The Angel Curses Whoever Doesn’t Help the Tzaddik

The Daily Chizuk from our teacher, the Gaon and Tzaddik, Rav Eliezer Berland shlit"a, "Whoever does not come to help the tzaddik has no light in him."

Thursday, 10 Iyar 5785 – Netzach shebeNetzach, taken from the lesson of 3 Iyar 5782, these are his holy words:

'Netzach shebeNetzach', Rebbe Nachman said: I have won and I will win – because all those who draw close to our Rebbe are sparks of our Rebbe.

Therefore, it is written in Likutey Halachot (Milah 4) that all righteous women are sparks of Queen Esther, of Deborah the Prophetess. Every woman today is a spark of Deborah the Prophetess who defeated Sisera.

I have won and I will win, "From heaven they fought, the stars" (Judges 5:20), all the stars came to help Deborah, all the stars fought for the sake of Deborah.

There were some stars that did not come (to help Deborah), they turned into black stars. "Curse Meroz, said the angel of Hashem" (Judges 5:23) – the angel curses those who do not come to help the tzaddik.

Whoever does not come to pray with the tzaddik, to help the tzaddik, the angel himself curses him, "Curse Meroz, said the angel of Hashem."

It is not I who says this, the Torah says that the angels cursed them. The angels cursed the stars that did not arrive and they turned into black stars from which no light emerges.

They cannot shine, because whoever does not come to the tzaddik has no right of existence, no right to shine in the world, to shine upon the earth – only he who comes to the tzaddik, to help the tzaddik, to pray with the tzaddik, to fight with the tzaddik.

And the moment Barak hesitated, he only said to her, 'You come with me too' – she said to him, 'Why are you not going?' You have already lost the merit to defeat Sisera!

"But you will have no glory on the journey you are taking, for Hashem will sell Sisera into the hand of a woman" (Judges 4:9), because you hesitated. If a person hesitates... 'Yes, I will go to the tzaddik,' 'I will not go with the tzaddik,' he has only a slight hesitation.

He has a hesitation, a hesitation of something – he is debating, why is he debating? Because he is in pride!

If he is not urged to go with the tzaddik, then he has lost everything, lost all his merits, lost his entire World to Come, his entire World of this life.

Even to defeat Sisera you can no longer do, nothing at all. If he has only a slight hesitation, one doubt whether to draw close to the tzaddik – then he is rejected completely, they throw him out.