The Hilula of the Ben Ish Chai - A Special Lesson by Rabbi Eliezer Berland

Today, Friday, Parshat 'Ki Teitzei', marks the holy Hillula of the Ben Ish Hai, zya"a, Rabbi Yosef Chaim of Baghdad, zt"l, who lived between 27 Av 5595 (August 2, 1835) and 13 Elul 5669 (August 30, 1909).

These are the holy words of our teacher, the Gaon and Tzaddik Rav Eliezer Berland shlit"a, delivered on 13 Elul 5780 in honor of the holy Hillula of the Ben Ish Hai.

Our teacher, the Gaon and Tzaddik Rav Eliezer Berland shlit"a, expressed in one of his previous lessons: "If Rebbe Nachman did not exist, and we were Breslov Chassidim, then we would be Chassidim of the Ben Ish Hai."

Pearls from the holy words of our teacher, the Gaon and Tzaddik Rav Eliezer Berland shlit"a, as delivered from Ayalon Prison in Ramla in honor of the holy Hillula.

The prisoners in the background sing with joy: "The Torah of Hashem is perfect, restoring the soul!"

"Pure! Pure! Pure! The main thing is to be pure! 'Do not steal'."

"A person comes to live a thousand years, a person is born to live a thousand years! That is what he is born for, at least a thousand years! 1300 years, 3000... Serach bat Asher lived forever."

"Aaron is buried on Mount Hor."

"...All those with blemishes. To heal all those with blemishes, just like at the Giving of the Torah, everyone saw, everyone heard in one moment, to heal all the blind."

"A person comes into the world only to live 3000 years, if not then 700, 400."

"The Ba'al HaTurim writes that once every daughter was a prophetess, every daughter! There were 600,000 prophetesses! 7 houses received prophecy, like Channah."

"'Seventy were hired for bread,' the seventy sons of Haman. Where did all of them come from?! Part from India, part from Nepal... they heard that they were going to hang Mordechai and they all arrived. Suddenly, 70 sons of Haman land, everyone lands to arrive at the ceremony, 70 million people for the ceremony, everyone wearing turbans, splendor and majesty, beds of silver and gold, such a ceremony had not existed since the creation of the world. Everyone is clapping, now they are going to hang (Mordechai, as it were), suddenly, boom! What? They see Haman! They went into shock, they ran to Mordechai, they asked for forgiveness, they lay on the ground, 'Step on me, trample me!' Like Antoninus to Rebbe! Like Nebuchadnezzar to Daniel! What weeping... what screams! An ocean of tears! From that, the Pacific Ocean was formed... from the 70 sons of Haman."

"I was at sea on my yacht, suddenly a hundred-meter wave arrived, we crashed on the spot, the yacht fell apart. The whale arrived with a straw fishing rod, a cannon is straw. Once, all the cannons were made of straw, they would fire catapult stones... straw! Straw is like a cannon. The whole point is that the cannon should turn into straw, it turned into straw, from where? The sound of a cannon."

"In Amsterdam, there is a sect, the Chida and the Gaon sent endless money there, millions, billions... they hid it. The Sadducees would cheat, they thought it was permitted to cheat, there are indictments, now they are uncovering everything."

Rav sings with Anash: "Odem, Pitdah, Bareket..." Miriam was set with all 12 stones of the Choshen, she shone like the sun at noon! "As the essence of the heavens for purity." Shining like Tzillah (the beautiful wife of Lamech, who had one wife for beauty and one for children) and Naamah (the sister of Tubal-Cain, whom the angels were mistaken about because of her beauty), they shone like the sun at noon.

"...Because she was always hidden from her husband. Naamah had the sorrow of death every second, from the day she was born she had the taste of death. Tzillah came and took everything from her, so Tzillah tasted the taste of death, and Naamah, 'How beautiful are your steps' (Na'avu) - the acronym is 'Naamah'. A person comes into the world to be Naamah, that is why he is born, so that the syndicate (union) will be his, that is why he is born. Syndicate... she brought to Tzillah, and Tzillah to Adah, and Adah brought to Tubal-Cain, he is Job, Tubal-Cain is Job."

"Only scorpions! In the morning you will eat scorpions, at noon scorpions, at night scorpions! If you choose me as king, you will receive scorpions, not whips, scorpions! 'My little finger is thicker than my father's waist' - my tiny fingers, my pinky is thicker than my father's waist! Who is his father? King Solomon! Who received terrible beatings!! He had a very difficult childhood, he only took beatings... if he got up after 4 AM... they broke all his bones! Galoshes, flip-flops, whatever you want... 'My son, my son, son of my womb.'"

"Miriam says to Amram her father, 'Pharaoh does not exist! There is no Pharaoh! Pharaoh is dead! There is no Pharaoh. Pharaoh is finished! Pharaoh is dead. Pharaoh is steam, he evaporated! The Egyptians all vanished! Vanished!'"

From the connection of Rachel and Leah, the Gematria is Balak Bilam, the connection of Rachel and Leah. When there is a connection of Rachel and Leah, everyone eats scorpions, only scorpions! Dinner is scorpions, morning is scorpions fried in crab juice... scorpions, you will only get scorpions from me! Scorpions. Say, 'We will bring you tractors, a bank...' What, suddenly scorpions?! Rehoboam wanted to bring down a Beit HaMikdash of fire! That is entirely burning with fire! Because they thought that already in the time of David there would be a Beit HaMikdash of fire! Fire, everything is fire. What did Acher say? 'What is this, did you come here to burn my house?' 'No, we were learning 'Va'etchanan' and suddenly there was fire!' There was a short circuit on the Shabbat hot plate... everything went up in flames... the whole building is ash... but white ash! Everything went up in flames but white ash... ash of holiness! Of Torah! Ash... (And Acher wanted fire to come out of his son Elisha, so he sent him to learn Torah not for its own sake, and therefore he eventually apostatized)."

"Scorpions you will receive from me, scorpions! Ketzot HaChoshen is called scorpions! A person must learn Torah day and night! That is the interpretation! Scorpions, also by day and also by night, he will learn Torah day and night! 'In His Torah he meditates day and night'... he came from scorpions, the sign of Scorpio. A scorpion has the most settled mind. A person is born with the sign of Scorpio, the sign of the scorpion. A person is born from a scorpion! Who circumcised Abraham our father? A scorpion! A scorpion will come and circumcise us like Moses our teacher. We came into the world for the sign of Scorpio. That is why we were born! The sign of Scorpio. And then a Beit HaMikdash of fire will descend! Solomon did not succeed in bringing down a Beit HaMikdash of fire! He brought down fire, it ate the burnt offering, the sacrifices, the offerings... but a Beit HaMikdash of fire did not descend. We did not succeed in having a Beit HaMikdash of fire. How much we cried... 'By the rivers of Babylon, there we sat and also wept'... we only wept day and night, we only wept..."

"Mordechai and Esther brought the Geulah... Rivka, Leah, that is the most important name. Rachel and Leah are the ones who will bring the Geulah! Only them! Rachel and Leah, that is why Jacob married Rachel and Leah. As soon as he married Leah, he brought Mashiach ben David! Judah - Mashiach ben David! Vizata is the Gematria of 'Mashiach ben David', Vizata at the tip, and he slid down. If he had done teshuvah, he would have been Mashiach ben David! He would ask for forgiveness from Mordechai and be Mashiach ben David... Mordechai came to ask for forgiveness, everyone became heads of Yeshivas ('From the descendants of Haman, they learned Torah in Bnei Brak' - Chazal)."

"'Oil shall not be lacking from your head,' oil brought the salvation, 'An olive leaf was in her mouth,' Mashiach ben David is an olive leaf. Mashiach ben David, 'An olive leaf was in her mouth!' An olive leaf!"

"515 prayers Moses our teacher prayed to enter the Land. Do you even know how to plead? 'Va'etchanan' is the Gematria of 515. You don't know how to plead at all. Have you ever pleaded at all? Did you ask at all? Ask for free gifts, let's see you! Without reward! A free gift! Come and ask with mercy. 'For he will multiply supplications to you!' Where is he going? To the whale. Do you even know what supplications are? Do you even know what 'Va'etchanan' is at all? ...To learn the entire Shas in one night. Start speaking in supplications, 'For he will multiply supplications to you, he will speak to you softly,' speak softly. Soft... softness... don't forget what happened, 'He will speak to you supplications. As straw, the cannon was considered!' The cannon was considered as straw! Where did the cannon come from? Where did they even have it a hundred years ago? They had it! Already 3000 years ago, 'As straw, the cannon was considered!'"

"A person comes into the world! A cannon syndicate! Where will he have a cannon, where will he bring the cannon from? From Nepal? From Tibet? He traveled to Nepal to bring a cannon. There are deep springs there, hundreds of meters, pits of 2000 degrees! The foot is immediately roasted... 'Bless my soul,' to sing there in Nepal every day 'Bless my soul,' whoever comes to Nepal says 'Bless my soul,' mountains of 8000 meters."

"And then suddenly Miriam appeared with Tarshish stones which are Jasper, 'Odem, Pitdah, Bareket...'" Rav sings again with Anash. Miriam the Prophetess wore all the Shoham stones, all the gates in Uman will be of Shoham stones! 'Kadkod stones,' 'Kadkod your suns.'

"...Poor thing, why did you laugh, what was there that was funny? On the spot he had a question, what is the question here at all? What is this Ketzot HaChoshen, a lesson in Rambam, what is difficult for you? What question do you have? It sank in the sea. Fine, it sank in the sea! He had a good yacht, it crashed for him... go out with joy and dancing! Poor thing, what did King Solomon already do? He broke his bones, puddles of blood... ambulances, it was in the newspapers, he claimed that he was protecting his wife, the daughter of the King of Norway, and she did not really convert.

Solomon's daughter 'Tafat' was all drippings, the stalactite cave dripping prophecy and holiness! 'Tafat, daughter of Solomon,' she was all prophecy from head to toe, she was born in the month of Shevat, the acronym is Sh-B-T, 'Tafat, daughter of Solomon,' everything is precise intentions. He won the lottery with her! Motzaei Shabbat, 'Shabbat Kodesh,' there was a raffle and 'Tafat, daughter of Solomon' came out for him, she was three years old, 'Tafat.'"

"After the lesson, we are traveling to Dubai."

"Miriam wore the stones of the Choshen, banged on the table, said 'Enough! Stop!' Screams up to the heavens! She overturned chairs, tables... 'I do not agree, that Father should return Mother immediately!' She had already married Elitzaphan ben Parnach... 'I do not agree! I do not agree!' Everything broke, she broke everything for them, 'I want Father to return Mother!' They made a Chuppah, a canopy, angels came... Lior wanted, angels took him, 'Gushu, gushu, quickly, quickly, run!' They hid in the end like Miriam the Prophetess, and then she came (Batya, daughter of Pharaoh) with 7 maidens... she was afraid they would kill her, slaughter her (that she is saving a Jew)."

"...Because of this, there is no budget in this country! Now Corona, 4 billion dollars a year..."

"...The most delicious in the world, the daughter of the Ba'al Shem Tov! They tied her to trees with ropes and they already sharpened the swords, she already saw the sword! 'This is the most delicious meat in the world!' And then Elijah the Prophet arrived in a carriage entirely of gold. He jumped from the carriage, untied the knots, the cannibals ran away... they arrived as far as Uman, they didn't have time to say Tikkun HaKlali and the police already arrived, the poor things didn't have time."