They Take Such a Holy Tzaddik and Humiliate Him by Force, How Did All This Befall Us?! Rabbi Grossman's Grandson on the Persecution Against the Holy Tzaddik Rabbi Eliezer Berland shlit"a

"This is not simple at all what is happening here, heavens be shocked and earth tremble, at this terrible situation in which the holy tzaddik Rabbi Eliezer ben Atyah Berland shlit"a finds himself. Such a terrible situation, it is truly wondrous and unrealistic that such a thing is happening, that they take such a tzaddik and humiliate him by force. He is bound in shackles and strange claims are brought against him that never were and never existed. Anyone with a bit of sense and who is connected to our teacher Rabbi Grossman understands and knows that such things are not relevant and do not exist, especially with the tzaddik Rabbi Eliezer Berland who is a holy and awe-inspiring man." These words are spoken by the grandson of Rabbi David Grossman and frequent visitor to his home, not to be missed.

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"Throughout all the years, everyone held that this tzaddik has no connection or relation to this world, this person has no connection to desires. He elevates himself moment by moment and day by day and has withstood trials that no tzaddik in recent decades has stood. Prison, persecution from country to country, while every moment he does not let go of the holy Name, not for a moment does he let go of the study of the holy Torah. Those who know the Rav know that he is attached every moment to the holy Name and even signals it with his fingers: Y-H-V-H, every moment you see him attached to the Shechinah with his whole being. Every moment he prays and learns and remembers Hashem - a piece of divine service."

"From the prison in Johannesburg, hundreds of books were taken out, he only requested books, even though he had no food and the living conditions were unbearable. The Rav told one of his grandsons that the world is immersed where they are immersed (immersed in nonsense), but the Rav is immersed in the letters of the Torah and prayer. It is written in Zohar Pinchas, that when the generation finds it difficult to accept the sufferings that come to them due to their state, the tzaddik suffers for everyone. And I ask myself how we did not realize that there are such judgments on the people of Israel that the tzaddik has to suffer such things. Maybe it's the internet? Rav Berland spoke a lot about the destructive influence of it and that corruptions are created from these defects, it could be from this."

"We need to do a lot of teshuvah and turn the world into a place of peace, and the main thing is not to let people speak - because it is a crime upon crime - the people whom the tzaddik revives, they are the ones speaking against the tzaddik. And God forbid that we should be among those fools, we should know and remember that the tzaddik revives us, he atones for our sins. How can we believe stories about a tzaddik who was in the hands of criminals, those who turned him into a money machine, and sold him for greed. They took him from lesson to lesson and everyone who spoke with him was charged thousands of dollars - can we believe them about a scandal they exploded about the Rav?! They are thieves and liars, they have no connection with kedushah! They harmed an entire community and locked up a Rav in Israel with lock and key and did not let him speak to anyone except the things they wanted - should we believe them?!"

"These wicked ones pay tens of thousands of dollars to another complainant to agree to lie, about them it is said: 'Those who speak arrogantly against the tzaddik with pride and contempt.' They are the criminals of Israel in their bodies and should we make them tzaddikim? From the time of the Gemara through all the tzaddikim of the generations until the students of the holy Baal Shem Tov there were tzaddikim who behaved in various ways and no one claimed against them that they committed a sin or did God forbid such a thing. Everything is based on halacha and it concerns a tzaddik who has no connection with thoughts and desires. We do not understand this and will not behave thus, but we need to know not to be fools and blind in darkness - to go and speak about such a tzaddik."

"And how do people believe this? He is surrounded by mafias and criminal people who exploit the nullification he has towards the conduct of Hashem, and they exploit this and threaten him that if he does not agree with them they will release false scandals about him - how did we fall into such a thing? How are people not careful to speak about such a tzaddik? The thing that angers Hashem the most is speaking about a tzaddik, it is like speaking with a father about his only son who sacrifices himself every moment for the people of Israel. Especially Rav Berland who every moment sacrifices himself to bring the people of Israel closer without food, without sleep, and without drink."

"About such a person can it be written that he errs and misleads from the ways of kedushah?! He is the one who brings people closest to guarding their eyes and avoiding defects. He who speaks most sharply about kedushah, the intense study of Torah, and prayer with melodies and length. All the things against him are lies and falsehoods and contrary to all straight logic. This tzaddik is far from sins, all his conversations and discussions are only about how to draw closer to Hashem, even from prison he only strengthened in the study of Torah."

"May Hashem grant us the merit to accept these words and not deviate from the path of truth."