“A Person Needs to Think: Perhaps They were Killed Because of Me”

HERE IS A SUMMARY FROM THE SHIUR THAT MOREINU HARAV ELIEZER BERLAND SHLIT”A GAVE OVER DURING THE MELAVAH MALKAH MEAL, MOTZA’EI SHABBAT KODESH, PARASHAT VAYKHEL 5785:

The Rebbe says that when we see that there is suffering in the world, like now when there are 59 hostage, everyone needs to think, “Perhaps, this is me.  Perhaps because of my transgressions, this is happening.”  Like the story of the prince who caused great suffering to his father, and the king appointed the minister to not allow the son to come.  The king was suffering and the son was longing and suffering.  The minister said, “I am guilty for everything.”  He went and appeased him.  All suffering is because of the Golden Calf – “On the day that I make My account, I shall bring their sin to account against them.”  Every generation receives one-twenty fourth.  Therefore, there was the Holocaust, and also on Simchat Torah, there was a Holocaust.  Today, everyone already knows that all the commanders are guilty for everything, that they wanted to bring down the government.

On Shabbat Purim, the hidden light is revealed.  This is the secret of the “Nikrat HaTzur” (cleft of the rock), that only one who has fasted forty days and forty nights can enter there.  “HaYad HaMelech” says that it is not enough to fast.  One needs forty days and forty nights.  It’s forbidden to divert one’s mind from Hashem Yitbarach for a second – “I place Hashem before me always.”

In another three weeks will be Seder night.  In another three hours is Chatzot.  All the girls should say Tehilim until 12:30 at night for the hostages, and read the Five Megillahs, Tikkun Chatzot, and go to sleep.  Really, one doesn’t need to sleep at all; it’s all delusions.  The boys should learn nine daf in Chagigah and be careful from daf 13, where it is told about two children who became “electrocuted.”  Everyone should learn with his wife “Chezkat Metaltalim 5” about all the secrets of Purim.  Next week, they are lengthening the day by an hour.  So everyone should finish the Rambam: Every girl, a chapter in the Rambam, and bachurim five chapters.  In thirty days, this is 150 chapters.  Finish Sefer Ahavah, Sefer Madah, and Sefer Zmanim.