They're Blowing up Empty Houses -- Rabbi Eliezer Berland Shlit"a

THE HOLY WORDS OF MOREINU HARAV ELIEZER BERLAND SHLIT"A -- 22 CHESHVAN 5784

Bezrat Hashem, everyone should learn Baba Kama, "The ox, the pit, the Mav'eh, and the fire" [chapter 1].  Everyone can learn this with his wife and also with his sister.  These are the simplest things in the world.  If an ox damages, if an ox gores.  It is written "If an ox strikes"  About an animal [that is gored], it is written, "If [it] strikes."  About a person [that is gored], it is written "If [it] gores."  “If [it] gores,” because a person has mazal [i.e. intelligence], so he requires more “goring.”  In order to gore a person, the ox needs to be cleverer.  It’s speaking about clever oxen.  The Gemara says that he [a pit owner into which an ox fell] is only liable for a deranged ox, a deranged ox at night.  A deranged ox during the day also sees the pit.  An ox also has instincts, he also sees the pit and he won’t [continue] to walk – he’ll go around it.  An animal is more careful than a person.  It is written that a child will put its hand into fire, but an animal won't.  A beast won't.  A cat would never put its paw into fire.

A small child will try to test if the fire burns or doesn’t burn, because he learned the Midrash of Avraham Avinu who was thrown into fire and the fire didn’t burn him.  This was not a proper fire.  This was a fire which doesn’t burn.  Because then they said to him, “Do you know why the fire did not burn you?  Because your brother Haran performed sorcery.”  They once knew how to perform sorcery so that the fire would not burn.  Haran was a great sorcerer; he was a priest of the fire gods.  So they said, “Haran performed for you this sorcery.  Now let’s throw Haran [into the fire].”  Then they asked Haran, “Whose side are you on?”  “I am on the side of Avraham Avinu.”  If Avraham would be burned, he would say that he is on the side of Nimrod.   If Avraham is not burned – because not every fire burns.  Fire does not burn Tzaddikim.

Chananiah, Mishael and Azariyah were inside the fire, and it did not burn them.  Nevuchadnetzar said to them, “Perhaps the fire will burn you.”  [They said,] “We are going in order to be burned!”  Like Haran.  Haran merited that Rivka descended from him [through his daughter Milcah, the wife of Nachor], and Sarah was his daughter, and Rivka was his granddaughter, and Rachel and Leah were her great-granddaughters, the daughters of his great-grandson.  Because he jumped into the fire, he merited that all his daughters entered into the Jewish people.  Because Rashi said in Chayei Sarah that there was not a kosher girl in Charan.  Today Charan is Turkey.  Once this was Syria.  Every time, it changes.  It’s impossible to know what will be in another year.

In Gaza, everything is already blown up, so we do not know if there will be a place [for us to live].  There are 40,000 houses there that are completely blown up, and another 200,000 houses half-exploded.  So everyone can choose for himself an apartment there, because everyone already abandoned there.  There is no one there; they are just blowing up empty houses.  There is nothing to blow up there.  The main bunker [of Hamas] is under Shifa [Hospital].  There are already some 4,000 terrorists in Shifa.  All the terrorists fled to Shifa.  Biden doesn’t permit blowing up Shifa.  So the main bunker is there – there is food there.  Instead of blowing up Shifa, they are blowing up empty houses.  Of course, everything is deception.  Be’eri is an hour distance from Jerusalem.  Someone who travels the slowest [possible], it is an hour and a half.  At 6:30, they already informed [the security forces] that 5,000 terrorists had arrived.  All the commanders fulfilled, “And you shall rejoice in your holiday.”  They slaughtered all the officers in the army bases like ducks, like roosters.

So Rashi says that there was no kosher girl [in Charan].  It is possible to travel to Charan to see the house of Rivka, the house of Leah.  Anyone can travel today to Charan – it is legitimate, it is permissible.  Maybe we will move to live in Charan if they evacuate us from here, because they evacuated Kiryat Shemona, Sderot, Shlomi.  They already said to them [the evacuees] shiurim.  Everyone should go to Kings Hotel to say shiurim.

We need to strengthen all the girls.  They want to do teshuva [repentance].  All of them now want to do teshuva.  They all understand that they made protests against the religious – from the first of November until the first of November – twelve months.  So they made protests.  All the protests were against religion, against the religious.  [After the Simchat Torah massacre,] they said, “Now we have received our blow.”  They thought that there is no judgment and no Judge.  So they see that there is a judgment and there is a Judge!  You can't make protests every Motza’ei Shabbat, to bring 100,000 people, to scream, “Democracy,” when the intention is a dictatorship which eliminates the religious, to expel the religious, because this was the entire goal of the protests – a dictatorship the likes of which has never been in the world.

Charan is after Istanbul.  The apartment of Rivka is there, the apartment of Lavan, the apartment of Betu’el.  So we will make sure that we receive all the apartments.  Because they know the first Rashi [in the Torah] – “You are bandits.”  You need to learn the parashah with Rashi now – this is only stories.  Every girl needs to learn the parashah.  All girls need to be in seminary, to be teachers – it is forbidden to be a minute late, [they must] respect the teachers, to not think that they are smarter than the teachers.  The teachers are still smarter than they are.  And bezrat Hashem, all the girls here will be principals of seminaries, and every seminary will receive a thousand girls.

Now there are here some 100,000 girls – in Jerusalem, who come from all the cities.  They want Torah lessons.  They want to do teshuva, to go with long dresses.  The moment that one does not lengthen her dress, another ten soldiers are killed.  Every day, ten soldiers are killed.  Today, it already reached thirty-five.  From Sunday, thirty-five.  We are already reaching the second week of the [ground] war, and this whole war is a lie, they are just deceiving people.  They are not blowing up the main bunker.  They are leaving this for Mashiach, because they believe in Mashiach more than we do.  We only want empty houses, sand dunes, empty tunnels.  This is what they are blowing up, so that they won’t be fired.

Because everyone want to fire all the commanders, because none of the commanders arrived.  They only arrived after they [Hamas] slaughtered all the kibbutzim.  They slaughtered them in the most merciless manner, more than the Nazis, things which have not been since the creation of the world.  This is worse than demons!  Worse than monsters!  This is the Satan himself!!  The Xiaomi is the Satan.

Every bachur (young man) who sees a Xiaomi, he needs to know that now a thousand soldiers are killed.  Every bachur who owns a Xiaomi, looks at a Xiaomi, this is such a blemish, this burns out the mind.  It’s already impossible to sleep during nights.  The sights ascend [to one’s mind], the terrible images ascend [to one’s mind] – worse than slaughterings, worse than murders.  Anyone who owns a Xiaomi has no place in the World to Come, that a person should know, and also in Gehinom they will not accept him.  Perhaps they will accept him in the last level – Avdon (Destruction), that from there already one never leaves, even during the revival of the dead.  All bachurim, smash their Xiaomi now, at this moment.  Take a hammer and smash the Xiaomi.

And all the girls lengthen the dresses until the ankle.  Bezrat Hashem, we shall merit to a complete redemption speedily in our days, Amen!