The Ceremony of Beginning the Writing of Sefer Devarim in the Torah Scroll for

Today - Thursday, the night of the 7th of Adar, Parshas Tetzaveh, a ceremony was held at the home of our teacher, Rabbi Eliezer Berland shlit"a (may he live long and good days), marking the beginning of the writing of Sefer Devarim (the Book of Deuteronomy) within the Torah scroll donated in memory of all those murdered in the Simchat Torah massacre, for the release of all the hostages, and for the salvation of the People of Israel.

Before you is a summary of the words delivered by our teacher, the Rav shlit"a, during the ceremony:

From the 7th of Adar, all the gates are opened. On Purim, we merit the Fiftieth Gate. Therefore, we read [the Megillah in cities] 'walled from the days of Joshua' because we are rectifying the time of Joshua. The wife of On ben Pelet gave him champagne to drink and told him it is better not to put on Tefillin (phylacteries) for one day so that you may put them on for a hundred years. Elisha saw that there was no good in those 40 youths, and therefore he incited the bears against them, but Reb Noson says that he should have instilled good within them—to instill a soul within them. Cain brought flax in order to rectify the souls from the aspect of flax—souls that are from the Chalal HaPanui (the Vacant Space), and this is something only the Rebbe could do. Samson turned the lion into a kid (young goat) and said to them, "Out of the eater came something to eat, and out of the strong came something sweet." A person must honor his wife and uplift her, for "A woman of valor is the crown of her husband," and buy her ice cream every day; I knew someone who would buy his wife ice cream for fifty shekels every day. A person should go everywhere with his wife—to Hebron and Meron, only with his wife. Queen Esther pleaded for her people and her homeland and sang, "And Esther spoke yet again before the king, and fell down at his feet, and besought him with tears."

At this stage, our teacher, the Rav shlit"a, began to sing for over an hour the song 'And Esther spoke yet again before the king, and fell down at his feet, and besought him with tears.' with great awakening (spiritual fervor) together with the entire public who merited to participate in the ceremony.