A Lesson Delivered by Our Teacher, the Righteous Rabbi Eliezer Berland shlit"a on Motza'ei Shabbat Parshat Noach 5779

"A new mikveh was discovered between the Cave of Machpelah and the graves of Yishai and Ruth, called the Mikveh of Sarah Imeinu, and many who immersed there have already been blessed with male children. This mikveh purifies from all impurities. If a person sins, feels remorse, and does teshuvah (repentance), accepting not to return to sin, they are purified from everything, becoming included in Adam Kadmon. When a person is included in Arich Anpin, all sins are forgiven."

" 'And on the crown of the head of the one distinguished among his brothers' (Genesis 49:26), the blessing of Yosef, 'From the bounty of the heavens above and from the deep that lies below' (Deuteronomy 33:13), this is the oil. In Eretz Yisrael, there is gas that can suffice for the whole world. One must recite the blessing every day, 'A fruitful son is Yosef, a fruitful son by a spring' (Genesis 49:22) before sleep. 'Daughters stepped upon the wall' (ibid.), all the daughters walked on the wall and threw their jewelry. Yosef opened one piece of jewelry, and it was written inside, Asenath daughter of Dinah daughter of Yaakov. Asenath knew she was now marrying Yosef, and indeed, on that day, she married him."

" 'His bow stayed firm and his arms were made agile by the hands of the Mighty One of Yaakov, from there is the Shepherd, the Stone of Israel: by the God of your father who will help you, and by the Almighty who will bless you with blessings of heaven above, blessings of the deep that lies below, blessings of the breasts and of the womb' (Genesis 49:24-25), all the oil of the world is in the inheritance of Yosef. 'The blessings of your father surpassed the blessings of my ancestors to the utmost bounds of the everlasting hills' (Genesis 49:26), the everlasting hills are the prayers of the holy mothers, who prayed for all generations. Sarah prayed for all generations, and therefore her candle never went out. Sarah's candle never went out; in honor of Shabbat, she would extinguish and light it. Whoever is named Sarah will merit that the candle will never go out, like our mother Sarah."

" 'Behold, I will lay your stones with fair colors and lay your foundations with sapphires' (Isaiah 54:11), referring to an ointment called 'puch,' and whoever applies it to their eyes will see the Holy Temple standing. 'And lay your foundations with sapphires,' Hashem will take stones of 30 cubits by 30 cubits, which is a diamond of 15 meters by 15 meters. 'Its stones are the place of sapphires and it has dust of gold' (Job 28:6), if we dig in the area of Sodom, we will find such diamonds."

" 'And I will make your pinnacles of rubies and your gates of carbuncles' (Isaiah 54:12), from the stones of the Holy Temple, fire will emerge. There are diamonds from which fire comes out. 'And on the crown of the head of the one distinguished among his brothers' (Genesis 49:26), Yosef was granted all the diamonds of the world; all the diamonds that existed in the world belonged to him. Whoever is a true tzaddik merits all the diamonds of the world. This was the entire haftorah of the parsha, as the haftorah is more important than the parsha."

" 'Behold, I will lay your stones with fair colors' (Isaiah 54:11), every girl should be covered with a blanket of 'puch,' like Yael, 'and she covered him with a blanket' (Judges 4:18), 'with a blanket' is the gematria of Tzipporah. For, Devorah was a spark from Moshe Rabbeinu, and Yael performed all the miracles in the world, all the miracles were on the 5th of Cheshvan, 'Blessed above women shall Yael be, the wife of Heber the Kenite, blessed shall she be above women in the tent... Between her feet he bowed, he fell, he lay down; between her feet he bowed, he fell; where he bowed, there he fell down dead' (Judges 5:24, 27), 'dead' is the gematria of Metatron, the angel Metatron was incarnated in Yael. If a woman merits and the angel Metatron is incarnated in her, she gives birth to the High Priest."