The daily chizuk of The Rav, the holy honor of Rabbi Eliezer Berland shlit"a, speaking about sweetening harsh judgments through saying Chatzos and truly feeling the Churban

Tuesday, 20 Shevat 5785—these are his holy words:

A person needs to atone for all sins—for both Destructions. When a person says Chatzos, it is for both Destructions.

Right now we have Chatzos until this coming Thursday, which is Rosh Chodesh Nissan. After that, for 30 days there is no Chatzos. But the true Chatzos is when one sits on the ground and feels the pain of the Churban… There was such a Holocaust, a Holocaust in which 6 million were killed—this is 9 million.

Now we don’t know what will be. Putin said he will not harm Jews, but you can’t know. Now he is going to bring soldiers from Syria—Hashem have mercy—they will end up guarding the tziyun.

Now it’s impossible to know where he will go; he himself doesn’t know what will become of him. Therefore one must fast and sit on the ground so that this war will stop—he said he will not stop.

In truth, Purim is greater than Yom Kippur. The Zohar says that on Purim one can accomplish more than one can on Yom Kippur—one can cut down all the Hamans, all the Putins.

Putin is the gematria of Nachman. Putin is 149—Putin without the vav and with the tes is 149—so only Rebbe Nachman can subdue this. It is a klipah even worse than Hitler, worse—worse.