On Wednesday, the night of 22 Shevat, a shiur was held at the home of Moreinu HaRav Eliezer Berland shlit”a for young men from Lithuanian (“Litvish”) yeshivas – the best of the Torah world – who merited to draw close to holiness.  The shiur lasted for 45 minutes.  Here is a summary of the topics covered in the shiur:

A person needs to learn Gemara and Kitzot HaChoshen in depth for eight hours every day, and afterwards, learn for six hours the books of Rabbeinu, Musar, and Halachah.  Purim is revival of the dead.  The Kerestirer said that whoever would serve him faithfully would be saved from the Holocaust.  During the holocaust of Hungarian Jews, 800,000 Jews were wiped out.  All the Jews were killed except for those who paid in Budapest.  The Danish sold iron to the Germans, so to atone for this, they saved many Jews during the war.  Stalin himself killed countless Jews; Hitler learned from Stalin how to kill Jews.  The synagogue of the Bat Ayin was the only one to survive [the earthquake] in Tzfat; he was in the middle of “Nefilat Apayim.” Travelling to Uman is like “renewing a visa” – [ensuring] that a person lives another year. The Rav shlit”a discussed financial disputes: A daughter who causes distress to her father over financial matters, and her father agreed to give her money so that she would hire a maidservant.  Her father died and stipulated with her brothers not to give the money to the husband.  Afterwards, the daughter died before hiring a maidservant.  The law is not to give the money to the husband, because from the beginning, the father didn’t want to give it to her, only that she coerced him to – all the more so, she didn’t fulfill the condition. Coca-Cola is the initial letters (in Hebrew) of “Kol Korei Hatarngol, Kumu La’avodat HaBorei – The rooster’s call: Rise to serve the Creator.”  Our field was there at Coca-Cola [the current site of the Coca-Cola factory in Bnei Brak]; we would do Hidbodedut there.