The Holy Words of Our Teacher, His Holiness Rabbi Eliezer Berland shlit"a on the Night of Tisha B'Av 5780

"And the middle bar shall pass through, from end to end." It is from the tree that Avraham Avinu planted in Be'er Sheva, and when the Children of Israel crossed the sea, the ministering angels cut the tree and threw it into the sea, and it floated on the water. The angels proclaimed: This is the tree that Avraham planted in Be'er Sheva, where he prayed before Hashem and called upon the name of Hashem. The Children of Israel took it and made from it the middle bar, seventy cubits long. When they would insert it into the boards of the Mishkan, it would roll and turn from end to end like a snake. And when they would remove it, it would stretch like a stick" (Language of the Midrash, Targum Yonatan ben Uziel).

Our teacher Rav Berland says:

"Here in Tzalmon is the middle bar, here is the place where they planted the middle bar, after which they brought it down to Jerusalem. Eight cubits into the ground. Our Rebbe says (Likutei Moharan 286) "Only through the gates, for there are gates, which are the aspect of the gates of Gan Eden, through which one merits to enter Gan Eden, meaning to attain the higher wisdom and the lower wisdom. However, these gates are hidden and buried in the earth, in the aspect of (Eicha 2): "Her gates have sunk into the ground"". Through the recitation of the lamentations, the gates are lifted anew and the Holy Temple is rebuilt - especially on the night after the lamentations when everyone travels to Meron, to Chevron."

"The sons of Korach did not die..., everyone cries out Moshe is true and his Torah is true. Tisha B'Av arrives and everyone cries out Moshe is true and his Torah is true. The tzaddik is the truth, even if they say Moshe is dead - Moshe is not dead, he continues to live, alive and existing forever."

"And indeed, 'Luz' was the name of the city at first" (Genesis 28) Luz is the resurrection of the dead (Likutei Moharan 85)".

"Nuts called Luzim hint at the aspect of Leah, which is in the neck, which is the first female, and afterwards, they enter the Holy Temple, which is the aspect: Yaakov called it Bet El (Pesachim 88) and this is what Rashi explains (Judges 1), that through Luz, they enter Bet El and this is (Isaiah 40): 'Comfort, comfort' comfort is the gematria of the neck, which is the aspect of the neck, through which they enter Bet El and this is the three weeks which are twenty-one days between the straits and corresponding to this in the Luz tree, for this reason, we eat an egg at the concluding meal on Tisha B'Av because the egg completes in twenty-one days as our sages, of blessed memory, said (Bechorot 8, see Tosafot there). A hen lays in twenty-one days, etc., and corresponding to this in the Luz tree and this is the Luz bone in the neck of a person, which remains after the body's decay and from it, the body will be renewed at the time of the resurrection of the dead and this is our main comfort, the aspect of comfort, comfort as mentioned above, for concerning the body it is said (Ruth 3): 'Lie until the morning', which is the time of resurrection and behold in the morning and behold it is Leah (Genesis 29) that is the Luz bone mentioned above, through which the body is rebuilt and because all of Yaakov's intention was for Rachel, it is said concerning the children of Rachel, that is Yosef 'and to the head of the Nazir of his brothers' (Genesis 49) and in Benjamin it is written (Deuteronomy 33) 'and between his shoulders he dwells' a hint, that through the aspect of Leah, which is first, one can come to the aspect of Rachel, head and shoulders, this is the aspect of the Luz mentioned above, neck gematria 350, initials: Shabbat Nachamu, a hint to the above."

"Luz is the time of the resurrection of the dead, now is the time of the resurrection of the dead, 370 lights."

"A person dies because the divine light departs from him, the evil inclination extinguishes the light, and one must learn Torah to receive the light (Likutei Moharan 21). When a person opposes the tzaddik, he immediately dies, literally, he has no light - Tisha B'Av is the day when one hears Hashem, sees Hashem face to face."

"Whoever mourns for Jerusalem - merits and sees her joy" (Taanit 30b), the whole point of Tisha B'Av is to cry over the destruction."

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"The entire month of Av is a lion, "A lion has roared, who will not fear" (Amos 3:8), the lion from the chariot accompanies us and guards us in all our ways, everywhere. 30,000 lions accompany every Jew and Jewess on the eve of Shabbat before they enter the Kiddush. "Who and who are going" (Exodus 10:8) that Pharaoh asked Moshe and Aharon."

"When eating the egg and dipping it in ashes, there is an elevation for all the wicked in the world, because the ashes hint that they have no spark. There is an elevation for all the nations, all the wicked, all the heretics, all the criminals, that everyone will say lamentations until the morning. Because they ascend to Adam Kadmon, "to appoint unto them that mourn in Zion, to give unto them beauty for ashes" (Isaiah 61:3), because "and to the head of the Nazir of his brothers" (Genesis 49). Yosef danced for 22 years without stopping, like Serach daughter of Asher who only danced."

"If a woman dances for Hashem, then she enters Gan Eden with her body, like Jezebel who killed 600,000 prophets. What, Hashem couldn't send one lightning bolt to kill her? But she always

to bring joy to the bride, so she couldn't be killed! "And it shall come to pass, because ye hearken" (Deuteronomy 7:12), that they lift and leap in dances the heels and sweeten the judgments. So they make a unification of the sun and the moon, all of Tisha B'Av is the connection of the sun with the moon, because the Nunim were created."

"The rectification of the Nunim, Nun (fifty) gates of understanding. Whoever is called Yinon can rectify the Nunim."

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"Therefore, there is no Nun in the psalm of "Ashrei", because in Ashrei it is not possible to rectify the Nunim, only in "And it came to pass when the ark set forward" (Numbers 10:35), because the rectification is only done through the travels to the tzaddikim, to Chevron, thus the Nunim are rectified. Today is the fiftieth gate where all the Nunim are rectified, they ascend to Adam Kadmon near the height, the rectification of the inverted Nunim of "And it came to pass when the ark set forward"."

"On Tisha B'Av, we build Rosh Hashanah, now we pray that we can travel, that we can be at the gathering in Uman with 100,000 people. Four million people will come to Uman, everyone will do teshuvah and believe in our Rebbe. This is the last opportunity to cry on Tisha B'Av, there will be no more Tisha B'Av, this is the last one. Tisha B'Av is over, this is the last, last, we must utilize this Tisha B'Av to bring Mashiach, to rectify the Nunim. All day just travel, to Chevron, to Meron, to Uman - Rosh Hashanah everyone in Uman, there is no excuse not to come."

"Maybe because of the corona, they will gather in another place in Uman, ascend a mountain, but they will travel."

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"Everyone needs to rise for prayer at four in the morning, whoever rises at ten, his prayer is not accepted, therefore his sons..."

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