Excerpt of a shiur given during Kiddush, Shabbat Behar-Bechukatai 5785 (May 23, 2025)

With Bechukatai, now it’s Parshat Bechukatai – everything is curses, just curses, curses.

Here, this is 49 curses, and in Ki Tavo another 98 – 98, another 98 curses.

And so, we fire arrows on L’ag B’omer to cancel the 98 curses. So now, it’s 49 and another 98, this is 147 – this is ‘Nachman’ with the kollel [an extra 1, to make 148, the gematria of ‘Nachman’). Because only Rabbenu can cancel all the curses.

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It’s written in the Zohar Hadash, in Ki Tavo, that everything will be transformed into blessings…

All the curses are blessing. There are no keilim (vessels), so all the combinations [of letters] turn into curses. The Heichal HaBracha explains how the curses turn into blessings, even if the Egyptians come on boats, that Egypt will be conquered.

This already happened, because they got to kilometre 101, this is 10 kms away from Cairo, they could have already conquered Cairo. In the end, they didn’t conquer it, but in the future, Egypt will also be conquered.

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Each person has a million kooshiot (difficulties) about Hashem.

Why is it like this, and why was there a Shoah, and why was there a massacre on Simchat Torah?!

But all of this was only so they would merit to have Gan Eden, such heichalot (heavenly halls). There was such revelations, people came and revealed themselves to their family members, told them what a Gan Eden they have, what heichalot.

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There was one girl who didn’t eat for three months, I don’t know why she didn’t eat, why she fasted for three months.

She wasn’t prepared to eat anything, because her brother had been killed.

This was two weeks ago, this story. So, her brother who was murdered came to her in a dream, and told her that he was in Gan Eden, and that he was in the heichal of Rabbi Akiva.

She didn’t know who ‘Rabbi Akiva’ was, she only knew who Charlie Chaplin was, not who Rabbi Akiva was.

So, she went to some Rav and told him the dream.

They don’t know anything.

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We need to found a seminary in Be’eri and in Zikim and in Nirim – people don’t know anything.

They are tmimim, (innocents), they went to bathe in the sea on Simchat Torah, and then seven dinghies came with 25 terrorists on each – this is 145 terrorists.

Now, this is being seen, this is being seen via the cameras that were there.

20 soldiers from Golani – you can see how they ran away from there, because they knew that every terrorist that is killed, this gets you a year in jail, and they immediately take away your weapons for two years, and don’t give them back.

Because of this, everyone ran away.

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Now, Yair Golan, he said in the media that the soldiers are murderers, that they are murdering children, cutting them up into bits and pieces.

This is being shown across the whole world, and he’s not sorry about it,  he’s not withdrawing his remarks. He’s still embarrassed about his Judaism, and he’s not prepared to take back what he said, because why should the terrrorist be killed?!

It’s possible to just cut his ear off!

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Excerpted and translated from Shivivei Or, 410.