Excerpt of a shiur from Rav Eliezer Berland, July 9, 2025 on the occasion of a opening a new yiddish cheder

“How good are your tents, Yaakov.”

Now, we’re opening a cheder, now it’s Balak ben Tzippor. I heard Baruch Rosenblum who said that Tzippor – ‘tzippor’ is David HaMelech. ‘Ben Tzippor’ – because what is ‘ben Tzippor’?

Here, let’s bring the Zohar. Balak took a needle of gold, you need a gold needle, and he called the tzippor (bird).

So, there is one shita, that this is David HaMelech, Melech HaMoshiach….

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Balak said that ultimately, David is going to kill me – that he was going to have a rebellious grandson.

Here, let’s bring here the Ketzot HaChoshen, and also the Gemara, Sanhedrin. She [Ruth] was the daughter of Eglon[1], the son of Balak’s son. So, she was the ‘daughter’ of Eglon; Eglon was the son of Balak.

Balak was the son of Yitro – everyone converted except for him.

Here, it’s written in Sotah 47, [there were] 42 korbanot (sacrifices), 42 children.

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Here, it [says in the] Zohar [on Parshat] Balak, that they took a needle of gold, and they stabbed the tongue of a bird.

The tongue was also made of gold, and they stabbed it seven times. They put a tzitz (Kohen HaGadol’s headplate) of tumah, mamash, enormous tumah, and this tumah was the tzippor (bird).

[The bird] was from the hararei Kedem (the mountains of Kedem), this is the Himalays, the Dark Mountains. The Hararei Kedem are the Dark Mountains.

From Aram, Balak will be comforted from the Hararei Kedem, because fire came out of Heshbon

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Here, Chumash Bemidbar.

Fire came out, mamash, and burned Heshbon.

Balak and Bilaam were such sorcerers, that they could call down fire, mamash. Because fire came out of Heshbon, a stray flame, Sihon – and the fire burned all the buildings of Heshbon, all the towers.

There were towers there 500 metres high, like the Petzael Tower, which was 45 metres high. Today, this is the ‘Tower of David’, Petzael was the brother of Herod, the son of Antipas.

[Skipping some].

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Because Bilaam learned all the [black] magic.

Bring the Etz Chaim[2] – he learned everything from his grandpa. His grandpa was Lavan, he learnt all his magic from him.

And he knew how to bring down fire from the heavens, and like that, he burned-up Heshbon. It’s written here, on page 61, that he was the son of Lavan’s son, and that he learned from him all the [black] magic in the whole world.

And he knew how to bring down fire from the sky – he was greater than Moshe Rabbenu.

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[Skipping some].

So, he was greater than Moshe Rabbenu – from the secret of ‘Abba’.[3]

And if he would have made teshuva, he would have been a thousand times greater than Moshe Rabbenu, like the Komarna [Rebbe] said about Bereishit, that Esav was a thousand times [greater] than Yaakov.

Esav was greater than Yaakov, except he also had a yetzer hara that was greater.

The whole thing is that we need to subdue the yetzer hara, from the age of zero.

The whole tachlit (purpose), [of the] cheder, is that there shouldn’t be a yetzer hara at all. That it should be slaughtered from the age of three, already. That the yetzer hara should already be slaughtered by the age of three.

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[Skipping some].

Now he [Bibi] is there [in America].

He [Trump] told him stop with the fighting, already, how many terrorists are your killing?! There are 2 1/2 billion Arabs!

He needs to get into a quarrel because of ‘one’ Bibi?! Now, he’s crushing him, he’s telling him stop making a war in Gaza, I’ll give you what you want, just top!

He wants to show that he’s making peace here. He’s making peace with the Houthis, every day they fire five rockets – American ships.[4]

He made peace with the Houthis. The explanation of ‘peace’, is that they fire at us, and at the Americans, and it’s forbidden for us to fire back.

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So he says, come, let’s make peace with Hamas, already!

Yallah, it’s enough! How many have you killed?! You already killed 40,000 of them, you killed them. It’s enough, this is impossible! There are 2 1/2 billion, it’s impossible for five million Jews to get into an argument with 2 1/12 billion! You went mad! What, you don’t know numbers?

What’s greater, 2 1/2 billion or five million? How many zeros are there in 2 1/2 billion? How much is a billion?

Nine zeros. How much is a million? Six zeros. So, he’s asking him what is bigger?

Now, at supper, he’s asking him, what’s greater, nine zeros or six zeros?

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Zeros are just zeros – everything is just zeros.

What difference does it make, if it’s ten zeros, a million zeros, a trillion zeros?

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Bush asked Shamir –

We [the USA] are 250 million; the whole world is seven billion, and you Jews, are just five million. You go after the majority![5]

He said to him: But this is all zeros, it’s only zeros. A Jew – every Jews is billions.

He [Shamir] said, I’m the Prime Minister – but every Jew is a ‘prime minister’, every Jew could destroy the whole world!

It’s written in the Gemara Beitza that if the Torah had not been given to Israel, they would have conquered the entire world.

David HaMelech said, I want to conquer Rome!

Translated from Shivivei Or 418.

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As usual, lots and lots of hints here, as to what is really going on.

There’s another weird hit-piece on the State of Israel’s propaganda site, YWN, about 50 Shuvu being ‘arrested’ by the Palestinian Authority, after trying to get into Shechem.

I don’t know what the real story is, yet, but I can guarantee you that if those 50 Shuvu guys went to Shechem, they went on the Rav’s instructions, because the State has been reneging on their agreement to allow access to Joseph’s Tomb.

It’s part of what has been going on here for a while, that as soon as the Rav and Shuvu take the pressure off and agree to just go into Shechem ‘accompanied by the IDF’ – the IDF start messing them around and cancelling the trips.

As the Rav has said so very many times in the past, it’s not the IDF that’s ‘protecting’ Israel, it’s the true Tzaddikim, and particularly, Yosef HaTzaddik.

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In the past, the YWN hit pieces on Shuvu would have a bunch of ‘choreographed’ comments, carefully curated to make readers think everyone believes Shuvu are nuts, etc.

But I’ve been noticing that even on YWN, they are losing control of the narrative, and the commentators and readers are just not being manipulated quite as easily as they were in the past.

No-one believes the MSM anymore, that the State and the IDF are ‘always in the right’ – not even people in Lakewood who don’t like Breslov, and really don’t like Shuvu.

That’s a very good sign.

BH, things are starting to get interesting again.

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FOOTNOTES:

[1] The King of Moav.

[2] Authored by the ARIZAL.

[3] A kabbalistic term.

[4] This is exactly what the Rav says, it’s not a typo.

[5] This is an idea in halacha, that you follow the majority ruling in a debate, as long as the majority opinion is still following halacha.