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START OF A CROSS-LISTING OF STORIES:
I note those on the "Best of Shlomo" series.                  
I also note stories that I transcribed from commercial tapes in96.

The Best of Shlomo series is unbearably shlocked up, and hisstudio tellings are a dimension poorer than his live tellings, butI can note that these stories are for real; only they need to bedetatched from the shlock that Jerusalem Star mixed into them.


60s, SIDE A
1) Ocean of Tears:  {A strange & beautiful story}
REB YITZAK VOLKER:
Everybody in knows in KOTSK, the truth was the most importantsthing.  In VOLKER, loving G-d was the most important thing in theworld.

SOLDIERS' STORIES:  3 stories about soldiers in Israel:

1) A tank driver in the 6-Day War  (Sinai).
2)  After the War in Lebanon
3)  A story -- concert during the Yom Kippur War [probably Sinai] 

SIDE B:
The Holy Hunchback -- [a story of] Rav Klonimus Kalman [ofPieretznetzne] 
He buried the manuscript 
He took it to the chaplain, who at that time was Rabbi Hollander
Children, remember, the greatest thing in the world is, to dosomebody else a favor. 
After that I was privileged to meet another person who saw RebKolonimus Kalman ... in the Warsaw Ghetto ... 




II: BEST OF THE 70s SIDE A
YOSSELLE THE HOLY MISER:
At the time of Yosselle the Chief Rabbi [Reb Kalman] of Cracow wasone of the holiest, and his name was Reb Kalman.
SIDE B:
Yoselle from Cracow 1974 :
THIS IS A CONTINUATION, AT THE SAME OCCASION, OF THE STORY ON SIDE ... The Bishop says, I was lying to you, my name is not Joe, myname is Yosselle from Cracow. 
I named you after my father, a Kozhnitzer hassid, one of therichest [in Cracow].  We are descendents of Yosselle the holyMiser.  And my father was named after Yosselle from Cracow.  

"THE BLIND CHAZZAN"
{I've fully transcribed another verison of this story: from=shnoa548 (aka sh_n548) NOAM 548, 


You know, my beautiful firends, we so misjudge others.  We don'tknow, we don't know, what's going on the heart of another humanbeing.  Unless you love them the most, you'll never know.





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80's Stories:
SIDE A:
A1-80s)  THE MUNKATCHER PASSPORT:
MUMKATCHER REBBE (d. 1936) story of 1935 of R. Shlomo's uncle.

A2-80s)  MOISHELE GANEV II
Moshe the Goniff, a follower of the Ba'al Shem Tov.  After hebecame a ba'al tchuva he only stole from the rich.

A3-80s -- REBBITZIN OF LUBLIN 

Seer of Lublin:
They said to him, Seer of Lublin, you always make us trouble, weare used to it.  But now your Rebbitzin?  Look what she did, sheblessed this playboy.

B1-80s -- SHABBOS CANDLES

Avraham Avinu prayed to G-d for the first time.


Story of a concert R. Shlomo gave, and the story told by the wifeof a wealthy man there, who came from a 5th-generation dynasty ofatheists.

B2-80s -- KARLINER MINCHA
	A tale of the Baal Shem Tov, and the KARLINER
The Russian peasants come and start praying with the Karlinerhassdim:  
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PART IV:  "REST OF THE BEST"  STORIES
	The Tailor's Tallis
KORETZ, 200 years ago, REB PINCHAS, pupil of the Baal Shem


	Moishele the Water Carrier
"You know, in KOTSK, the important thing is, not how much good youdo, or how much bad you do -- maybe you only did one mitzva inyour whole life, but the deepest question was, did you do it withyour whole heart.  ... In Kotsk they don't ask you, are you ascholar ... they ask you one thing:  are you for real?"
 ... This is a story I heard from an old Yid in B'nei Barak, whosegrandfather was present -- every year the holy SOKOLOVER, thegreat-grandson of KOTSK [ie, the KOTSKER REBBE] would have agathering at a certain night, and he would say, tonight is theYahrzeit of Moishele the water-carrier. ...  So this is the storythe Sokolover Rebbe told his hassidim:

SIDE B:  "Stories from the Other World" (!)
	1.  Forgiven at Last
Famous haddisische story, told of the SEER OF LUBLIN: 
  The need to be forgiven for a broken engagement 20 years ago.

I THINK THIS STORY OCCURS IN YAELBOOK as:
A broken engagement
	Reprinted w. permission, Jlem Post Magazine 4/20/95
	Cf. =sh_best Vol IV: Rest of the Best", "Forgiven at Last"
	AN ORIGINAL OCCURS ON TAPE %dh5, which I'm transcribing as=sh84a9d5.
	But I do recall inputting one version, and comenting that thebrother-in-law sounded, in R. Shlomo's telling, like R. JoshuaWitt after a hard day
	Well, what I find, without a reference to JW -- maybe thatwas from something else -- is:
(for =inv_best


SIDE B:
IV -- B1.  Forgiven at Last 
{only piano background, pleasant enough}

Famous haddisische story, told of the SEER OF LUBLIN: 
  The need to be forgiven for a broken engagement 20 years ago.
R. Shlomo recalls that at an engagement one night "got thisterrible urge to tell this story"  -- a year later the groomwrites, and says, thank you for telling this story, it was also mystory.

"Whenever I come, you move away."  ... 
"`Remember my brother?' 'How could I forget?'" ... 
"You know how a person looks like, riding on a horse day and night... He hasn't washed in a week, he hasn't combed in a week, hehasn't eaten in a week.  Walks in, he says, 'I came to help you!'
"`Ah,' he says, Please, have rachmonos, have compassion, PLEASE,I'm losing my mind, DON'T bother me today, come back tomorrow."
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	2.  The Busdriver and the Lady
	During intermission I walk around, and I talk to the busdrivers.  And a very simple bus-driver comes to me, and he says: I want you to know one thing: ,  "When I make kiddish, it's holy,[but] when my wife bentsches licht, it's the holy of holiest." ... He said, you know, when you said we bus-drivers are littleRebbes, when people come and ask us the Way -- it's true.   Let metell you a story which happened to me a few weeks ago:
And this the story of that Egged driver, who born in LODZ, hiddenduring the Holocaust as a 4-year-old by gentiles.   

	3.  The Bride, the Groom, and the War
Poland, immediately before the War.  Arrranged marriage betweenhassidim.
His bride left him on the night of the wedding, and stayed aliveto ask him for 3forgiveness.
They came to the USA, R. Shlomo heard this story from them in hisfather's house. "A few weeks ago I was invited to their grandson'sbar-mitzva."




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SHABBOS WITH SHLOMO -- STORIES: sws100

Side A:
	Moishe Dovid and the Chernovitzer
REB CHAIM CHERNOVITZER:       
	REB CHAIM CHERNOVITZER , 200 years ago, for him shabbos waseverything.
	You know, my beautiful friends, sometimes a person is toorich too die but too poor to live. ... 
	And I asked some old people in Chernovitz, who ____ and theytold me yes, it's true, that one yiddele, who the heiligeChernovitzer blessed with riches, because he gave 500 rubles to awidow, built a Beis Medresh, and -- until the Second World War,the Beis Medresh was visible.  I'm sure right now the Beis Medreshis part of the holy Wall. ...



	Chatzkele Likovod Shabbos
(Chatzkele l'kovod shabbos)
Apparently not live audience; 
I'VE TRANSCRIBED A COMPLETE VERSION OF THIS STORY, sh_m7000. HOWEVER THIS VERSION HAS SOME DETAILS THAT ONE LACKS.
" ... shabbos, everything you do is l'kovod shabbos.  You eatfish, and you say, l'kovod shabbos, you eat soup, you say l'kovodshabbos
180 years ago in Oishbetzin -- sadly now, Oishbetzin is knownunder the name Auchwitz
	There was a Rebbe:  the holy REB HERSCHEL(?) OISHBETZINER.  
{R. Shlomo interjects:}
"You know what a Rebbe is?  Not someone who give me information.  
A Rebbe is somoene who connects you and me to the deepest depthsof my heart, to the deepest highest place in heaven."
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Reb Shloimike Shanover -- he and the holy LUBLINER studiedtogether by Rebbe Reb SHMALKIE."
You know, my beautiful friends, the holy NADVERNER, in B'naiB'rak, of blessed memory, he just passed away a few years ago, healways taught his wife, and the people who were in the kitchen, Please don't forget, when you cook for Shabbos, you have to sayconstantly, l'kovod Shabbos, l'kovod Shabbos.

Side B:
	The Bobover Rebbe in Zizensk
REB SHLOMO, BOBOVER: {Grandson of the SANZER}
Went to Lizhensk, asked for anyone who remembered Rebbe RebElimelech.                                   

	The Vilienker's Mother
Betnsching Licht:  The Vilietniker's Mother
VLADNIK:  150 years ago.  REBBE YISRAEL?? VILIETNIKER
   Hassid of Reb Mortele Chernobler.      

	Baron Hirsh
A story which happened to my family.  A relative of mygrandfather.  Halberstadt. 1871 Franco-Prussian war, broke out onShabbos.  Received telegrams, didn't open them until Sundaymorning.
German Kaiser asked my great-great uncle to come before him,amazed at his honesty.
Made him a Baron.  Became Baron Hirsch.

	The Amshinover and the Cossak
Jews scapegoated by Czarist Russia after WWI loss.
Amshinover active in ransoming Jews sentenced to be hung byCzarist government.
R. Shlomo heard the story from hassidim.


	The Sfas Emes and the Solier:
1907-1908 Sino-Soviet war; lots of Russian Jews drafted.  SFASEMES blessing young men, they should not have to go to war.
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STORIES FROM OTHER TAPES, ET AL.
from =sh_n547

MOISHELE GOOD SHABBOS
Pini Dunner, A Maleva Malka with SC, c 1995    Also CD (?)
Pini Dunner, SC:  A Melava Malka in Notting Hill.     Copyright1995. circle-C circle-P, by NOAM  547 Jerusalem:  02-375994; 02651-1704	.  Recorded live Notting Hill Synagogue London, MotziShabbos 16 Jan 1993.  Mixed, editted & produced by Pini Dunner. Apparently in conjunction with Jerusalem Star.
includes story:  Moishele Gut Shabbos

This also occurs in Za, pp3-5.  I'd guess Ben-Zion drew fromanother source, or maybe several.   Ben-Zion seems to haveminimally  editted it.

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THE BAAL SHEM SNUBS A Reb Dovid Lekker(???) WHO CAME MEZRIBUSH FORYOM KIPPUR INSTEAD OF STAYING OUTSIDE TOWN TO MAKE A MINYAN.
                                  

from =sh_n547, as noted.  
This is a very rushed, synoptic version, but just because it wasrushed and informal it probably picks up some authentic touchesmissing in more polished versions.

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STORY OF HOW THE BAAL SHEM LOST HIS PLACE IN HEAVEN FOR NOTHEADING THE TEARS OF AN ORPHAN GIRL, AND HOW HE GOT HIS PLACE BACKBY SPENDING A TERRIBLE SHABBAT WITH HER HUSBAND, A LAMED-VOVTZADDIK.

from =sh940531, Sweetest Friends Tape 2, which was previouslyreleased as Shuva, in honor of and (I think) to benefit the MIA's.

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MOISHELE THE GANEV
[Presumably this would be 'Moishele the Ganev I']

=sh48kirh, 
IIA.  MOISHELE THE GANEV:  An Eliahu HaNavi Story
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[N.B.:  This has been put down elsewhere:   	Yael Mesinai'sbook has a story, Yankele the Thief; I don't have that handy, so Idon't know if this is the same story.
The Baal Shem sends Reb Nochem Chernobler to collect dowries forbrides.  When all seems lost, he meets Moishele the Ganef.
the holy Baal Shem Tov looked at him and it [sic, `it':  -- citingan old story?] says, Nochem, how does Eliahu haNavi (how doesElijah the Prophet) look like when he walks as a thief between twopolicemen?
{R. Shlomo whistles, Eliahu haNavi}
	You understand, my dearest friends, whenever you're justabout to give up, Eliahu haNavi comes and gives you strength.

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IIB.  THE POOR COUPLE:  A modern Eliahu haNvi story:
from =sh48kirh
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I. YAELBOOK:
Shlomo Carlebach and Yael Mesinai, Shlomo Stories, published byAronson, New Jersey, 1994, about $40!

Retellings of the Following stories:

Storytelling Yid
Everybody knows
L'chaim -- To Life
The Ba'al Shem mistreats a Jew
Saving a Bride and Groom
How a great light is born
A meeting on the road
	HBG/77e = CNS/IV(2-3)d pp1
Reb Baruch's Tallis
The Great Fixer
The Lamed-Vav Tailor
A broken engagement
	Reprinted w. permission, Jlem Post Magazine 4/20/95
	Cf. =sh_best Vol IV: Rest of the Best", "Forgiven at Last"
The work of our hands
A bit of charity
A share in the world to come
The Three Advices of Levi Yitzhak of Berditchev
You can't pray in a dry tallit
The wind
The Mikveh yiddele
Yankele the thief
The wheel                      
	Reprinted w. permission, Jlem Post Magazine 4/20/95
	? Wheel of Fortune, HBG/77f pp4
You must see what's after
The grave next to Meglale Amukos
Under the bed
Fixing the exile
The rich man and the thief
A taste of paradise
Moishele the Water Carrier (pp1)
The Ugly woman	
	HBG/II(4)d pp3
The Tritsker Maggid
When the Messiach comes
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BEN-ZION , in his Songbook, tells one story and refers to another:

As I've noted, he tells Moishele Good Shabbos (p3-5)
On p43, He refers to the Russian `Alef-Beit-Gimel Sh'ma '' 'story; told in the Hebrew Best of series of stories as "MoishelSoh'ev Mayim", Side 2.
THAT MAKES IT CLEAR THAT THE "BEST-OF" HEBREW STORIES ARE ADIFFERENT SET THAN THE ENGLISH "BEST OF"
