Hashem Showed That the Tzaddik Controls Everything – The Daily Inspiration from the Esteemed Rabbi Eliezer Berland shlit"a
What Secret Did the Holy Ari Reveal About a Person's Birthday, and How Did Moshe Rabbeinu Use This Secret for the People of Israel – The Daily Inspiration from Our Teacher, the Esteemed Rabbi Eliezer Berland shlit"a.
Sunday, 24 Kislev 5786 – Why the Generation of the Flood Was Sure That Noach Was Lying About the Flood.
These are his holy words:
Before the switch to winter time, sunset was generally at seven, and it was possible to accomplish something. After they moved sunset to five, it became a real scandal, whoever moved the sun needs to do teshuvah (repentance) for this.
You can't just move the sun like that, Methuselah moved the sun from west to east, everything is upside down – Hashem wanted to show them that the tzaddik controls everything, because David is in the middle (Megillah 52b), therefore the sun moved from west to east.
Gehazi, who was sinning and causing others to sin, hung the two calves in the air (Sanhedrin 90a). He said the explicit name and they were suspended in the air, they cried out "I am Hashem your God".
Initially, Noach said the flood would be on the 10th of Cheshvan. They told him, on the 10th of Cheshvan there will be a calamity for you, on the 10th of Cheshvan the world will be in mourning, because Methuselah died then, the flood was postponed by seven days. So they saw that Noach was not right, that he deceived them. They said, you lied to us, there is no flood, you set it for the 10th of Cheshvan, already 120 years he has been setting the date. So what happened, the sun went backward, it was going out from the west and heading to the east.
The tzaddik can move the sun backward, he has no problem doing this. Just as Moshe Rabbeinu made the day of the giving of the Torah last 72 hours. During the Ten Commandments, each day they traveled 12 mil back and forth.
And afterward, in the war with Amalek in the story of Sihon and Og, Moshe moved the sun again, "and his hands were emunah (faith)" (Exodus 17:12).
It is written in the Jerusalem Talmud Rosh Hashanah (Chapter 3 Mishnah 8) that on one's birthday, one can achieve everything. According to the Ari, Moshe specifically chose for battle people who were on their birthday. The Ari knew the secret of the birthday, that it is the highest day of the year where whatever a person asks for, he receives.