The Kabbalist Rabbi Yehuda Sheinfeld - "Before the Redemption, Informers Will Increase in Israel"

The esteemed Rabbi Yehuda Sheinfeld shlit"a, one of the great kabbalists of our generation, and the father-in-law of Yom Tov Cheshin, the main opponent and pursuer of many rabbis and tzaddikim, including Rav Berland shlit"a, in a powerful interview about the difficult period we are in and the reasons for it.

The esteemed Rabbi Yehuda Sheinfeld shlit"a joins the struggle against the pursuers of the esteemed Rav Eliezer Berland shlit"a, and issues a sharp protest against those who cause disputes, the lowly informers who cruelly pursue the esteemed Rav Eliezer Berland shlit"a and the holy community of 'Shuvu Banim'. As is known, Rabbi Sheinfeld has known these opponents for many years and even has family ties with them. Rabbi Sheinfeld expresses himself thus: "Even the Nazis were sure they were doing a great mitzvah, these are crazy, drunken people who decide for rabbis what to say. A rabbi who does not listen to them is immediately slandered by them."

Rabbi Sheinfeld continues, "It is written in the holy books that at the time of redemption, there will be people who need to be expelled from Israel, and this will happen by them becoming informers against Torah scholars and tzaddikim."

After the list of rabbis and tzaddikim shlit"a who understood, like tens of thousands in Israel, that the pursuit of Rav Berland brought upon us the terrible disaster of the plague and its consequences, Rabbi Sheinfeld also joins in his vigorous protest.    

The full interview and transcript: 

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[audio mp3="https://www.shuvubanimint.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/קו-המידע-הרב-שיינפלד.mp3" autoplay="true"][/audio] "Does the esteemed rabbi know that our teacher Rav Berland has been sitting in prison for over two months for no wrongdoing, because unscrupulous people have falsely accused him? How can the rabbi strengthen us?" Rabbi Sheinfeld was asked.

"We spoke about what the tzaddikim say, that every tzaddik took upon himself the birth pangs of Mashiach, in order to save the people from war and to prevent difficult things in Eretz Yisrael."

"The 'Yismach Moshe' in Parshat Vayeshev says on the Gemara in Sanhedrin that before the redemption - informers will increase in Israel, there will be informers in Israel."

"The spiritual purpose (of Hashem) for having informers is to separate the impurity from the kedushah (holiness). People who need to be expelled from Israel before the redemption will become informers - this way they will be expelled from Israel and will not need to wait for the redemption."

"Normally, everyone is waited for to return in teshuvah, but someone who becomes an informer is not waited for to return in teshuvah."

How is it possible that people with beards and side curls are the ones informing against Torah scholars and tzaddikim, including Rav Berland?

"What can we do with the pursuers? The tzaddikim said this already two hundred years ago, that in the generation of redemption there will be people with long beards and side curls, and I do not want to say the rest about them."

We hear the rabbi's words and do not understand how these informers can think they are doing a great mitzvah?

"Indeed, everyone thought (in their crimes) they were doing a great mitzvah, even the communists, even the Nazis were sure they were doing a great mitzvah. No one thinks they are committing sins, everyone thinks they are doing good things."

"Those who pursue the tzaddikim and disgrace Torah scholars have a crooked mind, this is the definition of madness. What is madness? It is acting insanely while thinking one is the most upright! They walk crookedly and think they are straight. This is how the 'sitra achra' (other side) dresses itself in someone."

"What is a drunkard? That all sins are straight before him! What he does (disgracing Torah scholars) is straight, he is drunk, he dictates to the rabbis what to say, if the rabbis do not listen to him, he can slander them - because they do not listen to him. He (the pursuer) wants all the rabbis to listen to him, and whoever does not listen to him, it is permissible to slander him."

How can we strengthen ourselves in such difficult times?

"In this period, we must strengthen ourselves in simplicity and distancing from lashon hara (evil speech). As Rabbi Chaim Kanievsky said, it is written in the Torah that those who speak lashon hara are sent to isolation. People are going into quarantine, so we must do teshuvah for lashon hara and defects of speech."

What is our role in everything that is happening?

"The Rebbe of Klausenburg said during the Holocaust that the greatest revenge would be, if Hashem helps him and he reaches Eretz Yisrael, he will build a hospital, and there he will accept everyone without discrimination, this is the great revenge he will take. When he built the hospital in Netanya, he said this was his revenge against the Germans."

"The revenge is that Hashem will give Rav Berland the strength to withstand everything he has taken upon himself, this is the revenge that in the end everyone will see the rectifications Rav Berland made by accepting the humiliations - and then their faces will turn like the bottom of a pot."

"They will see against whom they went, this will be the greatest revenge - even if they merit to live, they will not know where to put themselves out of shame."

Rabbi Sheinfeld, you were close to Rabbi Chaim Cohen zt"l, the milkman, how did he relate to the persecution against Rav Berland?

"The milkman told me at first that when Rav Berland returns to the land, everything will pass and the persecution will end: but later (when the persecutions continued) he told me 'What can I do, the rabbi wants the humiliations.'

And how did the milkman express himself about those pursuers and informers?

"The milkman said about the pursuers of the tzaddikim and Rav Berland that they are truly insane."

Many tzaddikim and rabbis share the opinion that all the troubles that befall Israel are due to the humiliations and persecutions against Rav Berland! Do you share this opinion?

"Certainly, all the persecutions against Rav Berland, such a thing does not pass in silence, such bloodshed against Rav Berland and the community is not something that passes in silence."

"I can certainly say that part of what people have suffered is because of the persecution of Rav Berland - I am afraid to see what the results will be from above."