The esteemed Rav Aharon Stern shlit"a, head of the Ziv Yehuda institutions, son of the kabbalist Rav David Chaim Stern from Bnei Brak shlit"a, speaks very harshly about Hashem's anger over the arrest of Rav Berland, and that the decree will not be annulled until we act to release him. We ask in every possible way to read, spread, and flood these words until they reach all of Am Yisrael, so they understand and internalize why this harsh decree has befallen us.

My teachers and rabbis, how difficult this day is for Am Yisrael, like the day the Holy Temple was destroyed. On this day, entire communities were forced to leave thousands of synagogues across the country (and the world) with terrible weeping and go out to pray in the street. God forbid, like when it rains on Sukkot, when Hashem pours a jug on one's face (all seven days a person makes his sukkah permanent and his house temporary. If it rains, from when is it permissible to leave? When the porridge spoils. They gave a parable to what this is similar, to a servant who comes to pour a cup for his master, and he pours a jug on his face - Mishnah Sukkah 2:9).

How much this should shake each one of us and bring us to self-reflection, why did Hashem do this to us?

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But know, my teachers and rabbis, I said this already 40 days ago. Know, in Sodom lived very great wicked people who, at the height of their wickedness, took a girl who performed the mitzvah of charity, smeared her entire body with honey, and placed her on the roof in the heat of the day so that the bees would sting her to death. The girl's cry reached the heart of the heavens, Hashem said to the angels "I will go down now and see if they have done altogether according to her cry, which has come to Me" (Genesis 18:21).

Our sages say there are things upon which the judgment is sealed, when they came and took Rav Berland and put him in prison - this is the cry that rises to the heavens.

All this great noise is because that tzaddik (Rabbi Eliezer Berland shlit"a) languishes in prison in isolation - Hashem is angry.

They can say about me that I am strange, but also about our righteous Mashiach it is said, "despised and rejected by men, numbered with the transgressors, a man of pains and acquainted with illness, and as one from whom men hide their face he was despised, and we esteemed him not" (Isaiah 53:3), but - ("he was pierced for our transgressions, crushed for our iniquities, the punishment that brought us peace was on him") "and by his wounds we are healed" (ibid. 53:5).

Rav Berland languishes in prison and Am Yisrael languishes with this corona.

We need to go out and cry out until Rav Berland is released from prison. If they have any sense in their heads, if someone wants to save this nation - maybe the corona needed to be in the world, but in Eretz Yisrael there was not supposed to be corona.

All because Rav Berland languishes in prison, Hashem is angry. If there is someone who can act to release Rav Berland from prison, he can save this entire nation. Because we have been expelled from our inheritance, expelled from the synagogues, this is the destruction of the Holy Temple, we were thrown into the street, Hashem says I don't want you, I don't want your prayers, I don't want your service of Hashem. A tzaddik sits and groans in prison - and everyone is silent, no one opens their mouth, everyone suddenly becomes mute, no one says anything. Everyone is silent with a deafening silence, but Hashem is not silent, Hashem demands the honor of the tzaddik, and who knows, maybe He will have compassion, maybe He will have mercy.

We need to cry out to Hashem, maybe He will take this harsh decree from us, but we need to act, we need to act - if they do not release Rav Berland from prison, Am Yisrael is in very great trouble, God forbid, it can worsen and escalate. I do not want to say things that open the mouth to the Satan, God forbid, but it is in our hands, we can save Am Yisrael now and immediately. Even though the things may sound strange, but know that I am telling you words of truth.

And He, being merciful, forgives iniquity

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