Your Word is a Lamp to My Feet and a Light to My Path • The Daily Lesson from

Presented before you is a summary of the topics from the daily lesson as delivered by our teacher, Rabbi Eliezer Berland shlit"a – yesterday after the Maariv (evening) prayer, Sunday night, the 2nd of Teves 5786, Parshas Vayigash:

1. Now, during Chanukah, everything doubles itself. As it is written in Hilchos Hoda'ah 6 (Laws of Thanksgiving in Likutey Halachos).
2. The Kurds saw themselves in the spring instead of a mirror; Avraham saw Sarah for the first time through the spring. It is forbidden to look in a mirror.
3. Now everything is doubled; this means that if 13 girls travel to Uman, it is as if the entire world traveled to Uman.

All those who were killed on Simchas Torah entered directly into Gan Eden (Paradise), but we want the Geulah (Redemption) here in this world.

1. There is a story of a man who swore to his wife that he would not remarry after her passing, and then the Maharshal (Rabbi Solomon Luria) annulled the vow for him. Immediately after the Sheva Brachos (seven blessings of the wedding week), he passed away. All of Lublin trembled, as they were certain he died because of the oath. The Maharshal placed a note in his hand summoning the Heavenly Court, demanding to know why they took him since he had annulled the vow. After being in the grave for an hour, he suddenly came back to life.
2. If I knew this, that he revives the dead, I would approach the grave of the Maharal (Rabbi Judah Loew of Prague) with fear and trembling.
3. In the Gemara (Talmud) on page 117 of Bava Batra, it is brought that Rav Kahana killed the moser (informer) and after his death, he resurrected him.
4. In Breslov, one must know how to move the sun. Even Methuselah moved the sun. For Abba Tachna Chassida, the sun shone specifically for him.
5. Rebbe Noson explains in Hilchos Hoda'ah 6 on the verse "Iron and copper shall be your shoes" (Deuteronomy 33:25) that they make shoes from copper and iron.
6. "And let him dip his foot in oil" (Deuteronomy 33:24)—this refers to the Chanukah oil, so that a person will see the miracles all the way down to the feet. "Your word is a lamp to my feet and a light to my path" (Psalms 119:105).