Turning Iron into Gold, the Daily Strengthening from our Teacher, the Holy Gaon and Tzaddik, Rabbi Eliezer Berland shlit"a (may he live long and good days) – "Someone screamed 'Please Hashem, save us now,' the pilot became confused, and the atomic bomb changed location."

Sunday, 29th of Tevet 5786 – "If a person merits 3 Havayahs (Divine Names), he receives gold."

These are his holy words:

The Rebbe says that when the time of the Geulah (Redemption) arrives, it will happen without a single shot being fired!

Every word of the Rebbe is fulfilled; whatever the Rebbe says comes to pass—the main thing is to follow the Rebbe, and then every word of the Rebbe is like an atomic bomb.

U-92 is an atom (Uranium), Pu-94 (Plutonium). U-92 is Uranium, which is 238 (the Rav explains further); we need to lower it by 3, lower it! Lower your head a little bit. They put it in centrifuges (a device for separating materials) in a spin; when a person spins (turns around in repentance or dance), then everything flies to the sides.

They dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima. Recently there were ceremonies; the Japanese held ceremonies on the 30th of Av, the 9th of August. Someone screamed "Hoshia Na" (Save us now), someone recited Hallel (psalms of praise) with intense kavana (intention) and confused the pilot. The pilot was supposed to drop the bomb on Kokura, which is 200 kilometers before Nagasaki. There is Hiroshima, Kokura, and Nagasaki. Recently there was a ceremony in Hiroshima; three hundred thousand people were turned to dust.

The second bomb was supposed to be dropped on Kokura, but in the end, it was dropped on Nagasaki because someone screamed "Hoshia Na." It was Rosh Chodesh (the New Month) and there was a certain Jew who was reciting Hallel; he said, "Please Hashem, save us now"—he sang it like they do in Shuvu Banim. He sang it for half an hour, so the pilot who was supposed to go to Kokura became confused because a fog formed. Instead, he had to detonate it about 20 kilometers away, but it was a valley and the mountains blocked the blast wave.

Pu-94 is already artificial, 92 is found in nature. To reach 94, one must add two more protons, because we take iron and copper. Copper is 29 (its atomic number); we add 50, and together it equals 79. 79 is the numerical value of "Mazla" (destiny/flow, including the word itself); it is equal to 3 Havayahs (the four-letter Name of Hashem). With three Havayahs, one receives gold (its atomic number), if a person merits 3 Havayahs, he receives gold; everything turns into gold through 3 Havayahs.

Iron is 26, which is only one Havayah (the Name of Hashem). Therefore, one must add 53 to reach gold.

The Chovos HaLevavos (Duties of the Heart) says: enough with the segulos (spiritual remedies), everyone used to say, "I have a formula from my grandfather for the way to turn copper into gold." He would boast, "I won't tell anyone the formula I inherited from my great-great-grandfather; I know how to turn iron into gold, copper into gold."

It was like this for two thousand years; people tried to transform it, they boiled it, and they didn't succeed until 1905—exactly 120 years ago—when they discovered the secret of protons. They discovered that it depends on the total number of protons; if you add more protons, the iron becomes 53 [added to its 26 to reach 79]. Copper is [29, needing] 50 to be added, whereas lead is 82, and from it, one must subtract 3.

Removing protons is much harder than removing electrons; for this, one needs the speed of light—300 thousand km per second. You must accelerate it, and then it breaks down from 82 to 79.