Our teacher, the holy tzaddik Rabbi Eliezer Berland shlit"a, arrived at the holy resting place of Yosef HaTzaddik in Shechem – 1 Adar I 5782

The atmosphere at the holy site upon the arrival of our teacher Rav Berland shlit"a was fiery. Our teacher the Rav shlit"a recited with the public the Tikkun HaKlali with enthusiasm and melody, and afterward delivered words of Torah to the public.

A lesson that our teacher Rav Berland shlit"a delivered at Joseph’s Tomb after the Tikkun HaKlali, Wednesday night, 2 of Rosh Chodesh Adar I, Parshat Terumah 5782—these are his holy words:

“Now this is 1 Adar, the second—Pisces; Pisces is the Leviathan; Amram and Yocheved who reached the Fiftieth Gate, and in this merit they merited to draw down the neshamah (soul) of Moshe Rabbeinu (in one of the Rav’s prayers this matter is mentioned somewhat; this is the wording of the prayer: Master of the World, the month of Adar whose sign is Pisces, the secret of the Leviathan and its mate, for Hashem killed the female and castrated the male, because in the month of Adar this desire is completely nullified and has no place at all, for all the disasters that pass over a person are only because of this desire which is his adversary, and it arouses upon him all the judgments).”

“The Leviathan is the Fiftieth Gate; the sign of Pisces is the Fiftieth Gate. Haman was in the Fiftieth Gate of impurity, and Mordechai was in the Forty-Ninth Gate of kedushah (holiness). Haman was one gate higher than Mordechai, and with this his plan was to overpower Mordechai—but Rebbe Nachman says in Likkutei Moharan, Part I, Torah 8 (Rebbe Nachman’s wording in the teaching: זֶהוּ: רָאִיתִי וְהִנֵּה מְנוֹרַת זָהָב הִיא הַתּוֹרָה, הַנֶּחֱמָדִים מִזָּהָב. וְגֻלָּהּ עַל רֹאשָׁהּ פֵּרֵשׁ רַשִׁ"י: 'מַעְיָן', הוּא הַמַּעְיָן הַיּוֹצֵא מִבֵּית ה', הוּא הַתְּפִלָּה. וְשִׁבְעָה נֵרֹתֶיהָ הֵם הַנְּשָׁמוֹת דְּאִתְרְבִיאוּ בַּגָּן, הַנֶּחֱלָקִים לְשֶׁבַע כִּתּוֹת שִׁבְעָה וְשִׁבְעָה מוּצָקוֹת הֵם מ"ט אוֹרוֹת, שֶׁהוּא אוֹר הַגָּנוּז לֶעָתִיד (כְּמוֹ שֶׁפֵּרֵשׁ רַשִׁ"י שָׁם), בְּחִינַת עֵדֶן עַיִן לֹא רָאֲתָה, שֶׁהוּא בְּחִינַת הַתְּפִלָּה כַּנַּ"ל. וּשְׁנַיִם זֵיתִים עָלֶיהָ פֵּרֵשׁ רַשִׁ"י: 'שְׁנֵי אִילָנוֹת', הַיְנוּ אִילָנָא דְּחַיֵּי וְאִילָנָא דְּמוֹתָא, הַיְנוּ טוֹב וָרָע כַּנַּ"ל. וְזֶהוּ: אֶחָד מִיָּמִין וְאֶחָד מִשְֹּמֹאל כַּנַּ"ל. "וּמִשָּׁם יִפָּרֵד", שֶׁנִּפְרָד הָרָע מֵהַטּוֹב, זֶה לְיָמִין וְזֶה לִשְֹמֹאל) that the Gate of prayer is the Fiftieth Gate, and in the merit that Mordechai prayed, he rose to the Fiftieth Gate, and through this he overcame Haman. The Fiftieth Gate is also in Torah— in Yoreh De’ah and in Choshen Mishpat.”

“Now it is the yahrtzeit of the Shach. The Shach went over all of Choshen Mishpat one hundred times before he began his composition on Choshen Mishpat. At the age of thirty-one he already finished his composition. He did not lift his head from the book from the day he was born; from the age of three he did not lift his head from the book. And this is Yosef HaTzaddik, who did not lift his head from the book; he did not open his eyes— in life he saw nothing: ‘The blessings of your father surpassed the blessings of my parents, to the utmost bounds of the everlasting hills; may they be on the head of Joseph, and on the crown of the one separated from his brothers’ (Genesis 49:26). Joseph—this is the head.”

[caption id="attachment_49495" align="alignnone" width="510"] Our teacher Rabbi Eliezer Berland shlit"a at Joseph’s Tomb – 1 Adar I 5782[/caption]

“Spices of the head—Mordechai is spices of the head; he is the head of all the tzaddikim, all the spices. Mara Dachya is Mordechai; the Targum says Mara Dachya is the chief myrrh—he is the head of the spices, and Esther is the head.”

“Esther is Hadassah. I saw a novelty yesterday: ‘Instead of the thorn shall come up the cypress, and instead of the nettle shall come up the myrtle’ (Isaiah 55:13). How do you turn the nettle into a myrtle? You find the PAR of judgments. Vashti is the PAR of judgments. There is PAR of judgments; Manatzpach is 280—this is the gematria of PAR—then we remove the judgments from Vashti.”

“Vashti is the Satan himself—this is all our transgressions, and all the judgments we receive are from Vashti. We take out from Vashti the PAR of judgments—then we become a myrtle. The nettle is the letters ה ד ס, and we only need to remove the PAR. Through the Tikkun HaKlali and through coming to Yosef HaTzaddik, then we remove the PAR of judgments from Vashti and from Achashverosh, because Vashti, Achashverosh, and Haman are one thing—one body, one reality.”

“Achashverosh is gematria Rebbe Nachman ben Simcha exactly, without the kolel. So Rebbe Nachman ben Simcha—821—is exactly Achashverosh with two vavs, meaning as it is written in the Megillah, and not as people are accustomed to write it like this ‘אחשוורוש’ with three vavs. Only Rebbe Nachman can subdue Achashverosh—only Rebbe Nachman. It is such a klipah as never existed since the creation of the world, and there will never be such a klipah—so only Rebbe Nachman. And this already begins today, on 1 Adar I: we begin to subdue all the Achashveroshes, all the Knesset and all the members of Knesset—none of them will have any remembrance left, and all of them will be like dust and like chaff.”

“Joseph did not lift his head from the book; from today we do not lift our head from the book: ‘Joseph is a fruitful son, a fruitful son by a spring’ (Genesis 49:22). Why ‘fruitful’ (porat)? Because he was a shoemaker and had a shoe shop. Joseph is a reincarnation of Chanoch, a shoemaker. Through the Tikkun HaKlali we sew shoes for the Shechinah: Save me from the klipah of Haman-Amalek; save me from the klipah of Haman-Amalek.”