The Names of the Tzaddikim One Should Say Every Day

The Daily Chizuk from our teacher, the Gaon and Tzaddik, Rabbi Eliezer Berland shlit"a – "One must recite the names of these three tzaddikim every day"

Sunday, 3 Tammuz 5782 – Yotam never saw a woman in his life, these are his holy words:

It is written in the Sephardic Machzorim that when one takes out the Torah scroll, one must say that it is in the merit of Rabbi Shimon bar Yochai.

It is written in "Gilgulei Neshamot" (Transmigration of Souls) that Rabbi Shimon was a reincarnation of King Yotam, son of Uzziah; he never sinned in his life, he was a reincarnation of Yotam.

["And Chizkiyah said, Rabbi Yirmiyah said in the name of Rabbi Shimon bar Yochai: 'I can exempt the entire world from judgment from the day I was created until now, and if my son Eliezer were with me - from the day the world was created until now, and if Yotam son of Uzziah were with us - from the day the world was created until its end'" (Babylonian Talmud, Sukkah 45)]

If Rabbi Shimon had been with Rabbi Elazar son of Rabbi Shimon and Yotam son of Uzziah, all sins would have been forgiven.

One must recite the names of these three tzaddikim every day: Rabbi Shimon bar Yochai, Rabbi Elazar son of Rabbi Shimon, who can exempt the entire world from judgment, "and if my son Eliezer were with me - from the day the world was created until now."

And with Yotam son of Uzziah, from the day the world was created until its end. Rashi says that Yotam did not commit any transgression; he was the only king who did not commit any transgression. He grew up inside the cemetery; he never saw a woman in his life, he saw nothing.

Just as it is written about the two sons of Shimon HaTzaddik, that they did not know how to distinguish between a man's garment and a woman's garment, because they had never seen how a woman dresses.

So one must ask, how do you take such a High Priest who does not know how one dresses at all? A High Priest needs to know that it is a service, how to dress, what to wear.

Now they brought him to teach him; one dressed the other, Choni dressed Shimi and Shimi dressed Choni.