Shuvu Banim International - Rabbi Eliezer Berland

“WHEN WE GO TO YOSEF HATZADDIK, THEN YOSEF HATZADDIK PROTECTS YOU.” THE DAILY CHIZZUK BY MOREINU HARAV ELIEZER BERLAND SHLIT”A, WEDNESDAY, 24 MENACHEM AV 5784 We say in the niggun of the Shabbat song “Ora V’Simcha, “Let my prayer be desirable like the offering of Nachshon.” NACHSHON IS THE ULTIMATE HUMILITY, THE ULTIMATE LOWLINESS. MOSHE SAID TO MOVE FORWARD, SO HE MOVED FORWARD. THERE’S NO SEA, NOTHING. HE SAID TO GO TO SHECHEM – THERE’S NO ARMY, NOTHING, NO PALESTINIANS. Everyone is going crazy. The entire media is going out of its mind – how do you go to a Palestinian city? I would go there every day! Over a period of five years, every single day. We lived in Bnei Brak, so it took a half-hour to Shechem. Every day, we would regularly go to Shechem. [We would] finish Vatikin [prayer at sunrise], get on the bus to Kfar Saba from Jabotinsky Street. From there, we would walk on foot to Qalqilya and pass by the tomb of Binyamin HaTzaddik. Not Binyamin ben Yaakov, but Binyamin HaTzaddik of whom it is written in the Gemara that he lived an extra 22 years because he sustained a widow with seven sons. At Binyamin HaTzaddik, we would do an hour of Hitbodedut, say the Tikkun HaKlali, and continue on to Yosef HaTzaddik. In Qalqilya, we would get into a taxi with seven Arabs and travel for a half-hour, even an hour, until Shechem. After that, we would walk on foot the enter city of Shechem. From the Kasbah, we would walk on foot all of Shechem to Yosef HaTzaddik. When we go Yosef HaTzaddik, then Yosef HaTzaddik protects you. Over a period of five years, from 5744 until 5749 (1984-1989), every day, we would go. Then the first Intifada began and we began to go to Shimon HaTzaddik every day. This was a regular thing; we would sit there for an hour. YOSEF HATZADDIK – WITHOUT HIM, IT’S IMPOSSIBLE TO LIVE. IT’S IMPOSSIBLE TO LIVE WITHOUT YOSEF HATZADDIK. MOSHE TOOK WITH HIM YOSEF’S BONES. MOSHE DIDN’T LEAVE EGYPT WITHOUT YOSEF. IT’S IMPOSSIBLE WITHOUT YOSEF. YOSEF IS THE SEVEN SHEPHERDS. “I am Hashem your God Who took you out of the land of Egypt, from the house of slaves” – the numerical value (2495) is that of the Seven Shepherds, because the Seven Shepherds is the Ten Commandments. This is exact, exactly the numerical value of the Seven Shepherds; you don’t need the “Kollel,” without the “Kollel” [the number one added for the thing itself] – Avraham, Yitzchak, Yaakov, Moshe, Aharon, Yosef, and David, along with the four Matriarchs (2495). Moshe did not leave without Yosef HaTzaddik. I told him that there is no permission from the army. I explained to him that you don’t travel to Shechem. In the end, he did travel to Shechem, took Yosef’s bones from the grave and went with them. Even Moshe Rabbeinu doesn’t leave without Yosef HaTzaddik. He doesn’t go to the giving of the Torah without Yosef. Yosef’s coffin goes before the camp of Israel -- the coffin of Yosef, of the Tzaddik. Today, this is Rabbeinu, and he goes before the camp of Israel. https://vimeo.com/1003408400