On Wednesday night, 19 Tammuz, Parashat Pinchas, members of our community from the city of Holon came to a shiur at the home of Moreinu HaRav Eliezer Berland shlit”a.  The shiur lasted for around forty minutes.  Here is a summary of the shiur:

The Rav began discussing the end of Tractate Baba Metzia about the secret of the vegetable between the upper and lower gardens, that this is the secret of the 310 Worlds which Hashem will bestow to each and every Tzaddik in the future, that 310 is the numerical value of YeReK (vegetable).  The Rav shlit”a continued talking about Eldad and Medad and then moved on to the Gemara in Menachot 29b, about how Rabbi Akiva would expound on every crownlet mounds upon mounds of Halachot.  The Rav made a calculation of how many tens of thousands of interpretations this is.  From these calculations, he went on to the calculation brought in Rashi on the verse, “Like them and like them a hundred times,” that this is multiples of a trillion times a trillion times a trillion, and that this is the secret of Rivka’s jug.  Later in the shiur, he spoke about the verse, “Let me know my end, O Hashem, and the measure of my days, what it is,” that the inner meaning is that really David wanted to know if his soul root is from Leah or from Rachel, and he spoke about the matter of joining of Leah and Rachel.  As is brought in the Yerushalmi, “What humility made a heel for its sole, fear made a crown for its head,” and the meaning is that if a person merits to be humble and to receive insults with love (the heel of Leah), then this is higher than the Crown of Rachel.  He spoke about the secret of the Luz, bringing Likutey Moharan Lesson 85, that the way to Luz is entering Beit El, saying that this was the secret of the egg which is eaten on Erev Tisha B’Av, and this is the secret of the 21 days between 17 Tammuz and Tisha B’Av.  He added that Luz is the bone of the revival of the dead, which is nourished by the Fourth Shabbat Meal (Melaveh Malkah), and he brought in the name of the Kabbalist Rabbi Yitzchak Meir Morgenstern shlit”a the greatness of the obligation to eat the Fourth Meal.