Published: The Tikkun of the Three Weeks with the Scroll of Eicha by the Righteous Rabbi Eliezer Berland shlit"a

As we approach the Three Weeks, which begin on the 17th of Tammuz and continue until Tisha B'Av, a special book by our teacher, the esteemed righteous Rabbi Eliezer Berland shlit"a, has been published in honor of this special time. The book was edited from the holy manuscript of Rav Berland shlit"a and has been diligently produced in a well-organized and eye-catching edition.

As we published the first article from the holy book "The Tikkun of the Three Weeks" with "The Scroll of Eicha" and promised to continue sharing more articles from it, here are more words of holiness from Rav Berland shlit"a:

"For Elijah, who merited to ascend to heaven in a whirlwind, achieved the status of a bird, and became an angel. The Zohar states that Elijah was truly an angel, not a human at all. The Maggid Meisharim says Elijah was not born of a woman at all, which is why it doesn't mention who his father was, because he was an angel. About him, it is said, "And a bird shall fly over the earth." So what was the secret that Elijah merited, that after being taught how to speak, he continued and said the same words, "I have been very zealous for Hashem, the God of Hosts, for the children of Israel have forsaken Your covenant, torn down Your altars, and killed Your prophets with the sword. I alone am left, and they seek to take my life" (1 Kings 19:14), but truly, Elijah the prophet saw the Satan coming to accuse Israel. Here lies the entire secret of the true tzaddik, which was on Tisha B'Av, that now we merit the revelation of the tzaddik, and here is revealed the entire path of how the true tzaddik sweetens all the judgments upon us."

"And another difficult question, Hashem says to him, since you spoke like this, you will receive a punishment. You will attend all the covenants, which is worse than the slingshot of the soul, in one day you must be at thousands of covenants, in Mexico, in Australia, in Colombia, in Israel, and in Siberia, and in Moscow, etc., etc., this is worse than the slingshot of the soul! What do they want from this poor man? He must be at thousands of covenants in one second, every day there are thousands of covenants, it is a punishment to run from covenant to covenant, in the slingshot of the soul there are no such torments, so what was really here? That Elijah the prophet saw after he brought fire down from heaven, and there was such a revelation that they slaughtered the prophets of Baal and Asherah, Ahab had already repented, the entire nation repented, and suddenly they went to that monster, that Satan named Jezebel, and in one second she turned everything, there was suddenly a great accusation against the people of Israel, after such revelations, after everyone saw the truth, after Ahab already saw the truth, then one foolish woman there can turn everything, what kind of weak character do you have? In one second you turn? Where is your emunah? Where is your love for Hashem? Is this the people of Israel?"

"There was such an accusation against the people of Israel, that God forbid there could have been a decree of annihilation against all the people of Israel, and this is what Elijah the prophet saw, Elijah the prophet came and saw the Satan accusing such terrible accusations that he wanted, God forbid, to completely annihilate all the people of Israel, to completely annihilate all ten tribes, leaving no trace of all ten tribes, so Elijah the prophet came and said to the Satan, Satan, Satan, my good friend, listen, my insult is greater than your insult, my pain is greater than your pain, the disrespect they show me is greater than the disrespect they show you, this is a personal matter of mine, I was hurt here, they hurt me personally, after I performed such miracles for them, such wonders, this is how they behave with me, and they still want to kill me, from today I make a contract with you, an eternal covenant, a contract until the end of generations, a contract that from today I move to your side, I become your emissary, listen Satan, from today you are exempt from coming to court, I exempt 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 now have to run to Be'er Sheva, to the Sinai desert, to the wilderness, without eating or drinking, because now everyone wants to kill me, the entire army is now searching for me, what did I do after all? I brought fire down from heaven, slaughtered the prophets of Baal and Asherah? So for this, they now want to kill me, know this Satan, from today I am your representative, I am your emissary, anything you have to say about the people of Israel, give me all the reports, all the transgressions, anything you see about them, and I will fulfill the mission with emunah, I promise you every accusation you have, I will not forgo any accusation with me, Hashem will accept it better than you, you Hashem says you have a vested interest, you are called a murderer, but I am Elijah the prophet, if I go in your place they will surely accept my accusations, and I will come with all the reports and all the files, and I will not omit any transgression!!"

"The Satan heard such a thing, he has been waiting for such a thing for 3000 years, since the creation of the world, such success, Elijah the prophet moves to him, the true tzaddik moves to him, the true tzaddik becomes his emissary and representative from today, the Satan will sit in his house in peace, smoke a hookah there, and he will enter the courts, we are done, he will only give him the execution of this, kill this one, and he will sit in peace, he will not need to run to the courts, on Yom Kippur to court, here to court, every day to the courts, he also has no strength, he is also like in the slingshot of the soul, he is already tired of it."

"Elijah the prophet said I take everything upon myself, we are done, now I am going to Mount Sinai where they received the Torah, and there I will cry out "For the children of Israel have forsaken Your covenant, torn down Your altars, and killed Your prophets with the sword. I alone am left." He comes and begins to shout such cries at Mount Sinai, he stands there on the platform where Moshe Rabbeinu 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 accuse the most terrible accusations, Hashem says to him what is with you Elijah? I did not believe in you, I did not believe that you would accuse the people of Israel, you would become the emissary of the Satan? 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 Avraham, Yitzchak, and Yaakov, what Avraham, Yitzchak, and Yaakov went through, what they went through in all 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 killed Your prophets with the sword. I alone am left" Hashem says to him if so, truly it is impossible, we are done, you cannot be my emissary anymore, you have already become the emissary of the Satan, I am dismissing you."

"And now what does Elijah the prophet do? From now on, Elijah the prophet runs to all the covenants, he takes all the reports of the Satan, he takes all the transgressions of the people of Israel, but every time he comes to court it is after a covenant, every time he comes to court it is after a covenant, they wait where is Elijah the prophet? Now he is at a covenant, oh at a covenant? What suddenly a covenant? After all, they say they have forsaken Your covenant, no, now he is in the middle of a covenant, he is there now, they wait there until they bring the baby, what is happening? The children of Israel are making a covenant? Yes, they are making a covenant, and what a covenant? The most free, the most wicked, everyone is making covenants, they wait for Elijah the prophet in the courts, in all the courts of the world, in all the courts, there are twenty-four courts, and he must pass through every court, he is already the emissary of the Satan 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 covenant, he will soon come, a covenant? What is a covenant? What suddenly a covenant? They say this person is free, this person is wicked, this person is like this, no he is now in the middle of a covenant, this person committed a terrible transgression, yes true, but he is now circumcising his son, and Elijah the prophet the accuser, and he must arrive, they say if so then there is no judgment and no trial, and all the trials are already nullified."

"And the Satan relies on Elijah the prophet, Elijah the prophet says what can I do? Hashem obligated me to go to all the covenants, this too is an obligation, Hashem obligated me to run to every covenant, so before everything he accuses the people of Israel, he must be at a covenant before he accuses the person, he always goes to some covenant and when he comes it is already after the covenant, so everything is already sweetened, if they are already making a covenant then they say in heaven okay, we will wait maybe he will do teshuvah, maybe at the covenant he will hear a sermon, maybe he will find there some rabbi, some brother, some father, some grandfather, maybe he will do teshuvah at the covenant, and since then Elijah the prophet took upon himself to be the emissary of the Satan, and he made a contract with him that he will accuse for him all the accusations, he says to the Satan: It will be easier for me than for you, they disrespect me more than they disrespect you, because they disrespect the tzaddik more than the Satan, Hashem have mercy, so the tzaddik says to the Satan from now on I will be your emissary, but the tzaddik takes every mitzvah of every Jew, he takes the lamentations of Tisha B'Av, the covenants, and before he comes to accuse he says here is the mitzvah they did, here they made a covenant, here they did this mitzvah, thus all the accusations are nullified, and this is the secret of the true tzaddik."

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