"All His Days, Hours, and Moments He Was Engaged in Drawing Those Far Away

Who among us does not ache and grieve over the blood of Israel being spilled like water around Jerusalem and the Land of Israel, with none to bury them? Young men and women have gone into captivity at the hands of a cruel murderer, who every single day rises up against us to destroy us.

Before you is a powerful and awe-inspiring prayer written by the Gaon and Tzaddik Rabbi Berland shlit"a regarding the awesome greatness [of the Tzaddik] written in the recent days at the beginning of the month of Mar-Cheshvan 5785 (October 2024). It terribly laments the dire situation in which we find ourselves, as we plead for salvation and comfort:

Master of the Universe, Almighty One, today is the yahrtzeit (anniversary of passing) of the true tzaddik, Binyamin Zeev Cheshin, who merited to know the entire Torah in its entirety, to spread Torah to the masses, and to bring thousands back in teshuvah (repentance). All his days, hours, and moments he was engaged in kiruv (drawing those far away closer), to return all of the People of Israel to their Father in Heaven, as it is written, "He devises means so that the banished one be not expelled from Him." All his springs and all his senses were focused solely on how to return another Jew in teshuvah (repentance) to the embrace of his Father in Heaven—that he should begin to put on Tefillin (phylacteries), keep Shabbat, eat Kosher, and go on the holidays and the Yamim Noraim (High Holy Days) to the synagogue and the Beis Medrash (study hall) to pour out his heart's prayer before our Father in Heaven. May his memory be a blessing. And may we merit that his soul should be impregnated within us (ibbur - a temporary soul-attachment for spiritual guidance), that we may learn the entire Torah like him, walk in his ways, and learn from his deeds.

With the blessing of the Torah, Eliezer Berland