Subtitles: The Snow Is Falling and Our Teacher, Rav Berland shlit"a, in a Fiery

During the cold wave currently affecting our country, with snow already falling in Jerusalem, our teacher, the holy Rav Eliezer Berland shlit"a, led the Maariv prayer with a great crowd and holy fervor.

These are his holy words:

"Now all sins are forgiven; the snow is already falling. 'If your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow.' Now everything is turning white, all the sins! We are now 120 days after Rosh Hashanah, 30 days after Chanukah; everything is turning white."

"The women in Egypt were divided into three types. The women, instead of running to Ein Kerem, Bikur Cholim, Shaare Zedek, or Mount Scopus, gave birth under the bushes! The athletic ones would run to the field to give birth under the bushes, and they (the Egyptians) would arrive with dogs to search for them."

"A woman would leave weighing 100 kilos and return weighing 30 kilos. What is happening here? Where is the child? (The mother would answer) - 'There was no child, it is a type of illness; there is an illness where one swells up and then becomes thin!'"

"'That cannot be!'"

"The dogs began to dig, just like the dogs in the Alps that dig and search for people in the snow. In the Alps, people are buried under the snow, in snow avalanches! They slide into the abysses, so they send special dogs that dig in the snow, with stretchers and warm drinks, hot coffee and hot tea, and many medicines to warm all those buried under the snow."

"So there (in Egypt), the children were buried under the ground! Just as Korach said: 'What is the trick to being on the ground? (And the man Moses was very humble, more than any man on the face of the earth). You are humble, so be under the ground! Learn from me, I am under the ground!' (And then he was truly swallowed by the earth..)."

"So the children were swallowed into the ground; they brought plows! Just as the Rebbe says in Torah 9, they saw that the children were being swallowed, so they brought more plows and more plows."

"The Egyptians received ten plagues, the plague of the firstborn. Every woman had 80 children, all of them firstborn (firstborn to different fathers, because they were all adulteresses, may Hashem have mercy), all of them died! She comes to Moses and says, 'You said the plague of the firstborn! I had 80 children, all of them died!' He said to her, 'What can I do that they are all firstborn... you know the reason!'"

"So the women would flee under the bushes, under the trees. 'Under the apple tree I awakened you,' 'I have made you a myriad like the plants of the field.' The children would sprout like mushrooms! Swallowed into the ground, growing, 'And they shall sprout from the city like the grass of the earth,' like the tzaddik, and that is how all the children sprouted. 600,000 children, all of them received the Torah! They received the Torah."

"And there were those who were not athletic enough to run to the field; they gave birth at home! They would break down the doors, they would hear the cries of the children (the Egyptians). 'Little foxes that ruin the vineyards.' They would take 4 or 5-year-old children, as soon as the mother would scream 'Ai!', they would immediately call the commando, the KGB, the Egyptian commando, to break down the doors. The angels would enter through the windows; every woman had been praying for several months, therefore the angels arrived, took the children, and brought them across the Nile to the desert."

"'And He made him suck honey from the rock, and oil from the flinty rock.' Everything was filled with oil and milk! The entire desert was filled with lakes of milk! The children swam in lakes of milk, lakes of oil, lakes of honey! This was the second type, who could not manage to run to the field to give birth to the children, so the angels took the children and brought them to the other side."

"The third type, neither this nor that, could not manage to run to the field and the angels did not arrive. What did they do? They placed them in the place of the stones, in the place of the rocks, in the place of the marble stones. The mothers did not give up! They went and cried, they said all of Psalms, they began to cry under the pyramids, under the stones, and then, 'The snare is broken, and we have escaped!' The snare was broken, the stones were broken, and the children came out alive."