The Daily Ma’amar of our Rebbe Rav Eliezer Berland shlit”a, written on Wednesday morning, parashat Vayakhel-Pekudei. Courtesy of the “Hashem Hu HaElokim” leaflet:
PeRaCh AShaN Ba’ADI – [the initial letters of] Peretz Ram Chetzron Aminadav Sal’mon Nachshon Bo’az Oved David Yishai.
The secret of “Odem Pit’dah Bareket, Nofech Sapir Yahalom, Leshem Shevo Achlamah, Tarshish Shoham Yashfeh” [the gemstones of the Kohen Gadol’s breastplate].
Tarshish is the stone of Asher, the stone which sparkles with all colors. And therefore: “In my good fortune (Ishruni)! For women have declared me fortunate (ishruni),” because the daughters of Asher were always pure, and no impurity took hold of them, and even so, sons and sons of sons multiplied for 850 years until the destruction of the First Temple.
In the Land of Israel, “May your borders be sealed like iron and copper, and like the days of your prime, so may your old age be” (Devarim 33:25), that the elders were like maidens before 12.
Because Adam and Eve, they made for them belts from the fig tree, because they wanted to gird themselves for the service of Hashem day and night = 177, and through this, to enter with their body to the Garden of Eden = 177, like Serach bat Asher, Betya Bat Pharaoh, Avraham’s slave Eliezer, Yehoshua ben Levi, who jumped from the wall into the Garden of Eden = 177 with his body and with the sword of the Angel of Death.
And then they brought the question to the Heavenly Tribunal, and He decreed that if Rabbi Yehoshua ben Levi in his life never nullified a vow or oath, he can remain in the Garden of Eden with his body.
And then the Satan asked: What about the sword? I cannot do my work without the sword.
Immediately the Heavenly Tribunal gathered again and decreed that Yehoshua ben Levi must return the sword to the Satan, that he was Terach, the father of Avraham.
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