Supporters of the Beis Midrash at a Shiur in the Home of Rabbi Eliezer Berland shlit"a

As part of the ongoing series of shiurim for the supporters of the Beis Midrash, this week as well—on Wednesday night, the eve of the 9th of Marcheshvan—they entered the home of the holy gaon and Tzaddik, Rabbi Eliezer Berland shlit"a, for a special shiur in his residence. During the shiur, The Rav, Rabbi Eliezer Berland shlit"a, spoke in his holy way on many subjects, drawing from all the hidden treasures of Torah: beginning with the weekly parshiyos; matters of kedushah; shalom bayis; the greatness of the city of Shechem mentioned in this week’s parshah, Lech Lecha; the topic of Yosef HaTzaddik; and he also spoke about the burial of Rachel Imeinu, who was buried specifically “on the road.” He also mentioned, in keeping with the theme of the day, the victory of those who guard Torah and mitzvos in the recent elections, and once again called it a true miracle—like Krias Yam Suf itself! He also spoke about the rock—Miriam’s well; and about the story of the malach who came to the wife of Manoach, the mother of Shimshon—Tzlelponis. He also spoke from Torah 21 in Likkutei Moharan about the seven lamps that will shine in the future. He spoke as well about how the women in the wilderness were holy, and brought the matter of the “mirrors of the women who assembled,” which Hashem told Moshe in Pekudei. Toward the end of the shiur, he spoke about why we do not say a complete Hallel on the seventh day of Pesach, because “My handiwork are drowning in the sea.” He asked: seemingly, they threw millions of children into the Nile—what is there to have compassion on them for? And he answered that they should have brought them back in teshuvah. Below is a segment from the shiur:

“The Egyptians threw millions of children into the Nile—so do we still need to have compassion on them…? No, because they drowned in the sea. Because you were there for two hundred and ten years—you should have brought them back in teshuvah. A person—‘All flesh will call upon Your Name’—a person needs to… we say in ‘Aleinu’: ‘All flesh will call upon Your Name.’ It is possible to bring the entire world back in teshuvah; there is no person who cannot be brought back in teshuvah. ‘To turn to You all the wicked of the earth; all the inhabitants of the world will recognize and know’—all the inhabitants of the world! All of them! We say this every day in ‘Ve’al Kein Nekaveh’: ‘All the inhabitants of the world will recognize and know that to You every knee will bow.’ Now there was a great victory yesterday, like Krias Yam Suf, because they said they would put all the yeshivah bochurim into prison…”

And in this way he continued speaking about the greatness of the miracle of the victory of those who guard Torah and mitzvos. He also returned to speak about Yosef HaTzaddik—that the main sin of the brothers was in the words, “When he pleaded with us and we did not listen.” He concluded the shiur with the story of the daughter of Yiftach, and brought the Abudraham, who explains that in truth the daughter of Yiftach did not die; rather, she was considered as though dead, because she was prepared to die.

[caption id="attachment_53180" align="aligncenter" width="1080"] The Rav, Rabbi Eliezer Berland shlit"a, delivering a shiur for the supporters of the Beis Midrash[/caption]

After more than an hour and a quarter of a fiery shiur—full and overflowing with words of Torah, chizuk, and aggadah—The Rav, Rabbi Eliezer Berland shlit"a, concluded the shiur. Afterward, he distributed to the supporters a gift from “Ichud Chassidei Breslov.”