"He Didn't Wait Two Minutes for the Tzaddik and Lost Eternal Kingship" • The

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, Monday night, the 18th of Marheshvan, Parshas Chayei Sarah:

Every girl needs to be in a seminary every day, and every boy must be in the Yeshiva (Torah academy) from nine to seven to sit and learn, and after that, travel to the fields, to Hebron, to Meron. And all the girls need to be directors and open seminaries in all the kibbutzim and settlements, and there will no longer be girls taken captive. Next Wednesday is the agreement with Hezbollah; Abraham made an agreement with Abimelech and gave him seven ewes, and because of this, seven tzaddikim (righteous men) died at the hands of the Philistines. And they could not withstand the nisyonos (trials). Today there are terrible trials; this year we are undergoing harder trials than all previous years. There are iPhones and smartphones and all kinds of curses where one sees abominations; they break through all the filters, may Hashem have mercy. We need to break this and lengthen the dresses (modesty). Every day ten young men are killed, five in Lebanon and five in Gaza. The "peace" with Hezbollah means that he can fire at us, but we are forbidden from firing at him. And this was Abraham's agreements with Abimelech, giving seven ewes to Abimelech, and therefore the Ark of the Covenant was with the Philistines for seven months. And Saul ran sixty kilometers there and another sixty kilometers back, and then he ran again to take the Luchos (Tablets of the Covenant) out of Goliath's hands. The two Tablets weigh a ton—that is one hundred and eighty kilometers in a day with a ton in his hand. Saul was infinitely greater than David, but Samuel told him to wait. He didn't wait for the tzaddik (righteous leader) for two minutes, and Samuel told him, "You lost eternal kingship." Because if he had killed Agag that same night—but Agag's wife was blessed with a child (conceived), and from there came Haman the Amalekite. Dinah was kidnapped; she was in the tunnels. Shimon and Levi said, "If a girl is kidnapped, we kill the entire city." There is a dispute between the Ramban (Nachmanides) and the Rambam (Maimonides) as to why the people of Shechem were liable for death. Just like with the Concubine of Gibeah, they killed an entire tribe—the tribe of Benjamin—for the sake of one woman. Eliezer tore the hair of his head. Hashem told Abraham, "Lech Lecha (Go for yourself)" from your father's house, and now he tells him to go look for a shidduch (marriage match) in his father's house. Abraham and all the ba'alei teshuvah (penitents) with him left everything; they had no food, so they went down to Egypt. How is it possible that Abraham said, "Please say you are my sister, so that it may go well with me for your sake"? Rather, he knew that they would not touch her; a woman is always surrounded by angels. Therefore he said, "So that it may go well with me for your sake" in this world, "and my soul shall live because of you" in the World to Come.