"Through the Melodies Before and After Prayer

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, Wednesday, Parshat Tazria, the night of the 3rd of Nissan:

"So every day five young men are killed, holy and pure tzaddikim (righteous ones), because not all the girls lengthened their skirts to the ankle. Michal saw the legs of David as he danced before the Ark, performing somersaults in the air. She threw him out of the house to the winds. She said: 'I never saw such a thing with my father, nor with my brothers.' All her brothers were Mephibosheth, Ish-bosheth—Saul gave names only based on 'bosheth' (shame). Because now we have received the skin of the snake – 'garments of skin' (kotnot or) is the skin of the snake, and everyone needs to hide the skin of the snake. Even Arab women go completely covered from head to toe. Rabbi Levi Yitzchak said that this is a prosecution against the Jewish people, that the Arab women, who are illiterate, understand that they need to cover the body and hide it, while with us it's the opposite. Everything is upside down. Therefore, everyone needs to say Amen. There are two Shemoneh Esrei (the standing prayer) where we say Amen [during the repetition], including Mincha (afternoon prayer). Nineteen times Amen, thirty-eight [total for Shacharit and Mincha], sixty-two are still missing; one needs to hear sixty-two [blessings and answer] Amens. And do not miss any Amen, and answer Amen to the Birchos HaTorah (Blessings of the Torah). Tomorrow will be Birchos HaTorah.

Now we are in [the aspect of] Zebulun. 'Zebulun, nations shall call to the mountain'—Zebulun is in Keter (the highest Sefirah, the Crown); the Ari zt"l says Zebulun is in Keter. Because the whole world converted in the merit of Zebulun. Every cluster [of grapes] weighed ten tons, and one grape filled an entire ship. 'Binding his foal to the vine, and his donkey's colt to the choice vine'—they placed an entire cluster on one donkey. When the tribe of Zebulun arrived with their ships, with the boats—'Zebulun shall dwell by the seashore, and he shall be a haven for ships, and his border shall be unto Sidon'—he would arrive, he had a shipyard in Sidon, and he would arrive with the clusters of grapes. Everyone did teshuvah (repentance), all the gentiles converted. Just like with Jonah, where all the gentiles threw their idols into the sea, they all converted. Zebulun would convert everyone. This is all by saying 'Amen, yehei Shmei Rabba mevorach' (May His great Name be blessed) with intention, slowly, word by word, 'l'alam u'lalmei almaya' (forever and for all eternity). And one should not talk during the Shemoneh Esrei, and one should not talk during prayer, and also during the niggunim (melodies) played after the prayer, one should not talk. This is all a continuation of the Shemoneh Esrei, all the niggunim. Through the niggunim before the prayer and after the prayer, all the prayers ascend. In this merit, may we merit the complete Geulah (Redemption) speedily in our days, Amen!"‏.