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Where Are You Running? Stay and Receive All the Influences - Words of the Esteemed Tzaddik Rabbi Eliezer Berland shlit"a for Parshat Chayei Sarah

Where Are You Running? Stay and Receive All the Influences - Words of the Esteemed Tzaddik Rabbi Eliezer Berland shlit"a for Parshat Chayei Sarah

"And he said, Blessed be Hashem, the God of my master Abraham, who has not forsaken His kindness and His truth" (Genesis 24:27)

"The Rebbe says that the speech comes and asks you, and pleads with you, and embraces you, why are you in a hurry? Why are you running? I will give you everything you want! The speech comes and is heard by your ears, hear with your ears what you utter with your mouth, and asks and pleads, "Say the Shemoneh Esrei slowly." The speech asks and pleads with the neshamah not to separate, why are you running? Where are you running? I will give you everything. The 'B' of 'Baruch' tells you "I will give you everything", hear with your ears what you utter with your mouth, say the word 'Baruch'. 'Baruch' is all the blessings in the world, in the word "Baruch" alone the neshamah should already go out and then you merit all the blessings in the world. So the speech asks and pleads with the neshamah not to separate from it."

"The 'B' tells him to stand by me, say me, stand for a few seconds with patience. The letter 'B' of the word Baruch stands and pleads and asks the neshamah not to separate! I will give you everything, everything you need for everyone. I will give you healing, just say Baruch slowly, say Refaeinu slowly, continue healing for everyone, for all of Israel. "Heal us, Hashem, and we shall be healed, save us and we shall be saved, for You are our praise" (the eighth blessing in the Shemoneh Esrei), I will give you all the abundance."

"For You are a merciful healer", is your doctor trustworthy?! You go to a doctor, he might give you special treatment after you pay him a thousand dollars for personal care, a private surgery, what does he care about you? And even if he is the most careful and precise, it's only for his career. That's what interests him. So he is not trustworthy! And he is not merciful! And here in prayer, we stand before "God, King, faithful and merciful", we stand before, "King, faithful and merciful", who does everything to give us, and it all depends on the Shemoneh Esrei with intention."

"As soon as the first letter comes out, such as the letter 'B' in the word Baruch, it asks and pleads with the neshamah not to separate from it, how are you running away? Why? "Say Baruch slowly, you will get a house, you will get everything, whatever you need healing, salvation, everything you will get, just say Baruch slowly, why are you running away? After all, I love you. The letter says, I love you, I want you to say me slowly, I will give you everything due to the great connection and love between us, because you don't see that I can give you everything, I, the word Baruch, can give you all the blessings and all the abundance in the world. You don't see my beauty and my main beauty and my splendor and my glory, you don't see my beauty, and I will give you everything you want. Just be faithful to me, how can you go to others? How can you leave me?"

"R' Natan prays in Likutei Tefilot to have the strength to detach from the letters, because the letters hold the person so that he cannot detach at all, he can stand in the Shemoneh Esrei, not just 8 hours, but 24 hours, each letter can give you all the salvations, all the blessings."

"The Rebbe intended in the Shemoneh Esrei with each letter, so he succeeded in continuing abundance for all generations, we live only from our holy and awesome Rebbe, from the abundance he continued for us. It is true that you need to go buy more segulot and precious things, you want to go further to say more letters, but how can you separate from me? I will give you everything, how can you separate from me and forget me? You know what, I have advice for you, say the 'B', the 'R', the 'U', and the 'K' of Baruch, say me, remember what light you were in the letter 'B', and what light you were in the letter 'R' and what light you were in the letter 'U', and what light you were in the letter 'K'. Remember that each letter has new and wonderful lights, so you will not forget the lights you saw in the letters."

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