The daily strengthening from The Rav, the holy Tzaddik Rabbi Eliezer Berland shlit"a — from Hashem, only good descends to us

“Former of light and Creator of darkness” (Isaiah 45:7)

“From the mouth of the Most High, do not both the bad and the good go forth?” (Lamentations 3:38)

Friday, 12 Tishrei 5783 — Spiritual blemishes create harmful forces

It is written in the Zohar that someone who applies puch to the eyes can see the Beis HaMikdash made of fire.

“Former of light and Creator of darkness” (Isaiah 45:7)—I form light and I create darkness. For the “darkness” is the World of Beriah, a level that cannot be grasped; therefore it is called “dark.”

We just learned in Eichah: how can “bad” come from “good”? “From the mouth of the Most High, do not both the bad and the good go forth?” (Lamentations 3:38)—Hashem only does good; there is no evil in the world. There is no evil—rather, a person does evil to himself, because when a person becomes a heretic, he brings evil upon himself. The moment he becomes a heretic, he sees that everything is bad.

But Hashem, may He be blessed, only does good. Hashem does not do evil to anyone; a person does evil to himself. A person does not know how to conduct himself—he does not know how to behave with derech eretz. Derech eretz comes before Torah. The first thing is: derech eretz comes before Torah—derech eretz is greater than Torah.

“He makes peace and creates evil”—I make the “evil,” I make the good. Your “evil” is only that you commit sins, and then it becomes bad for you. If a person damages the bris, it becomes bad for him; if he spills seed (z”l), it becomes bad for him—“I am Hashem, Who does all these” (Isaiah 45:7).

With every discharge, he creates a billion demons—because what are the Nazis? They are demons. Hashem created the demons precisely in the moment of bein hashmashos. It is written that Hashem did not manage to create bodies for them. What does it mean, “did not manage”? What does Hashem need to “manage,” what?

Hashem does everything in a single second. He could have created them one second earlier. He did not “manage” to create bodies for the demons—why? Because if they had bodies, they would blur and confuse the entire world!

What are the Nazis? They are 80 million demons! Nazism gives birth to demons and more demons—and if they had bodies, they would destroy the world.

Now they are going to make a Third World War. Iran is two more months away from an atomic bomb, and it will immediately throw the bomb the moment it has its first atomic weapon.