How to Merit to Bring a Child in Holiness

THE DAILY CHIZZUK OF MOREINU HARAV ELIEZER BERLAND SHLIT"A

MONDAY, THE 15TH OF ELUL, 5785

These are his holy words:

IT IS WRITTEN, “FROM HASHEM COMES AN INTELLIGENT WIFE” (MISHLEI 19:14), “WHO GUIDED ME ON THE PATH OF TRUTH” (BEREISHIT 24:48) – A MAN NEEDS TO MARRY A WISE WOMAN, A SHARP WOMAN; THEN THEIR CHILD WILL ALSO COME OUT SHARP.

For the first three years of a child, everything he receives comes only from his mother. The first three years the child nurses from his mother, and also in the nine months before that he was with her. Therefore, all of his intellect comes only from his mother -- all his intellect.

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Now they also said to take iron. They announced that from the age of 4 months until a year and a half, one should give the child two drops of iron every day, so that the intellect will be strong.

> Today 50% of the children do not comprehend, they do not speak, people don’t know anything. He writes there in [1]“Meisharim Maggid” that he arrived in Sri Lanka as a mashgiach, and he saw that everyone had crooked arms and crooked legs – all of this is because of blemishes of the covenant (brit).

A person doesn’t know that he needs to bring a child in holiness, in the highest holiness that can be. Then the child will not come out with a crooked arm and leg, nor with half an eye and half an ear.

A person needs to know that the first three years are all from the mother, all the intellect is from the mother. The mother needs to nurse him, and it is the mother’s milk that builds the intellect. The first three years, whatever bit of intellect the child has, it is all from the mother – if the mother is sharp, then the child will also be sharp.

[1]Meisharim Maggid was authored by Rabbi Yitzchak Zvi Bernfeld (5677 [1917]–5758 [1998]), one of the rabbis of the Chatam Sofer circle in Bnei Brak. The book was printed in Bnei Brak in two volumes between 5734 (1974)–5741 (1981), arranged according to the Parshiot/Nach as revelations and insights attributed to “the Maggid.”