The Merit of Knowing You Are a Jew! • The Daily Lesson from Rabbi Eliezer Berland shlit"a
Below is a summary of the topics from the daily lesson as delivered by our teacher, Rabbi Eliezer Berland shlit"a – yesterday after the Maariv prayer on Monday night, the 9th of Shevat 5786, Parashat Beshalach:
1. Rabbi Elazar ben Arach was considered equal to all of them.
2. It is forbidden to speak during the prayer.
3. The Gemara in Chagigah page 14b says that Rabbi Elazar ben Arach brought down fire from heaven.
4. Abraham called Eliezer a donkey, because if you are with Abraham for one hundred and twenty years and you do not see fire, then you remain at the level of a donkey. In the end, he merited, through the merit of disgrace, to ascend to heaven with his body.
5. "We are all dead" Rashi brings that they saw that a woman lost all her children in the plague of the firstborn, and the real reason was because she went with other men.
6. "And it covered the eye of the sun" the locusts, although they were billions, did not step on each other and did not push each other, but each one went in order.
7. Tomorrow is the yahrzeit of the Rayatz, there was one who opposed Chassidut and all his children left the path. In his distress, he turned to the Rayatz and asked for forgiveness, and then he told him that his grandchildren would already repent.
8. Hashem said to Pharaoh, you called them "many" (lest they multiply), I will bring upon you locusts.
1. Rabbi Elazar ben Arach was considered equal to all of them.
2. It is forbidden to speak during the prayer.
3. The Gemara in Chagigah page 14b says that Rabbi Elazar ben Arach brought down fire from heaven.
4. Abraham called Eliezer a donkey, because if you are with Abraham for one hundred and twenty years and you do not see fire, then you remain at the level of a donkey. In the end, he merited, through the merit of disgrace, to ascend to heaven with his body.
5. "We are all dead" Rashi brings that they saw that a woman lost all her children in the plague of the firstborn, and the real reason was because she went with other men.
6. "And it covered the eye of the sun" the locusts, although they were billions, did not step on each other and did not push each other, but each one went in order.
7. Tomorrow is the yahrzeit of the Rayatz, there was one who opposed Chassidut and all his children left the path. In his distress, he turned to the Rayatz and asked for forgiveness, and then he told him that his grandchildren would already repent.
8. Hashem said to Pharaoh, you called them "many" (lest they multiply), I will bring upon you locusts.
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