The Entire Matter of the Groom and Bride Being Deaf-Mute - Words of the Esteemed Tzaddik Rabbi Eliezer Berland shlit"a - Holy Sights from the Wedding of Mordechai Chilo in Bnei Brak

The esteemed tzaddik Rabbi Eliezer Berland shlit"a arrived today, the night of Tuesday, Parshat Re'eh 5778, August 7, 2018, to the joyous wedding of the groom Mordechai Chilo with the daughter of Rabbi Chanan Vaknin from Hadera. The wedding took place in the grand halls on Shlomo HaMelech Street in Bnei Brak, where Rav Berland shlit"a arranged the kiddushin and even stayed to bring joy to the groom and bride with holy dances. Here are inspiring words said by the esteemed tzaddik Rabbi Berland shlit"a in this context.

"The wedding - the entire matter of the groom and bride is to be deaf-mute, from the day of the wedding they do not speak, do not see, do not hear. A young man is a bit confused, but why should a groom be confused? He already has his wife, that's it, he is a complete person. The woman is 242 and he is 248, together they are the gematria of 500, because man and woman are one body and one neshamah (soul), and if a woman sees something not good in her husband, she must cry out, that her husband only learns Torah and only does good deeds."

"After getting married, it is impossible to sin anymore, there is no such thing as sins, blemishes, a person becomes deaf-mute, it's all gifts - to be blind, to be deaf, to stutter, to have a crooked neck, not to breathe, to have a hump, and never to straighten the back."

"A person needs to learn from now until morning - until six in the morning there are five hours - five pages of Gemara. It is written twice, 'In the hatred of Hashem towards us' - in Devarim 1:27 and now in the parsha, 'In the hatred of Hashem towards us', 'Our wives and children will be taken as plunder', Hashem brought us up because He hates us, He does everything 'In the hatred of Hashem towards us'. A person thinks he comes to pray because Hashem hates him so he needs to pray, He doesn't let him lie in bed."

"A person needs to jump out of bed - to leap, he can go to speak with Hashem, he can go to pray to Hashem, he needs to leap out of bed, in a moment. One must always stand before the Rav, like Achiyah HaShiloni would learn Torah, and Eliyahu HaNavi would wait for the Baal Shem Tov to finish the lesson with Achiyah HaShiloni."

"The Rebbe said how much a person needs to work until he sees Eliyahu HaNavi in a dream, how much he needs to work until he greets him, until he merits to return the greeting, and after that, one thought of pride and he loses everything, a person can in one second see Hashem, and after a second he falls into the great abyss."

"A person every moment has trials and he needs to always know that everything is because he is half a human being, the moment he gets married then he doesn't need to work or bring livelihood, what the woman learns she learns, and the man sits and learns Gemara 18 hours, he goes out at six in the morning - 18 hours until midnight, he has six hours left to be at home, a person comes to the world to learn 18 hours, not to move his head from the Gemara for one second, to be the master of the hump."

The words were edited from the Shvavei Or bulletin

Photo gallery from the wedding in Bnei Brak

[gallery link="file" size="full" ids="12945,12946,12947,12948,12949,12950,12951,12952,12953,12954,12955"] Photos courtesy of Shachar Eliyahu