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Exerpts or notes:  The Best of Shlomo Carlebach -- stories -- 80s
About 30 min. /side.
THESE STORIES ALL DEDICATED BY R. SHLOMO TO HIS CHILDREN
ALL COPYRIGHTS UNEQUIVOCALLY RESERVED TO JERUSALEM STAR IN ACCCORDWITH THEIR ARRANGEMENT WITH THE CARLEBACH FAMILY.
I have excerpted certain passages that might be said to be"teachings", as distinct from "stories".  I have not attempted averbatim transcript, and have ellipse'd (elided, omittedintermediate) passages of great value, in an attempt to respectthe copy-rights [in the moral, as distinct from legal sense]. Some folks can't afford to buy tapes; and the synthetic backgroundwill put off some.
Can't please everyone.
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80's Stories:
SIDE A:
A1-80s)  THE MUNKATCHER PASSPORT:

Background, synthetic harp.

Passport from Rev Levi Berditchev
Heard the story in Vienna in 1935 from a person who said he wasthe only person who recalled it.
MUMKATCHER REBBE (d. 1936) story of 1935 of R. Shlomo's uncle.
The Mumkatcher Rebbe passed away in 1936.  He said, I see a greatdarkness coming, and I don't want to be here to see it. (apr.quote).
R. Shlomo's uncle d. 1939.  Told this story just before he died.
TEACHING:
You think there are only borders between antions, .  There areborders between us and G-d, between
On Simchas torah I take out the Torah, I'm not reading it, it's??just blank.  ON Shimchas Torah, G-d give sme a Mumkatcherpassport.  Havae you ever notices, Simchas Torah, people dance,there's no borders.  between them?  between rich and poor.
You know, the beginning of a ceremony,l the groom covers the facethe brdie, you know what he's giving here  JA Mumkatcher passport. YOuknow, the brdie walks around the groom 7 times, you know whatshe's giving him -- a Mumkatcher passport. {RECHECK).       
{niggun:  R. Shlomo, accompanying himself on guitar, artificialharp remains in background, a bit incongruous, like a well-wisherin a plastic leisure-suit at a Nantucket clam-bake.

You know, children when they are born, they keep their eyesclosed.  YOu know what they are giving thier parents -- aMumkatcher passport.  ... YOu know where they are giving out allthose passports -- the headquarters? Jerusalim.  Have you everstood by the holy Wall -- what do you  -- a Mumkatcher passprot.
The Gemora, the first page, is not even there.  IT begins withpagae 2.   What's the first page?  A Mumkatcher passport.  YOucannot learn Torah until G-d gives you a Mumkatcher passport.  

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A2-80s)  MOISHELE GANEV II

{Apparently live, presumably Jerusalem :  reference to "Yoram &me, a Simcha & Bezalem(?).} {Presumably Yoram Getzler}.
TEaching:
Moshe the Goniff, a follower of the Ba'al Shem Tov.  After hebecame a ba'al tchuva he only stole from the rich.


"Everybody knows that the Holy Ba'al Shem Tov passed away onShavuos.  
He looked at their faces, they were all so sad, he says, whathappened.  There was such a darkness in the world.  He could feelit. 
Wans't there anyone like the Baal Shem?  Didn't he leave anystudents.
He was very holy, but maybe he was too strict.
He says Waht, are you craxy or something, I hsould beless somebodywho steals, get out of here fast before I throw you out with myown hands.  You know, he was very holy,l but maybe 

You know everybody wants to be a Rebbe of good people, a teacherof holy people ... but [the Baal Shem was] also a Rebbe ofthieves.  He fell asleep, and in his dream he saw the Baal Shem.                                  
Everybody wants to deal with good people, but who wants to be aRebbe of thieves.   Who has the heart for peple who are maybe notso good.                             

I appointed my grandson, the Reb Ephraim of zadnikov, to be theRebbe of thieves.                                               
You kow, after MOishele heard the Torah from Paradise, he couldn'tbe a thief any more.
He became a great, but we don't know his name, because hassidimdidn't want to tell that one of the hassidim began his careeer asone of the thieves of the Baal Shem Tov.

A very moving story, of how the Rebbe, the Baal Shem Tov,continued to protect even the thieves in his chevre, after hisdeath, and how hard it is to find another such Rebbe, even amonghis supposed successors. 


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A3-80s -- REBBITZIN OF LUBLIN 

Seer of Lublin:
The Rebbitzen of the Seer of Lublin is crying on the streetcorner,because they're flat broke and she needs 2 pennies more to buyShabbat candles.  
IN Lublin 

He was a playboy, like a playboy is supposed to be.
maybe on the outside he was a playboy, but inside, he was so holy,and so good.  

"I can see that you are a very rich man, but all I need is twopennies, to buy candles for shabbos."
"Two pennies?  Here they are."
She looked at him for a long time.
                                  
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.
He said to hte heavenly court, I make a deal with you, let thelight of shabbos shine into his heart for just one hour, and wewill see what he will do.

And suddenly he felt, life is so holy, the world is so precious,life is so deep, so beautiful.  And suddenly he thought, Master ofthe World, what am doing with my life.


A playboy drives by, he doesn't know who she is,  and asks herwhat she needs.  She asks for 2 pennies.  He gives her 2 pennies. She blesses him, that he should see the light of Shabbos.TheHeavenly Court looks down, and sees the playboy still driving thehorses to a meeting with a fancy lady, and says to the Seer ofLublin, this is chutzpadik.  The Seer of Lublin argues back, justlet him see the light of Shabbos once.  So they do, and he pauses,and says, I don't really want to do this now, I want to go spendshabbos where my 2 candles are burning..  And so the playboybecame a great hassid. 
I don't know his name, but he became one the greatest pupils ofthe Seer of Lublin.


Quite moving:  First a story of how even a thief is alwayswelcome, now a story of how a playboy is always welcome, and 2pennies spent for the glory of heaven can be worth more than allthe wealth of the world .
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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.
Acoustic guitar, singing, with whistling.

You know friends, sometimes doctors are very cruel.
You know friends, anything which doesn't interest you, doesn'tregister.
A woman, facing a miscarriage, walks into a synagogue for thefirst time, opens the Holy Ark and prays, in her own words and herown language.  "Do you know how awesome this is?" All she knowsabout Judaism is that women kindle lights on Friday night, andthat's all she has to offer; she doesn't even know how to bentschlicht. 
"'But I wanted to do something for G-d also.  The only thing Iknow is that' {Jewish women can light}.            

"Where would I be without the candles of shabbos?"

You know, everything holy has a chain reaction.
      
Another story of a couple, in Miami, members of a Reform Temple,in a similar situation, who knelt down before the Holy Ark.
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B2-80s -- KARLINER MINCHA

Karliner niggun:  {TRANSPOSE:}      
	A tale of the Baal Shem Tov, and the KARLINER

   
Apparently live:  addressed to Neshama & Dari, all you holypeople.

Everybody had their own way of serving G-d, everybody had theirown way of serving humanity.

They're yelling.

Karlin:  What a dynasty.
In Karlin, like a lot of the big Rebbes, the afternoon prayer isoften very late.
They drive to a little village, stop at a village, daven minchaabout midnight, at an inn.  The Karliner hassidim start yelling. All the peasants think it's a fire, they wake up and rush to theInn.             
"The moon looks different, the stars look different, the wholeworld _____"
The say, Rebbe, it's midnight; he says, ok, next village we'llstop.

"and all the sweet little peasants are woken up from dreamland"

The Ishbitzer says:  When you study and the person next to youdoesn't know what you're studying, nothing happens to him -- or toher.  But when you pray with all your heart, even the person nextto you, who doesn't know anything, has to pray with you."


The Russian peasants come and start praying with the Karlinerhassdim:  
Does not the prophet say, the house will be a house of love andprayer for all nations.

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COMMENT:  From this story we learn, as I understand it,  thatit's ok for gentiles, even coarse and ignorant gentiles, tocome where a minyan is davening; and that we are not makethem feel out-of-place.  (Of course, says I,  that does meanthat they come like honest peasants, with a good heart, notlike ticket-buyers at a circus side-show, weighed down withcameras & other baggage. Says I:  it doesn't much matter whatis or isn't on their heads, it's what's on their hearts.) 
         
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Yoiu know your parents left a message:  Tell the children, we werehere before.

You stand by the Holy Wall
you can hear Avraham, Issac, Jacob

Every Friday night:
You can hear the forefathers, the foremothers saying, we werethere before.
When you go to a new place -- spiritually, mentally, divinely -- Iwant you to leave a message for your children -- tell them, wewere here before.
You and I, some day all the peasants of the world, you and I, willdance together.  Let it be soon.
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II: BEST OF THE 70s SIDE A
YOSSELLE THE HOLY MISER:    in house of Simcha and Bezalel: 
"The older you get, the less stories you tell.  Have yo evernoticed, people don't tell stories any more.  For me, a youngperson is telling stories; an old man is someone who stoppedtelling stories long ago.  Reb Nachman says, when yoiu dream yoiudream only stories.  So this is for my children, for my sweetestNehsamele and for my sweetest Dari.  Somone you, with all thechildren of the world, will have your own children, and your owngrandchildren.  But I remember, every minute of my life, themoments when I told my children stories.  jAnd thsi is that theholy Vizhiner says:  The torah, the 5 books of Moses, the heart ofit is the 
The Master of the World, the LORD in Heaven, is the beststoryteller in the world.
What is the most G-d--like act in the world?  Giving.  When aperson has the privilege to give, you're so close to G-d.
My father, your Zede, was telling stories all the time.  This isone of the stories I heard from his holy mouth, a lot of times. It's a ture story.  IN the old cemetary in Cracow -- and I had theprivilege to be there -- what a place, so holy, so awesome, sosad and yet so full of life.  Sounds as if it's the darkest night,and it's heaven.  Under a tree, outside the cemetary, there is atree, and it says .... here lies Yosselle, the Holy MIser.  Was1550, we were so persecuted, we were so poor, we lived in ghettoin Cracow.  But there was one rich Jew, his name was Yosslle.  Buthe was the biggest miser in the world.  

The miser is not part of the world, because the world was createdby G-d.
At the time of YOsselle the Chief Rabbi [Reb Kalman] of Cracow wasone of the holiest, and his name was Reb Kalman.
{This is the only story on Side A}
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SIDE B:
Yoselle from Cracow 1974 :
THIS IS A CONTINUATION, AT THE SAME OCCASION, OF THE STORY ON SIDEA.
{story continued }
IN 1954? I received an invitation to represent the Jewish religion
                         
I wanted to tell a hassidische story, but I wanted to tell thestory of Yossele the holy Miser.  Since I heard it from my father,let me give it over to them.  
The Assitant Bishop came up to me, and he said, the story you toldyesterday was so beautiful, the Bishop couldn't sleep all night.
I was there all week, the last night I gave a concert for thewhole university.  The moment before I came on stage, Joe theBishop came to me and he said, please don't think I'm crazy, but Ihave to hear the story one more time.  ... 
 ... There were about 5000 students at the concert.  I told thestory of Yoselle the Holy Miser.  
 ... 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.  
1979, so many years later, one day I'm going to my office, I'mholding a letter, -- it says Yosselle from Cracow, now inYerushelayim, the holy city.   
Let me bless you to remind all the Joe's:  you're not JOe, you'reYosselle from Cracow.  ... The night is so dark, and so full oflight, by the holy Wall, in the holy city, Yerushelyaim.  
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70s, SIDE B, #2

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.
			
"THE BLIND CHAZZAN"

He was one of sthe greatest tenors before the War, he was theChazan in Lemberg, he was in Aushwitz .... I was so ashamed ofmyself.  ... He said, I don't want to daven, I don't remember thewords.
YOu know, Neshamele and Dari, sometimes when you're at the end,sometimes G-d has compassion on you.
I stayed an extra week, I took long walks with him.  
The blind chazzan has a new position, he's the chazzan in GanEden.

{ALL THE STORIES IN THIS SERIES ARE CUT OFF TOO SOON}
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60s, SIDE A
1) Ocean of Tears:  {A strange & beautiful story}
For us, to communicate with someone in the other world sounds sofar out.
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.


The KOTSKER REBBE says to him, Mendele, let me tell you the truth,I was also worried about to your father
I went from palace to palace,
At the end of the forest there was an ocean, I never heard in mywhole life waves crying this way. 
                                                 
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SOLDIERS' STORIES:  3 stories about soldiers in Israel:

1) A tank driver in the 6-Day War  (Sinai).

2)  After the War in Lebanon

I was up in Lebanon, I was shot, I was bleeding heavily, it wasclear to me, unless the soldiers find me, I'm dead
I remembered my mother kindling lights ...

Then I realized:   do you only need it the last 2 hours of yourlife, don't you need it every second.

3)  A story -- concert during the Yom Kippur War [probably Sinai]-- 
An officer came up to me, and says, I have to tell you my story:
I'm from a left-wing kibbutz ... when the war began, I foundmyself next to an officer from a very religious kibbutz.

He says to me, you fight your way, I'll fight my way.

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SIDE B:
Special story for Neshama, Dari, all the children:

The Holy Hunchback -- [a story of] Rav Klonimus Kalman [ofPieretznetzne] 

It's not just the 6 million.  We lost so many holy people.

One of the greatest to perish in the Warsaw Ghetto was RavKolonimus Kalman
He buried the manuscript 
He took it to the chaplain, who at that time was Rabbi Hollander

In Yerushelayim there will always be Jews, because YErushelayimcannot live without Jews. 

Kinderele, gedenkt'che:
Children, remember, the greatest thing in the world is, to dosomebody else a favor. 

He looked at me for a long time and said, Do you know how manyfavors you can do on the streets --

After that I was privileged to meet another person who saw RebKolonimus Kalman ... in the Warsaw Ghetto ... 
			
The Rebbe of Pierizhetzhne still had the Torah of the Mezirtcher?Maggid? -- 

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SHABBOS WITH SHLOMO -- STORIES: sws100
Cover describes it as "First new record in 10 years" CopyrightJerusalem Star 1991 (circle C, circle P)
Stories:
Side A:
	Moishe Dovid and the Chernovitzer
	Chatzkele Likovod Shabbos
Side B:
	The Bobover Rebbe in Zizensk
	The Vilienker's Mother
	Baron Hirsh
	The Amshinover and the Cossak
	The Sfas Emes and the Solier:
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Addressed to Neshama and Dari 
Spoken and half-sung
Synthesizer stripped in background
Niggun with R. Shlomo accompanying himself on acoustic guitar

SHABBOS:
BEST-S-A1:  Moishe Dovid and the CHERNOVITZER

REB CHAIM CHERNOVITZER:       
"A Jew does not forget for one second about Yerushelyaim.  And aJew does not forget about Shabbos.  The heilige KARLINER would saybefore Shabbos:  Master of the World, I have fish for shabbos, Ihave challa for shabbos, but where do I get Shabbos for shabbos.
So you know this is a very special privilege, to have Shabbos onshabbos.  Because it is possible to keep shabbos, to keep everylaw -- but to taste Shabbos ... is so special.  
	So this is what our holy Rabbis teach us:
	There is shemiros shabbos, keeping shabbos holy.  Ah -- thenthere's oneg shabbos, the bliss of shabbos.  ... It's a specialgift from heaven."  ... 
	REB CHAIM CHERNOVITZER , 200 years ago, for him shabbos waseverything.  ...  When his holy wife kindled lights for shabbos... he looked like he was 10 feet taller.  He was shining.  Not inthis world. ...
	You know, my beautiful friends, sometimes a person is toorich too die but too poor to live. ... 
	The heilige Chernovitzer looks at this yid -- what aprecious, what a siess [sweet] yiddele ... He says to him, 'Itwould be my greatest honor.  But let me ask you -- where are youeating for shabbos?' ...
	... This woman comes in .... `heilige Rebbe I'm at the end, Ican't do it alone any more.' ...Rebbe, forgive me for coming solate before shabbos, but I still have some pride left, I couldn'tbring myself to ask for money.' ... 
	The Chernovitzer says 'No, G-d forbid, every penny is bloodof your children, you can't do this.' ... [give away all yoursavings to anyone, no matter how needy] ...

	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. ...
	But this is not the end of the story.  150 years later -- youknow the Germans destroyed Chernovitz -- 
[the great-great-grand-children of Moishe David survived Aushwitz,and came to the USA after the war.] ... and I heard this story ofsomebody(??)  who was a friend of them. ...
	So I bless you, and me, and all of us:  If you want to tasteShabbos, there's only one way:  give shabbos to somebody else."  
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Apparently not live audience; apparently addessed to Neshama andDari, but they were not present
Name of Hannah in story?:  HannaLeah present?


Niggun:  L'koved shabbos
" ... shabbos, everything you do is l'kovod shabbos.  You eatfish, and you say, l'kovod shabbos, you eat soup, you say l'kovodshabbos
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{What I have seen at Moshav Meor Modi'in, is that they sayl'kovod shabbos before eating some delicacy, but not overeverything. -- sa}
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But here is where the story begins.
180 years ago in Oishbetzin -- sadly now, Oishbetzin is knownunder the name Auchwitz -- but for one moment, let's take care??the whole world into Paradise {Gan Eden} -- Oishbetzin, the holyhassidische city --
	There was a Rebbe:  the holy REB HERSCHEL(?) OISHBETZINER. And in this book, the forward, this is what he writes, and I'dlike to share it with you:
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{R. Shlomo's paraphrase of REB HERSCHEL(?) OISHBETZINER's forward to his book.
    `When I was 17 years old, I was desperate for a Rebbe. '
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{R. Shlomo interjects:}
"You know what a Rebbe is?  Not someone who give me information.  
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{As, eg, a primary function of a Rabbi is to be anauthority on halachic questions, hence every strictlyobservant community must have a rabbi to answer thosequestions as they arise; and as long as the communityaccepts the rabbi, it is sufficient to abide by hisdecisions, even if more reknown authorities mustdisagree.  -sa}
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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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{And that suggests the distinction between the hassidicnotion of "Rebbe" and the non-Hassidic ("Litvak" orpejoratively, "mitnogged") notion of a Rabbi. -sa

I once (USA, 70s I think, probably Ruach, maybe Boston)heard, if memory serves,  R. Shlomo characterize thefunction of a Rebbe, with the phrase, "Rebbe, fix mysoul."
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{R. Shlomo continues his paraphrase translation}

`One day I was told, the heilige REB SHLOIMIKE SHANOVER iscoming to Oishbetzin for shabbos.  
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Reb Shloimike Shanover -- he and the holy LUBLINER studiedtogether by Rebbe Reb SHMALKIE."
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'It was clear in my heart that here is my Rebbe, as much as Ihad never seen him before, but yet, I remembered [that]Eliezar, when he was in search for a wife for holy brotherYitzhak, he made himself a sign.  {REFERENCE:  Genesis:24:12-14 (Chaye Sarah(3))}.  I decided to make myself asign.'
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Chatzkele was a trager, a porter, was a very strong person.  Heknew so little, maybe  -- oh, mamash, he knew a lot. ...
L'kovod shabbos -- that's all there is to yiddishkeit. ...
Ok, friends, what can I tell you.  The davening [by] Reb ShlomikeShanover -- the dancing ______sholem??  .... It was so beautiful,it was so holy, this one shabbos could make a Jew out of youforever.
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Suddenly Reb Shlomike Shanover turns around, and he says, mysweetest friends, I would like to say Gut Shabbos to you ....The heilige Shanover is holding out his hand, and Chatzekele,reluctantly, bashfully, gives him his hand.  The holy RebShanover closes his holy eyes, and he says, my friend, whatis your name?'  He says, 'Chatzkele'.  He says, `Do you havemaybe another name also?' ...He says, Chatzkele, what anhonor.  I envy you for your name.  ... '`I'm very strong, soI'm a porter, I'm a trager.  I have a wife and children.  Andall I know ... '' ... but I don't know the end.  When willG_d rebuild again the holy Temple.  When will we all go backto Yerushelyaim.  And I'm singing l'kovod shabbos ...'
'If every Jew would only know that everything which happensto us is only l'kovod shabbos, the great shabbos would be sonear.'
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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.  One Friday nightthe holy NADVERNER refused to eat his soup.  And people ran intothe kitchen, to the Rebbetzin, and said, `=hat v'shalom didsomething happen to the soup that the Rebbe won't eat it?  And theRebbetzin smiled, and she said, You know what happened?  I took awoman in, a  new cook, and I forgot to tell her to say l'kovodshabbos while she was making the soup.  So the Rebbe won't eatit.'

So I bless you, friends, not only your food should be l'kovodshabbos, but your life should be l'kovod shabbos. "

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STORY END 9:04; SIDE A = 30 MINUTES
TAPE A FEW MINUTES LONGER; ESSENTIALL 30 MINUTES.

REB SHLOMO, BOBOVER: {Grandson of the SANZER}
Went to Lizhensk, asked for anyone who remembered Rebbe RebElimelech.                                   
Old woman who knew him (as a child): He would come to kitchenbefore Shabbos, and said:  if I hurt your feelings during  theweek, please forgive me.  She said, if yoiu wewren't in thekitchen of Rebbe Elimelech before Shabbos, you've never seen YomKippur.  Rebbe Elimelech, at the Shabbos table, would also ask hischildren to forgive him, and then his wife.
"Verybody knows that on Friday eve, before Shabbos, Adam and Evenhave to fix everything that happened [between them, beforeShabbos?]
Forgive me if I didn't treat you the way a Princess has to betreated.
Niggun:  
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Betnsching LIcht:  The Vilietniker's Mother
Everybody knows, Bentching Licht is fixing the whole world.
Isn't shabbos, like the Talmud says, a torch? 
VLADNIK:  150 years ago.  REBBE YISRAEL?? VILIETNIKER
   Hassid of Reb Mortele Chernobler.      
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Baron Hirsch:
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.
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The Amshinover and the Cossak:
You know what an assimilated Jew is:  someone who thinks the worldis stronger 
When you do something ..... the world respects you.

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.
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1907-1908 Sino-Soviet war; lots of Russian Jews drafted.  SFASEMES blessing young men, they should not have to go to war.
A Mohel has to keep Shabbos and eat kosher food.
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PART IV:  "REST OF THE BEST"  STORIES
Copyright (circle C, circle P) Jerusalem Star 1991

SIDE A:  
	The Tailor's Tallis
	Moishele the Water Carrier
SIDE B:  "Stories from the Other World" (!)
	1.  Forgiven at Last
	2.  The Busdriver and the Lady
	3.  The Bride, the Groom, and the War

A1:  The Tailor's Tallis:
KORETZ, 200 years ago, REB PINCHAS, pupil of the Baal Shem

*Excerpt, checked against tape:

"You never know. What do we know. How much do we know aboutanother.  How do we know how much do we know about our own wivesand children.  The truth is, every human being is G-d's image .G-dis so deep, G-d is so hidden.  All we have -- the privilege tolove each other. Sometimes ... G-d gives us a glimpse of a deepdeep love. ... We know how deep life is. Gevalt is life deep."
 ... "This is one of the most important teachings of the Holy BaalShem Tov.  What do you know about another human being.  What doyou know if they are holy or not.  There are so many people wholook to us a little coarse -- a little bit unholy.  But what doyou know. ... I bless you -- don't ever judge.  Because you'llnever know."

Story of a holy drunk, who never keeps kosher.  Everyone says heis the lowest, the hassidic teacher REB PINCHAS says, he was thehighest.
	"Reb YAEVER, also a pupil of the Holy Ba'al Shem Tov  [said]: "Reb Pinchas ... you can fool the whole city ...  but you and Iknow .... he was really a very very simple Jew, and maybe a littlebit sinful."  ... 
	[Reb Pinchas tells a story:] "' I said oy, oy, oy, I don'teven have the strength anymore to find a sponsor for your tallis. Can I buy it for you in a few weeks? ... But there were tears inhis eyes, he has nobody  ... I says, wait a minute ... I walkeddown the street, looking for somebody who would give me 10 rubles...The Schneidel ... opened the door -- so much sweetness and somuch fire. ... He says, Rebbe, I never dreamt you would come to myhouse. ... ... I said, I swear to you by the G-d of the holy foremothers [or: four mothers] ... 

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IV-A2:  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:
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[Excerpts from The Sokolover's story, as retold by R. Shlomo]
	I [the SOKOLOVER] got married when I was 14.  I marriedthe daughter of the Rabbi of Sokolov.  

R. Shlomo whistles a phrase:
{ USING F RECORDER AS IF IT WERE A C}:
dcdg e%!ce%c {prolonged} b% (quietly) (gggg)G

"I wanted to engage him in a conversation, but I guess hethought I didn't want to talk to him for real.  He walkedaway." ... 
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[Excerpts from Moishele's story, as retold by theSokolover in R. Shlomo's re-telling]

"After midnight, suddenly I hear my own neshama, my ownsoul crying.  My own soul says to me, 'Moishele thewater-carrier, you always pray.  Now that you need G-dthe most -- why didn't you pray.' ... Suddenly clearlike a bell, I hear ... 'Moishele, fast!  Bring themoney back -- it's Hanna-leh's money, it's not yours.  
"Rebbe, you know when you hear G-d's voice, ...everything is good again. "
 ... "She says, I thank you in the name of my 11children."

 ... "So tonight I celebrate, thanking G-d, HE gave methe strength to give the money back."
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 ... 
"The heilige Sokolover would end the story, and this is what hewould say:  Have you ever seen a real Jew?  I saw one."

{Excerpted April 9, 1995, with news of a terrorist attack on anEgged bus outside Kfar Darom, Gush Khatif.  
I recall one motzi Shabbos at the Moshav -- December 1993 orspring 1994 I suppose, but maybe earlier -- when R. Shlomo wasdriven down to Gush Khatif to give a concert -- Kfar Darom I think-- by his manager, in a little rental car, who was armed only withmy plastic goggles, a 1 kg. fire extinguisher, and a road-map.}


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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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EXCERPTED TEACHINGS BY R. SHLOMO CARLEBACH IN HONOR OF EGGED BUSDRIVERS:

{Excerpted April 9, 1995, with news of a terrorist attack on anEgged bus outside Kfar Darom, Gush Khatif.  
I recall one motzi Shabbos at the Moshav -- December 1993 orspring 1994 I suppose, but maybe earlier -- when R. Shlomo wasdriven down to Gush Khatif to give a concert -- Kfar Darom I think-- by his manager, in a little rental car, who was armed only withmy plastic goggles, a 1 kg. fire extinguisher, and a road-map.}

From:  The Best of Shlomo Carlebach IV, "Rest of the Best"
Copyright (circle-C, circle-P) Jerusalem Star, 1991.

From story IV-B2:   

" I want to share with you even a deeper story, if I could saydeeper.  
"A few years ago I gave a concert for the busdrivers in Israel,Egged.   I mean, everybody knows, they're the cutest, the finest,unbelieveable people.  And they were there with their families,they had a picnic for the busdrivers, somewhere, in Tivon, in apark.  I gave the concert, I said, Busdrivers, you're not simplebusdrivers.  When someone comes and asks you the way from Tel Avivto Haifa, you think they only ask you the way from Tel Aviv toHaifa?  They ask you, what should I do with my life, I don't knowthe way anymore.  So I bless you, you should always know what tosay."
During intermission I walk around, and I talk to the bus-drivers. And a very simple bus-driver comes to me, and he says:  I want youto know one thing: ,  "When I make kiddish, it's holy, [but] whenmy wife bentsches licht, it's the holy of holiest."  ... He said,you know, when you said we bus-drivers are little Rebbes, whenpeople come and ask us the Way -- it's true.   Let me tell you astory which happened to me a few weeks ago:
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{The Egged Bus-driver's story, as re-told by R. Shlomo:}
`I'm driving the bus, the last bus, between Haifa and TelAviv.  After Zikron Ya'akov there's an old cemetary, it's notreally a bus-stop, but if someone's standing there, I pickthem up.   A few weeks ago, I saw a lady standing there. There was nobody in the bus, I was all alone.  She comes onthe bus, I see she was besides herself.  ... ' He says, 'Youknow something, I didn't pay that much attention, I see she'sjust having a nervous breakdown.  "Sit down behind me, 
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{The seat immediately behind the driver, where friendsof the driver often sit, and talk to him.  Until theterrorist attack on an Egged bus on the Tel Aviv--Jerusalem highway, there was no protective barrierbetween that seat and the driver.}
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and tell me your story."
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And this the story of that Egged driver, who born in LODZ, hiddenduring the Holocaust as a 4-year-old by gentiles.   



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I have elsewhere excerpted another story by R. Shlomo aboutbus-drivers (< =sh-etopi:

JW25, Shlomo's drunken Reb Nachman Purim
date/place not given
trans. ed. AF
xerox, typescript with block-Hebrew nekudot inserst
Published (HBG or CNS)?: 

2) "After the performance {on Purim at Tel Aviv} someone cameto me and said that all the bus drivers from Egged in TelAviv were having a Purim party.  They wanted me to come.  Howcan you say no to bus drivers." 

3) "Amalek is the symbol of utomost evil.  It says in theTorah, 'Amelek attacked you on the way.'  The deeper meaningis that evil attacks you and tells you, 'You'll never getthere.  Forget it.  You'll never make it.'  That is thegreatest evil.  {Cf. R. Nachman: 'Gevalt!  Never give uphope.'}

4) "Then someone put Reb Nachman under my nose.  I startedlearning.  Whenever I look at it, I wish I could learn itlike I learned it that night." 
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IV-B3.  The Bride, the Groom, and the war
"How about keeping people alive.  You want to see somebody, youkeep them alive, you keep yourself alive. ... You know, mybeautiful friends, for good and for bad, what do we know.  Beforethe War [WWII] in Poland, especially by hassidische yidden, thebride and the groom saw each other for one second before thewedding, and then people were hoping it will  work out.  You see,what do I know.  Today people see each other 100 times [beforemarriage] and it still doesn't work out.  What do I know."

Poland, immediately before the War.  Arrranged marriage betweenhassidim.
His bride left him on the night of the wedding, and stayed aliveto ask him for forgiveness.
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."




                                   



