The Reason Hitler Didn’t Use the Atom Bomb

HERE IS A SUMMARY OF THE DAILY SHIUR THAT WAS GIVEN BY MOREINU HARAV ELIEZER BERLAND SHLIT”A ON THURSDAY, THE NIGHT OF 10 SIVAN, PARASHAT NASO, AFTER MA’ARIV:

In another four and a half hours, it will be midnight of Motza’ei Shabbat. We’re going to the Kotel right after Melaveh Malka. The Rav will arrive at the Kotel after a half an hour. We will recite seven Tikkun HaKlali’s from 11:30 PM to 12:30 AM. Everyone will be able to see the Rav.

Einstein used to study all the material during bein hazmanim (the breaks from learning season), so when classes resumed, all that was left for him to do was to throw peels at the teachers. So the principal came up with a solution: that Einstein had pneumonia and needed to travel to the Alps in Switzerland to recover. He invented the atom. You need to reduce uranium from 238 to 235. Through reduction, anything can be transformed — copper into iron, lead into gold. Chovot HaLevavot (Duties of the Heart) says: stop claiming that you can turn lead into gold. One should learn Chovot HaLevavot every day. But there were some who knew the formula to turn iron into gold — by adding protons from 23 to 59. Madame Curie really discovered the secret of the atom.

A woman always knows more than a man. It’s written that Bruria learned in one day what would normally take three years to study. And she learned even more: in the distance from Etzel to Etzel, 300 camels loaded with holy books that were hidden. A woman can learn in seconds what it takes a man to learn in a year.

If Hitler were alive today, he’d be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize — for killing the Jews. The miracle was that Hitler refused to use the atom. He said that since a Jew touched it, it was forbidden to use it. An eighth of a gram of atomic material was dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and 70,000 were instantly turned to dust, 70,000 died within the following week, and over the next three years, 300,000 more died from burns, etc. So the one who discovered the atomic formula was Madame Curie. Gold is 79, copper is 82, and uranium is 92. Over 90 years, it decays down to 82. So they wanted to reduce uranium by another three so that it would be gold material — 79.

So, everyone is going to the Kotel on Motza’ei Shabbat. After that, everyone should return home and say Tehillim. Each person should learn Sotah 23b, and also Divrei HaYamim regarding the matter of “Goren Kidon” — whereas in Shmuel, it’s written “Goren Nachon.” Now the men aren’t sleeping.  The boys should learn ten pages of Gemara. And each person should learn with his wife about the blessing over fruit.  It comes out, based on the calculation, that if there are ten girls, the girl receives more than the boy. Girls always get double in everything.

Now there were 24 hostages alive. One was released — 23 remained. In the meantime, three more died, so 20 are left. We need to bring food to the hostages. And each person should learn the Gemara in Ketubot where it discusses how Moshe did not know the law that a daughter inherits. The answer is that Moshe thought [that the father] was part of Korach’s assembly, and those who were in Korach’s assembly did not receive an inheritance. This is what the daughters said, that their father was not part of Korach’s assembly — rather, he died due to his own sin.