Sanctification of the Moon for the Month of Tammuz 5778 with the Esteemed Rabbi Eliezer Berland shlit"a

Last night, the esteemed Rabbi Eliezer Berland shlit"a paused in the middle of his journey to bring those far from Torah closer, and conducted the Sanctification of the Moon. Here are words that Rav Berland shlit"a said in the past (Shemot 17th of Tevet 5766) regarding the Sanctification of the Moon. "And the moon shall be confounded, and the sun ashamed. All that we come to hear Torah from tzaddikim is only to receive more humility and more humility, and humility is received through awe of exaltation by seeing Hashem face to face. In the lesson (of the tzaddik) they tell us about miracles and wonders, so we receive humility, "and by hearing some word from his mouth."

The Rebbe says that humility is not being a loser, humility is when you know that Hashem gives you life, you know that Hashem speaks through you. The Rebbe says in Torah 38 that speech is the breath of Hashem's mouth, when a person speaks words of Torah, when a person prays, it is the breath of Hashem's mouth, it is not him at all. You give your mouth to Hashem, you give your eyes to Hashem, your hands to Hashem, your ears to Hashem. That the eyes of our Rebbe should be transferred into my eyes and the ears of the Rebbe should be transferred into my ears and the mouth of the Rebbe should be transferred into my mouth, then at that moment a person merits.

The Rebbe leads the world, he is the head of the house, but he does it through our eyes, mouth, and hands. We need to pray that the eyes of the Rebbe should be transferred into my eyes and the hands of the Rebbe should be transferred into my hands and the mouth of the Rebbe should be transferred into my mouth and all the 248 limbs and 365 sinews of our Rebbe should be transferred within me.

This is the lawgiver, the main thing is humility, how does one merit that the Rebbe should be transferred into me? That I should know that I am nothing? Because this is called a lawgiver, that the Rebbe writes that the humility of Moshe is engraved in every limb of each person. A Jew has no pride, it is only something external, the inner essence of every Jew is the peak of humility and lowliness, the peak of submission, and the humility is from Moshe Rabbeinu who is the lawgiver - gematria 248.

The photo courtesy of Shachar Eliyahu