The Daily Strengthening from our teacher, the Holy Gaon and Tzaddik Rabbi Eliezer Berland shlit"a (may he live long and good days) – "A Green Line that Renews Months"

Wednesday, 13th of Kislev 5786 – "How can it be said that Esther was greenish?"

These are his holy words:

Here we will learn what the Green Line (Kav Yarok - a Kabbalistic concept of the life force surrounding the world) is.

Esther was the ugliest woman in the world. How is this possible? After all, it is written: "And the king loved Esther more than all the women... more than all the virgins" (Megillat Esther 2:17). Exactly the opposite—such beauty had not existed since the creation of the world, even more than Vashti!

So how can it be said that Esther was greenish (yerakroket - a Talmudic description of her complexion)?

So he says "greenish" refers to: "And he armed (vayarek) his trained servants" (Genesis 14:14). What is "vayarek"? It is the Green Line that encompasses the entire world! The Tzaddik is the Green Line!

What do we say in the Siddur (prayer book)? What do we sing?

"Bar Yochai, in the Holy of Holies, a green line that renews months" (from the Piyyut Bar Yochai by Rabbi Shimon Lavi).

The Tzaddik is called the Green Line! What is "greenish"? It is the Green Line!

Here he explains what the Green Line is; for several pages, he only explains what the Green Line is, all the combinations (of Divine names) and the entire Merkavah (Divine Chariot)—a line that encompasses the whole world, the Holy Temple, the home, the world.

A person lives forever; whoever belongs to the Green Line lives forever. The living one lives forever.

The stones of Bohu (void) and the stones of Tohu (chaos)—the Green Line encompasses all four worlds, the four camps of the Shechinah (Divine Presence).

The Green Line is the line with which one lives forever; whoever connects to the Green Line can live forever. "Who can produce a pure thing from an impure one" (Job 14:4) that are not pure.

And therefore, we eat the Karpas (vegetable dipped in salt water during the Passover Seder); we begin with the Green Line. The vegetables (yerakot) are the Green Line; they are drawn from the Green Line.