What Did Rabbi Berland shlit"a Hear on the Way to Kerestir? How Do We Bring the

How are we saved from the questions about Hashem’s way of running the world?

Why does Avraham send Eliezer to bring a wife for his son from the most impure place in the world?

How will Eliezer find a kosher daughter for Yitzchak from within all the impurity of Charan?

These are the holy words of The Rav, Rabbi Eliezer Berland shlit"a:

Rebbe Nachman says that the word “kushya” (a difficult question) is an acronym for: “Shema Hashem koli ekra” (Tehillim 27:7).

Eliezer, Avraham’s servant, had questions about Avraham Avinu: “You’re sending me to bring a shidduch for Yitzchak from Saddam Hussein—where are you sending me?! To take a kallah from Saddam Hussein, the daughter of Besuel? Because Besuel was the Saddam Hussein of our times—Besuel was the king of Charan.” So Eliezer had terrifying questions: “How can you send me to a place where everyone has a ‘Xiaomi’ (a non-kosher phone)?”

Rashi says that in Charan there wasn’t a single kosher daughter—everyone was already disqualified, damaged, wicked, and debased. But about Rivkah it says, “And no man had known her” (Bereishis 24:16).

Eliezer asked Avraham: “How will I find the kosher daughter? How will I find her? How will I check her? What should I do?”

Avraham answered him: Hashem is with him—it’s not you who will go; rather, “My angel will go before you” (Shemos 32:34), because wherever a person goes, angels go ahead of him.

Besuel wanted to poison Eliezer, but the plates were switched—and they didn’t notice that the plates had been switched. They thought Eliezer ate the poison.

They said to themselves: If Eliezer ate the poison, then how did Besuel die? That they could no longer understand! They knew there is sorcery—Bilam is a sorcerer—but that one person eats the poison and the other one dies? So they told him, “Take the girl (Rivkah) and go from here. Run from here. We don’t want to see you here in Charan anymore.” They literally drove him out in disgrace. He had ten camels, and he placed Rivkah on the camels.

And then they took me to the Kerestirer (northeastern Hungary), and since then, truly, everything here has been working out—there’s a whole new world here.

From there we continued to Yismach Moshe (Hungary). After that we drove for about 20 minutes on a “singing road.” There is a road there where the car drives and “plays music” with the wheels—this kind of melody comes out. The Rav says the main thing is the niggunim (melodies): “Then Moshe and the Children of Israel will sing” (Shemos 15:1).

The whole inyan of Rebbe Nachman is only niggunim. Rebbe Nachman says, “Then Moshe and the Children of Israel will sing”—everything is only through niggunim.

Niggunim lift up the tefillah. One needs to sing before the tefillah and also after the tefillah: “Then Moshe and the Children of Israel will sing” (Shemos 15:1). “You will come, you will gaze, from the top of Amanah” (Shir HaShirim 4:8)—and then we take the whole world out of apikorsus (heresy).

Through niggunim it’s possible to take the entire globe out of apikorsus. The more we play and sing, the more the complete Geulah will come speedily in our days, amen.