The Role of a Person is to Reveal the Menorah - Teachings of the Esteemed Tzaddik Rabbi Eliezer Berland shlit"a in Bat Yam

The esteemed tzaddik Rabbi Eliezer Berland shlit"a on Motza'ei Shabbat Parshat Lech-Lecha with holy words in a synagogue in Bat Yam.

Jacob took from Esau the precious garments and hid them

"And Hashem appeared to him in the plains of Mamre, and he was sitting at the entrance of the tent in the heat of the day" (Genesis 18:1). "Mamre was a rebellious son, he always defied the words of his teachers, the mouth of Nimrod, the mouth of Cush, therefore Hashem revealed Himself to Abraham specifically at Mamre."

"Ham stole the garments from Noah, he knew where Noah hid the garments of Adam HaRishon and gave them to Nimrod his son. With the garments, Nimrod went and conquered the entire world, anyone who saw the garments of Nimrod immediately fell and bowed to him, until Jacob said to Esau, 'You want to overcome Nimrod, take the garments from him.' All of Nimrod's power was from the garments that Noah inherited from Adam HaRishon, and Ham stole from his father and passed to Cush and from there to Nimrod. In the end, Jacob took the garments from Esau, wore them, and hid them, he buried them in Hebron."

"With the garments of Adam HaRishon, one can conquer the entire world"

"With the garments of Adam HaRishon, one can conquer the entire world, Jacob advised Esau how to take the garments from Nimrod with which he became ruler over 100 countries, until Magdiel (Parshat Chayei Sarah). Rashi explains that Magdiel is Rome and from there he ruled over the entire world. Until Joseph the tzaddik came and waged war with Tzfo the son of Eliphaz (Eliphaz had six sons: Teman, Omar, Tzfo, Gatam, Kenaz, and Amalek, according to the book of Josippon, Eliphaz's son, Tzfo, became the king of the Kittim after their liberation from the yoke of Carthage, see there)."

"From age 39 to 110, Tzfo the son of Eliphaz was in captivity with Joseph, when Joseph passed away he was released and became king over Carthage. Afterwards, he conquered Rome, the name of the city Geneva is after Tzfo, because they changed the name Tzfo to Geneva, which is also the month of January, the first according to the count of the nations. All this is explained by Abarbanel in chapter 35."

"Lech Lecha" and reveal the Menorah of the Holy Temple"

"Rivka says, "Go now to the flock and take for me from there two good young goats, and I will make them into delicacies for your father as he loves" (Genesis 27:9). Hashem says to Abraham, "Lech Lecha" (Genesis 12:1), gematria 343, I tell you 343, why do you insist on a hundred (the rabbi shlit"a humorously responds after asking the public what the gematria of - Lech Lecha is). "Lech Lecha" together with the word, 'Abraham', is gematria 343 = 7*7*7."

"Hashem says to Abraham, "Lech Lecha" and reveal the Menorah of the Holy Temple, light the Menorah, because with Sarah the candle did not go out, with Rachel the candle did not go out, with Leah the candle did not go out. Serach the daughter of Asher is - Sarah, Rachel, and Chana. Thus it is written in Zechariah, "And he said to me, What do you see? And I said, I have seen, and behold, a Menorah all of gold, with a bowl on its top, and its seven lamps thereon, seven and seven pipes to the lamps, which are upon its top" (Zechariah 4:2). "For behold the stone that I have laid before Joshua; upon one stone are seven eyes" (Zechariah 3:9), this is the golden Menorah that our father Abraham revealed. 7*7*7 = 343, the gematria of 'Abraham Lech Lecha'. Because the entire role of a person is to reveal the Menorah, this is the whole matter of Parshat Vayera."