"Secrets of the Month of Elul" -- Rabbi Eliezer Berland Shlit"a

IN THE MONTH OF ELUL, THE JEWISH PEOPLE FOUGHT SICHON KING OF THE EMORITES, AND AFTER SUKKOT THEY FOUGHT OG KING OF THE BASHAN, WHO WAS SPIRITUALLY IMPREGNATED (IBUR) WITH THE SOUL OF THE TANNA SHIMON BEN NETANEL. SINCE YAEL KILLED SISERA AND EXTRACTED FROM HIM THE SOUL OF RABBI AKIVA, AND SHE LATER RETURNED IN A REINCARNATION AS ABAYE, THE MOTHER OF SISERA SHED ONE HUNDRED TEARS. THEREFORE, ON ROSH HASHANAH WE MUST BLOW ONE HUNDRED SHOFAR BLASTS TO SWEETEN THOSE CRIES. A LETTER WRITTEN BY MOREINU HARAV ELIEZER BERLAND SHLIT"A, WITH WHICH WE CAN UNDERSTAND, BEZRAT HASHEM, A LITTLE OF THE SECRETS SURROUNDING THE MONTH OF ELUL, ROSH HASHANAH, AND SUKKOT: “Between her legs he knelt, he fell…‘shadud’ [vanquished]” — numerical value: “Metatron” -- 314. “Then the horses’ heels were pounded,” “Curse Meroz…curse, cursed are its inhabitants,” “The ancient brook (nachal kedumin), the Kishon Brook, I myself trod it vigorously.” “I will acknowledge my sin to You, and my iniquity I did not conceal.” “Blessed by women is Yael, the wife of Chever the Kenite. He asked for water, she gave him milk, in a stately saucer she presented cream. Between her legs he knelt, he fell, he lay. Between her legs he knelt, he fell, vanquished. She stretched her hand to the peg, her hand to the laborers’ hammer. She hammered Sisera, severed his head, smashed and pierced his temple.” For since Yael extracted from Sisera the soul of Rabbi Akiva, “They stopped living in unwalled towns in Israel, they stopped; until I, Devorah, arose; I arose as a mother in Israel.” Sisera said to Yael, “Stand at the entrance to the the tent, and it shall be that if any man shall come and ask you and say, ‘Is anyone there?’ you shall say ‘No!’” “Yael, the wife of Chever, took a tent ‘peg (yated).’” “In the yated” is the numerical of value of “Shuvu Banim” – 416, the numerical value of Va”Teyabev” (sobbed).  “Teyabev” is the numerical value of “yated” 414, the secret of “Sisera’s mother sobbed,” the secret of her sobbing one hundred cries. Therefore, we need to blast one hundred times in order to nullify the one hundred cries of Sisera’s mother. Therefore, a person should first learn Torah and afterwards marry a wife. “She said, ‘Indeed, I will go with you – but the path on which you have chosen to go will not be for your glory, for Hashem will have delivered Sisera into the hand of a woman.’” THE SECOND LETTER WRITTEN BY MOREINU HARAV ELIEZER BERLAND SHLIT”A “You have begun to show Your servant Your greatness and Your strong hand, for what power is there in the heaven or on the earth that can perform according to Your deeds and according to Your might acts?” “Was even a shield or a spear seen among forty thousand in Israel.” If there are 40,000 who keep Shabbat, the Jewish people are protected, and no nation, people, or tongue can overpower them. For Yael, the wife 701 of Chever 210, the Kenite 175 = Sarah, Rivkah, Rachel, Leah = 1086. “Hashem, He is God (Elokim)” = 86, “Sichon king of the Emorites and Og king of the Bashan” = 1086. For Yael subdued all the klipot (evil husks), even Sichon and Og, the harshest klipot. Yael was reincarnated as Eli, the Kohen Gadol, and afterwards as Abaye, whom the law is according to in “Yae”l Kaga”m” [the letters representing the cases in which the halachah is according to Abaye over his colleagues]. “Kagam” is the numerical value of “Ehyeh” when spelled out with Alefim (“milui alefim”), Aleph Heh Yud Heh (אלף הא יוד הא) = 143. Yael comes in every single generation in a new reincarnation and subdues all the wicked, especially Sichon king of the Emorites and Og king of the Bashan = 1000, about which it is said: “The thousand are for you, Shlomo.”