Who Burst into the Room of the Groom and Bride and Gave Beatings? • The Daily

Before you is a summary from the daily lesson as delivered by our teacher, Rabbi Berland shlit"a – yesterday after the Maariv (evening) prayer, Tuesday night, the 26th of Adar, Parshat Pekudei:

It is written, "And the men came upon the women" (Exodus 35:22). The women woke up at three in the morning, while the men used to wake up at ten. Ten thousand women brought a mountain of gold. There was nothing left to bring, so they brought mirrors. We thought the women were stingy and therefore didn't bring gold [for the Golden Calf], but the men tore the earrings from their ears; therefore, they [the women] received Rosh Chodesh (the New Month festival). So the women wake up at three, and the men at ten or eleven. Like King Solomon, on the wedding night one should not sleep, and afterwards go to Vatikin (prayers at sunrise) and read Likutey Halachos (the seminal work of Reb Noson of Breslov). Then Bathsheba burst into the room of the groom and bride and gave beatings to her son on his wedding night. One must wake up as soon as the sky turns blue; one stands on the tower and says, "The face of the East has lit up as far as Hebron," and then they slaughter [the daily sacrifice]. Like Elijah who brought down fire, fifty-one people were killed, and another fifty-one, and another four hundred and another four hundred. So King Solomon slept until ten because she [Pharaoh's daughter] made the sky for him through sorcery; he wanted to wake up for the Netz (sunrise), but it still appeared to be night. They lengthen the day by an hour; instead of the Netz (sunrise) being at six, it's at seven, and likewise the sunset—all so they have more time to study. Another five hours until Chatzos (the midnight lamentation), then sleeping seven hours is enough for a lifetime. Every woman will be a seminar director; all the council heads want a seminar. The mother, Meirav Berger, said, "I don't know what I'll do, I keep Shabbat, what will happen when my daughter comes?" And similarly, the daughter didn't know what she would do when she started keeping Shabbat, thinking, "My mother will throw me out"—just like the sons of Helena [Queen of Adiabene] who both converted and didn't know about each other. So Bathsheba tied Solomon to a pillar and beat him with a sandal, saying, "For this lad I prayed" (Samuel I 1:27). I wanted you to wake up early to pray Vatikin (at sunrise). Is this what came from me? People will say David is the Tzaddik and I am a wicked woman. Do you want them to say the mother is wicked? Everyone prayed that he would be a king; I prayed that he would study Torah and pray and wake up for Vatikin. These were my prayers—that he would pray on time for three hours, five hours; I only made vows. So every woman should pray that she has a Tzaddik son who wakes up on time for Vatikin; from Shabbat, the Netz (sunrise) is an hour later. One does the Mikvah (ritual bath) in a maximum of a minute and nine seconds and then continues to Vatikin. The girls need to wake up at 7:25 to be seminar directors—that's a thousand times a thousand, which is a million girls. The entire nation is doing Teshuvah (repentance) now; it's most critical, the war has been renewed. A person must say, "It's all because of me," as we said on Saturday night. The IDF is an army for the sake of the Arabs; everyone needs to check that there is no child, etc... So all the girls should finish the Book of Psalms and Kings I and II, and say Chatzos (the midnight lamentation), and study everything necessary. The boys need to finish [their learning] during Bein HaZmanim (intersession), twenty pages of Gemara (Talmud) every day.