"The More One Plays Music Like This

Presented before you is a summary of the daily lesson as delivered by our teacher, the Rav, Rabbi Eliezer Berland shlit"a (may he live long and good days) – yesterday after the Ma'ariv (evening) prayer, Monday night, the 28th of Teves, Parshas Bo:

So, regarding Parshas Bo, the Rebbe [Nachman] says in Torah 64—everyone should study it tonight. In another two and a half hours it will be Chatzos (midnight); they should study the laws of unloading and loading (laws related to helping others with their burdens). The entire matter is about song and nigunim (melodies). "Be silent, for thus it arose in [Divine] Thought"—stop asking questions about why they are cutting Rabbi Akiva into pieces. He was a reincarnation of Zimri, so for every lesson that is missed, one needs iron combs (a reference to Rabbi Akiva's martyrdom). Furthermore, Moses asks, "Why have You sent me?" Look what happened. Why do you care what I send? The Rebbe says that whoever is silent can play all the nigunim (melodies)—"Then you shall sing," "Look from the top of Amana"—for through nigunim, we bring all the apikorsim (heretics) back in teshuvah (repentance). Now, all the female hostages are keeping Shabbat, but now they will study in a seminary that will be opened in Be'eri, and then there will be no more female hostages. Agam Berger's mother said that they should not desecrate the Shabbat; in the end, her daughter will be released on Thursday. And Rabbi David Yosef wanted to give her halachic leniencies (permissions), but she didn't want them; she wanted to keep Shabbat according to the law. "If you walk in My statutes," then no weapons are needed. All the female hostages have returned in teshuvah (repentance). Now seminaries will open, and everyone will enroll in "Emunat Tzion"—these are the Rav's institutions. In another five minutes, everyone will be home. For every dress that is not lengthened, another hundred are killed. The secular people drove in an open jeep, exposing everything, following the ways of Parshas Metzora (the leper). All the tanks are made of cardboard (meaning they lack spiritual protection). Everyone should enroll in Emunat Tzion, and everyone should study Torah 64—that only through nigunim (melodies) do we bring people back in teshuvah (repentance). The more one plays music/sings, the more people return in teshuvah; it touches the roots of the souls. From every letter said with kavanah (intention), someone receives an illumination. Every girl needs to study the Book of Daniel; today everything is in Hebrew. The son of Antiochus received the Land of Israel, and Ptolemy, the father of the wicked Antiochus, exempted all the Torah scholars from taxes and required everyone to walk with tzniut (modesty). But his son was wicked—Antiochus, who was called Epimanes, which means "fool" in Greek. Now we are before Tu B'Shvat; on Purim, there will be the complete Geulah (Redemption). Everyone should study Torah 64 with his wife, for then they can bring everyone back in teshuvah (repentance) through the nigunim (melodies). By Tu B'Shvat, everyone will know "Likom" (the prophecy regarding the four kingdoms) by heart—about how it was broken into four, the four kingdoms. In the future to come, only 7,000 will remain who keep Shabbat, in the year 5972 (972 of the 6th millennium)—another 187 years from today—and then there will be the war of Gog and Magog. Therefore, everyone must study Torah 64 regarding the nigunim (melodies). "Be silent"—by being silent, one merits to play nigunim (melodies). Now, until Chatzos (midnight), say Tehillim (Psalms) and Tikkun Chatzos (the Midnight Lament), and every girl will be a seminary principal and bring all of Israel back in teshuvah (repentance).