On Wednesday, Parashat Yitro, the night of Tu B’Shevat, an event was held for the Rabbinic Council of Shuvu Banim, including great and longstanding talmidim, at the home of Moreinu HaRav Eliezer Berland shlit”a.  During the event, the Rav gave a shiur and afterwards gave to each participant an apple that he blessed.

Here is a summary of the subjects covered in the shiur:

Every day, soldiers are killed, and in spite of this, large quantities of food are brought into Gaza.  For years, large sums of money were brought in for Hamas.  Nebuchadnetzar walked three steps opposite three generations of kingship – Evil-Merodoch, Balshetzar.  Every step, every word, every Psalm, a person receives kingship over the entire world.  Now, Motza’ei Shevi’it is the time of the redemption.  There is an upper Tzaddik and a lower Tzaddik.  There is a person who walks with open eyes and doesn’t see anything.  If a person is involved in Torah, he doesn’t see anything.  Every day, Hashem performs new wonders – “I will show it wonders.”  In the year 5800 (2040) will be the final redemption.  You need to learn Shas and Halachic Codifiers – this is Shuvu Banim!  The Shlah says that the girls were released from the contamination of the serpent at the giving of the Torah, but the boys brought it back onto themselves at the sin of the Golden Calf.   Rabbi Shalom Tzadok got me to enter the yeshiva.  Aharon was a reincarnation of Haran, and was supposed to give his life rather than making the calf, and then a Temple of fire would have come down.  King Aviyah removed the blockades that his father put up to prevent people from ascending to Jerusalem, and in the merit of this, the King Messiah will descend from him.  I read the story of Shlomo Gabbai.  What an amazing story!  From the other side of the world, he did teshuva (repentance).  Everyone has a story.  Every person is a story in himself.  You need to read all these stories.  We recorded all the greats of Breslov.  An article should be written in Nitzotzot or Hitchadshut about this.  So Balshetzar came from the other side of the palace, and Koresh and Darius killed him.  He was in death throes until the morning, because one kingship doesn’t touch another even by a hairsbreadth.  Koresh and Darius killed all the Kasdim, and Vashti didn’t understand at first why her father was gone and Darius was in his place.  And this was the argument between Achashverosh and Vashti, because Achashverosh claimed that in his merit, he reined over 127 countries and Vashti was called queen.  But Vashti claimed that it was in her merit, because Nebuchadnetzar walked four steps, and she is the queen – Vashti.