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"Everything We Drink is in the Merit of Miriam's Well" • The Daily Lesson from the Gaon and Tzaddik Rabbi Eliezer Berland shlit"a

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"Everything We Drink is in the Merit of Miriam's Well" • The Daily Lesson from the Gaon and Tzaddik Rabbi Eliezer Berland shlit"a

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, Monday, Parshas Vayikra, the night of the 9th of Adar II:

"Every day ten Jews are killed because not everyone has broken their 'Xiaomi' (unfiltered smartphone), and not every girl wears long clothing down to her ankles. When every girl wears long clothing down to her ankles, no Jew will be killed, and the war will stop. And Rabbi Akiva broke his 'Xiaomi,' so he merited that the words 'Vayikra el Moshe' (And He called to Moses) have the same Gematria (numerical value) as 'Rabbi Akiva.' He merited this in the merit of breaking his 'Xiaomi.' [The secret of] the 'Aleph Zeira' (the small Aleph in the first word of Leviticus), all this is explained by the Megaleh Amukos (a classic Kabbalistic work) in section 73—'Vayikra el Moshe' refers to Rabbi Akiva. Because Moses merited to enter the soul of Rabbi Akiva, he also broke his 'Xiaomi,' and Deborah the Prophetess broke her 'Xiaomi.' Therefore, she merited the 'Amuda d'Nura' (pillar of fire)—she was surrounded by a pillar of fire. For all the girls during the Second Temple era would fly through the air. All the girls were prophetesses—six hundred thousand prophets—sixty ribo (myriads), they would all fly through the air out of their intense longing to pray at the Kotel (Western Wall), in the Beis HaMikdash (Holy Temple). They would fly from Tzipori, from Kfar Shamai, from Beis Hillel, from Hanita, from Metula—they would all fly through the air. And they would return home before the Netz (sunrise) so they would have time to send the children to the 'cheder' (Torah school). Every child was equipped with a Tikkun HaKlali (the General Rectification prayer) in their right hand, a sandwich in their left hand, and a canteen with hot tea. Every mother cared for her son, managing to return from the Kotel—from the Holy Temple—returning even before the children went to the cheder, to make it to the transport. For the Geulah (Redemption) will only come through the righteous women, only through the women who refused to divorce their husbands, who refused to separate. The husbands were shattered to pieces [by Pharaoh's decree] and lost their faith. Amram was the first to divorce; Miriam said to him: 'You are worse than Pharaoh! Why are you divorcing Mother? I am left alone, no mother, no father—who will take me? What gentile will take me... an Egyptian will take me. How could you leave Mother?! Pharaoh only decreed against the males, but you are decreeing that there will be no children in the world at all; you are worse than Pharaoh.' Then Miriam's prayer was accepted, and in the merit of Miriam, the People of Israel exist. Therefore, the well is 'Be'era shel Miriam' (Miriam's Well). The water we drink from the Kinneret (Sea of Galilee)—the entire Kinneret is Miriam's Well. Everything we drink comes from the Kinneret; it comes in the merit of Miriam. Therefore, every Motzaei Shabbos (Saturday night), Miriam's Well travels through all the wells and all the faucets, and all the faucets are filled from Miriam's Well. Because the main thing is Miriam the Prophetess, whom Hashem sent. And in the merit of the righteous women, the complete Geulah (Redemption) will happen now, speedily in our days, Amen!"‏.

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