The Righteous Rabbi Eliezer Berland shlit"a in Dimona - "The Tzaddik Said to Go
So One Must Not Hesitate"

"In two weeks is the Tenth of Tevet; we must transform the Seventeenth of Tammuz into a day of feasting and joy. Tisha B'Av began in the Second Temple, after the destruction of the First Temple. Devorah the Prophetess told Barak to go, but he did not want to, and therefore he lost out. Devorah the Prophetess said to go, the tzaddik said to go, but Barak hesitated. If a person hesitates, his law is death."
"Devorah told Barak ben Avinoam that one must go, one must advance; a person must advance. 'And they did not drive out the Canaanite who dwelt in Gezer; but the Canaanite dwelt in the midst of Ephraim unto this day, and became a servant to do taskwork' (Joshua 16:10). And then what happened? 'And after him was Shamgar the son of Anath, who smote of the Philistines six hundred men with an oxgoad; and he also saved Israel' (Judges 3:31). 'Shamgar the son of Anath' was the son of Moshe Rabbeinu; Yael was the wife of Moshe, and Devorah was Moshe himself."
"Shamgar was a spark of Gershom, the son of Moshe; Yael was a spark of Tzipporah. Whoever merits to be a spark of Tzipporah will bring the complete Geulah. A person comes into the world to be a spark of Tzipporah; Tzipporah is Feiga. The entire purpose of a person is to be a spark of Tzipporah, like Yael. 'And Yael went out to meet Sisera, and said unto him: Turn in, my lord, turn in to me; fear not. And he turned in unto her into the tent, and she covered him with a rug' (Judges 4:18). 'And she covered him with a rug' (vat-khasehu ba-smi-khah) has the gematria of Tzipporah; that is why Tzipporah would fly in the air."
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