AK wanted to know what the Rav has said about ‘MBY’.

At least as far as I know, the answer is ‘not a heck of a lot’ – but this is what I managed to find after a couple of hours of searching through the ravberland.com site, and also, the books of the Rav’s teachings that are translated into English.

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In the process of doing that, I noticed the following:

In general, the Rav usually refers to ‘Moshiach’ without a qualifier, but when there is a qualifier, it’s nearly always ‘Moshiach ben DAVID’.

That said, there are a few occasions that I found on the ravberland.com site where Moshiach ben Yosef is mentioned.

The following is by no means exhaustive, but it gives a flavor of where MBY is mentioned by the Rav.

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EXHIBIT 1:

Rabbi Berland’s Prayer To See Moshiach Ben Yosef And Moshiach Ben David

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TO MERIT TO SEE MOSHIACH BEN YOSEF AND MOSHIACH BEN DAVID. AND TO MERIT THE STONES FROM THE BREASTPLATE. AND TO BE ENGRAVED WITH THE LOVE OF G-D.…

Please Hashem, may I merit to see Moshiach (360) son (52) of Yosef (156) and Moshiach (358) son (52) of David (24) = 3696.

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381

לִזְכּוֹת לִרְאוֹת אֶת מָשִׁיחַ בֶּן יוֹסֵף וּבֶן דָּוִד וְלִזְכּוֹת לְאַבְנֵי הַחֹשֶׁן וְלִהְיוֹת חָקוּק בְּאַהֲבַת ה’

רִבּוֹנוֹ שֶׁל עוֹלָם כֹּל יָכוֹל, אֲשֶׁר לֹא יִבָּצֵר מִמְּךָ מְזִימָה, אָנָּא ה’, בִּזְכוּת שִׁמְשׁוֹן 696 הַגִּבּוֹר, תִּשְׁפֹּךְ אֵשׁ 301 וְגָפְרִית 699 עַל רָאשֵׁי הָרְשָׁעִים, וְעַל סִיחוֹן

134 מֶלֶךְ 90 הָאֱמֹרִי 256, וְעֹג 73 מֶלֶךְ 90 הַבָּשָׁן,  אָנָּא ה’ זַכֵּנִי לִרְאוֹת בְּמָשִׁיחַ 360 בֶּן 52 יוֹסֵף 156 וּ–מָשִׁיחַ 358 בֶּן 52 דָּוִיד 24 = 3696, ה’ אֶחָד 1 “שִׂימֵנִי כַחוֹתָם עַל לִבֶּךָ, כַּחוֹתָם עַל זְרוֹעֶךָ, כִּי עַזָּה כַמָּוֶת אַהֲבָה, קָשָׁה כִשְׁאוֹל קִנְאָה“, וּבִזְכוּת זֶה אֶזְכֶּה לְאַבְנֵי הַחֹשֶׁן, אֹדֶם 45, פִּטְדָה 98, בָּרֶקֶת 702, נֹפֶךְ 150, סַפִּיר 350, יַהֲלֹם 85, תַּרְשִׁישׁ 1210, שֹׁהַם 345, יָשְׁפֶה 395 = 2280.

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What you notice in this prayer is that the two moshiachs are kind of ‘run together’.

This hints to the idea that they are describing one person, perhaps ‘in potential’ and after the potential has been actualised.

Next, take a look at this, from five years ago:

https://ravberland.com/stunning-zohar-on-the-4th-of-sivan-shavuot-moshiach-and-gog-and-magog/

Snippet of the translated Zohar referring specifically to ‘MBY’:

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And on that same day, the Ten Tribes will be awakened, to arrange wars in the four directions of the earth, together with the Moshiach who will be anointed over them as king, and who will receive the anointing of the Malchut (government) by way of one Kohen Tzedek, who is Eliyahu HaNavi, and the seven faithful shepherds will be with him.

And this Moshiach is from the tribe of Ephraim and will be Moshiach ben Yosef, from the seed of Yerovam ben Nevat, the son of Aviah, who died in his youth, and on the same day he died a son was born to him.

And [this son] was taken from the house of Yerovam to the wilderness and 170 warriors travelled there with him, each one a tzaddik from the tribe of Ephraim, who weren’t caught up in the sin of Yerovam.

And from this son of Aviah will come this Moshiach, and about this, about Aviah ben Yerovam, it’s said: seal up this prophecy until that hour, and that this is a prophecy also about the future, because in the future all of Israel will eulogize Moshiach ben Ephraim, who will be killed…

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And then the Shechina will go and be returned on Moshe for 70 days. At the end of 70 days, the cries of the Children of Israel that there will be from all the suffering [they are experiencing] from the four directions of the world, will ascend before the Holy King. And a group on the South side will be lost and destroyed, and five true Tzaddikim will be killed amongst them.

And then at the end of 32 days after this same group is killed, HaKadosh Baruch Hu will dress Himself in jealousy for this same small shofar, which is the Shechina. And this same Moshiach ben Ephraim will spread out spreadings out, and will fight the wars of Hashem, and will gore the nations like an ox whose horns are raised up like the horns of a re’im.

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And this same small shofar, which is the Shechina, will blow teruah, tekiah, teruah three times on the top of the mountain, as at the start, and then the flags of this Moshiach will go forth, and an awful noise will fall upon the land, by way of the sound of the shofar. And all the children of the nations will hear and will be afeared, as it says: all the dwellers of the earth and residents of the glorious land will see the miracle of the mountains, and will hear the sound of the shofar.

Commentary: all the dwellers of the earth will see Israel’s return to their land with their own eyes, when they see the miracle borne atop the mountains, and will hear this thing with their own ears, when they hear the blast of the shofar.

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The idols will be [destroyed/removed/burned] from the holy land and three wars will be made by the children of Yishmael with this Moshiach.

And they will come and bow down to the Master of the World on the holy mountain in Jerusalem. These wars will take place in the six thousandth, on the 16th day of the seventh month of the 59th year of the six thousandth – will be all these wars.

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In the month of Cheshvan the haters of Israel will fall and all those idols that remain in the holy land there will be [destroyed/removed/burned] and nullified. And from there will go out and awaken wars in the world, and whilst they are making wars in the world, the people of Edom will gather against the holy land and seize it and will rule over it for 12 months.

At the end of the 12 months, the entire world will shake and will be filled with noise, and between these times the Shechina will go and return to the cave of Moshe. The king Moshiach will be hidden for 9 months, like the months of childbirth, and in these 9 months how much suffering and [destruction] he will take upon himself to atone for Am Yisrael.

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Translated from the Shivivei Or Newsletter, #97

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Next up, this shiur from 2020:

https://ravberland.com/everyone-needs-to-make-aliyah-to-eretz-yisrael/

Snippet of what the Rav says:

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The whole inyan is to nullify the sin of the spies, and to ascend to Eretz Yisrael.

They [the spies] said, what are you talking about, to make aliyah to Eretz Yisrael! What are you saying?! We are going to wait for the Moshiach. For they didn’t know that by way of their coming to the aretz (land of Israel), they would bring the Moshiach.

IF EVERYONE WOULD COME TO THE ARETZ, THEN TODAY MOSHIACH WOULD IMMEDIATELY COME!

The whole inyan is that today, Moshiach will come. At this moment, Moshiach will come, in this second, Moshiach will come. On Seder Night, it’s possible to bring the Moshiach.

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If everyone would have made aliya to Eretz Yisrael, then immediately the Moshiach would have come.

Everyone needs to make aliyah to Eretz Yisrael, we need to return everyone to here, great and small, as one. Rabbanim, Admorim and Chassidim – everyone needs to ascend to Eretz Yisrael.

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In the future, when Heftziba will go up Har Nevo, and go up on the summit, and will blow teruah, tekiah for 10 hours, without stopping, until everyone brings back their belongings. It’s required to bring back the things, to close the businesses.

70,000 ships will come, each ship with 1,000 people, and then the whole world will come, 100 million will come. They will all come to stop the Jews. The Jews are coming to conquer Eretz Yisrael! The Jews are coming to Eretz Yisrael to take Jerusalem. It will be the head [city] of all the goyim.

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Moshiach ben Yosef will come.

He will be revealed in Eretz HaGalil (the Galilee), and then he will go to the graves of Avraham, Yitzhak and Yaakov. And then they will have four shofars. Moshiach ben Yosef will have one shofar, and then another three shofars for each of the Patriarchs, Avraham, Yitzhak and Yaakov.

They will blow teruah, tekiah, teruah and then they will go to the Kever of Rachel Imenu, and they will awaken her, and a fifth shofar will fall from shemayim and all of them will then arrive to the Sea of Yaffo, to the port. And there will be there 100 million ships, and on each ship 1,000 men.

And then, the whole world will come.

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All the Jews will come to inherit the land, and on each ship of the goyim that arrives [to Israel] there will be a 1,000 rockets.

And they will come to take everyone as slaves and ‘maidservants’. And then the sea will split, and it will open into two, like the kiryat yam suf (the splitting of the Sea of Reeds).

And then everyone will say: “By the life of Hashem, who took the Children of Israel up from the land of Egypt.” (Yirmiyahu 23:7).

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Now is the moment of the revelation.

Moshe says to everyone to make aliya to Eretz Yisrael. Now, everyone gathers together their belongings and makes aliya to Eretz Yisrael. They will go up to Meron on L’ag B’omer, and that is when the geula will be, on L’ag B’omer exactly when Hitler committed suicide. 

Because L’ag B’omer is the day that Hashem will cut off the nations of the world. Armilus the Rasha will come with 100 million goyim and crystal stones surrounded by fire will fall on the 100 million goyim.

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In this post from 2015, Rav Berland says that R Ovadia Yosef was ‘MBY’ of his generation:

https://ravberland.com/rav-ovadia-yosef-was-moshiach-ben-yosef/

On the anniversary of Rav Ovadia Yosef’s passing, z’tl, four years’ ago, on the 3^rd of Cheshvan, Rav Eliezer Berland, shlita, gave over the following awesome eulogy about Rav Yosef:

(Click HERE to hear his words for yourself, in the original Hebrew)

“RAV OVADIA YOSEF WAS MAMASH MOSHIACH BEN YOSEF!”

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Apart from these brief mentions of ‘MBY’, pretty much any other mention of ‘MBY’ on the ravberland.com site are coming from people who are not quoting Rav Berland.

For example, this post is about a Torah code from R Glazerson:

https://ravberland.com/rav-glazerson-i-will-tell-you-what-will-befall-you-at-the-end-of-days/

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Snippet:

Rav Berland is connected to Moshiach Ben Yosef

In his latest video, Rav Glazerson explains how he’s found more connections between Rav Eliezer Berland, shlita, and the words ‘Moshiach ben Yosef’, all of which is directly connected to the subject of the imminent geula. Here’s a little of how he explained his findings.

Firstly, Rav Glazerson explained how the words “ניצוץ משיח” – the ‘spark of Moshiach’ comes to 604, in gematria. Next, he shows how the words “אליעזר ברלנד” – Eliezer Berland – also comes to 604, in gematria. The following phrases also add up to the same gematria of 604:

(This is he, Moshiach Ben Yosef and Moshiach ben David): ‘זהו משיח בן יוסף ודוד’ – 604

(Rabbi Yehudah the Prince): ”רבי יהודה הנשיא” – 604

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Rav Glazerson explained:

The spark of Moshiach returns in every generation

“The Ben Hayehoda, speaking about the gematrias found in Tractate Sanhedrin (98), said that it was accepted by them that in every generation, the spark of the Moshiach ben Yosef would be reincarnated into one of the Tzaddikim of the generation. This is the same sort of thing that Chazal said about Moshe Rabbenu, that in every generation, a spark of Moshe would come back inside the Tzaddik of that generation.

“It’s also written in the Sefer HaLikutim of the holy Arizal, on the passage 3:26 in the book of Devarim, that Rabbenu the Arizal was actually a spark of Moshiach ben Yosef.”

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Rav Glazerson continues:

Berland = spark = Ben Yosef

“In truth, we found the name ברלנד – ‘Berland’, next to the words ‘Ben Yosef’ and nitzotz (spark). And all this only appears one time, next to the word ‘Ephraim’. It’s known that the Moshiach ben Yosef comes from the tribe of Ephraim. We also found the words, ben shmonim shana – ‘he was 80 years old’, which is Rav Berland’s age…

“And this is the verse where it is found (Bereishit 49:1):

“THEN YAAKOV CALLED FOR HIS SONS AND SAID: “COME TOGETHER, AND I WILL TELL YOU WHAT WILL BEFALL YOU IN THE END OF DAYS.” AND ALL OF THESE WORDS ARE FOUND MAMASH, RIGHT NEXT TO IT.”

It’s a common feature of gematria than an additional ‘one’ can be added to the final number. This additional one is known as the ‘kollel’.

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Meanwhile, when the autistics stated that the Rav was ‘Moshiach’, also back in 2019, they didn’t make any mention of ‘MBY’ at all, and just referred to the Rav as ‘Ben David’.

https://ravberland.com/continue-to-believe-and-dont-be-afraid-message-from-binyamin-goldin/

Snippet:

When a person is a tzaddik, when he’s with the Tzaddik, there is no difference between living and dying.

There is nothing to be afraid of. It’s not going to be Auschwitz, or some place like it, where the majority of the Jews there were Shabbat desecrators who cried out Shema Yisrael in their last moment.

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Those Jews who are going against the Rav are simply going to disappear.

They are going against the truth. When I talk about the people who are going against the Rav, I’m not talking about a Jew who starts off ‘anti’ the Rav, but who afterwards wakes up to the truth, or something like that. I’m talking about those who are opposing the Rav until the bitter end, in a very hard and cruel way, without wanting to hear the truth under any circumstances.

It’s obvious, that someone like this is either Amalek or Erev Rav, or I don’t know what. Something not pure. But it will be very hard.

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But it’s forbidden to be afraid!

All of us need to unite around the Rav, and to not abandon him, come what may. Day and night – this is the war! Not to be scared of anyone, and not to be scared of anything.

HE IS BEN DAVID, HE IS BEN DAVID, AND THIS IS CLEAR.

Anyone who knows him, knows that there is no other Rav in the whole world today who is like him, at his level, both in terms of Torah learning and also in terms of his neshama and kedusha (holiness).

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In the next post, I will bring some sources about ‘MBY’ from the Tanach and the Gemara – there is very little mentioned explicitly.

It seems ‘MBY’ is almost totally kabbalah, not pshat Torah.

Which is why so many people have stumbled with the concept of ‘MBY’ – and continue to stumble today.

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But bottom line: The Rav’s own teachings nearly always refer to just ‘Moshiach’, with no qualifier.

When there is a qualifier, it’s nearly always just ‘ben David’.

And occasionally, the Rav mentions MBD and MBY together, seemingly as one unit.

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This is not exhaustive by any means, so feel free to post up links to other places where the Rav talks about ‘MBY’ that I might have missed.

BH, in the next post we’ll start to really drill down to some really interesting sources on MBY that start to change the whole picture. Look out for that.