Through Torah Study, a Person Can Create Six Hundred Thousand Angels in a Single Day • The Daily Lesson from Rabbi Eliezer Berland shlit"a

Below is a summary of the topics from the daily lesson delivered by Morinu HaRav Eliezer Berland shlit"a – following the Maariv prayer on Tuesday night, the eve of 22 Adar 5786, Parshas Vayakhel-Pekudei:

1. The main thing is to do everything with alacrity (zerizus); one should immerse in the mikvah in just two minutes.

2. Everyone should learn with his wife about the "maros hatzovos" (the copper mirrors of the women). Moshe Rabbeinu did not want to accept these mirrors [for the Mishkan], but a Heavenly Voice (Bas Kol) emerged and said that it was in the merit of the women who beautified themselves for their husbands with these mirrors that the Jewish people continued to exist.

3. Even before the Giving of the Torah, the women saw Hashem face to face. The Egyptians tried to seize the babies, but the angels received the children before they could be thrown into the Nile.

4. A person needs to know how to sleep according to what the Rebbe [Rebbe Nachman] says, not according to what he feels like doing. One must both sleep and learn, but he should learn twice as much as he sleeps.

5. When a person comes to Shuvu Banim, he needs to learn and pray for twelve and a half hours a day. Through this, he merits to create six hundred thousand angels in a single day.

6. We say "Shalom Aleichem" [on Friday night] to the angels that were created throughout the entire week. Therefore, one must recite it; otherwise, the angels leave and do not remain.

7. Rav Chaim Kanievsky zt"l knew exactly where every single letter in the Torah appears. They asked him where the word "Get" (divorce document) appears in the Torah. He told them that it does not exist in the entire Torah—because a "Get" represents separation, not connection.

8. Through the tzaddik, everything connects. A man should buy his wife marmalade or a box of chocolates every day. He needs to buy her a new garment; if he can buy her a dress, that is the best.

9. One needs to study the apparent contradictions in the Tanakh. How is it that at one point King Shaul says [about David], "and he loved him greatly," and yet later he asks, "Whose son is this youth?" The answer is that Shaul was asking whether David descended from Peretz, who is destined for kingship, or from Zerach, who is destined for wealth. Doeg the Edomite said to him, "Before you ask about his lineage, ask if he is even a legitimate Jew at all, because the verse states, 'An Ammonite or Moabite shall not enter the congregation of Hashem' [and David descends from Ruth the Moabite]."

10. The Yeshuos Moshe [the Vizhnitzer Rebbe, zt"l] learned Ketzos HaChoshen every night. The Ketzos HaChoshen centralizes the entire Talmud (Shas).

11. Rebbe Nachman's father-in-law saw that Rebbe Nachman seemingly wasn't learning anything. He gave him a test, and Rebbe Nachman pretended that he truly didn't know anything. Then, one of the tzaddikim said to the father-in-law, "Do not speak against the grandchildren of the Baal Shem Tov!!!" Afterwards, his deceased father appeared to him [in a dream] and rebuked him, saying, "You tell such a great tzaddik to recite Mishnayos??!!"

12. David approached Goliath with a stick. Goliath said to him, "Am I a dog?" David replied, "You are a dog, the son of a dog"—because his mother conceived him from a dog.