On Wednesday night, the 7th of Kislev, Parshat Vayetze, a lecture was held at the holy residence of the esteemed tzaddik Rabbi Eliezer Berland shlit"a for a group of students from the 'Nachlei Netzach' Yeshiva for Baalei Teshuvah. Under the leadership of the esteemed chassid Yaakov Amzalag shlit"a and the presidency of the esteemed chassid R' Shmuel Stern shlit"a.

The lecture lasted approximately 57 minutes. Below is a summary of the topics mentioned by our teacher, the Rav shlit"a, during the lecture:

1. The argument between Esau and the sons of Jacob at the burial of Jacob our forefather at the entrance to the Cave of Machpelah. Esau claimed he did not sell the burial in the cave along with the birthright. Naphtali jumped to Hebron to find the deed; and Naphtali jumped three times until he found it.
2. Jacob's journey was miraculously shortened—from Be'er Sheva to Haran, and from Haran to Jerusalem—until suddenly the sun set before its time.
3. Anyone who is religious is not allowed to serve; now the head of the Shabak said how can it be that he has ten children and will oversee the state, but really it's because he wears a kippah.
4. The atomic bomb destroyed in Iran. They are now building a new bomb, but everything will turn into candies. Uranium enrichment, how radium works, what nuclear fission is, the power of neutrons, and an explanation of atomic bombs.
5. Comparison to Hiroshima and Nagasaki—how the bomb worked, before bombing Nagasaki, they were supposed to bomb Kokura, but apparently there was a Jew there who cried "Please Hashem, save now" in Hallel—it was Rosh Chodesh.
6. Gemara in Shekalim 17. How the Mediterranean Sea was formed? Due to the two times the ocean flooded the world: in the generation of Enosh and after 1,400 years was the flood.
7. Enosh, confused in emunah (faith) and claimed he was God at the age of 695. For eight years and then he recanted. But by then, the whole world was confused.
8. The American story: A man who was asked to invite all the wedding guests also to the divorce, in the end, he took back his wife.
9. "And he encountered the place": Jacob arrives at the Temple Mount; Rashi—"He reached the place" alludes to the 18 blessings of the Amidah prayer.
10. Ramban asks why it was necessary to send Hagar to the desert of Paran where there is no water, only to expel her from the house.
11. The five "And he said" in the angel to Hagar—a hint to the five times the angel appeared to Hagar. Rashbi cried because he did not merit to see an angel, only a demon in the story of "Ben Talmyon" on the way to Rome.
12. Gibraltar: Travel route in Spain; origin of the name; story of the Islamic conquests of 711.
13. Story of saving 14 Jewish children by a priest in Poland who was caught, and later his grandson became a pope. Description of Nazi atrocities in churches and preservation of survivor testimonies; the grandson's visit to the church and covering the statues.
14. Return to Gemara: Order of the sinking of continents—from Kippa to Barbaria, from Sicily to Akko-Jaffa.
15. The source of oil according to Chazal—the fat of the flood; why oil wells do not run out.
16. The story of a non-Jew's sword thought to be tin and turned out to be gold—and the Brisk and 'Ketzot' dispute, whether he must pay as tin or as gold.
17. "His people with him": The secret Rashi brings about the dispute of the brothers and Joseph—the dispute of the angels and the angel Metatron whether to create the world.
18. No need for weapons, if there is emunah (faith), then throw dust and it becomes "swords and arrows."
19. Whoever eats an olive-sized piece of bread at the fourth meal merits all the secrets of the Torah. The entire Gemara is stories about the Tigris—Ariyeh D'bei Ilai that the emperor wanted to see and eventually fell from the chair. Judah son of Jacob roared and brought down the walls of Egypt.
20. The snake with seven heads that stood before Rav Acha bar Yaakov; each head that fell—a fall of a klipah. The Holy Temple was not burned, what burned was lime and stones. The true Holy Temple ascended to the heavens and there it is built. The Zohar writes that the tzaddikim put kohl in their eyes and can see it standing in its construction.