Below is a summary of the topics from the daily lesson as delivered by our teacher, Rabbi Eliezer Berland shlit"a – yesterday after the Maariv prayer on Tuesday night, the 4th of Tevet, 5786, Parshat Vayigash:

1. Rabbi Akiva heard from behind the door that he could go study for another 12 years, and when he returned after 24 years, Rabbi Akiva told his students that his and their Torah knowledge is hers.
2. The wife can make her husband a tzaddik. They asked Rabbi Edelstein what is preferable, a wise wife or a foolish one. He said that a wise wife is preferable as she will make her husband wise.
3. "Iron and copper are your shoes" that a person needs to have shoes in the secret of iron.