The Obligation of Reading Twice the Scripture and Once the Translation - The Righteous Rabbi Eliezer Berland shlit"a

Our Master, the Righteous Rabbi Eliezer Berland shlit"a, in a wonderful article about the mitzvah of reading the weekly parsha twice the Scripture and once the translation, and the abundance it draws for those who fulfill the mitzvah
The Rebbe said, "You can wrinkle my books as much as you want, but do not skip over a sign in the Shulchan Aruch."
In Siman 282 of the Shulchan Aruch, it discusses the mitzvah of reading 'twice the Scripture, once the translation', and it is a great wonder how the kosher and innocent children of Israel, who are meticulous about the mitzvot light as heavy, and are careful and enhance all the mitzvot in the world, in all the signs and sections of the Mishnah Berurah and all the commentators - and on the other hand, ignore and skip over a whole sign in the Shulchan Aruch with a coarse spirit and complete disregard as if it does not exist, God forbid?
Because through twice the Scripture and once the translation, one can sweeten all the judgments in the world, and merit an abundance of livelihood and expansion in all matters. To merit that the intellect will open and the fifty gates of understanding, all the barriers will fall from the mind and all delays and concealments will disappear in the blink of an eye as if they never were, as it is written, "Rav of the Yeshiva in Gan Eden said: A tree that does not ascend with light - they trample it.." (Holy Zohar).
Because through twice the Scripture and once the translation, one merits the level of neshamah, and the neshamah enters the body, and by virtue of the neshamah entering the body, one also merits the level of chayah and yechidah. As it is written regarding the daughter of Yiftach, and therefore she said, "And she said to him, My father, you have opened your mouth to Hashem, do to me according to what has come out of your mouth" (Judges 11:36). For it is said about her, "And only she is unique, he has no son or daughter from her" (ibid. 11:34), "And she said to him, My father, you have opened your mouth to Hashem, do to me according to what has come out of your mouth."
And then a heavenly voice came out "Do not stretch forth your hand against the lad" (Abudraham, Gate of the Seasons), and therefore everyone should read every day a part of the parsha (according to the Ari, read on Friday before the mikveh) twice the Scripture and once the translation. And through this, all the intellect will open, all fifty gates of understanding and the thirty-two paths of wisdom, and all the barriers will fall from the mind. Thus, a person can learn and read every day for 20 hours without interruption.
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