STEVE AMDUR, MEVO MODI'IN -- SELECTED FILES -- ALTERNATE INTERFACE

"Many paths lead out from here in many different directions."
__________________________Wittgenstein, Philosophische Untersuchungen

THIS WEBSITE , www.geocities.com/sa73122 is now FULL
and so is Website www.geocities.com/sa73122a
and so both are continued on Website
www.geocities.com/sa73122c
I will Post to that Website starting today, 3 May '05, tiferet sh'b' GVURAH>

Supplemental Website:
www.geocities.com/sa73122
Pictures, mostly of Art by friends and neighbors.

25 April '05 -- 17 NisaN -- gvurah sh'b CHESED -- 16 Rabi al awal
W03TUTI.TXT
My notes on the PVK text of Box Walia 03

W03N0157.TXT W03N5873.TXT
My personal comments on my notes, unedited

PVLN3710.TXT
My notes, with my personal notes appended, on PVK Tapes Walia Box 37 and Box 10

JR050418.TXT More dypseptic half-baked poems, and unpublished idiosyncratic letters to the Editor of almost anything

13 April '05 -- 5 Nisan -- don't know Islamic date yet
Early spring weather in Andermatt, though trees were in bud above Biasca.
I put on my Supplementary Website, http://www.geocities.com/sa73122
=SO050328.TXT , Procedural Memo on "Digitalizing" PVK Cassettes
and =PVINVWA.TXT , Inventory of the Walia Collection of Zenith Masters
and also =PVKINVS.ZIP , my 1998 inventory of whatever PVK materials I had at hand by the Golan shore of the Sea of Galillee JR050325.TXT
JR050326.TXT
JR050405.TXT
JR050413.TXT
The story of my life, continued (unabridged and uneditted)

22 March '05 -- 11 Adar II -- 14 SAFAR -- Another mild day in Chur
More additions on topdoc =JR050307.TXT

18 March '05 -- 7 Adar B -- Spring does seem to be coming --
AN ADDITION ON THE TOPDOC OF =pvnto136 -- Input by retyping it a PVK article in Emergence , Issue number 8. It is very solid material, exoteric but almost condensed, like dried trailfood. Clearly written by PVK for Emergence, not an editted excerpt from a Seminar lecture. I reckon these Emergence PVK articles were an exoteric precursor of the esoteric KITs. They could be edited, but only by someone familiar with PVK's lectures if not writings, not by a professional editor. See what he does with the one word 'surreptitiously'. It is the sort of apercu that would be a bit of evidence for deeming a novelist great.
Corrected note; The Reference of 'EL ELYON' is Genesis 14:20, the blessing of Malchetzdek upon Avraham.
P.S.: Will someone set industry standards for format and distrubution of digitalized cassettes. Looks like Ogg Vorbis chopped down to 22 MHz might be the best bet for format.

15 March '05 -- 4 Adar B -- "Be Happy, it's �dar" -- Melting even in Andermatt --

JR050307.TXT The usual hodge-podge.

And a transcription of PVK Tape TO136, "Initiation", ?early 70s? ?Abode Camp?:
PVKTO136.TXT Verbatim transcription.
PVETO136.TXT Flying Edit of Verbatim
and two filesfull of top-of-the-edit notes, not even proofread,nor edited:
PVNTO136.TXT and
PVOTO136.TXT

22 Feb 05 -- 13 Adar A -- Be hetzi happy, it�s Adar Aleph -- (don�t know Islamic date yet) -- snowflurry after a sunny afternoon in Andramatt -- sun hits Campra for almost 2 hrs. nowadays -- old snow hard packed there --

In 10 minus-10--C windy days at Campra, having slipped in one of those 2-inch rim shower stalls, I grumpily input a lot of stuff that I didn�t too much mind writing but sure don�t want to read, and advise you, Gentle Reader, the same, except for the PVK stuff, which is for real. And anyhow, one who goes to the Modi�in Post Office ought not necessarily read all the letters that come in that day. In short, CAVEAT TABBYCAT.

OK, so what we got us here in this batch is:

1 PVK transcription in verbatim, flying edit, and the notes to it:

This is a lecture, not a guided meditation. In it PVK offers a number of recommendtions, including the Bach St John Passion (as better even than the St. Mathew), the Stravinsky`s Sympony of Ps�lms. He also offers a number of insights about Bach.

As noted, the rest of my PVK transcriptions are in the Yahoo Briefcase with Username, AdobetoZenith . If you don`t know the password, ask someone who does.

PVK7XMUS.TXT ; that�s the verbatim transcription.
PVE7XMUA.TXT , that�s the Flying Edit of the verbatim transcript
PVN7XMUZ.TXT , that�s my notes .

The verbatim is carefully transcribed -- anyone who finds more than 3 significant errors in any verbatim transcription I�ve done, I�ll buy you a hot-fudge Sunday if these heathen learn to make it .
The Flying Edits are responsibly though hastily done -- I don�t look back when I edit, but I don�t take out nor put in any significant remarks.
The notes are all slash-and-burn, I don`t re-read them. Some include some good material, including recollections of related PVK remarks, and cross-refernces to similar concepts in orthodox Judaism. But many others are not much more than self-indulgence. Caveat etc.

a 6-file set of top-of-the-head Autobiography Number 2 -- that�s au*.txt --
AU050218.TXT
AU050219.TXT
AU05021G.TXT
AU05021J.TXT
AU05022A.TXT
AU05022B.TXT
And the two Siddur docs, with a dash of irrelevant autobiog notes tossed in,mostly in the first SIDUR doc, because I was too lazy to re-open one of the above doc:

SIDURAU1.TXT
sidurau2.txt

These are scarcely intended for anyone practicing orthodox Judaism; if you`'re walking up an an ok trail, you don't needed to bushwack over a few cliffs to try sombebody's elses trail, and nobody's asking you excepted the bored-again Christians, they should only be baptized in a bubble-bath, as_it_is_said, "With �ne tochas you can`t dance at two weddings."
By maybe some of my other buddies might dig out something useful here, as_it_said, "You know your assimilated when less than half your ashram is Jewish."

I haven�t re-read thisstuff, even for typos, and sure don�t want to. ( I mean the autobiog stuff. ) It�s not blatantly offensive by today�s norms, but it�s definitely not for those drawn to this Website, if anyone is, by the R. Shlomo material -- that�s what the Caveat Tabbycat flag is for -- nor for those drawn to the SO material. I suppose I just wanted it on the record in case the glaciers melt tomorrow.

To iterate myself again: That 2-file set of notes on the siddur, listed above, has a few completely irrelevant autobiographic notes tossed in, some of which should have been shrink-wrapped -- those are =SIDURAU1.TXT and =sidurau.txt -- the latter is just about junk-free These 2 docs are very poorly written, though the ideas, if you can dig them out from the jive, were reasonably well-considered.

one more journal doc:
JR050212.TXT And then two clumps of SO-related photos, which should have been put on /73122 , but I was out of space there:
photos of Ag�s angels, which are =AG*.JPG
and photos of artwork in Karima�s house in Jenisberg, some by here and the rest collected by her -- these are =KG*.JPG
All these photos are very poor, taken with my throwaway camera and downloaded as thumbnail quality, only a few K -- right, K -- apiece.
So ok, now I have to go back and put in the LINK�s, tho this shop is about to close for the day.

So ok, the Ag photos are: AG00A.JPG>BR> AG01A.JPG
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So ok, now to the Karima Photos: Again, her home and works deserve much much better documentation; I merely shot all shots in my Kodak flash throwaway camera, had it developed on CD by Minit Photo in Chur they should only buy a barrel of herring and take it out to sell to the pilgrims walking to Mecca, and then of those photos I took the LO_RES "thumnail" set, each only a few bytes, rather than the real set, each over 1 Mb.

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OK, I think that wraps it up for the 23 Feb or 24 Feb or whatever today is, Batch. Maybe now I can take the gondola up and look at the mountains. And walk down to the station and buy a Herald Trib, and maybe even find a hot-dog for sale. They call this a civilized country, but they don't even have buckwheat pancakes.

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10 Feb '05 -- 1 Adar I (Rosh Hodesh 2) -- Be moderately happy, its Adar I --
JR050209.TXT The lastest catch-call Journal bunch of stuff -- poems, letters to the editor (mostly unsent), halachic remarks, and a dash of philosophy (theory of meaning notes) -- all unedited --

IHTSHLAI.TXT A rather Zionist response to a rather anti_Zionist article in the Int. Herald Tribune, 4 Feb '05

25 Jan '05 -- Tu b'Shvat
JRNL050F.TXT This is the continuation of my catch-all Journal Doc, the preceeding portion of which, to which I will add no more, is =JRNL0501.TXT

10 Jan '05 -- 29 Tevet -- www.geocities.com/sa73122 has now been extended as

www.geocities.com/sa73122c , which is being set up to hold my very amateur photos of artwork by AG (so far, earth angels and aether angels), and of artwork by Karima Somerau (mostly mandalas) and collected by her (tapestries, Buddhist depictions, et al.) in her home in Jenisberg, Graubunden, the which is an extraordinary work of art in its entirety, and in an astounding location, despite the next-door flourescent-lit cow-barn.

10 Jan '05 -- Some further additions to =JOURNL45.TXT

A NOTE ON NEW MATERIAL:
I am presently dumping new poems, jpih political remarks, and miscellaneous quips in;
JOURNL45.TXT

NEW: 6 JAN '05 -- Epiphany -- 25 Tevet -- 25 Dhu al Qr'dah
Further additions to =JOURNL45.TXT
Includes selected philosophic notes* on the Moetza move, reportedly assisted byx the Vaad, to seize personal property against unpaid local (Arnona) property tax
*(as distinct from incitement to assassination of same) NEW LINK: Muslim Association of Britain:
www.mabonline.net

This Website is just about full, for which I blame Yitzak's Dragon, =fred27g.jpg I've tried to move him, but he puffs up into a 6 Mb Bitmap. So I'll be moving over to www.geocities.com/sa73122b to add new files. At that point I'll go from a Railroad Train to a USA Western Ghost Town. "It's all in the mind you know." (Beattles, Yellow Submarine, Ringo persona.

'CAVEAT TABBYCAT'='Files marked 'Caveat Tabbycat' may contain some material which would ruffle the feathers of a blackbird, i.e., affront ostensibly religious sensibilities.' That said, I think there's nothing blatantly outrageous on this Website. Though I am trying to survey and push back some of the fences in Jewish religious orthodoxy. And there are a few risquee poems and methanated ruminations here and there.

NEW:

30 Dec '04 -- 18 Tevet, etc. --
po041228.txt More draft poems. =po041230 Appended. The latter includes a statement on the ethics of confiscation of personal property of a debtor.
27 Dec '04 -- 16 Tevet -- 16(?) Dhu al -Qr'dah --
I presently have Internet Access only when I pass a public terminal -- to get to the nearest one to Campra, walk down the roads 2 hrs. and 500 meters to Olivone, take the bus down to the river and go up the next valley, go over or under Gotthard mountain, go up the waterfall, walk into town and turn right.
So here are 5 very rough drafts:
BUBBLES.TXT A trivial review of a trivial book.
GINO3.TXT CAVEAT TABBYCAT, TAKE IT TO THE COAL CAR. JPIH0413.TXT "If we survive the next four years, it will be as disempowered citizens of a nation (the USA) that has been raped" and other cheerful quips.
PO0416.TXT *** THE RESULTS OF STEVE'S PLASTIC BOTTLES CONTEST *** and other no less poems.
PURKIS6.TXT PurRav Kislev-plus Edition

1 Dec '04 -- PART II -- 19 Kislev -- 19 Shawaal --
A winter night, dark and the day ended before 6 o'clock. Once, hitch-hiking through Indiana toward Chicago during Christmas break, I saw blue evening light on the snowfields, and sensed how cold and lonely a winter evening can be.

PLASTIC1.TXT This page, which summarizes and divides the number of Plastic Bags that I have acquired in Switzerland, may perhaps not be of all that much interest to most of those who peruse this Website. Or then again, it may be of some interest to approximately 50 percent of them, more or less, as_it_is_said, I can count the number of my Readers on my ears. This page is best Viewed, if at all, under HTML, if I ever find my HTML Crayons.

1 Dec 04 -- 18 Kislev -- 18 Shawwal -- Campra -- Overcast afternoon, heavy snowfall settling in.

I've finished Posting my Recovered Files. Again, thanks to the Vanzetti's, who own and run the Centro Ski Nordico in Campra, for preserving and safeguarding them. Campra is very beautiful in winter, accomodations are available at moderate rates. Travelers from Israel are advised to fill their saddlebags with Hummous, and not to tie their horse at the servants entrance to the Restorante.

Here are a few more old poems, I think:
PO0698.TXT
PO0798.TXT
and PON97698.TXT, which is maybe notes to poems.

"And now for something different": Here are some of my media-bias files. Briefly, in 1988 I worked for David Bedein of the Israel Resource Center, trying to analyse anti-Israel media bias. I continued doing some of that on my own in following years. Bedein had gallantly focussed on ABC-TV, who sued him for infringement of copyright because he rebroadcast their past week's news programs as he lectured on bias. I wrote on articles in TIME, Newsweek, et al. The issues are dated, and my remarks were freewheeling, but I think there's material here for an article expanding the standard model of theory of meaning. Like, to 'designation' and 'connotation', add and analyze 'insinuation'.
So anyhow, what we go us here now is:
MB1094.ZIP
MB9394.ZIP
MB96A.ZIP
MBTHEORY.TXT

30 Nov '04 Part 2 -- Sun coming out, after snow -- 17 Kislev -- 17 Shawwal --
PO0798.TXT More recovered poems
auto5a.zip Autobiography, written in a rainy winter ca. 1985, Ein Hemed Campground, typed up polished and packaged winter 1990-91, Hamburg. I am greatful to the Vanzetti's for having preserved the disc on which I found this. Written, like everything else I do, in EinsteinWriter, under DOS. Caveat Tabbycat, tho it's reasonably chaste and polite as such things go nowadays.

30 Nov '04 -- 17 Kislev -- 17 Shawwal -- Soft dark night, soft snow --
Here are main docs on the Jewish Community of Rhodos (recovered old files):
RH95A.TXT 18 Jun '95 . My main article on the Jewish Community of Rdos
RHODOS95.TXT 16 Jun '95. Duplicate of =rh95a.txt, but includes notes, and maybe some additional material.
RHODO96B.TXT 21 Jun '98. Notes.
RHODOS96.TXT 22 Nov '96. Notes.

29 Nov '04 -- Soft, steady snowfall -- 16 Kislev -- 16 Shawwal --
JPIO0411.TXT More political notes.
PO041129.TXT More would-be poems.

PO9804.TXT Recovered old poems, April 1998
PO9905.TXT Recovered old poems, May 1998
24 Nov '04 -- 11 Kislev -- 11 Shawwal --
I have added several photos to my Supplemental Website. One set of 3 is of the mural in front of the Old Church in Biasca. And there are 3 photos of the mural of St. Christopher on the Church in Dongio (Val Blenio, Ticino Canton, Switzerland). And one humorous graphic for recycling plastic bottles.
Nico Vanzetti SCAN'd these and Save'd them in *.tif and *.jpg format, finding the optimal settings.

21 Nov '04 (Part II) -- 8 Kislev -- 8 Shawwal --
Bright sun on the road across the valley --
poemspot.zip Collected Selected Poems, to 1999
I reckon my poems are my best creative work. Most of these files exist elsewhere on this page, but the more recent files I'd feared lost. I've been hoping to recover this Folder for a year and a half, and am most greatful to the Vanzetti's for having preserved it.

amdur96d.zip My 1996 re-input of the text only of the LNAB (Leonard and Nancy Amdur Briskin) Amdur Geneology. Not updated since then. Access on request. Again, I am greatful to the Vanzetti's for having saved this file, and many others.

21 Nov '04 -- 8 Kislev -- 8 Shawwal --
Pale green above the distant ridge --morning star above Campra ridge --
SHEIKHSM.TXT Sayings of Sheik Hasan Al-Moumani, Allah_Ye_Arrachhhmo ("The Sheik at Balata")
I am greatful to the Vanzetti's for preserving his and other documents, 1999_2004

19 Nov '04 -- 6 Kislev -- 6 Shawwal -- Light snow on fir trees --
amshtl2a.zip
-- Draft translation, by Chana Berg, of some chapters in Yedidya Efron's 'Remembrance Book', 'Amdur, Mein Geboirn-Shtel'
I am grateful to the Vanzetti's, at Campra, for preserving my discs with this and other files.

17 Nov '04 -- 5 Kislev -- 5 Shawwal --
=INO9.TXT , =FINO2.TXT, and =GINO*.TXT have been dumped in the COAL CAR.
JPIH0417.TXT More cantankerous unprinted complaints about politics.
PO041110.TXT More soi-disant poems.

9 Nov '04 -- 26 Cheshvan -- 27 Ramadan
=INO9.TXT An Innocent Abroad in Pagan Lands -- Travel notes Aug. '04 -- Nov. '04. Caveat Tabbycat.
This File and its continuations have been dumped into the COAL CAR.

8 Nov '04 -- 24 Cheshvan -- 25 Ramadan --
PURRAV10.TXT
Poor Purim Rav -- "Why I am a Reformie" -- Inter alia, and there's lot of blind alleys there, includes a sketch of Steve's Transcendental Ontologic Proof, with a NEW! Corallary proving the necessity of Meshiach, or some such. Everything you always wanted to know about Kant's Critique of Poor Reason, but were too bored to ask. These notes are minimally less unintelligle if reconstituted under EinsteinWriter, which is a much better word-processing program that MicroSoft WORD. Caveat Hep-Cat.

4 Nov '04 -- "the morning after" -- 20 Cheshvan -- 21 Ramadan
RG1103.TXT RSC teaching transcribed and distributed to the RSC LIST by Reuven Goldfarb, all rights reserved to the Carlebach Family.

PO040911.TXT Poems, Sept.--4 Nov. '04
Small potatoes but potatoes is potatoes.

4 Nov '04 -- 20 Cheshvan -- 21 Ramadan --
JPIH041K.TXT
More dypseptic but consise Letters_to_the_Editor, Sent and Unsent, & Miscellaneous Philosophic Quibbles.

3 Nov '04 -- 20 Cheshvan -- 21 Ramadan --
A good day to sign a four-year lease on a small Himalayan cave.
COWUPDAY.TXT -- A short tail of Switzerland.
SC_A11M.TXT RSC on Parshat Shmot (Exodus 1:1)
SASCA11N.TXT My unintelligible notes to the preceding: CAVEAT TABBYCAT.

25 Oct '04 -- 11 Cheshvan -- 12 Ramadan --
New Suggested LINK's:
www.universel.net -- Apparently a very extensive site of PVK material, produced at the Abode.

www.universel-ethics.com
A condensed Tikun ha_Olam from Adil Allenstein, who plays a pretty good Bach Tocatta and Fugue whenever folks let him sit at their pedal-pusher.

www.sternhaus.ch
A genuine ecologic hotel in Feldis, Graubunden, Switzerland. Good people.

25 Oct '04 -- 10 Cheshvan -- 11 Ramadan --
SC_A7.TXT
SC_A8.TXT

22 Aug '04 -- 5 Elul -- 5 Rajab --
JPLT25.TXT
More notes on the Mazuz case, et. al.

PURAV13A.TXT
More notes on the problematicity of davening mincha after sunset; et. al

18 Aug '04 -- 1 Elul -- ?31 Jumaada al-Thaany?
JPLT24.TXT PO0408A.TXT

17 Aug '04 -- 1 Elul -- 1 Rajab
DINOSAUR.TXT
Notes for a critique of orthodox Judaism, within the context of the Wittgensteinian approach to Kantian metaphysics, if I recall.

- 15 Aug '04 -- 28 Av -- 28 Jumaada al--Thaany
[N.B. and Apology: I had not until today realized that this month the Hebrew and Islamic dates are the same.

ALPHABET.TXT
Sketch for a a transliteration system for non-Roman alphabets (Hebrew, Greek, Russian, Arabic) such that from the transliteration the original can be unambiguously reconstructed.

PURAV13.TXT

11 Aug '04 -- 24 Av -- 24 Jumaada al-Thaany

JPLT23.TXT

9 Aug '04 -- 22 Av -- 23 Jumaada al-Thanny

I've added 10 new pictures to my Supplental Website:
www.geocities.com/sa73122
Most of these are SCAN's of photos of Artwork by my neighbors on the Moshav.

TRAIN2.TXT More notes (see below) to anyone who wamts to semd me a redesign of this page, which sure could use it.

taxi0408.ZIP Draft notes for the start of a redone autobiograpny. If anyone has a copy of my previous autobiog, pleas let me know.

8 Aug '04 -- 22 Av -- 23 Jumaada al-Thaany --
JPLT22.TXT
PURAV12.TXT

http://geocities.com/ralphmcdowell69/islamicreview.html
Said to be a good site for an introduction to Islam. Recommended by tudogs.com . Tudogs was, or were, recommended by Alifa Sadya.

4 Aug '04 -- 18 Av -- 19 Jumaada al-Thaany --
SC_A4C.TXT Concludes input of RSC Ms. Transcript A4
SCSAA4CN.TXT Notes (sa) to =sc_a4c.*

1 Aug '04 -- 15 Av --
PO0404.TXT I ain't even re-read these. Lots of fragments and sketches as recollection fetches.

1 Aug '04 -- 14 Av -- 15 Jumaada al-Thaany
www.jtnews.net From the rainforests of Seattle, via the Hammer's.

27 July '04 -- 9 Av -- They say it's a fast day, but seems like a slow day -- 10 Jumaada al-Thaany -- Besiergers get thirsty too, you know --
JPLT21.TXT More forgetable political quips.
PURAV11.TXT Orthodoxy reconsiderer, over a gin_&_tonic (tall on ice; 3/4 shot Gilbey's or better; lime, not lemon, 1/2 liter Schweppes or better on the side, please.

22 July '04 -- 4 Av -- 5 Jumaada al Thaany
SC_A4B.TXT This follows =sc_a4a.txt; and will be followed by =SC_A4C.TXT if I don't play baseball ineptly.
Hot day today, as usual in summer. All the grass brown, only weeds growing. Yizthak's grapes have ripened, sat out on the old office porch eating them, and talking about how Greeks know how to live in the heat. Pomegranates starting to ripen. And figs lending their delicate scent to the air --

20 July '04 -- 2 Av -- 3 Jumaada al-Thaany
SC_A4A.TXT RSC , likely HLP, Part 1 of 3.
SCNSAA4A.TXT Notes (sa) to =SA_A4A.TXT . CAVEAT TABBYCAT

My Supplemental Website is:
www.geocities.com/sa73122
This is mostly photos, mostly SO file pics; no RSC material.

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In an editorial to Good News #2, the monthly newsletter of Moshav Meor Modi'im (Mevo Modi'in), [email protected] writes [conceptual 'scare_quotes' mine]:

"the message for the month is deep yearning and the will to fix [tikkun] what we can."

He adds, paraphrasing a teaching by R. Shlomo Carlebach:

We are all yearning for 'Big Meshiach' [Messiah'], but we need to operate in this world as a little Mashiach. How can we expect `Mashiach' to come if we are not willing to be like 'him'. How much can we yearn, if we're not confronted with our limitations? We come to the edges of what we can do only through action."

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Here's a haiku from R.H. Blythe's Collection (Hokuseido Press, Tokyo, 1952/1970):

So bitter cold it was
I left the bamboo broom
Under the pine tree.

Tsumetosa ni
hoki sutekeri
matsu no shita

_______________________(Taigi)

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"Today make I mention of my sins" or at least Art Waskow's:
It's tempting to say that winter is the dead time in galutz,
and that summer is the dead time in the land of Israeli-occupied Isreal.
But "it ain't necessarily so":
In winter in New England I advise cross-country ski-ing at Breton Woods;
in New Mexico I advise visiting any of the pueblos.
Summer in Israel is a very alive time, albeit optimal for lizards.
Persimmons ripening now, figs trees becoming fragrant; grapes ripening.
Yakov Rottenberg says: The birds pick at the grapes and knock them to the ground. Then the birds come back a day later and eat the ripened grapes.

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END NEW material; Start Sketched Alternate Homepage:

docname =web5.htm

This is a sketch for a new interface ("Homepage") to my Website.

The Interface that I've used hitherto is:
sa040714.htm.
If you have problems using this Interface, you can go back to that one, viz., =sa040714.htm

NOTES TO WHOEVER DESIGNS THIS WEBSITE:
I am using a railroad-train theme. Each Section of the Website is a different railroad car. Ideally, the Website Visitor would seem to walk down the central aisle of the train, and the various files might appear as books along the side.

Also, there might be a narrow frame running vertically down the right side of the screen; it might be fixed to the main Website, rather than scrolling independently; but it would also hold LINK's. This would correspond the scenery one sees as the train travels on.

Background pictures if any should be high-quality; Klee's Magic Squares, a Rothko -- non-representational designs, but high quality. Similarly, any music cues shouid be very high quality -- Landowska, Richter, Budapest String Quartet (!) -- I've got that on CD, but it might take me some time to put them onto Computer.

Colours should be subtle, not crude.

Content is fixed; I want to include all the files and links that I now have; and will want to add more. I would like this Website to be designed so that it would not find it too confusing to add things to it.

Find another Website Host, and set it up for me there; you chose a password. You can do that on a Yahoo free Website (15 Mb limit) or any better Free site you find. Sapphire maybe.

That's all I think of for now.

Oh: Where's it at without a plot. A dash of Murder on the Orient Express will to, taken from the Children's game of Clue. Looks like Maxwell (the Beattles' Young Maxwell, that is, or was) did it in the Parlour Car with his Hammer; and poor Colonel Mustard was just about to make a respectable name for herself, after that disgraceful -- but I'm frum now, and we don't speak loshon hora any more-a.

Best wishes,
Steve
[email protected]

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Steve Amdur, Mevo Modi'in, Selected Files

PRIMARILY: Collected R. Shlomo Carlebach Teachings (Verbatim)
Secondarily: sa: Selected Poems, political quips, Link's, and Shtuyot

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CAVEAT: THIS ALTERNATE INTERFACE HAS NOT BEEN UPDATED SINCE 13 July '04

"Many paths lead out from here, in many different directions."
__________Wittgenstein, 'Philosophical Investigations'

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ALTERNATE INTERFACES:
(1) A case-sensitive alphabetic copy of the File Manager
fm040713.htm

This is a copy of the Yahoo File Manager for this Website, as of July 13, '04
It should be useful for rechecking filename Webpage errors, if a LINK to a file don't work. It may also be helpful for those who want to download files.

Most RSC files are filename *.zip , sc*.txt , and sh*.* For further details, see: MAPFLAP3.TXT

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NEW:

New files etc.

13 July '04 -- 25 TaMUZ:
sc_ber1l.txt A short RSC excerpt with 1 good line, from some dudes in Tzfat.

The following RSC input (sa) transcripts (transriber(s) not now known to me) were recently Posted to this Website:

SC_A5.TXT

SC_B20.TXT

SC_A6.TXT

SC_FRAG1.TXT

SC7112B9.TXT

SC_B19.TXT

SCEGTT.TXT

SC711221.TXT

SC700708.TXT

SCHH0406.TXT

INVEAAZ.TXT
=INVEAAAZ.TXT lists RSC transcripts available for input; anyone who wants to input same should contact me (sa) ASAP

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Last Enhanced: 24 June '04 -- 5 TaMUZ -- 5 Jaamud al-awal

Last time I tidied up or at least painted (some of some of the rooms of) bric_a_brac:
This Interface: 24 June '04 -- 5 TaMUZ -- 5 Jaamud al-awal
On previous Interface: 4 May '04; 21 Mar '04 -- Spring Equinox

Also, anyone who wants to suggest a re-design of this Website can send me same. ALSO: Anyone who wants to suggest additional LINK's, please do so

"Nulla potest mulier tantum se dicere amatam vere,
quantum a me Lesbia amata mea's.
Nulla fides ullo fuit umquam foedere tanta,
quanta in amore tuo ex parte reparte meast."

Snailmail: Steve Amdur, Mevo Modi'im, 73122 ISrael

This is an English-only site (albeit only because I'm half- illiterate); if you see apparent Hebrew-character Jordan Rift gibberish,
CLICK ON:__________View / Encoding / Western European (Windows)
(That's the Explorer 6 top-screen terminology.
(This Geocities Webland apparently defaults TAG H4 to View/Encode Hebrew.)

Other Miscellaneous Notes:

20 May '04
NEW APOLOGIA: ("unto the bull will never cease the need to make apologies")
I put various LINK's on this Webpage. No precise ranking is intended, beyond occasional insinuations. To find a particular LINK, use the Edit/Find feature, as_it_is_said, "goat can't get through the clutter".

18 May '04
SCERATA1.TXT Errata in my 'R. Shlomo Carlebach'='RSC' transcriptions, doc 1
I reckon that my RSC transcriptions have more errors than the blueberries on a Maine seacoast hillside; so anyone who finds additional errors, please drop me a note.

PHLWORD1.TXT Within the context of Philosphy of Law, with a modified Wittgensteinian approach (necessary ambiguity in 'language_games'), a glance at the notion of 'following orders' in the context of the Bush Administration's prisoner-abuse scandal.

18 April '04 -- 28 Nisan -- hod sh'b' GVURAH
A pleasant day, air soft and moist -- oats pretty much dry and falling off, I think -- the barley or wheat, whichever it is, keeps drying -- beautiful looking -- Sharon keeps making problems for everyone, right left and center; never fluster a bull in a china shop.

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This is where the sketch for the redesigned Homepage begins: I mean, go back to where it says catullus_ii , that's where it starts

CAVEAT:

This is a dull, boring, unattended, non-interactive home-made Website, unappetizing as today's pre-dawn breakfast of lukewarm oatmeal
(albeit with added raisins, figs, butter, and natural sugar,
Heaven (&/or heavens) and earth be praised).

sa, Mevo Modi'in, 10 Tevet ; 4 Jan '04

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"Walked down to the station
ready to go;
If the train don't come
something's wrong down the 'road.
_________ (Ricky Sherover, zl'b, singing with Joe Hickerson, Joni Blank, ?and Barbie Blank? , Vanguard Records(?), ca. 1957.)

r d / D (dd) b +D d / D dd / b A "if the": aa / "train don't come": b a / B A#& (bb) An (f#f#) D2 (:down the road.}

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CAVEAT TAKE 2:

This Website is primarily and predominantly a warehouse of ( 'RSC'='R.Shlomo Carlebach') teachings.

Those are within the context of traditional, 'orthodox' (or 'ultra-orthodox', if you prefer that term) Judaism.

I've tried to present them in a way that will be acceptable to strictly observant readers (and have not yet received complaints in that regard).

PART I of this Website is entirely RSC material.

However:
This Website is presently my only Website, so I've added subsequent PART's to it, that hold files of entirely different sorts.
(Albeit, nothing unduly outrageous, I think.)
I am not orthodox; and there are some files in subsequent PART's of this Website, starting with PART II (Poems) that reflect that.

So I must offer advance apologies (but maybe not more excuses) to anyone whose sensiblilities are affronted by anything here.

OK; Yalla:

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CAVEAT TABBYCAT ALLEYCAT RULES:

This site is hosted by Yahoo.com at the cost of hitch-hiking their ads, which are as inobtrusive as possible, and seem unobjectionalbe, but are probably safest ignored.

Most of my RSC files are bundled into clickable *.zip files, which download, though you or your wizard then have to unpack 'em.

Briefly: You can unpack my *.zip files under Windows using your WINZIP.EXE, or under MS-DOS using PKUNZIP.EXE (ver. 2/93); included in =tools.zip.
I write under MS-DOS in EinsteinWriter (W.EXE 8.2), which files convert to ASCII via EinsteinWriter's T.EXE (the 20,794K version, not the 20,799K version); or if you prefer via EinsteinWriter's ETRANS.EXE ; those 3 EXE files plus =PKUNZIP.EXE are bundled in tools.zip

Most of the files on this Website are text-only files. The unzip'd files are *.txt, i.e., ASCII .

Briefly: I use EinsteinWriter's LAYOUT Feature as successively staggered block-indents, such that Layout 1 (.l1) is LM=10, Layout 2 is LM=15, Layout 3 (.l3) is LM=20, etc. That feature is sometimes essential to keep my sub- and sub-sub-, and sub-sub-sub, and then sub-sub points minimally comprehensible.
Unfortunately, it strips out under a T.EXE convert to ASCII. So very recently I've tried to flag those block-idents with an extraneous #l1, #l2, #l3, etc.; so that from an ASCII convert they can be reconstructed under W.EXE . But note that each Layout command (.l1, .l2, .l3, etc.) must be immediately followed by a CR to take effect. And you have to reset the Layouts in the Layout Menu of W.EXE (F2 in W.EXE 8.2).
Ain't that hard though.

Incidentally, EinsteinWriter's horizontally split-screen 'Compose' mode is ideal for juxtaposing an edit with the verbatim original. And all that and more for 90K. Much better wp program (for writers, if not desktop publishers) than MicroSoft WORD for Windows.

I so far find http://www.yahoo.com a reliable if tediously gaudy Free E-mail platform (with very good SPAM-diversion), but beware downloading anything free from a Yahoo site.
In particular even attempting to download those Yahoo free screen savers might unlock a SPAM sluice-gate. And if a Daemon asks for your E-mail address ---- be cool ...

Alternatively: http://www.fastmail.fm , (recommended by Chaim Gingy Cohen), seems a clean honest minimalist E-mail platform )

That completes the Formalities; Thank you for you patience.

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RECEPTION LOUNGE

Please help yourself to a refreshing tangy mushroom-flavoured beverage.

NOTICE: THE RECEPTION CAR HAS BEEN SIDETRACKED TO MAKE ROOM FOR A CABARET CAR. PERSONS WISHING TO ORIENT THEMSELVES IN THE RECEPTION CAR, KINDLY GO THISAWAY:
mapflap.txt

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CABARET CAR
CAFE PAGLIACCI
CAVEAT TABBYCAT:
Gentlemen dressed soully in black_&_white will be be admitted only if accompanied by their Doge (or Catte).

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 "Look out for the sliding                  doors"

                                           (Jackie Gleason Show)  
  
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PURAVSA2.HTM
Purm Parody, Post-Purim Early Edition
DO NOT OPEN BEFORE PURIM! (Nor after, except at your own risk.)
Subsequent issues exist as =purav*.*

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PURAV10.TXT

PURAV9.TXT

11 Jun '04 -- 22 sIvaN -- 22 Rabi' al-Thanny
PURAV8.TXT The Shniut of Venus, et al.

4 Jun '04 -- 15 sIvaN -- 15 Rabi' al-Thaany
PURAV7.TXT

PURAV6A.TXT Bad jokes and some serious insights.

PURAV6.TXT
Volume II #something of THE BROIGES BEGGAR'S GAZETTE -- (Early Eyore Edition

PURAV5.TXT"Garlic & saphires embedded in the mud" quoth the pouf, not knowing which was better.

CAN'T FIND PURAV4

PURAV3.TXT

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WELCOME TO THE ***ORIENT EXPRESS*** (ZELAZNY LINE)
*** VIENNA--WROCLAW---PIRAEUS*---ISTANBUL--TYRE--JOFFA**-- JERUSALEM***
[ *Connections at Piraeus for Elusian Mysteries and/or Sheol ]
[ **Connections at Joffa for Tarshish (Passenger's Risk) or Nineveh ]

LIBRARY CAR
ADMITTANCE: FIRST-CLASS AND HOLISTIC BEGGARS ONLY

"This train is Bound for Glory -- This Train -- " (Woody Guthrie)

"And if we have built something honorable ..."
Patrick Stewart as Captain Jean-Luc Picard: Star Trek, The Next Generation -- Episode 175, "Emergence" -- (available via AMAZON)

WEBSITE PART I: R. SHLOMO CARLEBACH TRANSCRIPTS (et al.)

(1) A lot of transcriptions of taped teachings by R. Shlomo Carlebach.
(N.B.: This Website has no official connection with the R. Shlomo Carlebach Foundation.)

Most of the transcriptions on this-here Website are by 'sa'='Steve_Amdur'.
Most of those are complete transcriptions. (That applies to transcriptions made ca. 1993--date; but not to transcriptions made 1985--1993, (most of which are excerpts, mostly excerpted from typescript full transcriptions).
When I elide (omit some text) from a fuller transript, I so indicate with 3_dots , thus ...
My transcriptions are vitually uneditted. That is, I very rarely edit R. Shlomo's words. (R. Joshua Witt taught me that; he said, cut out only each third 'mamash'.)
However, I do frequently interject my own remarks.
However, I do (since ca. 1998) set off my interjected remarks in {squiggly_braces}.

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You are now travelling in a SANDWORM. Please check that Stillsuit is properly adjusted. In case of any discomfort you may invoke the Litany against Fear of the Bene Gesserit
[hexsure, Kineret Shores; for further details see =Purav*.* in the CABARET CAR.]

"And if you go chasing rabbits -- and you know you're bound to fall ---- " (Jefferson Airplane)

'The forward surge and the backward fall' (Reb Nachman)

"I shall not fear ..." etc.
[Cf. Psalm 23]

Sarge hung out with the Venice Chabadniks. He was in the U.S. Transportation Corps after D-Day. He used to say: "Keep driving."

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PVK transcriptions etc. are placed in:
http://Briefcase yahoo.com/AdobetoZenith
To Access these files, you can most simply:
First: Log on to Yahoo Mail: [email protected] Password necessary; please Send me a note if you want but lack it.

Then: Click on Briefcase The Folder is, as I recall:
My Files/ My Docments / pvkdocsa
That gives you (read-write) Access as well to the File Manager; so you can post your own PVK files; thus this Briefcase can serve as a (non-public) community bulletin board.
It can also be Accessed (read-only) from any Yahoo E-mail account, provided Access has been ok'd by any User (including me) of [email protected] .

A 'Folder-Empty' Pseudo-Error message means: Attempt to Access Yahoo Briefcase unsuccessful.

Access (to my Yahoo Briefcase, geocities.com/sa73122a , which also holds most of my RSC files, and which you don't need now) is also open to participants (literary lions included) in the Mimmamakim Poetry Forum http://www.mimaamakim.org
[THANK YOU FOR TRAVELLING SANDWORM EXPRESS. (Recommended for ascetics only.) Enjoy your iced lemonade.]

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YOU ARE NOW TRAVELLING IN THE 2ND-CLASS CARRIAGE OF THE JERUSALEM- --SHA'AR HAGAII-- BET SHEMESH LINE; FINAAL DESTINATION KFAR HABAD; Continuing to Tel Aviv and Classical Zionism.

R. Zalman told of the Chabad engineer taking a passenger train from Jerusalem to Tel Aviv in 1948. The self-styled Arabs from or at the adjacent villages harassed it, the brakes went, and the hand-brake handle became glowing hot. The engineer held on, the train stayed on track, the passengers lived on. They asked him, how could you do it. He said, our Rebbe always taught us, that mind can overcome the lower desires.
[Cf. Spinoza, Ethics, 'Of Human Bondage']
I got my Spinoza hit from Paul Wienpahl at UCSB; where I met Susie Harrison, zl'b. She was dancing to the Ethics. I don't know who else comprehends Spinoza. Not me much.

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To subscribe to the reb-shlomo.org LIST, first send an E-mail, without Subject, to: reb- [email protected]
The first thing to say when initiating a relationship with a Daemon is, of course

HELP

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GENERAL EDITORIAL NOTES FOR RSC MATERIAL:

I make no claims upon any RSC material that I've worked on, but acknowlege that others may assert and/or have asserted such claims. Questions regarding commerical publication should be directed to the R. Shlomo Carlebach Foundation. (However, this has been rather a problematic matter.)

However, I do ask that, in the interest of Archiving, anyone using any transcriptions that I've worked on, and even posted, note the original filename/filedate, and indicate briefly what sort of changes you've made.

Such changes might include: Editting, adding sources, adding (initialed) notes, excerpting, deleting my {squiggly-braces shtuyot }, correcting my garbled Hebrew, adding Hebrew from tape or context, correcting my transcription against tape, etc.)

CAVEAT: My level of learning in Jewish religious studies has yet to reach the level of that of eg any member of the Witt Family over the age of 6. BZ has renarked that my transcritions are full of errors. I those are pointed out to me, I will note them in Errata docs. To keep Archiving clear, I will not go back into my original docs and correct errors, unless I then rename that doc.

RSC Files posted here currently include:

SECTION 1: README FILES:
redmesa1.txt -- A basic readme doc
redmesa1.txt
This is the basic readme document for my RSC files.

Other readme documents are included in zip'd packages of files. They include: beadme.doc
redme.doc (a *.ein file I 'spect)

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PASSENGERS ARE NOW INVITED TO HELP THEMSELVES TO THE CONTENTS OF OUR Gold-trimmed ANTIQUE CAST-IRON SAFES.
Identifying tags should not be removed, under penalty of whatever. (Ie the nitty gritty is: in the interest of intellectual audit-trail archiving, note my docname on the doc, then rename it with your changes).

SECTION 2:
PACKAGES OF PREVIOUSLY-POSTED (2/98--6/99) RSC TRANSCRIPTIONS, ETC.:

These are *.zip's of files that I previously posted to the reb- shlomo LIST
([email protected] )
and on my previous (and now-lost, unless anyone has a copy) Website, www.kinneret.co.il/sa9802

learning.zip

nu396a.zip>

sh1196a.zip

wed1094.zip

This is my topical sequential sorted excerpts from wittweds.zip, wedding transcripts, input by various people under various auspices, none mine.

(=wed1094.zip is the only file omitted (and that inadvertantly) from my CD-ROM of my collection of RSC materials, June '04, Posted to the Mevo Modi'in Free Peoples' Public Library and sent to the Carlebach Shul (NYC).)
) This is a recurrently-mooted publication, questions regarding which should at least initially be like directed to the RSC Foundation.
Meanwhile, it might serve as an informal handbook for an RSC-style Wedding.
"A word to the wise is sufficient"; all others please wear hard_hats in the Library Stacks.

yakar.zip
This is a package of transcriptions of talks given by RSC at Yakar, 10 Rehov Ha_Lamed-Hey, Old Katamon, Jerusalem, 1993. Questions regarding publication should be directed to Yakar, and to the R. Shlomo Carlebach Foundation.
A more complete collection of Videotapes of RSC's talks at Yakar was made by Natanel Shur, a native-French member of the RSC chevre presently living in Kiryat Moshe, Jerusalem.

new69596.zip

nonmishk.zip

Transcriptions, by Witts, EW, and sa, from Witt collection.
Does not include transcriptions (all by the Witts) of the "Mishkanot" RSC teachings, which were given at the Witts home in/on Mishkanot. These talks, given to core chevre, are on an Advanced level. I'm seen no comparable RSC talks. They are posted to my Yahoo Briefcase, http://www.geocities.com/sa73122a , but in a more restricted-Access Folder.

sc0497a.zip

sh1297c.zip

extracts.zip

snippets.zip

shmusic6.zip
Alphabetic transcription of tunes, with transliteration of lyrics using my ASCII-based transliteration system (case-sensitive with non-significant vocalization, such that the Hebrew, without nekudot, can be unequivocally reconstructed from the transliteration;

useful for writing post-dated cheques, etc.). Easier to add to a backpack than the combined Velvel Pasternak and Ben-Zion Solomon RSC Songbooks, of which it's an annotated distillation.

shmemos.zip
Might include a few good memos on Archiving; plus assorted shtuyot.
_____________ ['shtuyot'="a stew of ridiculousnesses"]

kids1094.zip

Brief excerpts, maybe editted, compiled ca. 1986. Might serve as tolerable text for a coffee-table book. Anyone prepared to proceed on same should as a courtesy check with Rbtzn. Rachel- Bryna Frumin , and with the Carlebach Foundation.

journals.zip

A few retypes from editted excerpt transcriptions published in HBG="Holy Beggars' Gazette" and CNS="Connections".
"And Esther Wrote" was an exceptionally strong statement, one might say 'pro-feminist'.
Copyright to HBG material was subsequently bought by some Upstate dude whom I presume re-editted some -- but HH says no, he published it verbatim -- and re-published it chastely through Jason Arononson, Inc.
( Jason Aronson, Inc. is maybe now the pre-eminent Jewish_religious publishing house; Pomerantz Booksellers in Jerusalem are their Israel outlet).
So these docs might serve as a useful archival cross-check to editorial excess, if any.
But EG says: Bar-Ilan University library, in B'nei B'rak, has a complete collection of HBG's.
That's what internet publication is good for; human beings don't really like reading those blinking little pixels; books still hold their own re-cycled turf.

revised.zip

Minor revisions of a few previously-posted docs.

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SECTION 3:
INDIVIDUAL TRANSCRIPTS, IN *.txt, PREVIOUSLY POSTED (2/98--6/99) TO RSC LIST AND TO RSC WEBSITE

You can also get *.txt files from a workaround. Click thataway to download rsctxt03.zip, which is a the patience and consideration of the chevre of Moshav Meor Modi'in) 7/03--12/03 . There's a bit of duplication, but I also tossed in W.EXE, T.EXE, ETRANS.EXE, and PKUNZIP.EXE (ver. 2/93). Just to get back at whatever. Davka with peppercorns, I suppose.

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SECTION 4:
DOWNLOADS from the R. Shlomo Carlebach Website , http://www.rebshlomo.org
The downloads from the RSC Website seem in general to be edited short excerpts from tapes.

webspr98.zip
My download of RSC "tora's" that were on the rebshlomo.org Website in Spring 1998.

scwby402.zip
My download of RSC "tora's" that were on the rebshlomol.org Website 2 Jan '04
Some of those may duplicate files in the Spring 1998 download.
Also, there may be some accidental duplication of filenames for different files.

scwb0404.ZIP
The same, as of about 8 April '04.
I think it's both less and other than the preceeding. Includes a copy of the Source file, with some but not many temporarily UnLINK'd RSC excerpts.
Everything seems to excerpts form Connections (CNS) and from the Kehillat Jacob newsletter.

yccdrom.zip
An humungous compendium of postings, I guess.
Unpackaged files included on a CD-ROM sent me 11/'03 by YC. I haven't yet looked at these files. I think that they're downloads from both the RSC Website and the RSC LIST. Maybe some are my files. There's maybe much duplication.

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SECTION 5:
A FEW NEW RSC TRANSCRIPTIONS (Oct '03 -- July '04): <

NEW POSTINGS FROM DATE BACK TO 20 JUNE ARE ADDED AT TOP OF THIS HOMEPAGE:

20 Jun '04 -- 1 TaMUZ -- Rosh Hodesh B -- 1 Jumaada (?) -- Summer Solstice
SCHH0406.TXT RSC Excerpts selected and arranged by Hetzkala Sasson

17 Jun '04 -- 28 sIvan -- 28 Rabi' al-Thaany
INVEAAAZ.TXT
TRANSCRIBERS WANTED TO TRANSCRIBE this short_stack (under 1 ream) of RSC transcripts. Typescript and manuscript. A few with some Hebrew script. Teachings given 1971--1974, USA, mostly San Francisco.

18 May '04
SCERATA1.TXT Errata in my 'R. Shlomo Carlebach'='RSC' transcriptions, doc 1
I reckon that my RSC transcriptions have more errors than the blueberries on a Maine seacoast hillside; so anyone who finds additional errors, please drop me a note.

30 April '04
scha.zip Includes W.EXE , T.EXE, ETRANS.EXE . Best UnZIP'd under DOS. Caveat the notedocs; & they're readable only under W.EXE, if at all. Input of RSC editted excerpts in 'The Carlebach Haggaddah'; with interjected critical quips and miscellaneous mishegas. Intended primrily for persons working on archiving this material, especially correlatinh editted excerpts with verbatim source. Persons interested only in the published editted excerpts should buy the book. Anyone who ascertains Sources for any excerpts please send me a note, preferably with Attatched sourcedoc.

13 April '04 -- 22 Nisan -- malkut sh'b' CHESED
ETAAN21A.TXTFirst good Talmud joke I've read.

RSC MATERIAL TAKEN FROM LEFT LUGGAGE:
These files are included in *.zip packs on this Website.

SHCNSI1.TXT R. Shlomo Carlebach, Connections I;1, "And Esther Wrote" -- A propos Megillat Esther and Purim, a strong statement on the role of women in religious Judaism.

sh_4x594.txt RSC Excerpts on Purim(& Pesach)

shyew44.ZIP
Condensed pagination of my input of ms.=ew44a. FOR OUTPUT UNDER DOS/W.EXE ONLY

------------------------------------------------------------------ NEW RSC LISTINGS FROM 15 MAR '04 BACK TO 15 JAN '04

SC88BCTC.TXT
Uploaded 15 Mar '04 -- 22 Adar -- 5K -- A short teaching from a Concert at Brooklyn College, ca. 1988

The following are included in: rsctxt.zip

scen18t.txt A rename of =sce#18t.txt
sc=R. Shlomo Carlebach;
e=excerpts from tape
(Those of my excerpts not obtained by a PSearch, are in general taken directly from untranscribed tapes. My excerpts are verbatim except as indicated.
I've not edited excerpts since ca. '1985--1988; and even then I indicated what was edited.
# refers to a particular series of non-commercially published/distributed tapes; see notes with that doc..

scen3s.txt Cf. preceeding note.

scn6e88.txt Rename of =sc#6e88.txt Cf. preceeding.

sc20t904.txt

sca8602.txt
scb8602.txt
(=sca8602.txt + =scb8602.txt) comprise 1 transcription

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SECTION 6:
TRANSCRIPTIONS BY OTHER FOLKS:

*.doc doc's open into a Word-for-Windows Window; but slow & heavy.
Oy, 'repressive collaboration' (Cf. Marcuse, z'lb, eg 'repressive desublimation') amongst those greedy dumb titans.

peasnota.doc Renanme of =scezrpea.ein
RSC excerpts from Ziv Ritchie's booklet "Peace"; posted in EinsteinWriter (W.EXE) format.

After careful study of this text I was able to conclude: "The Rabbi holds that we should return the Territories, but only in exchange for the Louisiana Purchase."

rg1096.zip RSC transcriptions by Reuven Gilmore (Moshav Meor Modi'in), in Write for Windows.

chesh91p.txt

Draft Re-input of the 2nd half of a transcription of a talk on Cheshvan given by RSC at Mishkanot. If someone gives me a xerox of the first half of same, I can re-input it (pending 29 Jan '04) . I'm much faster at typing from transcripts than at tarnscribing; it takes me about 1 work-week (ca. 35 hrs.) to transcribe 1 90_minute RSC tape [ including Pass 2 proof-read against tape].

rebbes94.zip

Excerpted remarks on hasidic rebbes; excerpted 1994; alphabetic.

yomtov94.zip

Excerpted remarks on the various holidays; excerpted 1994.

scrgA.ZIP Transcriptions by Reuven Goldfarb.
Inventory doc for this package is: =invscrga.txt; LINK'd below in INVS

scha.zip Retype of RSC editted excerpts in 'The Carlebach Haggaddah'; with interjected critical comments & miscellaneous mishegas. Also 4 *.ein docs which longer literary di- and trans- -gressions; these notedocs are readable only under W.EXE, if at all. Anyone who wants easy reading should buy the book.

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SECTION 6A: INVENTORY DOCS

Partial listing of extant RSC materials
inv9496r.zip
invsh97.zip
in96junk.zip
invs9497.zip

tzycdir.txt

=tzycdir.txt is a comparative listing of files in the TzM and YC collections. It is included in rsctxt.zip

INVSCRGA.TXT Inventory of RG Batch 1 docs

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SECTION 7:
Teachings from students of R. Shlomo Carlebach:

The rich do like to scrimp and save, at least upon the poor.

=dhejokes.txt is included in rsctxt.zip

dhejokes.txt
R. David Herzberg, z'lb, Excerpts from his recollections of RSC (including jokes told by RSC (some of which ain't quite wilde)).
My re-input from a printout of Website download.

That printout was preserved by Shoshana Gal-Or, whose family-style Glatt Kosher Neapolian Gourmet Restaurant & Pizzeria featuresal fresco summertime dining, and in winter offers a wood fire in a cast-iron stove, with roasted chestnuts as complimentary hors d'oeuvre (in season). Winter special: Dinah's Bean-&- Cheese Minestrone; strong enough to chop wood on. Sofer in Residence.
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Recently published: PRI MAYIM HAYIM: Original Torah Thoughts by David Herzberg; (c) 2003 by Sarah Herzburg Eiger. Distributd by the RSC Foundation, POB 2543, Jerusalem 94024 ISrael; E-mail: [email protected]

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WEBSITE PART II: SELECTED POEMS

"Well the Rock Island Line is a mighty good 'road
Rock Island Line is the 'road to ride
Rock Island Line is a might good 'road
but if you want to ride it got to ride it like you find it;
Get your ticket at the station on the Rock Island Line.

_____American Folk Song, presented by The Weavers, ca. 1956

Some of my Selected Poems, and some less-selected.

CAVEAT BLACK_&_WHITE-CAT:
These Poems are kosher as stroganoff
(if not as conquilles St. Jacque)*;
the discriminating consumer will deploy her/his chopCLICKS with precision.

(*I am prepared to Debate the kashrut of the Scallop:
Is it a shelllfish?
_____Surely not; it merely seeks protection from a vulgar world.
Is it a bottom-feeder?
_____( Cows Defend Us! )-- Obviously not. It merely manifest great shniut.)

WEBSITE PART II: SELECTED POEMS

: These *.txt files are included in:
poemtxt.zip

Some of my Selected Poems, and some less-selected.

(Puran Blair says: Pork clogs up the subtle bodies)

Poems presently posted included: RE-SELECTED (3-Ming) POEMS:

Re-selected poems with at least some Jewish content:
washedox.txt

extraox.txt

I got my B.S. Degree in Tedious Philostrophy at Berkeley, between riots.

I got my B.S. degree (Philosophy) in Berkeley.
Everyone knows what B.S. stands for.
M.S. stands for: "More of the same."
Ph.d stands for: "Piled higher and deeper."
That's a Ph.d joke, just to keep the Reader, if any, awake.

Take a number in the Coughcar. (Pun #1)

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PACKAGED APERCUS:

afewpoem.txt

poemdone.zip
Poems '84-'92.
CAVEAT TABBYCAT:

Caveat tabbycat: Some maybe inappropriate for persons of prim 'religious' ('ortho-dox(a)') sensibility. Though nothing blatantly outrageous nor unduly self-indulgent, I hope.
In W.EXE format, but for poems that's almost ok.

New Turnups

Cooked 's well as can be,
it's still a turnup.
Can't throw it out.

poorpo14.txt
New poems, "or something", 4/'03-- 1/'04

( $$$ "Excuse me Master Maxwell, but did ye drop a hammer?" $$$$ )

PO0401.TXT
Dull poems Jan '04 -- April '04

Coming Soon:
PO0404.TXT

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Passengers will please refrain           from flushing toilets
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"When the train                            is at the station,
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WEBSITE PART IV: A NOTE ON FORMAT:

Regarding those meddlesome Microsoft Dinosaurs as a passing fad,
I continue, as I've done since 1986 or so, to write under MS-DOS using EinsteinWriter (ver. 8.2) (W.EXE), which files convert to ASCII using EinsteinWriter's T.EXE (use the 20,794K version, not the 20,799K version (which unusable version is maybe included in some of my old *.ZIP's; Caveat hep-cat.).

W.EXE and T.EXE, and PKKUNZIP.EXE (ver. 2/93) are available from my now-unused Briefcase; Yahoo Geocities Plebian Webpages don't accept upload of *.EXE files.

However, I think I've smuggled them in in a zip package:

tools.zip:
W.EXE (ver 8.2),
T.EXE (20,794K version),
PKUNZIP.EXE (2/93 version),
ETRANS.EXE
(Use with the /e /nj options. An alternative to T.EXE, but I think not as good.

W.EXE and T.EXE should also be available from EinsteinWriter, Ltd., which had a rather inactive office on Hillel St. in Jerusalem 5 years ago, though not now.
EinsteinWriter once was and may yet be again the industry-standard for refined typists. Hereabouts, anyhow. Somebody should buy it, improve it, and re-market it.
I once wrote, as a hotmail signature file: "Microsoft does everything -- with colossal ineptitude; a nested set of intentionally self-obsoleting black-boxes for blockheads." I continue to find Windows less efficient than DOS; except for folks illiterate in English. There are few anticipatable user needs which Microsoft does not detour around; and few possible questions which it fails to answer so circumlocutiously that you'd better pack a bag lunch before clicking Help.

For a writer, though not a desk-top publisher, EinsteinWriter is the best-designed PC word-processing program I've seen; tho not up to the standalone's of the late '70's: DEC 78, WANG, Xerox, even IBM-6. Ah, nostalgia.

Once converted to Text, you can Open them under Windows into MicroSoft WORD. Most of my RSC files are packaged into *.zip files; those unpackage using (under MS-DOS) PKUNZIP.EXE (ver. 2/93, or any later version). They can then be read under , and are best read under, MS-DOS using W.EXE (any version, legal or liberated (1DC)). They can also be unzip'd under Windows using WINZIP (any version, as far as I know). Once unzip'ed, almost all will be in EinsteinWriter format. I don't yet know what you do then. Maybe read them on a meter-long screen.

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TRAIN: TWENTIETH CENTURY LIMITED:
(NEW YORK (PENN STATION)--RHINEBECK--NEW LEBANON--CHICAGO)
COACH: PARLOUR CAR:
(SMOKING SECTION RESERVED TO NON-TOBACCO--USERS)

"Back, back, wherever you are; this Caravan is not of despair.
Although you have broken your vows [perhaps] a thousand times ..."

(Rumi; set and sung by Zuleika, now of Santa Fe, in the style of her Afghani teacher )

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WEBSITE PART V (1): FURTHER SUGGESTED LINKS:

This is the SO-oriented PART of this Website; after several important Link's for wholisitic healing, I turn to Link's useful for those interested in the eclectic mysticism aspect of comparative religion.

(After that, in subsequent PART's, I return to LINK's of particular Jewish interest; some religious, some Zionist.

The Omega Institute, based in Rhinebeck, New York (on the Hudson River) serves as a responsible sort of Umbrulla organization for Wholistic Healing. Their Website is:

http://www.eomega.org , Omega Institute, Rhinebeck NY, USA

The Omega Website Links the following Meta-site of Wholistic Healing Links:
http://www.pit.edu/~cbw/alt.html

A: FURTHER ECLECTIC LINKS: The Website of Shahabudin David Less is:
http://www.risingtideinternational.org and http://www.davidlesstours.co and www.spiritualpeacemakers.org
Information on the Barcelona Get-together.

Ibrahim/Abraham, an old friend, maintains a sort of Interfaith center on the Mt. of Olives. Contact is: [email protected] /A>
See also: Yahoo / Groups / jerusalemcircle
and: http://www.geocities.com/AllNationsCafe

April '04 -- a hot dry day --
em0409.txt An account by Eliahu McLean of an interfaith gathering in Baghdad, March '04 http://www.worldmusic2002.de
Website of Alev Dilber Kowalzik

A HREF="http://www.newbuffalotaos.com">www.newbuffalotaos.com

chana2.txt, a Memorial Note, with various reminiscences. Relatively important, maybe, from an eclectic standpoint.
CHANA3.TXT an augmented version of =chana2.*, with numerous interesting but very digressive appended and inserted remarks.

ABCSA402.TXTA few suggested readings, etc. This is my riff on Pound's "ABC of Culture"; most of the references, to art, music, dance, poetry, et. al, are mot what is usually termed 'religious', nor even what is usually termed 'spiritual'. But then ----

A bit of Tourist Informaton:
isreal41.txt "Israel is real" -- Notes 11 Feb '04 What to do & where to go etc. in Israel. Directed primarily to predominantly non-Jewish groups making a short tour of Israel.

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TRAIN: NORTHERN LIMITED:
CHICAGO--SEATTLE--
COACH: 2ND CLASS, AMERICAN STYLE
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LOGISTIC LINKS:

www.fastmail.fm
Recommended by Chaim Gingy Cohen as by far the best Web- based E-mail platform. A clean honest minimalist interface.

www.alexa.com
An adequate honest pop-up blocker. Run by Amazon & Recommended by Chaim G. Cohen. No doubt filled with cookies, etc., but disreetly so.

www.refdesk.com
Recommended by Alifa Sadya. A very extensive meta-site of reference books,utilities, et. al. Maybe problem-free.

www.tudogs.com Shareware. Recommend by Alifa Sadya.

ps52b.zip
This is Patri-Soft's PSearch, of which the essential (and only necessary) file is PS.EXE .
Runs only under DOS of course (eg MS-DOS).
Next to EinsteinWriter (W.EXE) this is the best file I ever stole,
as-it-is-said, "If you're going to be a bear, be a GRIZzly bear." (Chicano Dave, New Buffalo, ca. 1971).

www.sacred-texts.com
I found this with a Yahoo Search -- (Google uses a complicated algorithim that returns more pecks of shtuyout than a man on the clam-flats with a vacuum cleaner.) --
Looks promising. Includes religious calendars.

http://kwoodward.net.greek
Found by Alifa Sadya. Looks like a promising intro to classical Greek.

http://audacity.sourceforge.net
Recommended by Ben-Zion Solomon (Moshav Mevo Modi'in) for non-professional users.

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TRAIN: OTTOMAM EMPIRE LOCAL: JAFFO--BET SHEMESH--SH'AR HAGAI-- JERUSALEM
PASSENGERS WILL KINDLY NOT LEAN OUT THE WINDOWS WHILE STONES ARE BEING THROWN.

C: GENERAL ISRAEL INO LINKS:

www.israelvisit.com
Hosts many folks who are genuinely trying to help in the reconstruction of the religious culture of the people of Israel.

www.virtualjerusalem.com

www.jpost.com
The rather trivialized remnant of the Internet edition of the rather trivialized Jerusalem Post.
Sophmoric editors from the Ayn Raynd School of Business Management notwithstanding, the Jlem Post remains maybe, if only by default, the only passble source for information about Israel political/security events.

http://www.Begedivri.com Website for Reuven Prager, Tel: +972---2--6258-943 ; [email protected] . Reuven Prager exemplifies in practice, as R. Zalman does in spirit and thought, the true meaning of a 'Reconstructionist' movement (quite apart from whatever Mordechai Kaplan wrote): ChaDeSh YaMeINU K-QeDeM . He was among the first to restore techelet to tzitzit (acceptable though not used by all branches of orthodox Judaism); he then re-created the 'bridal chair', continues to produce neo-biblical garments of great beauty; and has re-instituted the annual half-shekel contribution in a scholarly and halachically responsible manner.

http://www.davidzeller.org R. David Zeller, who lives in the religious yuppie suburban community of Efrat, serves as Director of Yakar (a co-educational orthodox learning center in Old Katamon, Jerusalem), and works also as a traveling lecturer and trans-personal therapist. He has been a frequent guest and speaker at Zenith.

http://www.amyisr e .co.il/smallvoice/ Website of Sarah Yehudit Schneider (Old City, Jerusalem), a leading orthodox mystic-oriented teacher with apparently a strong grounding in secular studies, and reasonably comfortable residing in the real world.

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WEBSITE PART V (2) : AND STOP BY MY NEIGHBORS' WEBSITES:

www.terror- victims.org.il

Website designed by Judy AvrahamHai, with technical work by Yakov Drori.
Judy Avrahami is in effect Administrative and Public Relations Dirctor of the Terror Victims Support Center, in Jerusalem.
It strikes me as an honest, low-overhead, neighborhood-based group that, in addition to a weekly (pre-Shabat) distribution of food packages, offers personalized support and assistance to poverty- level people who have been victims of terrorist attack.

http://www.advocacy.org.il
Yochevet Branigan works with an Israel socio/economic rights organization; sounds like a sort of Newark Project (Tom Hayden, USA '60's) emulation.

www.kotl.tv The primary Website for Eliahu Gal-Or [email protected]

who is inter alia the most imaginative and knowlegeable person I've met on the potentials of information-age technology/software. Fluent in Hebrew and Italian, passable in Latin.

R. Avraham Aryeh Trugman has published a book on cycles in the Jewish religious calendar, available from: [email protected]

Ben-Zion Solomon's Website is: http: /www.members.sapphiresoft.net/Ben_Zion_Solomon

Ben-Zion Solomon is among the leading students of R. Shlomo Carlebach.
He may be the most knowlegeable person on RSC's music. His CD- ROM's of RSC Nusach should be quite important.
He is also very knowlegeable on Bratslav niggunim.

Avraham & Leah Sand works in Aromatherapy, from a standpoint of reconstructing biblical traditions. Their Website is: http://www.tiferet.co.il

http://www.artoferetzisrael.com
Various artisans, including Sarah Naftali (silversmith/jeweler) and Bracha Schwartz (ceramics).

Chaim G. Cohen designs Websites and assists with system configuration. He and others from herabouts occasionally sojourn amongst the Rainbow Tribe, whom we are striving to convert to Narrischkeit. He also distributes excellent olive oil (with a Badatz-level hexsure.)

Alifa Sadya is one of the adult members of the Moshav. She does not claim descent from the King of Jerusalem. However, her personal Website is: http://www.what- o.blogspot.com
Her organizational Website is that of the Vidal Sasson Center for the Study of Anti-Semitism , at Hebrew University (Mt. Scopus) Jerusalem: http://www.sicsa.huji.ac.il Incidentally, the Hebrew University Website is simply: http://www.huji.ac.il/

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OTHER WEBSITES OF JEWISH INTEREST

www.schem.org/Itamar

www.foryesha.org Products et al. from Jewish settlements in the sparsely populated dry rocky central highlands. Does not include products from the fertile, moist Israeli-occupied Philistine (Palestine) Coast, seized from its original inhabitants by General (later King) David.

www.RhodesJewishMuseum.org
Website for the Rhodes (Rodos) Jewish Community, which I occasionally tried to assist, ca. 1988--1999.

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LINK's SUGGESTED BY SUBSCRIBERS TO the RSC LIST:
[email protected] /A> http://www.rabbihenochdov.com
Website of R. Henoch Dov Hoffman

http://www.jewishspirit.comWebsite of Yitzhak Buxbaum, who has smicha from R. Shlomo Carlebach as a Maggid.

www.geocities.com/yehoshuarubin
Website for Yehoshua Rubin, who has just published a book.

Rinatya Nachman (Rinata Hauschild) -- [email protected] -- suggests the following LINK's:
www.rhr.israel.net Rabbis for Human Rights (includes material from R. Zalman Schachter)
www.btselem.org Btselem
and as preparation for Yom HaShoah:
includes material on Rodos.

NEW 26 April '04 -- 5 Iyar -- yesod sh'b' TIFERET:
Rinatya Nachman also recommends the following LINK's, primarily for those who appreciate the tradition-based eclectic approach of R. Zalman Schachter-Shalomi:

www.ruach.org Ayala Grafstein, writing from the Indian lands of Arizona.

www.aleph.org

www.bayitchadash.org in which Mordechai Gafni furnishes "some new thing", I guess.

www.havurashirhadash.org

www.breslov.com/html.bib e

www.rabbishefagold.com

www.hamakom.org.il

I'm embarassed to note that I've not yet checked these Website out.

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  PAYING CUSTOMERS DINING FROM THE DUSTBINS DO SO AT THEIR OWN RESPONSIBILITY

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AN INNOCENT ABROAD IN PAGAN LANDS (CAVEAT TABBYCAT):
INO9.TXT An Innocent Abroad in Pagan Lands.
FINO2.TXT More Boring Travel Notes
GINO3.TXT from a crotchety old man
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CABOOSE

This Website Started 4 Jan 2004 -- 11 Tevet -- Mevo Modi'in -- a bright moon, with light gathering clouds, woodsmoke in the air, and some excellent natural apple juice from Pomeranz

ENHANCED:

8 Jan '04 -- 14 Tevet -- a long, steady, light rain day

10 Jan '04 -- 17 Tevet -- a clear night, moon waning

13 Jan '04 -- 19 Tevet -- a warm night with rainclouds
Skies clearing, Moshav waking --

29 Jan '04 -- 6 Shvat -- a bright, sunny day; but one of bitter news.
2 Feb '04 -- 10 Shvat -- 06:00 -- Superbowl Sunday in the USA; just one more day hereabouts. Pale green and pale blue behind dark grey rainclouds. Roosters calling.

3 Feb '04 -- 11--12 Shvat -- A warm grey day, just a dusting of rain, red poppies amongst the foot-high new greens.

5 Feb '04 -- 13 Shvat -- More light rain. I think the *.txt problem was a Yahoo case-sensitive SnAfu (WWII slang: "Situation Normal; etc.") -- Upload file to Website added an Initial Cap to Filename; but File Manager is case-sensitive, so it didn't recognize its own minimal rename.

9 Feb '04 -- 17 Shvat -- The sun felt good today. These houses were built in the 70's of iron-re-inforced concrete, to withstand the occasional potshot, and do trap the cold and damp. But wood fires in an iron stove are lovely. /

> A clear cold night. 24 Feb '04 -- 2 Adar --- A clear cold night.
The birds sang very full this morning, at daybreak. It's been an exceptionally warm day.

================================================================= Well, we must all carry on, together, as best we can.
We ain't got there yet, but it's been a good trip. In good company, with lovely scenery.

"Passing through
Passing through
Sometimes happy, sometimes blue
Glad that I ran into you.
Tell the people that you saw me passing through."

(U.S. Folk Song, heard Cambridge, Massachusetts, Old Joe Clark's House, ca. 1957) Best to all,
Steve Amdur
(Stephen Benjamin Amdur
Z.

Mevo Modi'in, 12 July '04 -- 24 TaMUZ --

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