When Will the War of Gog and Magog Be?

Our Holy Master, the Gaon and Tzaddik Rabbi Eliezer Berland shlit"a (may he live long and good days), arrived yesterday, Wednesday of Parshas Vayeira 5780, for a home gathering in the Neve Yaakov neighborhood of Jerusalem. The Rav shlit"a arrived at the residence of Rabbi Rachamim Bracha, held a reception for the public, and delivered his holy words. We bring the main points, especially those directly related to the sensitive situation in which the People of Israel find themselves, as a malicious missile attack has once again awakened in the south.

"Today is the yahrtzeit (anniversary of passing) of the Chazon Ish (Rabbi Avraham Yeshaya Karelitz), the greatest day of the year. One can receive a spark from his soul. We are in the home of Rachamim Bracha. Rachamim has been with the Rav for 50 years, since the time he [the Rav] could still walk on his feet."

"In another two hundred years, the War of Gog and Magog will take place, but the blessings can be fulfilled every day. Gog and Magog can only occur in another two hundred years; it is written 'two-thirds' [of the millennium]. This is like receiving the Shabbos (Sabbath) 40 minutes before sunset. This week, for example, sunset will be at 4:46 PM, so we light candles at 4:06 PM."

"Everyone who comes to the Rav's lesson will live until two hundred, this one will live 300, this one 400, and this one 500—everyone will live 2000 years. We must be Shuvu Banim (returnees) and nullify the decrees."

"There was a siren today in Latrun, it was in Yesodot, they shot at a military camp. There is a military camp near Har Nof; they are attacking in the direction of Har Nof. It was five to five in the morning; we were exactly in the middle of the Daf Yomi (daily page of Talmud study). All of Highway 1 is in danger; they should travel on a bypass road. If they want to get to Tel Aviv, they should travel via Haifa or Be'er Sheva, and after that via the coastal road, Highway 3. No, Highway 2 is the coastal road, and Highway 3 is between Hadera and Geha until Ra'anana."

"There is no war; this is only for show. They need to receive a budget from Iran, and the Iranians stopped sending money. They want to show that they are in control of the situation. Everyone is telling them to stop—from Egypt, from Hamas—but they want to show the world that they are in control and they will decide when to stop. Israel does not decide, because Bibi [Netanyahu] has an agreement with them; they call it 'understandings'—let's say, they are allowed to kill up to a million people."

"We need to see that we will be after the million, or within the million and the Techiyas HaMeisim (Resurrection of the Dead). When they heard that Moshe (Moses) died, they prepared for the Resurrection of the Dead, but Moshe lived another 40 years. Once, there was an army only with tzaddikim (righteous people), not like today where there are also wicked people. The army does nothing; they fire missiles, missiles, but they do nothing."

"They are afraid to fire a single missile; if they just launch one missile, they [the enemies] will rain down a million missiles upon us. The main thing is that the Arabs fired; if the Jews fire one missile—heaven forbid—immediately Russia and America come to finish us off. 'You are also throwing missiles? You are worse than the Arabs who do it for show—you are doing it seriously.'"