"If a person comes to every lesson of the Tzaddik

Before you is the full daily lesson as delivered by our teacher, the Rav, Rabbi Eliezer Berland shlit"a - yesterday after the Maariv prayer, Sunday night, the 23rd of Tammuz, Parshas Mattos-Masei:

"We learned about Zimri, that he was a reincarnation – Rabbi Akiva was a spark from Zimri, therefore he had to undergo iron combs (torture), and Kozbi was reincarnated as the wife of the wicked Turnus Rufus, who combed Rabbi Akiva with iron combs. Then either he passed away or his wife divorced him, and she was the richest in the world, the biggest billionaire. And she married Rabbi Akiva; she was the reincarnation of Kozbi. Because Kozbi really wanted to convert; she had a pure thought to convert, only she didn't manage to, she didn't manage because of Zimri. He intended something else, but she really intended to convert, so she merited to convert as the wife of the wicked Turnus Rufus. And Rabbi Akiva was a spark from Zimri, and therefore he says to him - Rabbi Eliezer the Great, your punishment is that they will comb you with iron combs. Your punishment is greater than everyone's punishment. Because one lesson of the Tzaddik (righteous person) sweetens everything. A person – if you had come to every lesson, you wouldn't have had to go through iron combs. If a person comes to every lesson, he can sweeten all his reincarnations, by coming to every lesson. Like Hannah who had to sweeten Rahab, who for forty years was a sinner, a swindler, and a harlot, and therefore she was one hundred and thirty years [old], she had to be in terrible torments, 'to provoke her' (1 Samuel 1:6) where there is a dagesh (emphasis mark) in the letter Resh. Every scream... she told her the van is waiting, run to the van, there is – snow is falling, buy a sweater, buy boots, back then there was no Avichai. Avichai said he would bring us boots for free either on Tu B'Av or Sukkot. Because snow is already falling; this year heavy snow fell. So she worried about boots, she worried very much for Hannah. This is all Rabbi Acha of Paphonaya said, that she intended for the sake of Heaven; she wanted there to be boots for the children, sweaters for the children, that she would knit sweaters. Like Orpah, she knitted a sweater for her baby; she loved her baby terribly. She was the mother of Ishbi; Ishbi was the most righteous person in the generation, innocent, he caught David and put him under the beam of the olive press. 'You broadened my steps beneath me, and my ankles did not slip' (Psalms 18:37) – so the beam broadened, a depression formed in the beam, then he threw him to a height of a hundred meters – eleven seconds. And then Abishai succeeded – he ran to the Sanhedrin to ask for the mare, because he saw a hawk preying on a dove, he saw blood in a basin. Because the moment Jephthah's daughter approached the knife, it dripped blood, blood came out of the knife. Like Abraham when he came to take the cleaver to slaughter his son, it (the knife) dripped blood. And therefore in Meah Shearim they would go with loudspeakers, before the era. Until fifty years ago they would go with loudspeakers, that they shouldn't drink water from the taps; it's forbidden to drink water from the taps. It's a total prohibition, a Torah prohibition. 'And you shall guard... your souls' – it's really a second, but they said not to drink for an hour, so for an hour they didn't drink water from the taps. And thus they sweetened all the judgments (Dinim) over all of Israel, until yesterday the missile that was aimed at a Jewish kindergarten, where they wanted fifty or a hundred children to die in the kindergarten, but the missile got confused, the Tzaddik confused the missile, the Tzaddik manages all the wars. Because it was written 'Majdal Shams' and it was instead of 'Jerusalem' – the L belongs to Jerusalem, the Y belongs to Jerusalem, the Sh belongs to Jerusalem, even there are two M's that it was supposed to reach Jerusalem. He was sure, therefore there are two M's there. But someone added G and D. And then it got confused; whoever confused it will be held accountable for it. He has a trial in The Hague, tomorrow is the trial in The Hague. Everyone will travel to The Hague for the trial. So now we are talking about how, in the merit that the women – not even one woman died in the desert, because every woman has an IQ a million times higher than her husband. Every woman's IQ is a million times higher, only she doesn't study Gemara (Talmud). If a woman were to study Gemara, she would become the Gadol HaDor (leader of the generation), she would become the Chazon Ish. A woman can study Gemara – mustard and bees. There are three languages in mustard. The Ramban says that even if the mustard is first, he must distance it three handbreadths (tefachim), and if he didn't distance it three handbreadths. If the bees didn't distance, then he also didn't distance. Because a person has a field – he has a hundred dunams of mustard, and a hundred beehives, each hive in a honeycomb a whole dunam. Each hive is eighty thousand bees, so each one. A person should always raise bees, then he will also have a parnassah (livelihood). Instead of falafel, they should raise bees. And then there will be honey, they will sell honey. One can sell a hundred bees – hives to sell to half the State of Israel. So honey is the most important, but the bees eat all the honey, they don't leave any point in the honey. And therefore the Gemara says that one must distance the mustard from the bees. So according to Rashi even if the mustard is first, he must distance it six handbreadths. According to the Ramban only three, and so the Ramban says three and the Tur disagrees with him, the Tur says what do you mean three - he adds a handbreadth, who invented three, where did they invent the law of three. There are a million opinions here on what mustard and bees are; we learned this a week ago in the Daf Yomi (daily page of Talmud). Everyone should study the Daf Yomi with his wife; she will come to study the Daf Yomi. And Abigail daughter of Nachash (snake), everyone needs his wife to be a daughter of Nachash; in a shidduch (marriage match) meeting one needs to ask: who is your father? He needs to be the son of Nachash. And if not, then they divorce, no need. If the woman is not a daughter of Nachash, then who needs her? No need for this woman. So the Gemara asks what is 'daughter of Nachash', was she the daughter of a snake? She was the daughter of Jesse! No, she tasted the taste of dust. Like the snake, everything tasted like dust, she had no desire for anything, like Zeruiah, there was no desire for anything, she was nothing, she was a stone. 'From the top of the rocks I see him, and from the hills I behold him' (Numbers 23:9) – we read this last week. 'Rocks' (Tzurim) are the Patriarchs who were rocks, a person needs to be a rock, the woman needs to be like a stone. So Zeruiah was a stone, so all her sons flew in the air! Even Joab, he flew in the air, without a plane, without that, without a pilot's license. And Asahel I won't even talk about, that he would run on the tips of the stalks of grain and they wouldn't break, stalks never broke. He didn't break stalks, Heaven forbid, and Abishai reached Gaza and he didn't have permission from the army so he has a trial tomorrow in The Hague, and then David was at a height of a hundred meters. Eleven seconds he managed to run to the Sanhedrin, to get on the mule. And with the mule he flew to Gaza. And then Orpah, who was 'the most righteous in the generation', saw him, she said I have a law of blood redemption. I am the mother of Goliath, you don't know me, I want to redeem the vengeance. Who killed Goliath? David. He took a sling stone, and the stone penetrated the armor. He said I don't need a sword or a spear. He brought a stick, so for that there is no forgiveness. Even on Yom Kippur they don't forgive, they don't forgive even on Yom Kippur. Even if you ask for forgiveness a million times they won't forgive you, there's no such thing! There is a king, and the king goes with a golden crown, and he comes to him with a stick. Such chutzpah (audacity) hasn't been since the creation of the world. Goliath said to him, what am I, a dog? 'Am I a dog'!? Are you not ashamed? Where is your honor? Where is your derech eretz (proper conduct)? Is this how one honors a king!? He said to him, dog son of a dog, you say you are a dog, and I say you are a dog son of a dog. This already has no forgiveness, he didn't forgive him. Tomorrow there will be a trial in The Hague, for the insult, for the disgrace of the king of the Philistines who was 'holy of holies', an 'innocent person', they harmed an innocent person... for this they don't forgive and will never forgive, to harm innocent people. As we saw what happened yesterday on Shabbat, twelve most holy and pure children that could be, there are no such holy and pure ones, innocent, but of course the world – if it's Jews – then what does the world care, let there be innocent [victims]. So we are now dealing with a period where everything is 'upside down' (hafoch al hafoch). 'And it was reversed' (v'nahafoch hu). But always 'v'nahafoch hu'. Because now we are approaching the Fifteenth of Av, that there were no good days for Israel like the Fifteenth of Av and Yom Kippur, on which the daughters of Israel go out and dance (mecholelot), the girls would dance from six in the morning until ten at night, just dancing. One woman traveled to China and ordered a dress for a million dollars with twelve diamonds 'Odem, Pitdah, Bareket, Nofech, Sapir, Yahalom, Leshem, Shevo, Achlamah, Tarshish, Shoham, Yashfe' (the stones of the High Priest's breastplate). And when she arrived, she told this to the Rabbi of the neighborhood, he was a Breslover, she told the Rabbi of the neighborhood that she bought a dress for a million dollars, he said to her what will this help you, give it to the neighbor, to one from Shuvu Banim who found a dress in the trash can, and on Pesach they throw all the dresses in the trash can, so one took out a dress, and of course it was all covered in tar. But she washed it. And she [the first one] thought to go out to the dances. They said: No, give the million-dollar dress to a girl from Shuvu Banim, to a daughter from Shuvu Banim, and you go with the rags, with the dress that was once all tar. Of course the tears were – they filled the whole ocean, the whole Atlantic Ocean, there was a flood, under the water. From the many tears she shed. Because a woman only needs to shed tears, she shed tears without end, tears so many tears that all the oceans were filled from her tears. Of course, in the end they had mercy on her, they tried to appease her, they said soon it will be Yom Kippur. So again they go out in dances. So again she will have to give her dress, so a second time she was offended, a second time she was offended and it's impossible, she was a new bride. And it's impossible to appease her. Then exactly Treisman arrived and managed to appease, he really managed to calm her down. But the dress she already didn't get, not on the Fifteenth of Av and not on Yom Kippur, Yom Kippur didn't help, nothing helped. So of course this is an injustice that has no atonement, and we will see to arrange it. So all this speaks of how every daughter has an IQ more than the son – a million times, and therefore all the girls succeed in exams in universities everywhere – mixed classes, the girls get a hundred, and the boys get six – seven. In all mixed classes, the girls a hundred, and boys six – seven. Whoever once studied in a mixed class knows that the girls got a hundred, and he got six – seven. So Hashem gave the daughter an IQ higher than the son. Therefore it says 'Flower of a Rose' (Perach Shoshana), why is it written 'daughters of Zelophehad' – and it's not written 'brides of Zelophehad', because the understanding (Binah) – they were smarter than everyone. Because the sons all died in the desert, the sons were fools they made a calf, the women no, the women in no way agreed, they explained to them, an ox in the Chariot (Merkavah), and this is the angel Michael, in this ox the angel Michael was conceived. And all sorts of secrets according to Kabbalah what the Ari (Rabbi Isaac Luria) explains that they didn't just make a calf, everything was with secrets and intentions (kavanos) but for the women it didn't affect anything, not the intentions and not the secrets. They said 'You shall not make for yourself other gods before... a carved image or mask in the heavens above' – even not in the heavens above! Even in the Chariot – even in the heavens above. The men interpreted it, they said: No, it's not in the heavens above, it's in the heavens below. It's in the heavens under the sea, there are other heavens. They didn't mean these heavens, and not the Work of the Chariot (Ma'aseh Merkavah) Heaven forbid. This is Ma'aseh Merkavah, we are dealing with Ma'aseh Merkavah. The women weren't interested in anything! Because a woman has straight logic, and the straightest logic is specifically for a woman, 'who made me according to His will'. That she received the IQ logic a million times more than the man. And therefore she can do all the calculations, all the calculations that Rashi says 'like them and like them a hundred' we did two hundred and forty [doublings], two, four, eight, sixteen, thirty-two, sixty-four, one hundred and twenty-eight, two hundred and fifty-six, five hundred and twelve. Within a second we reached a thousand, two seconds it's a million, three seconds it's a billion, four seconds it's a thousand billion, five seconds it's exactly already a million billion, six seconds we reach a trillion – eighteen zeros. And after that we reach seventy it's a thousand trillion, and eighty it's a million trillion, and ninety we reached a hundred trillion, when we reached a hundred we already reached a thousand billion trillion. That whoever distributes cans and popsicles and ice pops, then his blessing is a million billion times more than Moses, together it's a thousand billion trillion. Moses only said 'a thousand' in two weeks we will read the blessing of Moses 'a thousand times' the Gemara says – a thousand times a thousand – the Midrash says. So we reach a million, here we reached a thousand billion trillion, within ten seconds. And within twenty seconds we reach a trillion trillion million, because one hundred and ninety is exactly a thousand trillion trillion, that's one hundred and ninety, one hundred and eighty is trillion trillion trillion, three trillions is fifty-four zeros. And two hundred we already reach a million and trillion which is exactly – fifty-seven zeros. And sixty two hundred we reach sixty zeros, and two hundred and ten to sixty-three zeros, two hundred and twenty to sixty-six zeros. And two hundred and thirty to sixty-nine zeros. And then we reach seventy-two – that is the jar of Rebecca, because Rebecca's lamp never went out. And the moment Eliezer saw the Tablets breaking he immediately gave the two bracelets, at first he wanted to return home he said what the Tablets are breaking, it's impossible and then he gave her the two bracelets. And then the Tablets were reconnected, these are the Second Tablets. And may we merit the complete Geulah (Redemption) speedily in our days, Amen!"‏.