On Wednesday, the eve of the 5th of Tammuz, the Maggidei Shiur (lecturers) merited to enter the residence of our teacher, the Gaon and Tzaddik Rabbi Eliezer Berland shlit"a, to hear words of the Living G-d. Before you is a summary of the lesson:

The Rav shlit"a began the lesson regarding the weekly Torah portion, Parshas Chukas, discussing the matter of the rock that Moshe (Moses) was supposed to speak to, even though 600,000 people were crying out for water, and he expanded on this matter. During this, he spoke about the miracles performed for the People of Israel in every generation despite the antisemitism in the world. He then returned to the aforementioned topic and explained that Moshe needed to speak to the rock because those who opposed Moshe would have claimed that he simply knew the secret of hot springs that erupt from the depths, and that it wasn't a miracle at all for water to come out of the stone. During his words, he discussed the greatness of the Maggidei Shiur (lecturers) on the information line and said that in their merit, people merit to return in teshuvah (repentance), because while a person is traveling, at work, or at home, they hear a lesson and are strengthened. Afterward, he spoke about the times when the sun stopped, including during the Giving of the Torah. Also during the time of Yehoshua bin Nun (Joshua), as it is written, "Sun, stand still at Gibeon..." And similarly in the story of Abba Tachna Chassida, who saved the traveler on the eve of Pesach (Passover). Likewise, he mentioned the story of Chizkiyahu (Hezekiah), where the sun went backward when he asked Hashem for a sign that He would heal him. Later in the lesson, he discussed how it is written in Tanna D'vei Eliyahu that there is no difference between a man and a woman, and that once all the daughters of Israel were prophetesses. He cited the story of Serach bas Asher, who knew through prophecy that they had sold Yosef (Joseph), and that Yosef was alive and ruling in Egypt, etc. This was because the brothers thought that Asher had revealed to her that they sold Yosef, and they feared that Yaakov (Jacob) would find out and that they would all die from his strictness. Therefore, for two hundred and fifty years, the tribe of Asher was under a cherem (excommunication/ban), until Moshe Rabbeinu revealed that Serach knew about the sale of Yosef through prophecy. Moving from one subject to another, he spoke about the burial of Rachel Imeinu (our mother Rachel), who was buried on the roadside according to the Divine word. He said that Yaakov knew Yosef held a grievance against him for burying her on the roadside, but today, after three thousand years, we know that if she had been buried inside the city of Bethlehem, it would have been like Shechem (Nablus), and not all of the People of Israel would be able to visit at any time as they do today. Afterward, he returned to the matter of the tribe of Asher, which merited—in the merit of the humiliations and the ban it endured—that all its daughters remained in purity all their lives, as it says, "Let him be favored by his brothers," meaning all the tribes wanted to marry daughters from the tribe of Asher. After the lesson, the Maggid Shiur (lecturer) of the Daf Yomi, the Gaon Rabbi Tzvi Chalamish shlit"a, performed a Siyum (completion ceremony) on Tractate Bava Metzia, which they had recently finished, and recited the Siyum Kaddish in the presence of our teacher, the Rav shlit"a.