You Need to be Bound to the Tzaddik Every Second

THE DAILY CHIZZUK BY OUR REBBE RAV ELIEZER BERLAND SHLIT"A -- "YOSEF LIVES AND ENDURES"

Sunday, 26 Adar -- "Whoever laughed when they saw David dance didn't finish their year"

These are his holy words:

"Moshe took the bones of Yosef" (Shemot 13:19) -- even Moshe needs to be bound to Yosef.

A person needs to be bound to the Tzaddik every second -- it does not matter if the Tzaddik is alive or deceased.  Yosef was already deceased, but this does not matter.  The bones of Yosef are with Moshe -- Yosef lives and endures.

Yosef lives and endures.  David lives and endures.  The Ari showed to everyone Avraham.  The Ari said, "Today you will see Avraham, today you will see Yitzchak, today you will see Yaakov, today you will see Moshe, today you will see Yosef, today you will see David."  Then the Ari showed to them the Seven Shepherds.

The Ari called to Avraham first.  He said, "This Shabbat is Shabbat Kodesh [parashat] Beshalach in which you will see all Seven Shepherds" -- the three forefathers; he showed to them Moshe and Aharon, Yosef and David...

Suddenly, they see Avraham ascend to the Torah, read in the Torah, say Barechu.  After this, Yitzchak.  They see Yitzchak mamash.  The students of the Ari saw Yitzchak.

After this, they saw Yaakov.  Yaakov descends from the heavens, approaches, says Barechu.  After this, they see Yosef HaTzaddik, the bones of Yosef.  After this they see Moshe, Aharon.

Before David was revealed, the Ari then said, "Whoever laughs will not finish his year, because 'and David dances with all his might'" (II Shmuel 6:14) -- the  main thing is to dance with all one's might.