What Should Be Done After Sleeping? • The Daily Lesson from Rabbi Eliezer

Before you is a summary of the topics from the daily lesson as delivered by our teacher, Rabbi Eliezer Berland shlit"a – yesterday, after the Wednesday evening Maariv prayer, the night of the 11th of Shevat, 5786, Parshat Beshalach:

1. Today, Shechem is open from 8:00 to 10:00. Everyone can travel there.
2. Rashi says "we are all dead"; however, it can be explained that all the children who died in the plague of the firstborn (and it was revealed that they were firstborns) were born legitimately—from ten marriages. But in truth, they were from husbands who were not in a state of marriage.
3. The Gemara says in Bava Kamma 117 that the Persians are murderers and are not careful about bloodshed.
4. The story of Rav Kahana, who ascended to Eretz Yisrael from Bavel, and everything he answered in the lesson—until he thought [the other] was smiling at him, he became strict with him, and he died.
5. Rebbe Nachman said that sleep must be guarded; that is easy. The difficulty is knowing how to study after one has slept.
6. The Chida says that the wheat remained after the hail only for the locusts.
7. "Not one of them remained": The Baal HaTurim says "until one"—that Pharaoh did not die; he became king over Nineveh.
8. "When the Almighty scattered kings in it, it snowed in Tzalmon": Whoever was in Tzalmon merits to be a king.
9. I was in prison in Johannesburg; I had a Garden of Eden, I did not want to leave at all.
10. Sanhedrin 102: Yeravam left Jerusalem—he left the "note" of Jerusalem. It is forbidden to leave Jerusalem; whoever leaves Jerusalem, his children die.
11. When they appointed David Zini, they filed a hundred petitions asking how one could be head of the Shin Bet with twelve children. But the Prime Minister did not take that into account and appointed him because all the previous Chiefs of Staff sold the country to the Arabs.
12. Rebbe Menachem Mendel of Rimanov says that one must recite Parshat HaMan, and then there will be billions upon billions.
13. It is written "And He called to Moses," which the Arizal writes is above everything.
14. Yitzchak thought that Esau was David, and Samuel thought that David was Esau; except for the tzaddik, no one truly knows.
15. Chanukah is "Chana Kaf-Vav" (Chana 26), that all of Chanukah is in the merit of Chana.