The Red Heifer – In Every Prayer, A Person Turns into Ashes – Daily Shiur

THE DAILY SHIUR OF MOREINU HARAV ELIEZER BERLAND SHLIT”A, FROM WEDNESDAY, PARSHAT TZAV, 18 ADAR-BET, AFTER MAARIV: So now, we are in [the parashah of] the red heifer [at the time of the shiur].  In another two days, we will read about the red heifer, that on Purim, the red heifer came into being.  The Rebbe says in Lesson 55 [in Likutey Moharan] that [the fact] that the cow turns into ashes, that in every prayer a person turns into ashes.  Every prayer in which a person detaches himself from all the foreign thoughts, from the Xiaomi, from the smartphone, he turns into ashes; he feels like he is nothing.  Like Rabbi Zeira, who was slaughtered in honor of Purim.  So Rabbi Levi Yitzchak [Bender] said that he wanted to be buried immediately, because a dead person cannot stand it that everyone is dancing and singing, and he is laying like a dead person.  This can’t be.  He’s sick of being dead.  He says, “For what, when?  I’m laying like a dead person, can’t dance, can’t do anything.”  He wants to be buried immediately, so why tomorrow?  Why are they burying him tomorrow?  Because this is Shuvu Banim.  Shuvu Banim buried him the following day, but it’s forbidden to bury the following day.  You need to bury the same day.  So why is it written “the next day”?  Megillah 7b [where it’s written that Rabbah and Rabbi Zeira had a meal together on Purim, and Rabbah slaughtered Rabbi Zeira and revived him the next day] – I don’t know what’s written in your [tractate] Megillah – is it written that he buried him the next day?  By Shmuel Izik, it is written that he buried him the next day.  By you, I don’t know.  Maybe he buried him the same day.  So why “the next day”? [Because] he knew that on Shushan Purim [the “next day’ after Purim], it’s possible to revive the dead.  Therefore, he taught him the laws of libun [heating a vessel until it’s white hot], because thirty days before Passover, we learn the laws of libun.  We need to perform libun on all the vessels, and therefore, he taught him about a white-hot knife.  Thirty days before Passover – therefore, he left him until the next day.  He said, “Tomorrow is Shushan Purim; it’s possible to revive the dead.”  Because on Passover, we read about the revival of the dead.  Now is thirty days between Purim and Passover; it’s possible to revive all the dead. Because Yael could revive the dead.  Devorah could revive the dead.  It used to be that every girl knew how to revive the dead.  They would all fly in the air; from Tzippori, they would fly in the air; from Kfar Shamai, they would fly in the air; from Beit Hillel, they would fly in the air; from Shlomi, they would fly in the air – from such great longing to pray.  They didn’t give up on any prayer.  Every prayer, they would fly in the air, through such great longing to pray at the Kotel, at the Temple.  They would fly in the air, because a girl always flies in the air, like Devorah HaNevia would.  Mount Tabor was forty parsos, so the height was ten parsos.  This is forty kilometers in height.  So she would fly in the air.  Who could ascend forty [kilometers]?  So Devorah would fly in the air, Yael would fly in the air.  Therefore, when Sisra arrived, he said, “If they ask, ‘Was a man here?,’ tell them ‘Ayn – nothing,’” because she was nothingness.  The woman turns into nothingness.   The woman, in the merit of being a woman, turns into nothingness.  She has to go through twenty-four hours, to be a nurse, to get up at night, to give a pacifier to the child, to search for the pacifier under the bed.  There’s no light.  Evet [Avigdor] Lieberman doesn’t give a budget for electricity.  We don’t know what to do.  So how can she search for a pacifier in darkness?  Tying the pacifier doesn’t help, so she can’t sleep at night, nor during the day.  She has no time to eat.  So a woman goes through seven levels of Gehinnom.  She turns into nothingness.  This is Yael, who became nothingness. Therefore, Yael is the numerical value of Sarah, Rivka, Rachel, and Leah, and the numerical value of “May Yael be blessed by women,” and also this, “May she be blessed by women in the tent.”  This is also David.  David became spiritually impregnated in Yael, because every woman merits David becoming spiritually impregnated in her… Because the redemption will only be in the merit of the righteous women who didn’t agree to get divorced.   And even if they were divorced, they didn’t agree.  Then Miriam HaNevia entered the Rabbinical Court, the Sanhedrin, and said, “Everyone here is getting divorced.  This can’t be!  We are poor children, a wife and orphans.  Who will take us in?  Will the gentiles take us in?”  Then, the decree was immediately canceled.  Amram immediately returned to Yocheved, and at that moment, all the women returned [to their husbands].  However, the boys already received the punishment of death, because they also sinned with the golden calf, also sinned with the spies.  The women did not.  It is written, “And amongst these, there was no man…” – all the women continued to live, until they entered the Land, until 200. Yocheved lived until the age of 250.  It’s written in chapter 46, verse 15 [in Bereishit] that she lived until 250.  We brought the Ramban now, “It is not enough that she lived until 130, that you also add 250?”  But these are the songs of Simchat Torah, that Moshe came to comfort his mother.  Three children died on his mother [in the same year].  This isn’t simple!  Three righteous children: Miriam died on her on 10 Nisan, and after this, Aharon on 1 Av.  The first thing is to travel to Aharon HaKohen.  One must travel to Aharon HaKohen on 1 Av.  Today, this is after Beersheba, after Yeruham, after Mitzpe Ramon.  Then there is Hor HaHar.  There is a mountain on top of a mountain there.  Everyone must travel to Aharon HaKohen, because Rabbi Natan says that Aharon didn’t die; Moshe didn’t die; Miriam lives and endures. And Miriam’s well goes around to all the wells.  Every Saturday night, we need to drink a drop of water from the faucet, from Miriam’s well, because Miriam lives and endures.  “And I sent before you Moshe, Aharon, and Miriam,” because Hashem sent Miriam, because only Miriam brought the water.  The water is in the merit of Miriam, until the end of all generations, also when there will be the revival of the dead.  So all water is in the merit of Miriam, because the water comes in the merit of the woman.  Therefore, in the merit of the woman, there will be the complete redemption speedily in our days, Amen!