments upon us."

"And there is another difficult question: Hashem says to him, 'Since you have said this, you will receive a punishment: you will arrive at all the circumcisions.' This is worse than the 'Kaf HaKela' (the sling of the soul). In one day, one must be at thousands of circumcisions—in Mexico, in Australia, in Colombia, in Israel, in Siberia, in Moscow, etc., etc. This is worse than the Kaf HaKela! What do they want from this poor man? He has to be at thousands of circumcisions in one second. Every day there are thousands of circumcisions. It is a punishment to run from circumcision to circumcision. In the Kaf HaKela, there are no such torments. But what was really happening here? Elijah the Prophet saw that after he brought down fire from heaven, and there was such a revelation that they slaughtered the prophets of Baal and Asherah, Ahab had already done teshuvah (repentance), the whole nation had done teshuvah, and suddenly they went to that monster, to that Sitra Achra whose name was Jezebel, and in one second she turned everything around. Suddenly, there was a great prosecution against the people of Israel. After such revelations, after everyone saw the truth, after Ahab had already seen the truth, then one foolish woman there can turn everything around? 'What, are you so weak-willed? In one second you are turned around? Where is your faith? Where is your love for Hashem? Is this the people of Israel?'"

"There was such a prosecution against the people of Israel that, Heaven forbid, there could have been a decree of annihilation upon all of the people of Israel. And this is what Elijah the Prophet saw. Elijah the Prophet came and saw the Sitra Achra prosecuting with such TERRIBLE accusations that he wanted, Heaven forbid, to completely annihilate all of the people of Israel right then, to completely annihilate all ten tribes, so that no trace would remain of all ten tribes. So Elijah the Prophet came and said to the Sitra Achra, 'Sitra Achra, Sitra Achra, my good friend, listen, my insult is greater than your insult, my sorrow is greater than your sorrow, the contempt with which they treat me is greater than the contempt with which they treat you. This is a private matter of mine; I was personally hurt.' They hurt me personally. After I did such miracles for them, such wonders, this is how they treat me? And they even want to kill me? 'From today, I am making a contract with you, a contract of an eternal covenant, a contract until the end of generations, a contract that from today I am moving over to your side. I am becoming your messenger. Listen, Sitra Achra, from today you are exempt from coming to court. I am exempting you, do you understand? Do you believe me? You see what they did to me! You see how they humiliated me! How they want to kill me! I have to run now to Beersheba, to the Sinai desert, to the wilderness, without eating, without drinking, because now everyone wants to kill me. The whole army is looking for me right now. What did I do, after all? I brought down fire from heaven, I slaughtered the prophets of Baal and Asherah? So for that, they want to kill me now? Know this, Sitra Achra, from today I am your representative, I am your messenger. Every single thing you have to say about the people of Israel, hand over all the reports to me, all the sins, every sin you have against them, everything you see about them, and I will fulfill the mission faithfully. I promise you, every prosecution you have, I will not forgo a single prosecution. Hashem will accept it better from me than from you. Hashem says to you, 'You are biased, you are called a murderer.' But I, Elijah the Prophet, if I go in your place, they will certainly accept my prosecutions. And I will come with all the reports and with all the files, and I will not omit a single sin!!"

"The Sitra Achra heard such a thing; he has been waiting for such a thing for 3,000 years, from the creation of the world. Such success! Elijah the Prophet is moving over to him! The true tzaddik is becoming his messenger and representative from today. The Sitra Achra will sit in his house quietly, smoke a hookah there, and he will enter the courts. We are finished! He will only give him the execution of the order: 'Kill this one, kill that one,' and he will sit quietly. He won't need to run to the courts—on Yom Kippur to court, here to court, every day to the courts. Even he has no strength left; even he is like in the Kaf HaKela. He is already fed up."

"Elijah the Prophet said, 'I am taking everything upon myself. We are finished. Now I am going to Mount Sinai, where they received the Torah, and there I will shout, "For the children of Israel have forsaken Your covenant, torn down Your altars, and slain Your prophets with the sword, and I alone am left."' He comes and starts shouting such shouts at Mount Sinai. He stands there on the platform where Moses our Teacher stood, on the platform where Hashem shone upon him in the cleft of the rock. There Hashem revealed Himself to him with the Thirteen Attributes, and there he begins to prosecute the most terrible prosecutions. Hashem says to him, 'What is with you, Elijah? I did not believe it of you. I did not believe that you would prosecute against the people of Israel. You will become the messenger of the Sitra Achra? I do not understand you. What happened here? How is this possible?'"

"And then Hashem, for several hours, sits and teaches him all the merits of the people of Israel: how they received the Torah, how they left Egypt, how they are the children of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, what Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob went through, what they went through in all the generations. Hashem teaches him everything. After several hours, Hashem says, 'Well, Elijah, start speaking.' So he says again, 'Master of the Universe, "For the children of Israel have forsaken Your covenant, torn down Your altars, and slain Your prophets with the sword, and I alone am left."' Hashem says to him, 'If so, it is truly impossible. We are finished. You can no longer be My messenger. You have already turned into the messenger of the Sitra Achra. I am firing you.'"

"And now what does Elijah the Prophet do? Elijah the Prophet from now on runs to all the circumcisions. He takes all the reports of the Sitra Achra, he takes all the sins of the people of Israel, but every time he comes to the court, it is after a circumcision. Every time he comes to the court, it is after a circumcision. They wait, 'Where is Elijah the Prophet?' 'Now he is at a circumcision.' 'Ah, at a circumcision? What, suddenly a circumcision? After all, they say they have already forsaken Your covenant?' 'No, now he is in the middle of a circumcision. He is there now.' They wait there until they bring the baby. 'What is happening? Are the children of Israel doing a circumcision?' 'Yes, they are doing a circumcision. And what a circumcision! The most secular, the most wicked, everyone is doing circumcisions.' They are waiting for Elijah the Prophet in the courts, in all the courts of the world, in all the rabbinical courts. There are twenty-four rabbinical courts, and he has to go through every court. He is already the messenger of the Sitra Achra until the end of generations, until Mashiach comes. And it is impossible to hold a trial without the prosecutor coming. 'Where is the prosecutor?' 'At a circumcision.' 'He will come soon.' 'A circumcision? What is a circumcision? What, suddenly a circumcision? They say this man is secular, this man is wicked, this man is like this.' 'No, he is now in the middle of a circumcision. This man committed a terrible sin.' 'Yes, it is true, but he is now circumcising his son.' And Elijah the Prophet, the prosecutor, he has to arrive. They say, 'If so, then there is no judgment and no trial,' and all the trials are already nullified."

"And the Sitra Achra relies on Elijah the Prophet. Elijah the Prophet says, 'What can I do? Hashem obligated me to go to all the circumcisions. This is also an obligation. Hashem obligated me to run to every circumcision.' So before anything he prosecutes against the people of Israel, he has to be at a circumcision every time before he prosecutes against the person. He always goes to some circumcision, and when he arrives, it is already after the circumcision, so everything is already sweetened. If they are already doing a circumcision, then they say in Heaven, 'It is okay, we will wait. Maybe he will do teshuvah. Maybe at the circumcision he will hear some sermon. Maybe he will find some rabbi there, some brother, some father, some grandfather. Maybe he will do teshuvah at the circumcision.' And from then on, Elijah the Prophet took upon himself to be the messenger of the Sitra Achra, and he made a contract with him that he would prosecute all the prosecutions for him. He says to the Sitra Achra, 'It will be easier for me than for you. I am treated with more contempt than you are, because the tzaddik is treated with more contempt than the Sitra Achra. Hashem have mercy. So the tzaddik says to the Sitra Achra, "From now on I will be your messenger." But the tzaddik takes every mitzvah of every Jew. He takes the Kinot of Tisha B'Av, the circumcisions, and before he comes to prosecute, he says, "Here is the mitzvah they did, here they did a circumcision, here they did this mitzvah." Consequently, all the prosecutions are nullified. And this is the secret of the true tzaddik."

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