"The Point Is: How Do We Pray"

The daily chizuk from The Rav, the holy gaon and Tzaddik Rabbi Eliezer Berland shlit"a — what do we do when we get up from bed?

“When Israel went out of Egypt” (Tehillim 114, from Hallel)

Monday, 23 Teves 5783 — Who will be the Kohen Gadol in the Third Beis HaMikdash?

These are his holy words:

This is what they said in Breslov: it doesn’t matter what time you get up—what matters is that when you get up, you must pray with cries, with fiery enthusiasm, with jumping.

Everyone has to enter into prayer. The whole importance is the time of prayer. If there will be prayer, then the nations will not take control over us—the nations took control because there is no prayer.

We have to enter into prayer—to stand for five hours, from five until nine, until ten. Now (Chanukah) we say Hallel, so we pray until ten. On “When Israel went out of Egypt” (Tehillim 114, from Hallel) we repeat it 10 times.

Each person is the Kohen Gadol. Anyone who learns Torah becomes the Kohen Gadol. Like Yael, who became Eli—even though she was a woman, she became Eli. Even a woman who walks with tznius, with a veil, with a shawl—she becomes the Kohen Gadol.

In the Third House, the women will be the Kohanim Gedolim. They will come again—every second there will be another Kohen Gadol. Unlike the end of the days of the Second Beis HaMikdash, when over 142 years of the Second Temple there were only four Kohanim Gedolim.