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The Woman is the Guardian and the Wall of the Man, She Fences, Guards, and Fights for the Home! • The Daily Lesson from the Gaon and Tzaddik Rabbi Eliezer Berland shlit"a

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The Woman is the Guardian and the Wall of the Man, She Fences, Guards, and Fights for the Home! • 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 - yesterday after the Maariv (evening) prayer, Wednesday night, the 28th of Sivan, Parshat Korach:

"So the wife of On ben Pelet saved the entire situation. She said... [On ben Pelet claimed:] 'I am the head here, I am the leader here, they promised me the World to Come, they promised me everything.' [His wife said to him:] 'If I let [you go out], you won't [have anything—not] the World to Come, and not this world. You are exempt from Tefillin (phylacteries).' She brought him a bottle of champagne, whiskey with soda. Whiskey with soda is the best thing in the world; one can sleep for three days and three nights without stopping. Whoever wants to sleep for three days should drink whiskey with soda. [On ben Pelet] slept for three days and three nights without stopping, he did not put on Tefillin. [His wife said to him:] 'You are exempt from Tefillin. Since you are disputing Moshe (Moses), you are exempt from Tefillin.' He woke up and saw that everyone had already been swallowed by the earth. This was in the merit of the wife of On ben Pelet.

For every woman needs to be like the wife of On ben Pelet, 'The wisdom of women builds her house.' Because everything depends on the woman! A woman is the wall; a woman is: Techum (boundary), Chomah (wall), Chamot (mother-in-law). There are four permutations [of these letters]. Therefore, anyone who dwells without a wife has no wall. He is then breached in all directions, but the woman guards the man. She is the man's wall; she fences the home, she guards the home, she fights for the home.

Therefore, every woman should be either a teacher or a principal. Now we have from the 1st of Tammuz until the 1st of Elul, sixty days; every woman can finish all the studies for the coming year. And everything she missed—because it's enough if she knows a chapter of Tanakh (Bible), that's enough to be a principal. A chapter in Yehoshua (Joshua), a chapter in Shoftim (Judges).

And Judges begins with the story of the Luz – the Etzem Luz (the indestructible bone of the spine). They couldn't enter the city; the wall was ten meters wide. It takes three years to break such a wall, and there is no gate. Suddenly they see someone coming out of the ground with ten sons and ten daughters. [They ask him:] 'How did you get out?' He said: 'If I show you, woe is me.' 'Hezekiah said: He showed them with his mouth.' He twisted his mouth. Rabbi Yochanan says he showed them—he made a movement with his finger. At that moment, they wanted to fire a thousand arrows at him. Like they fire a thousand missiles in the Galilee, every day a thousand missiles. And Yoav [Gallant] traveled to Biden, [Biden] said to him: 'Stop whining, until they throw a hundred thousand missiles, I don't want to see you here. When they throw a hundred thousand at you, then come...' So they also threw a thousand missiles at him [the man who showed the entrance to the city of Luz], so what, did he whine? Did he travel to Biden? No, G-d forbid. So he went to Luz, and he was without a city. In that merit, they threw a thousand missiles at him, so he lives forever. He and his family, the sons and the daughters, no one died; he merited that his descendants, his descendants, his descendants [live] forever.
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