The holy words of our teacher, the esteemed tzaddik Rabbi Eliezer Berland shlit"a, delivered after the Maariv prayer on Wednesday, 3 Shevat 5782, 5/1/2022

"Serach bat Asher, everyone should name their daughter Serach! The Horowitz family, all are the sons of Serach who was the greatest tzaddikah of the generation."

"Why are we talking about Serach, everyone had sisters, everyone had daughters, everyone had 20 daughters, Tzelofchad had 5 daughters and sisters. There is an opinion that they only married sisters, because it was impossible to marry the Canaanites, all were flawed, all were already corrupted. Like Eliezer who said to Avraham, 'Where are you sending me, to a place where all are already corrupted, all are flawed?! All have sinned, there all commit sins.'"

"He said: 'Malachi! An angel will come and reveal to you.' Because with the righteous woman, an angel accompanies her everywhere, an angel arranges the match so that a person finds the true match, finds the right shidduch, the true partner, 'From Hashem this came.'"

"Lavan was a wicked villain, he was here before I dismissed him. He is a wicked villain, the Ari, when Rabbi Moshe Alshich said his innovations, the Ari saw Lavan himself, Lavan nodded his head 'Yes, yes, correct, correct!' because (Rabbi Moshe recounted Lavan's deceptions of Yaakov 'and he changed my wages ten times') that's a million! A hundred times a hundred times a hundred 'ten times', times is a hundred, a hundred times a hundred times a hundred is a million. Every two and a half minutes he changed the conditions."

"Now speckled, now spotted, now striped, now Star of David, now fattened, hexagonal... every 2 and a half minutes he changed the conditions and all were born according to the new conditions. He already saw in the womb that they had received the right star, the right sign, so immediately he said: 'No, I want a different condition!' Yaakov answered him 'Whatever you want! As far as I'm concerned, any condition you want, I don't care.' And then Yaakov saw the angels ascending on the flock 'speckled, spotted, and striped'. Because Yaakov merited the world of Akudim where everything changes in a second!"

"Akudim is the root of the points, the points come from the eyes and the Akudim come from the ear, 'ear, nose, mouth' opposite the mouth. So Yaakov merited Akudim, so every minute everything changed, the signs changed every second! A million times in six years is two and a half minutes! Because you need to multiply 1440 which is in a day times 365 times 6 years, then divide by a million to get 2 and a half minutes."

"Every 2 and a half minutes Lavan changes the signs. Such stars, a white gartel in the middle..., all are reincarnations of the lambs! A white gartel, such a gartel, Moshe had a black gartel, there is a green gartel, such a gartel, the sheep had gartelach, all went with gartelach, all the sheep and every moment he tells him another gartel, another sign, like this a million times the signs changed."

"Like now the great Nittel, because they did.., with us the calendar is precise to the second, parts! 2 minutes and 15 parts (time of the molad), but they don't know how to make a calendar (the Rav laughs) so they had a delay of 11 minutes per year. From the advice of Julius Caesar who made the calendar in 44 BCE. In 1600 they saw there was a delay of 12 days in winter, if you do 1600 years times 11 minutes it's 17,600 minutes divided by 1441. Everyone will see to divide on all computers on the clock it comes out 12.2."

"So they chose the yahrzeit of our Rebbe, the nations already knew it was sanctified before our Rebbe was born! So on the yahrzeit of our Rebbe, they moved the clock from 4 to 15, 4 October, jumped 11 days, until all the nations accepted it only a hundred years ago. Every nation did not agree to it, only the Russian Church and the Vatican accepted it, and other churches did not agree to this change, slowly everyone accepted the new calendar."

"And therefore tomorrow is the Sfas Emes, there is a book called Shema Yisrael that said to evacuate the ghetto, because they were in retreat, from 2 Shevat they already knew that Germany suffered a defeat, because it was a mistake to try to conquer Stalingrad, it was a big mistake. Everyone was against Hitler, may his name be erased, but he said no I will try to conquer Stalingrad.., they did not conquer, the Red Star found Paulus, a Jew discovered him, the Red Star, and then they took him and then.., he said I will make you the greatest officer in the world, wanted him to commit suicide, he said I will not commit suicide for this villain, I am not willing to commit suicide! He was not willing, what can be done."

"So Stalingrad fell and for the Jews, there is a book 'Lech Lecha Beni', the Lomza Yeshiva, you will escape from here you will stay alive, I with children have nowhere to escape. The heroines were those who went with the children to the ovens., now in the Kibbutz of the Ghetto Fighters near Nahariya, they said we are the heroines who went with the partisans to the forests, the heroines are those who did not leave the babies and went with them into the ovens. They were the true heroines thanks to whom we are now alive."

"This is Serach bat Asher who was a true heroine that the Torah mentions among all the daughters and granddaughters of Yaakov, that every tribe had sons and daughters, holy grandchildren and granddaughters, and yet the Torah mentions Serach bat Asher who was willing to die, no one agreed to tell that Yosef is alive, whoever would say Yosef is alive would die on the spot."

"Therefore it is written in Baal HaTurim, 'Blessed from sons is Asher', that Asher was in a ban they said how does she know like where does she know after all she was not in Egypt, she did not meet Yosef. When the brothers returned they did not reveal to anyone that they found Yosef, they did not reveal it is forbidden to reveal! Selling a brother is not revealed, after 22 years they reveal?! 'I said torn, torn' surely he is 'torn, torn' you are making a show to Dothan, losing me a child, making a show to Egypt losing me a child (because Yosef imprisoned Shimon) he did not know that he immediately released him."

"Because Shimon was the most zealous of all, therefore Levi merited Moshe and Aharon and Shimon eradicated Amalek, he stands on Mount Gerizim, because Shimon is the second child born in such kedushah (holiness) that he could not tolerate any crime, any flaw, he said they did such a crime I will kill the entire city, a 13 and a half-year-old child wiped out the entire city. Levi was 13, half a year difference."

"So a whole city! Yaakov says there is no such halacha! They tell him we follow the Rambam. Today everyone follows the Rambam, the Rebbe said in the future the halacha will be like the Rambam. He says if a crime is committed in a city and the city does not protest then the entire city must be wiped out without exception. Like an entire tribe of Benjamin where there was a crime, an obscene act (concubine in Gibeah), the entire tribe was killed, not leaving anyone, not even babies, nothing. Six hundred fled among them Shaul 'son of a rebellious woman', he says to Yonatan who are you, you don't know who you are at all I know who you are 'son of a rebellious woman'! What are you following after the son of Jesse!? But he is the true tzaddik."

"A slice of bread he did not bring, always bring a slice of bread so that what happened to Yonatan will not happen to you. So David was seized by a hunger pang for three days he did not eat! Bring one slice it is enough, he left him in the field for 3 days and forgot to bring him a slice of bread, if he had brought a slice of bread the Holy Temple would not have been destroyed and all the disasters, therefore he was liable to death. Yonatan did not bring him a slice of bread. So he went to eat holy bread. He arrived at Nob, the city of the priests."

"Enter the house of Achsa, the house of Hananiah, why are you entering Nob, this is a city of Jews? They will slaughter you, Arabs are good merciful, you would have entered a city of Arabs they would have given you a pita falafel for free, why did you enter Nob what do you have to do with Nob?! There is the sword of Goliath how did you get to Nob? So David was liable to death (because Doeg killed all of Nob, the city of the priests, by Saul's order for helping David), Hashem asked him do you want your sons to die? He says no, my sons should not die under any circumstances I am willing to die!"

"Are you willing to die? So he mounted the mule, it dragged him to Gaza to Ashkelon, there Yishbi in Nob caught him. There are two Nob, one near Jerusalem and one in the Golan, there was then Yishbi in Nob, it is not in Gaza not in the land of the Philistines! Rather it is all because of the sin of Nob. He took the beam of the olive press with which they crush the olives and wanted to crush him (David), to make shawarma out of him, but he was not crushed, crushed, crushed he was not crushed."

"So he lifted the beam, saw that a dent had formed in the lower beam and he entered into the dent, now he threw him a hundred meters! That's ten seconds per second, that's ten meters a hundred meters that's exactly ten seconds. David has 10 seconds to live, and then Avishai was bathing in honor of the holy Shabbat in tubs, like the house of Israel bathed in tubs in basins there were no showers, maybe one shower for twenty people. So they bathed in basins, took a pitcher poured, that's how they were until showers were made for everyone, meanwhile there were basins. So he bathed in a tub, suddenly he sees the tub filling with blood and saw a hawk devouring a dove. He said the dove is the congregation of Israel (and then flew and saved David)."

"The dove of Noah 'advance with blessings of good', because Tevet is the hidden light, the month of Tevet. We are already in Shevat, which is the melodies, all the melodies in the world are revealed in the month of Shevat. Now it is a month of melody and song, the almond tree blossoms on Tu B'Shevat and then everyone sings the song of the almond tree. And then they compose songs in honor of the almond tree and the saplings of Tu B'Shevat. Tu B'Shevat is the New Year and the halacha is like Beit Shammai which is on the 1st of Shevat."

"And now the month of Tevet is the month of goodness, 'Behold, there is a place with Me' this is the cleft of the rock, the month of Tevet is the cleft of the rock, this is the hidden light, this is only through the study of the Gemara that a person finds the light only through the study of the Gemara. The month of Tevet one must finish the entire Shas and whoever has not finished should finish in Shevat. Until Tu B'Shevat one must finish the entire Shas. So everyone now from 21:30 to 5:30 must finish the entire Shas, 8 hours is enough. There are no yeshivas now, nothing, so a person must go home eat dinner in five minutes and study until 5:30, after that stand 18 then can sleep a few hours."

"So a person must know that we are already 8 hours away from starting Vatikin, and it is written 'Maaleh Akrabim' in Parshat Masei the border of Israel, Maaleh Akrabim is a practical difference that one can bring bikkurim from there, only it is a desert because the fruits are shriveled, the fruits are dried, but once traveled to Eilat the twists are Maaleh Akrabim. The Arnon streams saw the place where everyone was crushed became pizzas, once there were also pizzas the mountains made pizzas from the Amorites the Canaanites, crushed them, made them pizzas for Melaveh Malka. Rashi says that everyone turned into pitas in the Arnon streams."

"And now we are talking about Serach bat Asher who has no body, entered with the body to Gan Eden. The Rebbe says that nothing can be achieved only through the study of Shas, because in Breslov many are mistaken thinking it is dancing, it is 'I was in Uman I merited', in Uman they do not pray and do not study anything, all the time lying in beds for several weeks months do not move from the bed. So this is also something traveling in the plains, traveling in the skies, there are seven heavens to travel, so a person travels for seven hours in all the heavens in the eighth hour he is already above seven heavens, after Aravot there are also heavens above above. So the woman arrives at 16:00 she already got up at 5 dressed the children, sent them to the rooms and he is still sleeping, sleeping traveling in Gan Eden."

"The Pri Tzaddik asks, how did he know Gan Eden? It is written that the Shunamite, everyone will travel there, whoever travels there will be remembered immediately near Nahalal there is the village of Shunem. To this day for 3 thousand years Shunem Arabs live there, now people cleaned it, say there Tikkun HaKlali and are saved immediately. Whoever arrives at Shunem is saved on the spot with a male child, in everything. The house of the Shunamite is a segulah for all the salvations in the world, they put there the Shas everything."

"So the Shunamite smelled the scent of Gan Eden, it is written how did she know what the scent of Gan Eden is maybe it is spices? So it is a sign that she ascended every night to Gan Eden, it is written in Pri Tzaddik Parshat Beshalach Rabbi Tzadok of Lublin, that she smelled the scent of Gan Eden that she said to her husband there is from him the scent of Gan Eden a sign that she ascended every night to Gan Eden. In sleep a person can travel in Gan Eden, and the women of the past would travel in Gan Eden in sleep, traveling in the heavens seeing there the name of Hashem before their eyes, flying to the Holy Temple and returning, because the whole matter is to fly to Jerusalem."

"Whoever lives in the Galilee in Tzippori in Metula would fly to Jerusalem, from Meron to Jerusalem. It is written 'A fence around me I will not go out', this is a chapter in Lamentations that they would fly to Jerusalem. And Serach bat Asher was a prophetess how did she know Yosef is alive? After all, she was not in Egypt, a sign that she was a prophetess."

And may we merit the complete redemption speedily in our days, Amen