Clip: Thousands at the Heart-Rending Prayer Gathering of Kahal Kadosh Shuvu

"Lift up your eyes round about, and see; they all gather together, they come to you" (Isaiah 60:4)

The days of Mashiach—that was the feeling among those who came to the gathering of prayer, protest, and outcry before our teacher, the holy Rav Eliezer Berland shlit"a, was returned to prison.

People of all kinds and types arrived; all shades of the Israeli spectrum were seen crying out in pain before the walls of Ayalon Prison in Ramla. Everyone was in unity and true selfless love, which has become so rare in our regions lately.

"I have never seen anything like this," was one of the sentences heard by those who were privileged to participate in this awesome and sublime event. There were cries and tears in prayer, followed by holy dances and the joy of faith, for the Eternity of Israel will not lie, and everyone believes that in the end, holiness will overcome evil and the tzaddik will continue on the journey of Geulah until he completes everything for the good, with the help of Hashem.

It was interesting to meet people who did not know the Rav, but who strengthened themselves by clinging to the truth after seeing the campaign of persecution by the media and the judicial system that has forgotten what justice is. For anyone who observes and examines with truth quickly finds a holy community, the holy and pure people of the tzaddik, "Shuvu Banim" in Jerusalem, in the land, and throughout the entire world.

Such prayers may have never been seen before, with weeping and supplications while reciting the chapters of Psalms of the Tikkun HaKlali and the "Selected Chapters" that our teacher revealed to the world. Cries reached the heavens in a moving display of accepting the yoke of the Kingdom of Heaven.

Alongside the people of Israel, servants of Hashem, and G-d-fearing scholars, arrived tzaddikim who are testified to be among the 36 hidden tzaddikim: the Kabbalist Rabbi Golan from Alma shlit"a, the Kabbalist Rabbi Scheinfeld shlit"a, the Kabbalist Rabbi Stern from Bnei Brak shlit"a, and many other good ones too numerous to list, and of course, the great rabbis who are students of our teacher Rav Berland shlit"a—all of them arrived.

Chassidim alongside Lithuanians, Sephardim alongside Ashkenazim, Charedim alongside National Religious, religious alongside secular—those who put on a kippah just to crowd together with the nearly three thousand worshipers who arrived. Even the police officers who secured the event seemed to participate in the prayer.

The feeling was one of sweetening the judgments, that the tzaddik gathers all the souls connected to him in order to sweeten the decrees upon the enemies of Israel. Precisely out of the harsh persecution against him, our teacher Rav Berland shlit"a succeeds in doing what all the tzaddikim of the generations tried to do—to unite the people of Israel. And where? Not at the Western Wall or the Cave of the Patriarchs, but in front of the walls of the prison in Ramla.

Fortunate are we that we were privileged; there is no doubt that this gathering of unity accomplished much in the heavens.