The daily strengthening from The Rav, the holy Tzaddik Rabbi Eliezer Berland shlit"a — “When you come to the Rav’s lesson, the judgments are sweetened”

“When he was zealous with My zeal among them” (Bamidbar 25:11) Sunday, 3 Kislev 5783 — “Zimri was the greatest Tzaddik in the world, but he needed a tikkun.”

These are his holy words:

When you come to the Rav’s lesson, the judgments are sweetened

Because Purim is above all the festivals—it is greater than Yom Kippur. On Purim it is possible to sweeten everything; there is no judgment that cannot be sweetened on Purim.

And even when you listen to a Torah lesson, you sweeten all the judgments.

Rabbi Eliezer said to Rabbi Akiva: If you had come to all the lessons, you would not have needed to go through all the suffering you went through—and what you still will go through.

Because Rabbi Akiva was a gilgul of Zimri. A person can be Rabbi Akiva, yet be a gilgul of Zimri—you came to repair Zimri.

Zimri was the greatest Tzaddik in the world, but he needed a tikkun—so he was reincarnated as Rabbi Akiva together with all his students; he had twenty-four thousand students.

“When he was zealous with My zeal among them” (Bamidbar 25:11)—Pinchas went and killed Zimri, who was such a Tzaddik, so G-d-fearing (the Rav joked). This was already at the age of 250.