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On Every Letter and Every Crown There are Six Hundred Thousand Interpretations Corresponding to Every Jew • The Daily Lesson from the Gaon and Tzaddik Rabbi Eliezer Berland shlit"a

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On Every Letter and Every Crown There are Six Hundred Thousand Interpretations Corresponding to Every Jew • The Daily Lesson from the Gaon and Tzaddik Rabbi Eliezer Berland shlit"a

Before you is a summary of the daily lesson as delivered by our teacher, the Rav, Rabbi Eliezer Berland shlit"a – yesterday after the Maariv (evening) prayer, Monday night, the 18th of Adar, Parshat Vayakhel:

It is written in Vayakhel, "And the men came upon the women"—the women arrived before the men. The son rises in "One"—Hashem is One... Now this is Nikrat HaTzur (the cleft of the rock); some say Tikrat HaTzurTikrat (the ceiling) represents Sarah, Rebecca, Rachel, and Leah, plus 14, which is David. This is "Blessed among women shall be Yael"—it is all in the merit of Yael and Deborah, for Deborah turned into torches of fire. Like the daughter of Jephthah who was never slaughtered. Then he said to her, "Bring me water"—he sees a three-year-old girl and asks her for water... So he stood in the test and brought the daughter of Bethuel. And Eliezer, seventy years prior, killed a billion people. Now there was a woman, ninety-nine years old, who was put in prison because she was a secretary for one of the commanders in the extermination camps. Now, eighty-five years later, someone who was fifteen then is ninety-five today. They received orders not to bomb Auschwitz; everyone needs to learn about the Holocaust to know what happened. Just like now, they told Ronen Bar (head of Shin Bet), "You caused this whole disaster," and he told Bibi (Netanyahu), "You are to blame," but they didn't call him. All the soldiers called the commanders, and they were told that whoever calls will get seventy years in solitary confinement. Now we need to open seminars (religious schools for women) in all the kibbutzim; every woman needs to be a seminar director. Like there was one person in Kissufim who had fifteen bullets and killed fifteen terrorists, and all the rest fled. Now it is being revealed that all the commanders did not let them enter the settlements and delayed them for several days. After everyone was slaughtered, then they let everyone in. Now we are in the Or HaGanuz (Hidden Light); Purim is the wiping out of Amalek, where it is possible to revive all the dead, just as Rabbah slaughtered Rabbi Zera and revived him, but he insisted. Just as Moshe Rabbeinu (Moses our Teacher) insisted on not redeeming the People of Israel, and afterwards Hashem told him to write every letter and every crown (tag), because for every letter and every crown there are six hundred thousand interpretations corresponding to every Jew. Everything is repeated until Behaalotecha; there are no "stories," it is all secrets. Rabbi Akiva expounds on every single crown, and together all the Tannaim (Sages of the Mishnah) who expounded—that is six hundred and thirteen—for every mitzvah (commandment) there is a blow. This is all in the merit of the daughters who did not want to divorce; Amram divorced, and everyone divorced. They had to bring everyone back in teshuvah (repentance); on Pesach (Passover) we do not say the full Hallel because they had to bring them back in teshuvah. Regarding the gilgulim (reincarnations of souls), Hezekiah writes that this is Amram himself, because they came with tons of gold, and he came to convert the whole world—one Jew can convert the whole world. We don't need to speak with them; we need to draw down the Or HaGanuz (Hidden Light). Now, Nikrat HaTzur (the cleft of the rock)—Tikrat (the ceiling) is Sarah, Rebecca, Rachel, and Leah. Yael is even greater, and this is "Blessed shall she be of women in the tent"—this is Sarah, Rebecca, Rachel, and Leah together with the soul of David; that is how she was able to kill Sisera.

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