Whoever Leaves Jerusalem - They Were Removed from the Note • The Daily Lesson from Rabbi Eliezer Berland shlit"a

Below is a summary of the topics from the daily lesson as delivered by our teacher, Rabbi Eliezer Berland shlit"a – yesterday after the Maariv prayer on Sunday night, the 8th of Shevat, 5786, Parshat Beshalach: 1. Everyone must say "Tzaddik" - 90 Amens, 4 Kedushahs, 10 Kaddishes, 100 Amens. We do not speak during prayer here. 2. Only Moshe Rabbeinu truly did not eat or drink for 40 days and 40 nights. There was a priest who secluded himself for 40 days and 40 nights, and in the end, it was discovered that he took vitamin pills as a substitute for food and drink. 3. Esau did not want Isaac to see him killing Jacob, so he made a plan to marry Machalat, and then Ishmael would kill Isaac, allowing him to kill Ishmael and Esau. 4. The reason for killing the wayward and rebellious son is because at age 13, one can already know what he will become. 5. The issue of tithing assets: If there are ten daughters and ten sons, the daughters receive a tithe of the assets more than the sons from the inheritance. 6. Adam HaRishon saw that the day was getting shorter, so he fasted until the 1st of Tevet, when the day begins to lengthen, and therefore he lit candles. 7. The story of the serpent with seven heads, which is the secret of the incident of the concubine in Gibeah. 8. The daughters have intelligence a billion times more than the sons. The daughters can be teachers and heads of state, presidents. 9. Like Queen Helena, all her sons converted, and she also converted. She vowed Nazirite vows for her son to return from battle. There is a discussion about whether her Nazirite vow took effect and how many years she was a Nazirite. 10. The Chatam Sofer writes that a person who lives outside of Jerusalem is violating a Torah prohibition. There is a note of Jerusalem, and whoever leaves Jerusalem, it shows they were removed from the note. 11. Eliezer did not understand why Abraham sent him to take a wife from the most disreputable place. 12. "There is no house without a dead person," when it was revealed that all the sons were firstborns, meaning they went with other husbands. 13. Everyone must study with his wife the laws of Erev Gimmel and read about the Crusades. 14. It is written "And He called to Moshe, and Hashem spoke to him," seemingly a repetition, but the Ari explains that "And He called" is the highest level.