Who Refused to Give Up the Trip to Chevron Even at the Cost of His Life

Before you is the full daily lesson as delivered by our teacher, The Rav, Rabbi Eliezer Berland shlit"a (may he live long and good days), on Thursday, Parshas Bo, the night of the 9th of Shevat, following the Maariv (evening) prayer:

"The Torah says, 'Who and who are those who are going?' [The Baal HaTurim says the Gematria (numerical value) equals] Bin Nun and Calev ben Yefunneh. Calev ben Yefunneh merited more than everyone else because he went to prostrate himself (hishtatach) on the graves of the Patriarchs. Every single day he traveled to Chevron (Hebron); in his life, he never missed prostrating himself in Chevron. Every day he traveled to Chevron, and therefore he received the city of Chevron; he received it as a gift. And therefore the Galus (exile) has lasted one thousand nine hundred years, because Hashem shortened it by one hundred and ninety years. [As it says,] 'The end (Ketz) of all flesh has come before Me'—'Ketz (end) of all flesh' is [the numerical value of] one hundred and ninety. Hashem shortened it by one hundred and ninety. And now, because of this, we are paying ten times over the one thousand nine hundred.

Now we are all in exile; every day ten Jews are killed. It is all because people still haven't broken all the smartphones. We must now break the smartphones and the Xiaomis. Every girl should walk in a long dress reaching the ankle; if not, another hundred Jews and another hundred Jews are killed every day. Now they want to continue the war in the north; every day in the north, another hundred Jews are killed, and no one knows when it will end. They say maybe it will end by Pesach (Passover). Two hundred thousand people were thrown out of their homes; they are without clothes, without shirts, without shoes, wandering around in rooms of two meters by two meters with ten children. It is all because the girls still do not lengthen their dresses to the ankle, because it is forbidden to see the leg.

For Michal screamed at David [King David], 'How did it happen that your leg was seen?' She screamed at him and shamed him; she screamed such screams that David was completely crushed. She said to him, 'In my father's house, I never saw a leg.' One does not see legs; there is no such thing as seeing legs. This is the foundation of Judaism; this is the foundation that everyone knows—the whole world knows this. Even the gentiles know this, that it is forbidden to see legs, neither of a woman nor of a man.

And as long as a person walks with short pants, or a dress that does not reach the ankle, another hundred Jews and another hundred Jews are killed. With the help of Hashem, in the merit (zechus) that the girls will lengthen their dresses, then the war will end and the complete Geulah (Redemption) will come speedily in our days, Amen!"