The daily strengthening from our teacher, the honorable holy gaon and tzaddik Rabbi Eliezer Berland shlit"a, dealing with the importance of holy dances and the rectification of the sale of Yosef

Monday, 9 Cheshvan 5785, these are his holy words:

In any case, they are speaking here that the entire Holocaust was a rectification for the sale of Yosef—the entire Holocaust, everything that the people of Israel go through—that what they did to Yosef HaTzaddik then, we need to go through in every generation.

This is now 77 years, so it could be that these next hundred years will pass quietly, in the merit of the prayers, in the merit of Ma’ariv, in the merit of the niggunim (melodies)—because the main thing is the niggunim.

People see niggunim and immediately run away—they say a few words and run away—exactly the opposite. Rebbe Nachman says, “And He saw their distress when He heard their song”—this is a Torah teaching in Likkutei Moharan, Torah 41.

So the rectification is only through niggunim: “And He saw their distress when He heard their song.” Only the niggun lifts up the prayer.

The Baal Shem Tov revealed the concept of the niggun; Rebbe Nachman revealed the concept of dance—that this is the Seventh Beggar, that only Mashiach will finish the story—the Seventh Beggar, who is without legs.

This whole concept that a person is “without legs” yet can dance—someone who does not dance shows how many judgments are upon him. (Torah 169) Why does he not dance? Because there are judgments upon the legs.

There are judgments upon him, so he cannot dance. He thinks he is clever that he is running away: “Look, I arranged everyone—I don’t dance. The fools dance; I am clever; I ran away from the dances.” But it is exactly the opposite: he does not understand that he is found in the harshest judgments.