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

As part of the series of lessons for the supporters of the Beit Midrash, this week on Wednesday night, the 9th of Cheshvan, they entered the home of the tzaddik Rabbi Eliezer Berland shlit"a for a special lesson in his residence. In the lesson, our teacher Rav Berland shlit"a spoke, in his holy manner, on many topics covering all the hidden treasures of the Torah, starting from the weekly Torah portions, holiness, shalom bayit (peace in the home), the virtue of the city of Shechem mentioned in the weekly portion of 'Lech Lecha', the matter of Yosef HaTzaddik, and he also spoke about the burial of Rachel Imeinu, who was buried specifically on the roadside. Likewise, he mentioned the current events regarding the victory of the Torah and mitzvah-observant public in the recent elections, and once again described it as a true splitting of the Red Sea! He also spoke about the rock - the Well of Miriam, and the story of the angel who came to the wife of Manoach and the mother of Shimshon - HaTzalalponit. He also spoke from Torah 21 in Likutey Moharan regarding the seven candles that will shine in the future to come. He also spoke of how the women in the desert were holy, and brought the 'mirrors of the women who assembled' that Hashem told Moshe about in [the portion of] Pekudei. Towards the end of the lesson, he spoke about why we do not recite the full Hallel on the seventh day of Passover, because 'the work of My hands are drowning in the sea,' and he asked, after all, they threw millions of children into the Nile, how is it appropriate to have mercy on them? He answered that they should have brought them to teshuvah (repentance). Before you is an excerpt from the lesson:"The Egyptians threw millions of children into the Nile, so do we need to have mercy on them still...? No, because they drowned in the sea. Because you were there for two hundred and ten years, you should have brought them to teshuvah (repentance). A person—'All living souls shall call upon Your Name'—a person must, we say in 'Aleinu' 'All living souls shall call upon Your Name,' it is possible to bring the entire world to teshuvah (repentance); there is no person who cannot be brought to teshuvah (repentance). 'To turn all the wicked of the earth to You, all the inhabitants of the world shall recognize and know'—all the inhabitants of the world! All! We say this every day in 'V'al Ken Nekaveh'. 'All the inhabitants of the world shall recognize and know that to You every knee shall bow.' Now there was a great victory yesterday, like the splitting of the Red Sea, because they said that they would put all the yeshiva students in prison..."And so he continued to speak of the greatness of the miracle of the victory of the Torah and mitzvah-observant public, and he also returned to speak about the matter of Yosef HaTzaddik, that the main sin of the brothers was because 'he pleaded with us and we did not listen.' He concluded the lesson with the story of the daughter of Yiftach, and brought the Abudraham that, in truth, the daughter of Yiftach did not die, but was considered as dead because she was prepared to die.[caption id="attachment_53180" align="aligncenter" width="1080"> Our teacher Rav Eliezer Berland shlit"a at a lesson for the supporters of the Beit Midrash[/caption]After more than an hour and a quarter of a fiery lesson, full and overflowing with words of Torah, encouragement, and Aggadah, our teacher Rav Eliezer Berland shlit"a concluded the lesson, and after the lesson, he distributed a gift to the supporters from 'Ichud Chasidei Breslov'.