We Need to Ask Forgiveness from Rav Berland for Suffering Due to Our Sins - A Jew Cries Out from the Depths of His Heart About What is Happening with the Righteous Rav Eliezer Berland shlit"a

In the many home gatherings that the righteous Rav Eliezer Berland shlit"a holds every night, there is an opportunity for many good people who still do not know the Rav to draw closer to the tzaddik. From this renewed reality, interesting meetings are created, as new people come closer, those who a year ago never dreamed of standing so close to such a tzaddik. "I have never met the Rav," shared a Jew excitedly who came to one of the home gatherings specifically to meet Rav Berland shlit"a. Then he began speaking words of Torah while connecting it to the terrible situation of the persecution of the true tzaddik.

Afterwards, this Jew turned to the main point that brought him to speak in front of everyone. "I was in South Africa," he begins his personal testimony. "I saw someone there building a mikvah for Rav Berland shlit"a, I told him to build it with awe and reverence because a great person is destined to immerse there. A year later, I happened upon a ship and saw many holy books there, I asked whose books these were and he also answered me, for Rav Berland. It was a Turkish non-Jew, but I immediately understood which Rav he was talking about. I asked him about the Rav shlit"a's daily schedule and he answered, 'Rav Berland did nothing but study Torah, and occasionally he would dance with me.' I told that Turkish man, 'If the Rav danced with you, you will lack nothing in life. After all, we learned in the Gemara about non-Jews who did less than this for tzaddikim and merited.'

I followed all the tribulations of Rav Berland shlit"a and said that it cannot be, such a Jew going through such exiles is not for himself. Such a Rav, these are sufferings for the people of Israel, the Rav goes from exile to exile for the people of Israel. It reminded me of the exiles taken upon themselves by R' Zusha and the Noam Elimelech. The Rav belongs to the entirety of the people of Israel, I heard how the Rav told someone to be careful when coming to the tzaddik, because he can burn with the breath of his mouth.

We need to ask forgiveness from Rav Berland for he suffers because of our sins. I remember that the rain stopped falling in Zimbabwe after the Rav shlit"a left there, I would have been very surprised if it hadn't happened. One does not meddle with Torah scholars, the one who does falls into boiling excrement. Woe to anyone who speaks against the Rav, he will not be cleansed.

May it be Hashem's will that in the merit of all the tribulations the Rav has endured, he will redeem us and bring us the Mashiach.