"ONLY SHUVU BANIM OPENED THE WAY TO RACHEL'S TOMB!" • The Daily Lesson from the

Before you is the full daily lesson as delivered by our teacher, Rabbi Berland shlit"a - yesterday after the Ma'ariv (evening) prayer, Monday, Parshat Tazria, the night of the 1st of Nissan:

"Va'eschanan" (And I pleaded) — Moshe Rabbeinu prayed "Va'eschanan" (the numerical value of which is 515). Five hundred and fifteen multiplied by seven comes out to 6,093, which is when the complete Geulah (Redemption) will take place. Already today the war has ended; we hope that it will remain so until Lag BaOmer, so that we can come to Meron on Lag BaOmer. If the war with Hezbollah continues, then only Shuvu Banim will arrive. Just like at Kever Rachel (Rachel's Tomb), where only Shuvu Banim arrived, and therefore they did not close Kever Rachel. Because for an entire month, only Shuvu Banim arrived at night; they would leave at twelve midnight and arrive at one, walking on foot from Beitar. Both the Arabs and the soldiers shot at them. The soldiers thought they were Arabs, and the Arabs thought they were Jews. And so they walked with infants on their shoulders, entered, and found the back door. After a month, the soldiers discovered that Shuvu Banim was at Kever Rachel every night, after they had already closed Kever Rachel completely hermetically, and then it was reopened and they built the wall. Yaakov said to Yosef, "I know that you are angry with me." Yosef held this anger; Yaakov passed away at the age of one hundred and forty-seven, and Rachel passed away when [Yaakov] was ninety-nine. For forty-eight years, Yosef walked with such anger toward his father—why did he bury her in the middle of the road? On the highway, like a cat or a dog. So he said to his father: "You take Leah to Chevron (Hebron) and you put my mother in the middle of the road?" Yosef could not forgive [the situation regarding] his mother. Now we see that we need to travel every day to Kever Rachel, every day until Lag BaOmer, even on Erev Pesach (the eve of Passover). And also on Monday night after Biur Chametz (the burning of the leavened bread). At least... we should have traveled to Kever Rachel on Motzaei Shabbos (Saturday night). Therefore, Yaakov buried her exactly there, one hundred meters from Bethlehem; the wall reaches until there. In the merit of Rachel Imeinu (our mother Rachel), may there be the complete Geulah (Redemption) speedily in our days, Amen!"‏.