“Whoever Was at Shuvu Banim on Shavuot Merited to See the Sounds and Lightning”

HERE IS THE FULL SHIUR THAT WAS GIVEN ON SHAVUOT [https://ravberland.com/the-shavuot-kibbutz-with-rabbi-eliezer-berland-shlita/] AT KIDDUSH, FOLLOWING THE MUSAF PRAYER OF THE THREE FESTIVALS:

The shiur was written according to the listener’s understanding.  If there is any error, it should be attributed to the writer and not, God forbid, to Moreinu HaRav shlit”a.

Now is Matan Torah.  Everyone is surrounded by fire.  Whoever was at Shuvu Banim merited to see the sounds and the lightning and to be surrounded by the fire of Matan Torah.  They merit to have all their sins from all their incarnations forgiven.  Like with Adam HaRishon, they bring silver bowls weighing 130 shekels to rectify him.  They brought 12 silver bowls, and didn’t even bring one to the Rav.  They also brought golden spoons but didn’t bring the Rav anything.  Can you see to at least one spoon?  Fine.

Adam HaRishon lived for 930 years and didn’t do anything.  The entire world was destroyed; I don’t know why.  There was an atomic explosion and the entire world was destroyed.  Because Adam HaRishon didn’t sing, didn’t dance with his grandchildren, didn’t make Melaveh Malkah.  He allowed his grandchildren to wander around wherever they wanted.  So they bring silver bowls.  We’ll read about this in another four days.  They bring silver bowls each time, but they can’t bring the Rav even one.  Nachshon brought first.  It’s written in Tractate Bechorot 5 that he had 90 donkeys full of silver and gold – then you can’t bring me even one bowl?  People say, “May my prayer be accepted like the offering of Nachshon.”  Nachshon had intention for all his grandchildren, so he merited for all of them to repent.  Even Menashe repented.  The goat for the sin offering corresponds to Menashe.

A wind came and blew Menashe away.  He was inside a pot, and they roasted him like a Pesach offering – they thought he was a sheep.  Like Adele – when they captured her, they wanted to roast her like a Pesach offering.  She had tasty meat.  Really, the story about her was during Passover.  They also captured the Baal Shem Tov and R’ Hersch and wanted to roast them.  The Besht said to R’ Hersch, “Rebbe – do something!”  Then the Besht said, “My mochin (intellect) are finished.  I can’t remember anything.  But maybe you could say something.”  R’ Hersch said, “Also my mochin are finished, and I only remember the Alef-Bet.”

“You remember the Alef-Bet.  That’s the best thing!  Say the Alef-Bet.”

Then the chariot arrived.  This was Eliyahu HaNavi.  The FBI arrived.  I don’t know if this was with kosher phones.  You’re American and you should know.   But I checked, and these were non-kosher phones.  When the Besht travelled to the Land of Israel, he didn’t want to travel by ship at all.   Who invented this, that you have to travel by ship?  You don’t need a ship at all.  In the end, the Besht arrived at the port and looked for a ship, until he picked the most broken-down, wrecked one – basically scrap-iron – and travelled on it.  In the end, it turned out that this was the very ship that the Rokeach had taken to the Land of Israel.  Rabbi Eliezer Rokeach travelled in 5502 (1742) and was in the Land of Israel for a whole year, and he was the rabbi of Tzfat.  His signatures are there.  Rabbi Eliezer Rokeach wrote a commentary on the Mishnah.  The Besht didn’t even want to travel by ship.

Also Rabbi Yitzchak of Drohobych, when he travelled to the Land of Israel, sat on the shore waiting for a ship to come.  Rabbi Yitzchak of Drohobych was the father of Rabbi Michel of Zlotchov.  When his first child was born, he sent him.  (He died) – you don’t need such a child.  When the second child was born, he also sent him.  Also when the third child was born, he sent him.  When the fourth child was born, he also wanted to send him.  Then his wife arrived and began to shout, “I also deserve something.   Leave him.”  A person needs to be considerate of his wife.  He can’t just do whatever he wants.  So she said, “Leave him for me,” and he left him for her.  This was Rabbi Michel of Zlotchov, who said about himself that a soul as pure as his body hadn’t been in the world for 500 years.  That’s how pure his body was!  So what is Rabbeinu?   There’s no grasp of it at all.  Rabbeinu is the revelation of Moshe Rabbeinu.  Now, during Matan Torah, is the revelation of Moshe Rabbeinu.

Moshe Rabbeinu is the Nefesh of Yechida.  Rashbi is the Ruach of Yechida.  The Ari is the Neshama of Yechida.  The Besht is the Chaya of Yechida, and Rabbeinu is the Yechida of Yechida – that there is nothing here.  It’s possible to travel to the Land of Israel.  Rabbi Avraham ben Rabbi Nachman told everyone to ascend to the Land of Israel, but they didn’t listen to him.  Only Rabbi Meir Anshin came to the Land of Israel.  Rabbi Avraham ben Rabbi Nachman said, “I should live to see your children lay tefillin.”  He was against tefillin; I don’t know why.  He said, “That’s how I will  live – if your children will put on tefillin.”  In the end, the communists slaughtered them all.

There was Trotsky – he founded the communists.  I read an article now that all communism was through the Jews.  Trotsky was killed by someone who entered with an ice axe and hit him in the back of the neck.  But it didn’t cut all the way, and he lay for four days until he died in the end on Tu B’Av.  Lenin died on Tu B’Shvat and Trotsky on Tu B’Av.  This was in 1924 and 1940.  Trotsky told them not to let Stalin lead after Lenin, but they interpreted it differently and Stalin rose to power.  He killed 80 million people.  Khrushchev said that he killed only 20 million, but really it was 90 million people.  Hitler killed 9 million and Stalin killed 90 million.  Rabbi Avraham ben Rabbi Nachman once immersed in a mikveh and said that he saw skulls floating on the water.  There were bowls there, but he said, “I see skulls.”  They thought that he was crazy and was speaking nonsense.  In the end, they slaughtered everyone.

Now we read the Ten Commandments, and the main thing is, “Do not commit adultery” – to get away from these things.  The woman doesn’t want it at all, and after she has a child, the story is over.  It is written in the Baal HaTurim, “the sons of Aharon,” and not “the daughters of Aharon” – because women are not connected to sin at all, unless they have a bad friend who causes them to sin.  But by themselves, they have no yetzer hara.  The Shelah says that during the sin of the Golden Calf, the contamination [of the serpent] only returned to the men and not to the women.  The Kotzker says that “Do not commit adultery” is talking about one’s own wife – this is “Do not commit adultery.”

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