Purim Katan in Eilat with the Esteemed Tzaddik Rabbi Eliezer Berland shlit"a

Purim Katan in Eilat: The Gaon HaTzaddik Rabbi Eliezer Berland shlit"a arrives once again in the city of teshuvah (repentance), Eilat, and engages in incredible holy work for 48 consecutive hours. Rav Berland once again led the Shacharit prayer with amazing renewal and holy awakening at the separate beach of Eilat, facing the Red Sea. The Rav shlit"a delivered lessons, held home gatherings, and received the public, and among other addresses, the Rav visited 28 HaNevatim Street, the home of David Elkayam, 1 Mishol HaKramim Street, and more.

At 167 Sheshet HaYamim Street in Eilat, with Rabbeinu Tam tefillin, the Rav shlit"a delivered his holy words. Our teacher, Rav Berland, led the Mincha and Arvit prayers of the conclusion of Purim Katan with a large crowd at the Breslov Shuvu Banim synagogue in Eilat, at 3 Ashlil Alley, Eilat.

The Light of Purim is Beginning to Shine

"And he called the name of that place Beth-El, but the name of the city was Luz at the first" (Genesis 28:19), the Gaon HaTzaddik the Rav began his holy words in the city of Eilat. "Rebbe Nachman says that all beginnings are from Purim. Now we are in Adar I, which according to Rabbi Eliezer and Rabbi Yosei (Babylonian Talmud, Megillah 6b) one should already read the Megillah; although it was not established as halacha, the light of Purim is beginning to shine."

There is no time, the gentiles have already begun to harm the Jews

"Go, assemble all the Jews who are found in Shushan, and fast for me, and neither eat nor drink three days, night or day; I and my maidens will also fast in the same way; and so will I go in unto the king, which is not according to the law; and if I perish, I perish" (Esther 4:16). Esther merited the secret of the primordial, "and if I perish, I perish." At first, she told Mordechai that there was time until the 14th of Adar the following year, but Mordechai answered her that there is not even one second of time. They are already starting to kill Jews in the streets; every gentile who saw a Jew told him that he would strangle him and that tomorrow the Jew's house would be his. (The Rav explained in his lessons that Mordechai told Esther: it is true that the decree is for a year from now, but the moment the gentiles heard about the decree, the blood of the Jews was permitted, and they are already beginning to harm the Jews.)

In order to sweeten the decree, you must ascend to the primordial

"The couriers went out, being hastened by the king's commandment, and the decree was given in Shushan the capital; and the king and Haman sat down to drink, but the city of Shushan was perplexed" (Esther 3:15). They had already begun to kill Jews in the streets, throughout Poland, throughout Ukraine. Mordechai said to her, there is no permission to wait even one second, go in to the king. Esther said, "and if I perish, I perish." "For if you altogether hold your peace at this time, then shall relief and deliverance arise to the Jews from another place, but you and your father's house will perish; and who knows whether you have come to the kingdom for such a time as this?" (Esther 4:14). Mordechai knew that the decree was only external and could be sweetened, unlike the decree that existed in the time of Hitler, which was also internal. Mordechai told Esther that the first thing she needed to do was to be in the primordial, to be, "and if I perish, I perish." (The Rav shlit"a is hinting here at the tzaddik who ascends to the primordial, the secret of the crown, the secret of absolute nullification to Hashem's leadership in the world, for only he can sweeten the judgments over the people of Israel and thereby redeem Israel. And this is through absolute nullification in the aspect of "and if I perish, I perish.")

The people of Israel have despaired of the Geulah (Redemption), and this is the time of 'it shall be turned'

"Purim is the secret of the resurrection of the dead. The first Purim, according to Rabbi Eliezer and Rabbi Yosei, one does not pass over the commandments; the zealous perform them early, and when Adar enters, we increase in joy. When Adar I enters, one is obligated to read the Megillah; it is forbidden to wait for Adar II. Today it is already truly Purim; it is truly 'and it was turned, that the Jews had rule over those who hated them' (Esther 9:1). In these moments when everything is truly turning around, the Intifada will stop, everything will stop, all the decrees that are upon the people of Israel, especially upon the Charedim, will be nullified. Because the people of Israel have already despaired of the Geulah, they have already married non-Jewish women, just as is happening today where half of the Knesset members are already married to gentile women—this is the exact situation that existed on Purim three thousand years ago."