The Holy Words of the Righteous Rabbi Eliezer Berland in Kiryat Gat
10th of Shevat 5779

"It is written in the Gemara (Yerushalmi, Maaser Sheni) that all the daughters of Tzippori would always spend Shabbat in Jerusalem; they never spent Shabbat in Tzippori. On Erev Shabbat, before lighting the candles, they would pronounce the Explicit Name and arrive directly in Jerusalem. Every morning, they would also arrive for the Vatikin prayer in Jerusalem, in the Holy of Holies. They would pray in the Holy of Holies, because a woman will ultimately be the High Priest. Every woman who is modest will be the High Priest. Every woman is destined to be a High Priest, 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. It is written in the Scroll of Ruth, 'So Boaz took Ruth, and she became his wife, and he went in to her, and Hashem granted her conception, and she bore a son' (Ruth 4:13), because the conception was from Hashem. A woman must 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 ones are blessed with children. Just as in Egypt, where Amram divorced Yocheved at the age of 130, because before the age of 130 it is forbidden to divorce, so 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, 'And Pharaoh commanded all his people, saying, Every son that is born ye shall cast into the river, and every daughter ye shall save alive' (Exodus 1:22)."
"A person comes into the world only to live in Jerusalem, just as the Chatam Sofer wrote to his student Amram Chasida that he should live only in Jerusalem ('And in truth, before the Gaon Rabbi Amram departed from here, I repeated and tripled to him that he should live only in Jerusalem... and as the Ramban z"l did, even though the graves of known men of G-d were found in Safed, nevertheless, who would exchange this for the holiness of Jerusalem and the place of the Sanctuary... and the aforementioned traveled with the intention of going by sea via Jaffa to Jerusalem, but the orchestrator of events, may He be blessed, turned him via Acre, and he came to Safed. And 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 refrain from [advising] standing [as opposed to lying down], since he was already there and had established his residence. And according to his letter, it seems that living in Jerusalem was difficult for him, and I perceived his intent, that he only wanted to appease me for having gone against my opinion, therefore I left him alone.' Responsa Chatam Sofer, Part 2, Yoreh Deah, Siman 234). The Chatam Sofer told him, 'You come 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 Safed and then he broke; he did not have the strength to continue to Jerusalem. In the end, his two daughters died, there was an earthquake, and all of Safed was destroyed."
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