The Holy Words of the Gaon and Tzaddik, Rabbi Eliezer Berland shlit"a, in Kiryat Gat - 10 Shevat 5779

"It is written in the Gemara (Jerusalem Talmud, Ma'aser Sheni) that all the women of Tzippori would always spend the Shabbos (Sabbath) in Jerusalem; they never spent Shabbos in Tzippori. On Friday afternoon before candle lighting, they would utter the Shem HaMeforash (the Explicit Name of Hashem) and arrive directly in Jerusalem. Also, every morning they would arrive for the Vasikin (sunrise) prayer in Jerusalem in the Kodesh HaKodashim (Holy of Holies). They would pray in the Holy of Holies because, in the end, the woman will be the Kohen Gadol (High Priest). Every woman who conducts herself with tzniut (modesty) will be the Kohen Gadol. Every woman is destined to be a Kohen Gadol, like Yael who crushed the head of Sisera."

"'And Hashem remembered Sarah as He had said, and Hashem did for Sarah as He had spoken' (Genesis 21:1)—Hashem remembers (blesses with children). It is written in the Scroll of Ruth, 'So Boaz took Ruth, and she became his wife; and when he went in to her, Hashem gave her conception, and she bore a son' (Ruth 4:13), because the pregnancy was from Hashem. A woman needs to be blessed with children from Hashem, not from a human being, like Rabbi Zeira. From today, every woman is blessed with children directly from Hashem; all the barren women are being blessed with children. Just like in Egypt, where Amram divorced Yocheved at the age of 130—because before the age of 130 it is forbidden to divorce—then Miriam came and immediately caused Amram to return to her mother. Miriam asked Yocheved, 'Why did Father divorce you?' Amram had divorced Yocheved because of the decree: 'Every son that is born you shall cast into the river, and every daughter you shall save alive' (Exodus 1:22)." "A person comes into the world only to live in Jerusalem, as the Chasam Sofer zt"l (of blessed memory) wrote to his student, Amram Chasida, that he should live only in Jerusalem ('And truly, before the Gaon and Rabbi Amram departed from here, I repeated to him twice and three times that he should dwell only in Jerusalem... and as the Ramban zt"l did, for even though the graves of known men of G-d are found in Tzfat, nevertheless, who would exchange this for the holiness of Jerusalem and the site of the Temple... and the aforementioned traveled with the intent to go by sea via Jaffa to Jerusalem, but the Master of Causes, blessed be He, diverted him via Akko, and he arrived in Tzfat. After he arrived there, he wrote to me and asked for advice if he should uproot [his place of residence] from there to Jerusalem. Then I said that I am reluctant to change [his status from "lying down" to "standing"], since he was already there and had established his residence. And according to his letter, it appeared that dwelling in Jerusalem was difficult for him, and I perceived his intention, that he only wanted to appease me for having gone against my opinion; therefore, I let him be.' Responsa of the Chasam Sofer, Part 2, Yoreh Deah, Siman 234). The Chasam Sofer told him: You are coming to Israel only on the condition that you come to live in Jerusalem; if not, do not come. But Amram Chasida came via Sidon and traveled on donkeys through Tzfat, and then he broke; he did not have the strength to continue to Jerusalem. In the end, two of his daughters passed away, there was an earthquake, and all of Tzfat was destroyed.