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The Real Reason Biden Withdrew from the Election Race • The Daily Lesson from the Gaon and Tzaddik Rabbi Eliezer Berland shlit"a

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The Real Reason Biden Withdrew from the Election Race • The Daily Lesson from the Gaon and Tzaddik Rabbi Eliezer Berland shlit"a

Before you is the full daily lesson as delivered by our teacher, the Rav, Rabbi Eliezer Berland shlit"a (may he live long and good days) — yesterday after the Maariv (evening) prayer, Monday night, the eve of the fast of the 17th of Tammuz, Parshas Pinchas:

"Everyone must say ninety Amens and ten Kaddish prayers, and four Kedushah prayers with 'Uva L'Tzion' and another hundred blessings corresponding to the numerical value of the letter Tzadi(k). Because we read in the Haftarah (prophetic reading) of Chukat two weeks ago about the daughter of Jephthah, who was a very rebellious daughter, wayward and defiant. She grabbed the knife against her father, [saying], 'Father, you spoke [the vow].' He already regretted it, tore his clothes, and wept. She said, 'You are not to regret it, I will not let you.' She took control over her father and brought him the knife. And then the knife dripped blood. And this blood entered all the waters in the world; therefore, it is forbidden to drink water from the tap at that exact second when the drop of blood fell. And then he — the Abudraham says — he did not slaughter her, Heaven forbid; he built her a house of Hisbodedus (secluded prayer). The Ramban brings in the name of the Ibn Ezra and the Radak that he built her a house of Hisbodedus on the mountains. And there, the girls would come to visit her for forty years, staying with her for two or three days to dance and sing. Because now she only dances and sings 'with drums and dances,' just as she went out to meet her father. 'With drums and dances' because Jephthah said to him [the King of Ammon], 'Why are you coming after three hundred years wanting a return of territories?' — just like Biden. As soon as he [Biden] said that the Jews are the murderers and the murdered are the Jews, all his words began to flip; all the words coming out of his mouth began to flip like those of Bilaam. The soul of Bilaam the Wicked was reincarnated (ibbur) within him; just as all of Bilaam's words were flipped, so too all of his [Biden's] words were flipped. Instead of saying Putin is the King of Russia, he says Putin is the King of Ukraine — the President of Ukraine. And all sorts of nonsense words began to come out of his mouth. And then they threw him out to the winds, and now we see great miracles. But still, five young men are killed every day, both in the north and in the south. Every girl needs to lengthen her skirt; from the age of six, it must reach the ankle, and she should sew up any slit or replace the skirt. Under no circumstances [should one walk without the aforementioned modesty]; this is a Torah prohibition. A person must know that their body is a body of the Satan, a body of a snake. 'Garments of skin (or)' refers to the snake shedding its skin; therefore, the Pirkei DeRabbi Eliezer and also the Zohar in Parshas Balak say that when the snake shed its skin, light emerged from one end of the world to the other. So the moment the snake shed its skin, Hashem (God) clothed Adam HaRishon (the first man) in the skin of the snake. Every boy and girl must know that their skin is the skin of a snake, and all the temptations and whispers — 'Come to Jaffa Street, come here' — [are from this]. After Maariv (evening prayer), everyone goes home; they don't wander the streets. This is the temptation of the snake; those who wander the streets are [following] the skin of the snake. And they don't go near Jaffa Street, they don't buy anything there; everything is available in Geulah (the neighborhood). There is no need to go as far as Jaffa Street. One can buy the most modern things in Geulah; there is no need to wander the streets. This is all the advice of the Yetzer (evil inclination), the advice of the Satan; therefore, we say 'And remove the Satan from before us and from behind us.' The moment all the girls walk in tzniut (modesty), as Rebbe Nachman says in section [37], that all the girls should walk in tzniut, immediately the complete Geulah (Redemption) will come, Mashiach ben David (the Messiah) will come, and there will be the complete Geulah speedily in our days, Amen!"

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