Special Prayer for the 17th of Tammuz - The Righteous Rabbi Eliezer Berland shlit"a

Prayer from Our Teacher, the Honorable Righteous Rabbi Eliezer Berland shlit"a for the Fast of the 17th of Tammuz

Master of the Universe, Omnipotent, on the 17th of Tammuz, the day when the Kingdom of Atzilut is revealed, through the rectification of the five matters.

The first matter, as it is said, "And it came to pass, as he came near the camp, that he saw the calf, and he cast the tablets from his hands," and it is written that in the fourth month, on the ninth of the month, the city was breached, and then the king went out from between the walls, and went by the way of the plain, and they overtook him in the plains of Jericho, and they spoke judgment with him, and they slaughtered his sons before his eyes, and they blinded the eyes of Zedekiah, and then they called upon me a time, and Jehoiachin went up to the roof of the Temple, and threw the keys upwards, and a hand came out and took them.

And the tribe of Benjamin was almost annihilated, and only 600 men remained, among them Saul.

And the daily offering was nullified.

And Turnus Rufus burned the Torah.

And Manasseh placed an idol in the Temple, for Manasseh was slaughtering 1000 men a day for 22 years.

And now on the 17th of Tammuz, when the Kingdom of Hashem, the Kingdom of Atzilut, is revealed eye to eye, by the opening of 48,000 myriad gates of Gehinnom, and they bring out the wicked who caused the destruction of the Holy Temple, twenty-one days before the Ninth of Av, and Hashem nullifies from those wicked ones the judgment "and their worm shall not die, and their fire shall not be quenched" twenty-one days before the Ninth of Av, and immediately they see the face of the Shechinah. And the tzaddikim who never sinned, and to whom endless sins that they did not commit were attributed, receive on that day their reward in double measure, in the secret of 'for you have received double.'

And those who have done teshuvah, who have broken their hearts before Hashem for every sin, will merit to revive the dead, as it is said "and when the wicked turns from his wickedness and does justice and righteousness, upon them he shall live," 'upon them' is not said but 'upon them,' teaching that upon them he shall live eternal life, like Serach the daughter of Asher, and Bithiah the daughter of Pharaoh, who live forever, with righteous chassidim and pure and upright ones, doers of kindness, masters of charity and emunah, masters of Torah, and not only that, but they are elevated and seated in the yeshiva above, and hear Torah from the mouth of Hashem Himself.

For on the 17th of Tammuz, all sins are forgiven to anyone who does teshuvah with a complete heart. And then all the barren women are remembered, for then they go out from a place above the place, and all the worlds ascend to the Kingdom of Atzilut, to the place where the Ark and Korach were flying in the air. Therefore, immediately after Korach, Chukat, Balak - the 17th of Tammuz, when the rectification of the "K" which descends into Gehinnom is completed, and brings out from there the souls of the wicked who will do teshuvah, for they caused the destruction with their evil deeds, whether it was desecration of Shabbat, immorality, and bloodshed and other transgressions.

And through accepting upon themselves the judgment of Gehinnom with love, all their sins are atoned for, and they merit on the 17th of Tammuz to ascend and hear Torah from the mouth of Hashem in His glory and essence. And therefore it is said about them "he shall surely live," that anyone who does teshuvah on the 17th of Tammuz, merits to bring out tens of thousands of souls from the judgment of Gehinnom, whether they are masters of charity, masters of emunah, or masters of Torah, and elevates and seats them in the yeshiva above, and they hear Torah from the mouth of Hashem, after he has rectified all three "kufim" whose "feet descend to death."

For at the moment a person accepts the judgment of Gehinnom with love, he immediately leaves there, and merits and sits in the yeshiva above, and Gabriel and Michael go and open 48,000 myriad gates of Gehinnom, and bring out from there the wicked who have done true teshuvah, and justified upon themselves the judgment of Gehinnom. For through the sin of the first man, five kinds of fallen ones were mixed into Israel: giants, mighty ones, Rephaim, Amalekites. And this is what is read in Parshat Chukat about the king of Arad, who is the king of all the wild ones, about whom it is said 'woe to the man who encounters a wild one and woe to the wild one who encounters Rabbi Chanina ben Dosa,' for from the bones of Balaam all the wild ones in the world were made, because he separated between Rachel and Leah, and the heels of Leah came out from the crown of Rachel, for Balaam Balak = Rachel Leah = wild, Arad, and therefore only Mashiach, who is called 'Migdal Edar' 'and he came from Migdal Edar' [Targum], can rectify all the wild ones and the Amalekites and the fallen ones and the mighty ones, Rephaim, giants, who are Sihon and Og and their companions, who came to the daughters of men and defiled them with their impurities, and therefore the Holy Temple was destroyed, and Moshe was not careful of them, and therefore they have no rectification not in the days of Mashiach nor in the resurrection of the dead, and they descend for generations to Sheol and Abaddon, and they never leave there, for there is teshuvah for everything except for Amalekites, giants, Rephaim, fallen ones, mighty ones, who cast their terror in the land of the living, like Jeroboam and his companions, and about them it is said "brimstone and salt, burning all its land," for Hashem wanted to teach merit on Jeroboam, and grabbed him by his garment, and said to him, 'I, you, and the son of Jesse will stroll in the Garden of Eden,' but Jeroboam rejected Hashem's offer, for he was from the fallen ones that nothing in the world can bring them back in teshuvah, and they are judged for generations, and they cannot cling to Michael and Gabriel who try to bring them out of Gehinnom.

For the redemption will be on the 17th of Tammuz, in the secret of "for a time, times, and a half," which is the secret of the Ninth of Av, and the 17th of Tammuz about which Gabriel prophesied "dressed in linen." And therefore on Yom Kippur they enter only in linen garments to the Holy of Holies. And through this, they elevate all the souls of the wicked made of flax, and therefore Cain offered flax, but his mistake was that he did not mix them with wool, the secret of 'the ten kinds of melody,' through which the resurrection of the dead will be.

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