The Daily Strengthening from The Rav, the holy Tzaddik Rabbi Eliezer Berland shlit"a — “A Green Line that Renews the Months”

Tuesday, 8 Sivan 5782 — “How can you say about Esther that she was greenish?” These are his holy words:

Here we learn what the “green line” is.

Esther was the ugliest woman in the world. How could that be? הרי it says, “And the king loved Esther more than all the women… more than all the virgins” (Megillas Esther 2:17). It’s exactly the opposite—there was no beauty like hers since the creation of the world, even more than Vashti!

So how can you say about Esther that she was greenish?

So he says: “greenish” is from the verse, “And he armed (vayarek) his trained men” (Bereishis 14:14). What does “vayarek his trained men” mean? This is the green line that surrounds the entire world! The Tzaddik is the green line!

What do we say in the siddur? What do we sing?

“Bar Yochai, in the Holy of Holies, a green line that renews the months” (the piyyut Bar Yochai — Rabbi Shimon Lavi)

The Tzaddik is called the green line! What is “greenish”? It is the green line!

Here he explains what the green line is. For many pages he explains only what the green line is— all the holy letter-combinations and the entire Merkavah: a line that encompasses the whole world—the Beis HaMikdash, the home, the world.

A person can live forever. Whoever belongs to the green line lives forever; the one who is truly alive lives forever.

The stones of Bohu and the stones of Tohu—the green line encompasses all Four Worlds, the four camps of the Shechinah.

The green line is the line through which one lives forever. Whoever connects to the green line can live forever. “Who can bring a pure thing out of an impure?” (Iyov 14:4)—for they are not pure.

And therefore we eat (on the night of the Seder) the karpas: we begin with the green line. The greens are the green line; they are drawn from the green line.