New Prayer for the Molad, Month of Nissan 5776 by the Gaon and Tzaddik Rabbi Eliezer Berland shlit"a

The Month of Nissan – The Secret of the Absolute Hiyuli (Primordial Potential)

[Sefer Karnayim, Parashat Eliezer page 39]

Master of the World, Omnipotent One. At the time of the Molad (birth of the new moon) for the month of Nissan, which will be on Thursday morning before noon, [Johannesburg 9:54 and 16 parts, [Israel 10:54 and 16 parts], corresponding to the number of the sixteen wagons that passed over its edge [Talmud Bechorot 57b]. For it is written in the covenant of eternal priesthood regarding Rosh Chodesh Nissan, the letters of Rosh Echad (One Head). For the month of Nissan is the secret of the Hiyuli (primordial matter/potential) for the new year, the secret of the Matzah [Geulat Yisrael 35], the secret of the Hiyuli. From there comes the concept of "and it was turned around, that the Jews ruled over their enemies," which was fulfilled on the first day of the Sefirah (Counting of the Omer) with the hanging of Haman. Immediately, "the city of Shushan rejoiced and was glad," because the entire city was involved in mixed marriages. Therefore, with the decree, "the city of Shushan was bewildered," because all the mixed couples did not know if they would die together—just as they did in Auschwitz, where hundreds and thousands of mixed couples went together to the ovens. And behold, they saw that within three days, "it was turned around." Regarding these, it is said, "and many of the peoples of the land became Jews." For through the power of the month of Nissan, the power of the Hiyuli, Haman was hanged, and no memory of him remained except for "Haman's Ears" [Haman Tisch]. These are the pockets filled with poppy seeds in the shape of a triangular ear, as is the custom of the Jewish people in Europe; they received the nickname "Haman's Ears." This hints at the spiritual lights of the ear, which the Children of Israel blemished by not listening to Mordechai the Jew and going to the feast. There, they ate non-kosher meat and carrion and drank libation wine, until nine years had passed in which they did not do teshuvah (repentance). Then the terrible decree was issued in the twelfth year of his reign. Immediately when they did teshuvah, fasted for three days, and nullified themselves to Mordechai the Tzaddik—the secret of the Hiyuli—the head of the oppressors of all generations was immediately hanged. He appears anew in every single generation in new garments, but with the same soul, the soul of Haman. However, the month of Nissan is the secret of the Hiyuli for the entire month, the secret of the Matzah which has no substance and no selfhood. It is not [characterized by] a storm wind, a great cloud, or a flashing fire, but rather it is the secret of the Chashmal [Ezekiel 1:4]. Chash-Mal: Chash (silence) is the secret of the Hiyuli, and Mal (speech) is the secret of Chochmah (Wisdom) and the secret of Binah (Understanding). This is the secret of the four cups [of wine] which are Rabbinic, the secret of "wine that gladdens," which is the illumination of Binah drawn down from the Matzah, the secret of the Hiyuli, the secret of the month of Nissan, the head of all months, for they are all drawn from the month of Nissan. It is the secret of the twelve Nesi'im (Princes) who open the month of Nissan. And on the first day, the secret of "one young bull, one ram, one lamb in its first year for a burnt offering; and one male goat for a sin offering; and for the sacrifice of peace offerings, two oxen, five rams, five male goats, five lambs in their first year." This is the secret of the 21 kings from David to Zedekiah. This is the secret of Yotam, who is the secret of the "perfect lamb for a burnt offering," who never committed a sin in his days. Anyone who mentions him, his iniquities are immediately atoned for. And together with Rashbi (Rabbi Shimon bar Yochai) and Rabbi Elazar, [they atone for] the sins of all generations from Adam HaRishon until the end of all generations. For all of this is drawn from the secret of the Hiyuli, where everything is immediately transformed into the Absolute Ayin (Nothingness). Through teshuvah out of love, all iniquities are transformed into the secret of the Hiyuli, where there is no sin or iniquity, only the Absolute Ayin. We merit this immediately at the moment of the Molad, at 9:54 and 16 parts. Immediately after two hours and six minutes, the Tekufah (season) of Nissan begins. In the year 5797, we will merit to recite the Birkat HaChammah (Blessing of the Sun) then, on the 23rd of Nissan, a Wednesday. At that time, we are included in the Absolute Hiyuli for the duration of the next 28 years. Through this, by means of teshuvah out of love, all iniquities are transformed into merits. For all the iniquities a person has stumbled in, if he does teshuvah out of love, they become a vessel to be included in the Absolute Hiyuli. This is the secret of the month of Nissan, the secret of the five Matzot from which we eat an olive's bulk on the Seder night, in order to draw down illumination from the Absolute Ayin through the five Partzufim (Divine Personas). Through this, the Plague of the Firstborns occurred in ten aspects: from the firstborn of the captive, the firstborn of the maidservant, and the firstborn of the beast, up to Pharaoh, the firstborn of the Sitra Achra (Other Side). [It included] all the firstborns of Egypt in all lands, all the firstborns of the nations who were in Egypt, and all the firstborns who were born from the time of the Plague of the Firstborns until they drowned in the Sea of Reeds. This is in the secret of "Sfat HaYam" (the seashore), "Mordechai and Esther," "Mattityahu and his sons," and everything is in Gematria the secret of the "Gavia" (Goblet) that Joseph hinted to the brothers, with the Thirteen Attributes of Mercy, from the Name Av (72), "Yod-Hei-Vav-Hei."