WATCH: 28 Iyar -- Five Years Since Rav Berland's Return to Home After Exile

SOME FIVE YEARS AGO ON 28 IYAR 5777, AFTER FIVE YEARS OF EXILE, WE MERITED THAT OUR REBBE, RAV ELIEZER BERLAND SHLIT"A, RETURNED TO US.

SOME TWO HOURS AFTER THE RAV'S RETURN TO HIS HOME, AN INVITATION WAS EXTENDED TO THE ENTIRE COMMUNITY AND THOSE CONNECTED TO IT THROUGHOUT ISRAEL TO COME AND PRAY TOGETHER WITH THE RAV FOR MINCHA AND MA'ARIV, AND FOR THE COUNTING OF THE OMER -- CHESED SHE'BE MALCHUT.

BEFORE YOU, THE VIDEO FROM THAT HISTORICAL AND UNFORGETTABLE OCCASION.

WITH A RED CARPET, RAV BERLAND RETURNS TO HIS HOME IN JERUSALEM:

HISTORY!  RAV BERLAND PRAYS WITH THE PUBLIC IN JERUALEM FOR THE FIRST TIME IN FIVE YEARS: