The Rectification is Not to Ascend to Heaven

Before you is the full daily lesson as delivered by our teacher, the Rav, Rabbi Eliezer Berland shlit"a – yesterday after the Maariv (evening) prayer, Sunday, Parshas Mishpatim, the night of the 25th of Shevat:

"So every day there are ten killed and ten wounded, ten killed and ten wounded, ten killed and ten seriously wounded. All of this is because they haven't yet broken all the 'Xiaomis' (smartphones). Everyone needs to break their Xiaomi, every boy and every girl. Every girl should lengthen her dress; for every dress that is not lengthened, there are another hundred killed. Every day another hundred killed; we have already reached five hundred and sixty-one fallen soldiers. One thousand five hundred civilians—boys, girls, young men, and young women—all of them are holy tzaddikim (righteous ones). They are all in Gan Eden (Paradise), but we want them to live here in this world. Because if they ascend to Gan Eden, that is not the tikkun (rectification). The tikkun is to live here in this world, to withstand trials. Every day is a new trial—to break the Xiaomi, to break the ta'avos (desires). To guard one's eyes, not to speak lashon hara (evil speech), and not to speak nivul peh (foul language).

The moment a girl breaks her Xiaomi, she will merit a pillar of fire like Devorah the Prophetess, who had a pillar of fire over her. Over Devorah the Prophetess and over Yael, there were pillars of fire; they were pillars of fire. And regarding Yael, it is written: 'Between her legs he sank, he fell' – 'Shadud' (fallen/destroyed) refers to the Angel Metatron. Every girl will merit that the Angel Metatron will be spiritually impregnated within her. Because once, every girl was a prophetess—every single girl.

As the Baal HaTurim says regarding how Serach knew that Yosef was alive: they didn't reveal it, for whoever would reveal that Yosef was alive would die on the spot. 'What, so you sold him? For twenty-two years you have been deceiving and lying!' 'All Jews are liars'—people know this... but such a lie, to deceive one's own father? It's one thing to deceive some gentile or some Arab, but to deceive one's father for twenty-two years, while he [Yosef] was in captivity, a hostage among the hostages.

They say there are one hundred and thirty-six hostages, but that is not correct. There was Yosef, that makes one hundred and thirty-seven; Achinoam makes one hundred and thirty-eight; Avigail makes one hundred and thirty-nine; and Dinah makes one hundred and forty. And now I spoke with Biden; he said they will release them, he will work hard on it, so that they release both Achinoam and Avigail.

Avigail was one of the seven prophetesses; she said, 'For Hashem will surely make for my lord a lasting house.' She ran quickly to save David from 'coming into bloodguilt.' Afterward, Michal saw his legs. She said, 'If I see your legs, do not enter the house.' She did not let him enter the house, as the Midrash Rabbah says in Bamidbar. And every girl who breaks her Xiaomi will merit torches of fire, like Devorah the Prophetess, and she will bring the complete Geulah (Redemption) speedily in our days, Amen!"