"A Son is Either Studying Gemara or Throwing Stones

Before you is a summary of topics from the daily lesson as delivered by our teacher, the Rav, Rabbi Eliezer Berland shlit"a – yesterday after the Maariv (evening) prayer, Sunday night, the 13th of Teves, Parshas Shemos:

Serach was a prophetess; Sarah, Rivka, Rachel, and Leah, Yocheved and Miriam—"and they let the children live"—they did not fear Pharaoh. Because women are not afraid. The Zohar says that women are not enticed to make the [Golden] Calf; therefore, Aaron said, "Go to the women." No woman gave her nose ring (jewelry), but the brothers tore the ears with the earrings. All the girls walked for forty years with half an ear; therefore, it is forbidden for girls to sew or do laundry on Rosh Chodesh (the New Month) because they did not participate in the Sin of the Calf. Therefore, the holy Shelah explains that the filth of the Serpent returned to the boys and not to the girls. The boys throw stones at Diocletian; in the end, he became the Emperor of Rome. He took Natan, Chananya, and Rabbi Yehuda Nesiah and threw them into the fire. He said to them, "I know that you do not burn, but do not throw stones." A son is either studying Gemara (Talmud) or he is throwing stones; there is no middle ground. The filth of the Serpent returned to the boys, but not to the girls. As for the girls, as soon as they put their scarves on the window, it becomes white. The intellect of a woman is a million times greater than the intellect of a man; the woman's intellect comes from the Chochmah of Ban (a Kabbalistic level of Divine wisdom). A son has half the intellect of a woman; therefore, as soon as a son receives wedding gifts, he puts it all into gambling, loses everything, and ends up as a big zero. Therefore, a girl needs to study; now it is 20:30, there are three hours until Chatzos (midnight) to finish the Tehillim (Psalms) and finish the Likutey Halachos (the primary work of Reb Noson of Breslov), every girl needs to be a seminary principal. If there were seminaries in Be'eri, Zikim, Nir Oz, and Kfar Aza, no girl would have been in captivity. They have been in captivity for 15 days; every day they say there is progress. But Trump said he would already eliminate them in another five days. On the yahrtzeit (anniversary of passing) of the Rambam (Maimonides), because he follows the approach of the Rambam. The Rambam says that if they touch a Jewish girl, the entire city is killed. And Yaakov (Jacob) said, "Do not kill Shechem," but why the whole city? He cursed Shimon and Levi: "Cursed be their anger, for it was fierce, and their wrath, for it was cruel. Into their conspiracy let my soul not enter; with their assembly let my glory not be united. For in their anger they killed a man, and at their whim they hamstrung an ox." Why did they kill the entire city? They were Shuvu Banim. The same thing happened with the daughter in the hill country of Ephraim (referring to the Concubine of Gibeah); they cut her into pieces, they made her into 12 pieces. The serpent with seven heads—the [book] Gilgulei Neshamot (Reincarnations of Souls) says this was the serpent. Every time it comes in the form of Torah scholars; every yeshiva student was a gangster in a previous incarnation. Therefore, the intellect of girls is twice that of boys; the boys are Binah of Ban (a level of understanding), and the women are Chochmah of Ban (a level of wisdom).