Song Expands the Soul — Rabbi Eliezer Berland shlit"a

The Daily Chizuk of our teacher, the holy Gaon and Tzaddik, Rabbi Eliezer Berland shlit"a, regarding the tikkun (rectification) of the soul through holy melodies

Friday, 8 Adar II 5782, these are his holy words:

Rebbe Nachman says that one should spend an hour in hitbodedut, at the time when all the grasses are singing,

all the trees are singing; you go to the field and see how the trees sway—how the grasses sway according to the rhythm of song.

Whoever understands song can see how they sway, just look! To sit for a whole hour by the bushes and the grass, how they sway,

never mind what they are praying and singing, you just hear the melodies, you can hear even if you are not yet...

And now they have taken all sorts of instruments and seen that melodies are truly bursting forth. First of all, if you pluck a flower, or even a blade of grass, a terrible cry immediately emerges!

Because it is being torn, a terrible cry emerges. And the science books of the nations write about this, about the song of the grasses, their melodies.

They play a disc with melodies near flowers, near tomatoes, and they grow more beautifully.

This is all through melodies—the soul grows through melodies.