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In what merit did Moshe Rabbeinu merit the blessing of a thousand times? The daily Chizuk from the Gaon and Tzaddik, Rabbi Eliezer Berland shlit"a

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In what merit did Moshe Rabbeinu merit the blessing of a thousand times? The daily Chizuk from the Gaon and Tzaddik, Rabbi Eliezer Berland shlit"a

He saw the candle burning all week and did not return in Teshuvah - The daily Chizuk from the Gaon and Tzaddik, Rabbi Eliezer Berland shlit"a

These are his holy words:

Eliezer, the servant of Avraham (Abraham), was a true Tzaddik (righteous person). We learn from the verse "And her jug was on her shoulder" (Genesis 24:45) that he saw Esav (Esau), because Rivka (Rebecca) needed to subdue Esav.

For the name Rivka is written nine times in conjunction with the word Kad (jug). If we do the math, then 100 times 2—they taught me that 100 times 2 is 200, but that's not correct; only in Shuvu Banim do they teach like this. Rashi says "thus and thus" (Samuel II 12:8) means a hundred times. Rashi says it’s not like we said, 100 times 2, but rather you take 2 and 4, up to 100 times, and each time you double it: 8, 16, 32, 64... by 100 times you reach a thousand billion trillion—the blessing of Moshe (Moses) is a thousand times, and he merited it because he would distribute cans of drink; Rashi says in Sanhedrin that he would distribute small, thin things.

If a person distributes popsicles and ice creams to children on Shabbat, he merits that his blessings are a thousand billion trillion times—that is a billion trillion from Moshe Rabbeinu (Moses our teacher)—and this is the secret of Rivka’s Kad (jug).

Therefore, Rivka’s candle never went out; the light of Rivka never went out, and similarly with Sarah, the candle never went out. "And Yitzchak (Isaac) was comforted after his mother" (Genesis 24:67), for the candle did not go out.

Esav sees that the candle does not go out; for the honor of Shabbat, she extinguishes it and relights it. Esav grew up with Rivka and saw that the candle did not go out for his mother—do Teshuvah (repentance)!

You grow up with Yitzchak and Rivka and the candle never goes out, but it doesn't help at all.

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