The Accuser Tries to Distance One from the Tzaddik

THE DAILY CHIZZUK BY MOREINU HARAV ELIEZER BERLAND SHLIT”A – THE SATAN SHOWED TO THEM MOSHE’S BIER

Rabbi Yehoshua ben Levi said: When Moshe ascended on high, he found the Holy One Blessed is He binding crowns to the letters.  He said, “Moshe, are there no greetings in your city?”  He said to Him, “Is there a servant who greets his master?”  He said to him, “You should have helped Me.”  Immediately, he said to Him, “And now, may the strength of my Lord be magnified as You have spoken.”

And Rabbi Yehoshua ben Levi said: What is the meaning of that which is written, “The people saw that Moshe had delayed [in descending the mountain]?”  Do not read this “vosheish (delayed).”  Rather, “va’u sheish (six have passed).”  When Moshe ascended on high, he said to the Jewish people, “At the end of forty days, at the beginning of the sixth [hour], I will come back.”  At the end of forty days, Satan came and threw the world into confusion.   He said to them: “Moshe, your teacher, where is he?”  They told him, “He ascended on high.”  He said to them, “Six have passed.”  However, they paid no attention to him.  [The Satan said:] “He has died.”  But they paid no attention to him.  He showed them the image of his bier.  And that is why they said to Aharon, “for this man, Moshe, etc.”  (Shabbat 89a)

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These are his holy words:

The Tzaddik does everything.  You need to know that everything is delusions.  There are no wars, there’s nothing.  This is all the Accuser who is making it so that people won’t reach the Tzaddik.

Like with Moshe Rabbeinu, that the Satan showed them Moshe Rabbeinu’s bier.  It’s written in the Gemara (Shabbat 89a) that he showed to them Moshe Rabbeinu’s bier.

Moshe brought them to the level where they could live forever.  Then the Accuser showed to them Moshe’s bier, his funeral.

1. Moshe was alive. This was falsehood.
2. Even if it was true, Moshe is alive. Even if it is true that Moshe passed away at the age of 120 – still, Moshe lives!

The Tzaddik lives, Moshe lives, Rabbeinu lives!  People call Breslov Chasidim the “dead Chasidim” [because their Rebbe passed away].  But they are the dead ones.  During their lives, they are called dead.  We are walking with a living Rebbe, a living Rebbe who controls the whole world.

We are saying now that the Satan can do everything.  He can show them Moshe Rabbeinu’s bier, show them a bier, a funeral with angels walking with black candles.  He showed them the image of his bier, and that is why they said to Aharon, “For this is Moshe, the man…” (Shemot 32:1).  They mamash saw him on the bier.  The Satan can make a million stage plays -- with décor.

The Jewish people were stubborn with the Satan.  They told him, “Moshe is alive.”  The Satan said, “No, here is his bier.”  The Satan argued with them.

The Jewish people erred by a day, because the day that Moshe ascended to heaven didn’t count in the calculation of forty days.  Therefore, “God ascends with the terua, Hashem with the sound of the shofar” (Tehilim 47:6).  The shofar blast was so that they would know when Moshe was descending, so they wouldn’t make the same mistake again.

So, from 1 Elul until Yom Kippur, they blasted the shofar every day in order to make it known that Moshe was alive, Moshe will descend.

Because for forty days, Moshe is nowhere.  It’s the end!  People became confused.  How long is it possible to wait?  For “they strayed quickly from the way that I commanded them” (Shemot 32:8).  It is written, “They strayed quickly”: Let’s go make a calf.  Moshe ascended and that’s it.  If Moshe ascended, he won’t come down anymore.

What do you mean that he’ll come down?  What do you mean that Moshe will come down?  [They thought that Moshe would never come down.]  For what [reason] do we come into the world?  What are we doing here in the world?  We need to eat three meals a day.  Food is the greatest of all tortures.  So for forty days, Hashem freed Moshe from eating – another forty days and another forty days.

We read three times in Parashat Ekev, “They strayed quickly from the way.”  “They strayed quickly” – what does “quickly” mean?  Within a second!  Within a second, Moshe just turned his back, and they said, “This is the end!  Let’s make a calf.”

Every day, there are still judgments from the sin of Adam HaRishon, from the generation of Enosh, from the generation of the flood.  The Satan can make wars and all types of things.  The main thing is that people won’t reach the Tzaddik.

If people reach the Tzaddik, they live until 120.  Whoever reached the Tzaddik doesn’t have sicknesses or weakness.

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