"Lift up your eyes and see; they are all gathering and coming to you" (Yeshaya 60:4)

Days of Mashiach -- this was the feeling of the participants in the mass prayer gathering and protest before the return of our Rebbe Rav Eliezer Berland shlit"a to prison.

All sectors of Israeli society came and cried out in pain outside the walls of Ayalon Penitentiary in Ramla -- all in unity and gratuitous love which is so rare these days in our region. "I never saw something like this" was one of the sayings heard by those who merited to participate in this awesome event, which included crying out with tears in prayer, followed by holy dancing and rejoicing of emuna, because the Eternal One of Israel doesn't lie, and everyone believes that in the end, holiness will win out over the evil, and the Tzaddik will continue in the process of redemption until he finishes everything for the best, bezras Hashem. It was interesting to encounter people who didn't know the Rav, but nonetheless have courageously clung to the truth after seeing the campaign of persecution of the media and of a court system which has forgotten the meaning of justice, because one who contemplates and checks the truth will quickly find a holy community -- holy and pure followers of the Tzaddik, "Shuvu Banim" in Jerusalem, in Israel, and all over the world. Prayers such as these perhaps have never been seen before -- crying and pleading in saying the Tehilim of the Tikun Klali and the P'rakim Nevcharim, which the Rav revealed to the world; crying out to the heart of heaven while accepting the yoke of the Kingship of Heaven. Alongside regular Jews, servants of Hashem and God-fearing Kollel students, Tzaddikim nistarim came, among them the Kabbalists Rav Golan from Alma shlit"a, Rav Sheinfeld shlit"a, Rav Stern from Bnei Brak shlit"a, and others, along with the Rav's greatest students. Chasidim stood alongside Litvaks, Sephardim with Ashkenazim, Charedim with Religious Nationalists, religious with secular, such as those who put on a kippa in order to congregate together along with some 3,000 other participants who came.  Even the police officers who secured the event appeared to participate in the prayer. The feeling was that judgements had been sweetened, that the Tzaddik gathered together all the souls that are connected to him to sweeten decrees from the Jewish people.  It's specifically amidst terrible persecution that our Rebbe Rav Berland shlit"a succeeds in doing what all the Tzaddikim throughout the ages have tried to do -- to unite the Jewish people as one.  And where?  Not at the Kosel and not at Ma'aras Hamachpela.  Rather, outside the prison walls in Ramla.

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