The esteemed chassid R' Motta Frank shlit"a, one of the great rabbis of Breslov, delivers a clear message from the holy Admor of Toldos Avraham Yitzchak shlit"a and from the esteemed Rabbi Moshe Brandsdorfer shlit"a, head of the Beis Din of Heichal Hora'ah - why did the coronavirus start in the land and why was the path to Uman closed - "I wasn't in heaven, I speak from the feeling of the heart, they took an 83-year-old Jew who opened the tziyun and put him in prison." Rabbi Motta opens his heartfelt words, which clearly come from a broken heart.

"The obstacles to Uman started already two years ago, then the problems at the borders began, but they didn't realize it was a hint from heaven trying to awaken us. The controversy of taking an 83-year-old Jew, Rav Berland, who opened the tziyun of our Rebbe and putting him in prison, maybe that caused us not to be allowed into Uman."

The full transcription of his holy words

"The obstacles to traveling to Uman started already two years ago, two years ago they began causing problems at the borders. Everyone who arrived at the borders was sent back, but they didn't realize there's a hint from heaven here, friends, they're trying to awaken you. They began causing problems at the tziyun of our Rebbe in the middle of the year, people were afraid of what would happen on Rosh Hashanah and took various actions."

"Last year, they gave us another year, but continued with various controversies and discussions - I wasn't in heaven, I'm not going to say clear things, but Breslov is facing a difficult reality today, we need to take everything into account. I'm not coming as a moralizer to anyone, I'm coming to speak about myself, what I didn't do well over the past year, what thoughts."

"You told an 83-year-old Jew to be in prison, to be closed - they closed you too."

You closed him, Rav Berland, a man who did much for the tziyun, ungrateful people now say: what, he never did anything. Some say: what, it's all lies, he didn't do it, who opened it? Other people, these are Holocaust deniers. On the contrary, he only ruined, but from heaven they say: what, you don't want to recognize the good? A person did so much for so many years!"

"You have complaints against him, you have problems with him, that's fine, it's your business, but even in controversy, there's a way to disagree."

Rabbi Moshe Brandsdorfer told me, I met him on Friday, what's happening to you in Breslov, you're so blind. There was chaos with the coronavirus, they said: it's not related to us, it's chaos all over the world, but the coronavirus came exactly when you caused R' Eliezer Berland to go to prison. It's not related to us. Hashem comes and says to you: now I'll show you even closer."

Not only did he take a few souls from you, a few important people, Rabbi Carmel.., he tried to awaken you, don't you get it? Fine, I'll close Uman for you. Now do you realize it's for you? He asked me, don't they get it?"

He told me he spoke with the Rebbe of Toldos Avraham Yitzchak. He asked the Admor what's happening in the world? The Rebbe of Avraham Yitzchak answered: the time of redemption is awakening, and just as the exile was due to baseless hatred, the Sitra Achra is now stirring baseless hatred to ruin the redemption."

Rabbi Brandsdorfer asked him if there's more baseless hatred today than before?

The Admor of Toldos Avraham Yitzchak answered: yes, and I'll give you two examples, the story of Rabbi Steinman, and the story of Rav Berland. There was controversy in all of Israel, but there's a way to have a controversy. You're allowed to go in your way, and strengthen those who go in your way, but to take the controversy against the other with the harshest language possible, and to humiliate him to the lowest level, it doesn't strengthen your way."

You're humiliating the other, that's baseless hatred, says Rabbi Brandsdorfer, he's a rabbi, he's a posek, but in fact, there's a good hint here from our holy Rebbe. Our Rebbe has high matters, he brings the Gemara with Rabbi Eliezer who asked if the afflictions are dear to you. Here the situation is that there are already afflictions, and he tells him: if you reveal that they are not dear to you, then I'll take them."

"Our Rebbe hints here: first of all, don't speak any words against someone, you've already failed, they've already closed Uman on you? You can't go out now? Accept upon yourself a thought of teshuvah. Regret, each one with his own matters, why did I think badly of the other? Why did I speak badly of the other? Why did I do bad deeds to the other?"

"This matter of injustice.., it's one of the greatest injustices there is, we need love without cause instead of baseless hatred, especially in everything related to the gathering in Uman."

"Our Rebbe calls it a gathering, a gathering from the language of gathering, it's not a gathering of Anash, it's not friends gathering, it's gathering the dispersed of Israel. To gather with all the dispersed, with all the broken, with all the distant."

"You wanted to be alone in Uman this year, and you're alone. Each one with the minyan and no one wants to include with the other, if it's for convenience, then fine, but if there's division involved, it's the opposite of all matters of the gathering."

"Our Rebbe brings in Likutei Moharan the matter of the chelbanah. Indeed, everyone can say that in every group there's its chelbanah, fine, but there shouldn't be hatred, there shouldn't be division of hearts, because it's the opposite of all the matters of the Rosh Hashanah rectifications."

"Our Rebbe says: what do you want from me? I may not know what our Rebbe is talking about, but I'm in the matter in the way our Rebbe speaks, I say what's written in Likutei Moharan. Learn Torah Yud Gimel of the Rosh Hashanah gathering..., all these teachings and more, it's explicit in them that the matter of Rosh Hashanah is inclusion and gathering, and unity, and love, and affection, and peace and friendship. With this, the tzaddik has the power to ascend above and make rectifications."

"But, if God forbid you don't want to be included, and even worse, you make controversy, you make divisions, our Rebbe asks what do you want? You're not giving me the opportunity to deal with the Rosh Hashanah rectifications. Did I ask you to come here to make controversy? It's the most serious thing, therefore our people said, there was such a tradition that whoever made controversy in Breslov went to his world, may Hashem have mercy."

"They saw it in various situations, R' Levi Yitzchak told. Certainly, if it was rolled from heaven, Tuesday in Parshat Ki Tavo, Ki Tavo to Uman, that we're already half a month in Elul. Half a month before we need to be in Uman, the matters of Erev Rosh Hashanah and Rosh Hashanah. To contemplate teshuvah and say I don't desire them, I regret the thoughts and words and deeds I did..., give me the strength not to return to it."

"Hashem examines kidneys and hearts, and these thoughts of teshuvah, let's hope they will cause all the paths to open with Hashem's help."