The Esteemed Rabbi Eliezer Berland shlit"a at the Shuvu Banim Community in
Ashdod - Motza'ei Shabbat Parshat Va'era 5779

"The main thing is to be dust and ashes; that is why the Red Heifer is dust and ashes. The moment a person is completely burned, they turn into dust and ashes. They grind it completely, they grind it, every single clump is ground and ground until it becomes complete ash. The heifer has already been burned, but not a single clump must remain. Every clump is ground again and again until it becomes dust and ashes, dust. Because ash is no longer fit for anything, no vitality remains for the person, only a point."
"A person needs to be dust and ashes like our Rebbe (Rebbe Nachman). Immediately after Purim, one merits the holiness of the heifer. To reach Purim, which is the secret of the point, because on Purim we turn into crumbs, and then it is possible to merit the heifer. A person is born anew, because all of the Jewish people were in the generation of Enosh, the generation of the Flood, the generation of the Dispersion. Dinah was the wife of Terach; she was the mother of Abraham our forefather. The children of Israel went through such terrible suffering. A person does not know what they were in a previous incarnation, a thousand years ago. After 77 generations, Lamech became King Saul, but 77 generations earlier, he tried to murder his grandfather."
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