The lesson of The Rav, Rabbi Berland shlit"a, from the night of Monday, 26 Tammuz 5782, Mas’ei, during the Three Weeks after Ma’ariv — “If a person merits to become Ayin, he can wipe out the entire Sitra Achra!”

How do we leave the Land of Canaan and enter the Land of Israel?

Jerusalem and the Beis HaMikdash were not burned!

These are his holy words:

Buki ben Yogli—everything was revealed before him: all the secrets, the upper springs and the lower springs.

Because Achsah (Achsah was the daughter of Calev ben Yefuneh, the prince of the tribe of Yehudah and one of the spies who did not speak evil about the Land of Israel. She married Otniel ben Kenaz. Her story appears in the book of Yehoshua, chapter 15, and again in the book of Shoftim, chapter 1) asked her father for water. In the Negev there is no water; from Be’er Sheva and southward there is no water. So he made for her the upper springs and the lower springs. And he said: the one for whom the upper and the lower are revealed, and who can see from one end of the world to the other—he conquered Kiryat Sefer. He was a king, a leader, for forty years. He is buried in the Cave of Machpelah, which extends all the way to Otniel ben Kenaz.

Therefore everyone needs to travel tonight to Otniel ben Kenaz—this is connected to the Cave of Machpelah.

Avner ben Ner is actually inside the cave itself. He is the one who released Yoav after Yoav struck him in the chomesh—meaning, in the fifth—so he lived another five minutes. He grabbed Yoav, and then everyone cried before him, “Release him!” and he released him.

That is why he is buried right near Avraham, Yitzchak, and Yaakov—because he is on the level of Avraham, Yitzchak, and Yaakov. Like Yael, (Shoftim 5:24) “Blessed among women is Yael… among the women in the tent she shall be blessed” = 1100. The ibur (soul-impregnation) that took place in Yael—Sarah, Rivkah, Rachel, and Leah—has the gematria of 1100. Meaning: Sarah, Rivkah, Rachel, Leah, and also David—because David, too, was me’uber (entered in ibur) within her.

A person needs to pray that David should enter him in ibur—then he will be able to say Tehillim all day. If David enters him in ibur, he will be able to pray all day like David.

Yael merited that David entered her in ibur, and through this she pierced Sisera—because it is possible that a person does not wake up; but if someone stabs him, he must wake up.

Yael pierced Sisera only in the temple of his head, and that was the miracle: “Between her feet he sank, he fell, he lay; between her feet he sank, he fell; where he sank, there he fell—devastated” (ibid. 5:27). “Devastated” is the angel Metatron (Matat). She sent the angel Metatron, and this is “And the mother of Sisera wailed” (ibid. 5:28). A mother cries—even an Arab woman, even a terrorist like Sisera’s mother, who was from Hamas—but she cried. And for what she cried, for what she managed to cry, they have been crying for three thousand years because of the tears she brought down.

“And the mother of Sisera wailed”—“wailed,” it is written in Sefer Karnayim, refers to the tent-peg, because she saw her going with the peg. They had screens back then—not backwards like today. They had screens back then without satellites; they could see everything happening on the battlefield: who shoots an arrow, who throws a spear, who throws a sword. Sisera’s mother knew that Yael was going with the peg, so she prayed—she focused her intention—that the peg should strike into her own heart, into her own head. But instead of it striking her, she saw that Sisera was not returning.

“And if not” (Shemos 32:32)—Moshe said: let someone come and say “Ayin,” because she merited to become Ayin—because if a person merits to become Ayin, he can wipe out the entire Sitra Achra.

And this is the entire avodah of the Three Weeks: to transform from the Land of Canaan into the Land of Israel.

“And Moshe sent them to scout the land of Canaan” (Bamidbar 13:17)—it is still called the land of Canaan. What is the land of Canaan?

The land of Canaan is when the Erev Rav rule over it! And before the end of the sixth millennium, for 28 years there will be their kingdom here. Edom will come and rule for nine months, and people will have to flee to the deserts; they will kill everyone here—and this will be in another 190 years.

Now it is the Erev Rav whose rule must be eliminated, and this is only through the Three Weeks—when we rise for Chatzos both by day and by night; then we eliminate them. Then we actually see the Beis HaMikdash, because the Mikdash was not burned, and Jerusalem was not burned. All the houses that were built now are on top of the houses of David and Shlomo; right now we are living inside the houses of David and Shlomo.

And whoever says Chatzos—“For you tear (paint) your eyes with kohl” (Yirmiyahu 4:30)—will see the Beis HaMikdash built, the Mikdash built upon its foundations.

May we merit the complete Geulah speedily in our days, amen.