Rabbi Chaim Goldring: Awakening Regarding the Honor of the Tzaddik's Study Hall

The Gaon Rabbi Chaim Zanvil Goldring shlit"a from Beit Shemesh joins the struggle against those who persecute the holy Rabbi Eliezer Berland shlit"a.Rabbi Chaim Goldring adds a vigorous protest against those who stir up trouble for Israel.

Following the list of rabbis and tzaddikim shlit"a who understood, like tens of thousands in Israel, that the persecution of Rav Berland brought upon us the terrible disaster of the plague and its consequences, Rabbi Goldring also adds his vigorous protest.

These are his stern words directed straight at the persecutors of Rav Berland shlit"a and the thousands of members of the holy community of 'Shuvu Banim'.

"We must be at peace with one another in the synagogue - and not throw anyone out, as is the custom in many Breslov synagogues where they throw people out and close the synagogue."

"In the Song of Songs it is written: 'I am a wall, and my breasts like towers; then I was in his eyes as one who finds peace.' Rashi says: 'I am a wall'—I am strong in the love of my Beloved, I am strong, I love Hashem.

"'And my breasts like towers'—these are the synagogues and houses of study that nurse Israel with words of Torah. If we have words of Torah there, and we do not close the door on a fellow, and we do not run to secular courts—and furthermore, we do not perform teshuvah (repentance) for having thrown many Jews out of the synagogue—then 'I was in his eyes as one who finds peace'—then, we have a synagogue to pray and learn in. Not to close it and install cameras; then I was in his eyes as one who finds peace."

"Rashi says, like a bride who is found whole if she finds peace in her husband's house. If we had not closed all the Breslov synagogues, if we had not created strife there, and had not opened another kibbutz in Uman and slandered the other kibbutz—then we would be like a bride living in peace in her husband's house."

"From here we see that we are abandoning one another and not finding what the real problem is—we closed the synagogue, we slandered the other's synagogue; now we must perform teshuvah (repentance) and not speak."

"'Then you will remove the blessing from the prayer: "For the slanderers"—but our Sages established that we must say the blessing "For the slanderers" three times a day in our prayers. We must strengthen ourselves and believe that all the words of our Sages are truth and justice, even for the generations that follow them."

"Everything depends on the purpose of the synagogue—not to fight in civil court or the Beit Din over who the synagogue belongs to, Amen and Amen. And not to be pedantic about who is speaking and who is not, and if the other person tells stories, not to call him a Sabbatean, because synagogues were not made for fighting. Then we will be like a bride who finds peace in her husband's house—then there will be peace."

"It is very interesting that they preach ethics to me, but I have never thrown anyone out of the synagogue."