Our Rebbe, the Gaon and Tzaddik, Rabbi Eliezer Berland shlit”a, in his holy call: “Everyone is obligated to vote Gimel.  The ballot slips are a war!  These aren’t elections!  Whoever votes for Gimel will merit to all the blessings…

These are his holy words:

Everyone is obligated to go vote, immediately in the morning, immediately at seven in the morning, everyone should be at the voting stations.  That they should already see that Agudah (Gimel) won, because the only group which defends religion is only Agudah.  We only want that there should be here Shabbat, that there will be here yeshivot, and the moment that they will learn Torah here, the Arabs won’t bother us.  And whoever doesn’t vote, very simply he establishes the government of wickedness.  It doesn’t matter for which reasons he doesn’t vote.  Maybe they didn’t accept his daughter to the girl’s school, perhaps they didn’t accept his son to the yeshiva – this is convenient for him [not to vote]…and he establishes with his hands a government that doesn’t want there to remain anything of religion. And in order for there to be Gemara learning, we are obligated to vote Gimel! Their goal [of the enemies of Torah] is to uproot all the Yeshivot through all types of excuses, and all types of laws which they decree… Therefore, you need to know that today the war is with ballot slips.  Once the war was with bullets, with gunfire, with arrows, with spears.  Then people decided that instead of killing each other, it’s better to write ballot slips, and whoever gets the most ballot slips will be the king. A person needs to know that this is more than Torah law, because we today are in a situation of destruction.  Everyone said that there wouldn’t be Germany.  All the Rebbes said that there would not be Germany, that Germany wouldn’t do anything, outside of Rabbi Avraham Elimelech and Rabbi Yechiel of Ostrovtzah, who fasted forty years to cancel the decree.  And Rabbi Avraham Elimelech said that if they would fast on Rosh Hashanah they would cancel the decree, like they fasted on Seder night [in the time of Purim].  He was here in Meron; he screamed.  They heard his screams in Tzfat.  His assistant ran up to him with a glass of boiling milk…  This was a period when everyone said that nothing would happen.  Everyone was complacent, everyone is complacent.  Now the war is the same war, that they want to make all the Land of Israel “Red Haifa [socialist/communist].”  We need to emphasize that this entire state is the greatest lie in the world, so today instead of arrows, they fight with ballot slips.

The Ballot Slips are the War!  These aren’t elections!

It’s forbidden to say the word “elections”… and whoever goes to elections, they even more so want to excommunicate him.  We’re now in a situation in which in a little while, there won’t remain…  There are today iphones, and cellphones, and the “liberated” say that today, they don’t need to fight with the religious, just distribute iphones to them – automatically they’ll become secular.  A person who has an iphone will be secular.  Even if he is religious, it’s from the lips and outwards.  Every child who saw an iphone is already religious from the lips and outwards. Therefore, we are saying that now this is a war over life and death, and the only war is put the Gimel slip [in the ballot box]. Anyone who votes Gimel will merit to all the blessings, he will have a World to Come, in the merit of him saving the Torah.  Because now it’s a war over life and death.  They want to uproot the Torah, and we want to live the Torah, and this is the only war that’s being fought for the sake of Torah.  Every party, even if it’s religious, has all types of goals on the side, all types of secondary goals.  The only party which is only Torah learning and keeping Shabbat, and children’s education – they have no other goal.

Anyone who votes Gimel saves the entire Jewish people from spiritual and physical destruction.

In the merit of this, he will be blessed with all the blessings, and will have a World to Come, great wealth, a marriage partner, sons, and daughters, anyone who votes Gimel! May Hashem be with you!

Anyone who hasn’t yet voted has until 10 pm tonight to vote.  Please make the effort to get to the voting station while there’s still time!