Tefilah L'Ani -- Prayer for the Rebuilding of the Temple by Rabbi Eliezer

PRESENTED HERE IS RAV BERLAND'S HEARTFELT AND PROFOUND PRAYER FOR THE SPEEDY REBUILDING OF THE TEMPLE, ESPECIALLY FITTING NOW DURING THE THREE WEEKS.  THE PRAYER IS TAKEN FROM THE BOOK "TEFILAH L'ANI: LEKET TEFILOT U'BAKASHOT":

FOR THE SPEEDY REBUILDING OF THE TEMPLE

Please, God of Knowledge, Who grants knowledge to man, bestow upon us true knowledge so that we may now begin to awaken and be educated in the light of life. Let us merit to the lights of eternity until we merit to reveal, find, and illuminate the hidden goodness within us through Your mercy and great power, and through the merit of the hidden Tzaddikim of this generation and all generations, especially the true Tzaddik, the attendant who stands and serves on high and illuminates all.

Please, let us merit through the light of this Tzaddik to bring to light the hidden and concealed goodness suppressed within our souls, and even the goodness suppressed in the farthest reaches and among the nations of the world, until their evil traits can no longer harm us, for they will all return to You and rejoice in seeing Your God-fearing ones, and they will rejoice as the evil within them dissipates -- disappearing, being nullified, and as nothing. May the Godly point be revealed and illuminate the Divine image in man, and may the pure, clear inner light be redeemed from concealment, radiating with great and wondrous brilliance.

Let the external veil of darkness peel away and be removed, and may the letters of the Torah, which are clothed in all beings, shine with a holy aura, amplified by immense light from above, until we merit to build holy structures from all the suppressed goodness in all the inhabitants of the world. May the light intensify even more and the goodness be revealed until Your Holy Sanctuary is built. Then we will ascend to the House of Your splendor, and we will light the candles of the holy Menorah for Your glory, until the flame rises on its own, its light bursting forth through the windows to the entire world, inviting all people of the earth to the Temple, which is "a House of Prayer for all peoples" (Yeshaya 56:7).

Please, Merciful Father, Who has compassion on the poor and saves abundantly, help us in this generation to complete all the Tikkunim (rectifications) that have yet to be completed, for they are the cause of all the destructions and holocausts, and all the seven waters of the world that have washed over us until now, whose Tikkun is through the seven branches of the Menorah, whose light is drawn from the sevenfold seven channels, which are the forty-nine sefirot, and the bowl above them, which is the secret of the Fiftieth Gate -- may it be revealed speedily in our days -- until we merit the light of redemption and the rebuilding of the Holy Temple.  May we all ascend to the sefirah of Keter, to see Hashem face-to-face, “For eye to eye they will see Hashem return to Tzion” (ibid 52:8).

Our Father, our King, great in counsel and mighty in deeds, show us the renewal of the Temple, its sanctuary, and courtyard. May our eyes behold the building of the Temple Mount and the radiance of the cherubs. Renew the twelve springs flowing from beneath the Temple’s threshold, becoming wide rivers that water the world and its fullness and purify the nations. "A boat cannot traverse it, and a mighty vessel cannot cross it" (ibid. 33:21). "I will set your windows as rubies; and your foundations with sapphires" (ibid. 54:11-12). "Your eyes shall see the King in His beauty" (ibid. 33:17).

May the Menorah of seven—seven times the sevenfold seven channels, and the bowl on its top opposite the Foundation Stone—illuminate the serene Dwelling to the seventy nations, their leaders and their kings. “Nations shall walk by your light, and kings by the brilliance of your shine” (ibid. 60:3). “They will bring your children in their arms, and your daughters they will carry on their shoulder” (ibid. 49:22), “as a nurse carries a suckling child” (Bamidbar 11:12). “You shall trample nations in Your fury, drunken them with Your wrath, and throw their lifeblood to the ground” (cf. Yeshaya 63:6). “Arise, shine, for your light has come, and the glory of Hashem shines upon you” (ibid. 60:1). “Nations will see your righteousness and all the kings your honor, and you will be called by a new name” (ibid. 62:2). 

Renew for us new and awesome wonders that have never been seen before, hidden treasures never known by man, and we shall not be silent or still until You establish Jerusalem as praise, and “He shall swallow up death forever” (ibid. 25:8), “For Hashem will be for you an eternal light” (ibid. 60:20).

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