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.h2, =sh84010a -- "Shlomo on Children" 1/1/84 

The actual recording on each side of the tape is only {530}, iejust over 15 minutes per side.  It may originally have beenrecorded onto a 30-minute tape, we now have it copied onto 90minute tapes.  Haskala Sasson at Modi'in has or had a relativelyoriginal copy.

Topics include: :  Pregnancy, Childbirth, responsibilities of thefather, pagan attitudes toward children, respect for and kindnessto children, Ariz'l on explusion from gan Eden, torah beyondwords, Bobover Rebbe in New York, annecdotes of R. Shlomo's earlydays as a musician, Niggunim (2 of which I've not heard before!) 

transcribed sa HaOn 1/95
not yet proofed:

[I have been chasing this updated version through 20 STACK'dmegabytes, and wound up with double-numbering of tape positions. I am told that computers are always rational and never out to getyou, but nobody said they don't play New Year's Eve tricks. sa1/26/95.]

[I don't have tapes 1 and 3 of that set]
Place not noted, but possibly Old City, Jerusalem, possibly homeof R. Joel & Naomi Glick

obtained by sa from (if memory serves) HS, Moshav
Handwritten Note on tape label:  Some confusion here with Side 1appearing a 2nd time in part on side 2, but with no loss of anymaterial.  Pay it no mind -- tape over or wipe out and record ___or just forget about it."

Conventions:  When I can't make out some words, I insert _____
When I know I don't know what the word was, I append  ??  . 
If I'm pretty sure but not positive I append (?)
 If I can't resist interjecting my own opinions ("anotherimpeccable source", as Jonathon Daniels once said), I put them inbraces [] and initial 'em  -- sa]

Difficult tape to transcribe, rather advanced teaching, andaudibility marginal.  
However, parts should be copied and distributed; R. Shlomo's storyof his early days as a guitar player is told with an understatedwit and grace to which a transcript can only offer clues

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What's the greatest joy  the world?  To have somebody love me.  
I'm somebody. 
What means to love somebody. {2 SENTENCES LOW VOLUME}
You know everybody is so hungry.  What are they most hungry for. They are looking for one person in the world. It doesn't mean thatperson doesn't love anybody else. I just want to be recognized.  Iwant one person to recognize. {LOW VOLUME}

Sarah is giving over to Yitzhak there's only one.
Rivka is giving over to Ya'akov, because she is already thedaughter of Laban  -- and Rivka's on the level of tchuva -- 
she knows there's only one G-d.                                           
Has anybody ever known in the world how holy -- Even Yitzhakdidn't have   __sod [secret] ____ Yakov until he gave him thebracha.
So Rivka knew that you have to do tchuva.  Because she said 

Even Yitzhak didn't have 
Yakav, ish t'am yoishe v'hodi???  You know what it means?
Not only the first door was locked, the second door was locked.
So hidden. 
Rivka gave over to Ya'akov 

The world is asking how come Yitzahak didn't know how terribleEssav is.  I'm asking, how come Yitzhak didn't know how holyYa'akov was.
So Rivka knew that you mamash have to do tchuva.  Because she said{HEBREW   din}, right now I want you do do wrong.

Rivka gave over to Ya'kov.
A person lives in two worlds.  I live in a world of always and Ilive in a world of the moment.  And I really want you to open yourheart in the deepest way .  

Basically the house is always.  What's the house?  Always.  Thestreet -- Friends, you know what's so exciting.  The street isexciting. I'm not going home for exciting.  I'm going home to thecountry.  The street is exciting.

I want you to know the deepest deepest depths.  The connection ofthe father to the baby is one moment, the father is the one who'sgoes to the street, brings back home.  The father gives over thethe baby how exciting the world is, how exciting life is. {134}
The mother gives over to the baby                                       

You know what tears us away from G-d.  Because it's always like,'the torah is not exciting enough'; the Always is not excitingenough.
	But I  want you to know, it's not true.  You know what thedeepest secret in life is?   Those awesome Moments where only Ican do something holy.  Which is more exciting than anything else.
	The woman has two things:  the holiness of always, becausethe woman is the house, and the baby is by its mother for ninemonths.  Always.

	You know, fathers love their babies, guarding, watching overbabies.  You know, who am I to talk about mothers, but I only knowone thing:  Fathers have only eyes in front; mothers have abouteyes on all four sides.  Mamash.  Because when mothers watch theirbaby, it's awesome, they mamash, they continue their  ______

Yitzhak is yirah, 
You know why Yitzhak had so much yirah, he had so much vision --his mother gave him over that vision -- the way Sarah was lookingat her baby, that's the way Yitzhak ______

Some of us see only G-d when HE's in front of us.  Sometimes G-d'sbehind us (??).  {HEBREW} {Lech   }

Sometimes we have to walk in front of G-d {HEBREW}, sometimes G-dwalks with us, sometimes G-d walks behind us.  This is all ____Sarah. 

You know where Sarah took off at the moment of the AKEDAH?
You know Sarah paved the way for Yitzahak to come to this world;she said I want to pave the way for yidden.

You know what the holiness of the mother is?   The mother is notonly feeding the baby, you can mamash pave a way -- you can mamashpave the way for the baby, mamash for life.

And here I want to share the deepest depths with you.  And this isan awesome torah.  It's a little bit from Rav Kook {100} and alittle bit _______.

What's the holiness of us Jewish people.  What's the awesomeholiness.  And why is HANUKA the highest yomtov I can celebrate,that we're not Greeks, that we are G-d--people, we're so close toour children.
{100}
And here I want you to open your hearts in the deepest way, wetalked about it a thousand times.

In the pagan world, my connection to the baby is only: we createdthe baby.  Husband and wife, man and woman, we created the baby.
After the baby is out, basically ____ going on my nerves, thebaby's going on my nerves.

Like, I don't want to say anything bad, but it's hearbreaking what kind of magazines are printed in the pagan world today.
                          
I want you to know, just unbelievable.  One time I'm sitting withNeshama-lah on a plane, and it's so special, you know, I want tobless you, you travel with your children.

You know how beautiful it is to say tfillas ha derekh.  To hold alittle hand in yours?  And what's Gan Eden?  It's nothing, it'sGan Eden.

And here the stewardess comes and gives us magazines.  And mychildren are a little bit in show biz.  You know, they right awayhave some good -- I remember one time Neshama-la says  to thestewardess, "Are you famous?"  She was a very beautifulstewardess.  So Neshama says to her, "Are you famous?"  She says,"No, I'm not."  Neshama _____ says:  "My father will make youfamous."  
	So cute.

	So here:  this stewardess gives me a magazine.  She was verycute, she was talking to Neshama, so I took a magazine.  It's aweird magazine.  They have a whole big thing, "Why I DislikeChildren".   The whole magazine, by a so-called -- I don't knowwhat -- career women, and they write why they dislike children --they are noisy, can't stand the smell of diapers -- stupid things. But then there's a very outstanding lady, great star in Hollywood. She writes that children absolutely destroy your career.  And youknow what:  She's right.  Her career -- _____________

What's her problem.  She's Tree of Knowlege, not _______  Nodepth.

Friends, I want you to know, in the pagan world, the connection tochildren ends the moment they're born.  After that they're justhanging around, they have no-where to eat, no one's taking care ofthem; Ok, I'll take care of you, I wish you wouldn't eat so much,you're bothering, please be quiet,  I'm coming home from mybusiness.                          

I told you mamash, one of the most earth-shaking experiences.  I walked into one of the biggest milionaries I know.  And I toldyou, I was talking to him, he didn't take his eyes off of thescreen about the stocks.  I said to him, obviously your time isprecious; I said to him, you know -- someone told me I should goto him, because he wants to help me --  ____________

I said to him, listen, I want you to know, I have a Moshav, and Itold him a little bit about the [Meor Modi'in] yeshiva, we've beensaving thousands of kids.  This yiddele can sign a check for onemillion, he wouldn't even miss it. He says to me, absolutely notinterested.  I said, does Israel interest you?  "Israel goes on mynerves."  "What's with your going every time up with your childrento Israel?"  "Where do you want me to go."   Stupid, right?  Ok, Imean, that's what he is, right.

	But listen to this.  Suddenly he has a call, his little girlon the line, so cute -- 

({reminiscence about someone who  visited Moshav}  
I don't know Zusha if you remember, the kids liked you so much,you came into my house for one minute, they mamash took a likingto you -- it was very special)

His little girl calls him up.  Picks up the phone, annoyed, says,what do you want.  I couldn't --  
She says, daddy, I want to talk you.  He says, I've told you don'tdisturb  me in my business.

Two minutes later he got a call from Russia, because he owns oneof the ships that brings wheat to Russia.  This is not a questionof two hundred dollars or even two million dollars.  Billions.

Not looking at the screen any more, he sits down, smiling from onepayis to the other, (he doesn't have payis but if he would havehad payis would be from one payis to the other) and he's mamash --

This is a Greek, right?
What's for us yidden; and here I want you to open your hearts inthe deepest way.

For us yidden, creating the baby is a desperation???  for a ____.
To create the baby is just the beginning.

And here I want you to know the deepest depths.

You know what I as a father and mother have to do not only to bring the baby?
I have to take part in the redemption of the neshama.  {200} Thisis the whole parsha.
{HEBREW}
{??  v'     bracha      ben Yakov, shmi haShem v'lo yodatl'chem??}
They don't know it yet because they haven't gotten it yet.

You know, friends, when do I get a little taste in G-d'sgreatness.  When I take time to fixing _______ neshama.
You know friends, I have to give life to my baby all the time.  
{200}
I'm not the father just to create the baby, I'm the [adopted --sa]father of [to--sa] that neshama.

{HEBREW.  V'ARoA  l'Avrom Yitzak v'Yakov  ...    Shin Dalet Yud
{REF: Exodus 6:3}
Rashi says, {REF: Rashi Commentary on Exodus 6:3} {HEBREW:    ALHaAVoT, "To the fathers"}
You think they're just physical fathers?  Avrom Yitzhak and Yakovare our spiritual fathers.  Because the truth is, the physical andspiritual is one, right(?)*,  Everything which has to do with mybaby has to do with me.  
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And I want you to know something.  And this is the deepest depths.
And you know, I'm missing so much, I wish you could say _______
You ask me a question.  I want you to know the deepest depths.  Iwant to bless all the holy sisters ________

You know, husbands, or men, who  _____ their wives _____ getpregnant, "I know, I did it mazeltov, and now you're on your own."
The Greeks -- that's a Greek torah.

I want you to know, at one time, before, before N'eilah waspregant, and we were just married for two weeks, and we were inSwitzerland, in Basel??.  I want you to know.  We walked at night,for a walk, and on a bench, I saw two young people sitting there. She was pregnant, and they were just sitting together, their eyeswere closed.  And he had his hand on her, on her belly.  So sweet.__________
I'm sure this little baby must have mamash jumped up to heaven.

See, I want you to know, in hassidus and kabollah it says
{HEBREW} Father and mother have to go together all the time,because the baby needs both.  {HEBREW}

And I want you to know -- this is one thing which hurts me, anddon't think I'm mamash blaspheming --  but mamash, b'ruch haSHEM,G-d opens gates, and I don't know what they're  doing?? 
I do not understand, how it doesn't say in Torah:  The father hasto be when the baby's born.
	I don't know, but I don't want to say anything bad right now,but emes?? [evidently??] that's what it is.

	I want you to know something:  How can you not be there?  AndI tell you something else.    If you would ask that little baby,who do you want to see -- I want to see my father and my mother,right?  And do you think because the baby's eyes are closed `he'doesn't see?  Gevalt, do they see.
              
And I want you to know something very very deep.   I cannotimagine Avrom not being there when Yitzhak 
Can you imagine Avrom wanted to miss one second _________
Can you imagine Yakov is not there when Yehuda {HEBREW}

But here I want you to know something very deep.
Do you know that G-d left for us, for our generation, to come outwith those torahs.  And therefore I want to bless Sheine, thehighest thing.  I think you're mamsh doing an unbelieveable --Because there is so little available talk about pregancny, aboutgiving birth, and about children.  And it's so scattered, thelittle which is available.

	Because you know why Meshiach hasn't come yet.  Because thesegates were not opened yet, b'ruch haSHEM.

	And it's crazy, we are living in a crazy world.
On the one hand, so many marriages go wrong.  But you know what itis -- those who are holding out are mamash stronger.  I want tobless everyone with the strongest marriage in the world, becausewhat the world needs -- mamash, you know, the _____ kids --mamash, want their parents to be the closest in the world.

	And I want you to know something.  
	It is very beautiful that the Shlchan Aruch and the rabbis,everybody says, you have to teach your children. 
	Do you know what we have to write in our torah -- in thetorah of the 9 months, and the torah of the candle????______. {300} You mamash have to love your children so much.  So much.

	And I'll tell you something.  I have a feeling that  Meshiachhasn't come for 2000 years because we were hitting our children somuch.
	Do you know who was the first one in the world to speak ofagainst hitting children -- the heilige Ba'al Shem -- 
Do you know, that the holy Ba'al Shem, ____ hassidischetradition??  dismissed??  the assistant rebbele because he didn'tlet the rebbe hit the children. 

	And sadly enough, a lot of hasidim today have kosher meat,and glatt, and _____ Yisrael -- it's very holy -- but any Jew whohits children, as far as I'm concerned, {300} I don't want to sitwith them next to  gan Eden.  Can you imagine -- a yiddele hittingchildren, what kind of gan Eden he'll sit there.

	And you know what's so special (for us)??.  I have a feelingthat all the holy rebbes somehow left it for us, and even if theydidn't, we better write it in.
                                                                  
ARIz'l torah on the explusion from Eden

I want to share something with you unbelievable.  I really wantyou to open your hearts.
The ARIz'l says the most mind-blowing torah.  The ARIz'l says  that Adom and Chava were driven out from Paradis because theyweren't together on Friday ____?; they were supposed to raise achild???.  _______ Adom and Chava were together on Fridayafternoon.  After ______  together the snake came and spoke toChava.  And obviously they weren't that close togehter that thesnake could not come and separate them.  And the Arizl says, thatthe snake had only admission to Chava's heart because their beingtogether wasn't so strong.  Was not so strong  It was notshabbbosdik.  If they would have  waited until Shabbos  ________
{SUBSTANTIVE ADDITION TO WHAT FOLLOWS, BUT TOO FAINT FOR ME TOTRANSCRIBE FROM A CHEAP PORTABLE TABLE-TOP CASSETTE PLAYER.  }
It they would have waited until Shabbos, then their being togetherwould be so awesome that the snake couldn't -- couldn't separate 
______
And everybody knows that the Fixing [tikkun] is {HEBREW} that holypeople are together with their wives on Shabbos.  Because onShabbos -- Shabbos is {HEBREW} , Shabbos is One.  Shabbos is ____than One. Shabbos is mamash a gevalt.

And here I want you to know the deepest deepest depths.  ______
That basically G-d wanted to wait, he's creating Chava, untilShabbos.  That's awesome.  Listen to this.  Chava was supposed tobe created on Shabbos.  But obviously Adom haRishon was so lonely,that G-d created Chava ____________.
And you know, that means, why do women kindle lights Friday night? Because mamash, they were supposed to be created on Shabbos.
I don't know where he picked it up, it's an awesome torah, and Inever saw it anywhere else, but _______ {HEBREW}
                                         
The esoteric kaballah of gan Eden

Basically, 'cause  Adom haRishon was the end of the six days. Chava was really on the level of Shabbos, becauses what's Shabbos? Shabbos is: that two is One.  During the week, it's: one and oneis two.  Shabbos is:  one and one is One.

You can put a nice black cover on a telephone book, but -- 

I want you do know, I once met a rabbi and his wife.  And they hadtheir children.  And mamash, both were young, both were thebeginning of _____.  And somehow I saw this women, I saw that hereyes were so desperate, I saw that she's fighting with somethinginside.  And one way or the other, I was thinking I would help, Isaw her one second alone.  I said, are you sad or something.  Shesays to me, I'm so lonesome.  
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am I so ugly
3 weeks later
She says
her husband didn't know she's so sad
I just went to the hotel to be with
She's in unbelievaable anger
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and they had a baby
Like after her husband passed away, you know, she never gotmarried again, she was just a broken vessel.
and it's unbelievable drawing
{400}
{VERY LOW VOLUME, R. SHLOMO WAS PRACTICALLY WHISPERING THIS PARTOF THE STORY.}

You see what it is
Can you imagine one and one.  You know what the utmost side?? isone and one.

The torah of bringing children to the world is for Meshiach

And I want you to know -- you know, the holiness of bringing children to the world is so awesome -- you know, the truth is, theworld doesn't have vessels for it.  This is on the level ofMeshiach.  And I want you to know, why is this on the level ofMeshiach?  Because we are living in a world which is not perfect.
You know what we are doing when we are creating children?  _____(a little??)  Meshiach.  Remember, I was telling you on lastSunday night, the Midrash says, {HEBREW:  al tikach? b'Meshiachhoi??} don't touch by Meshiach's (??).  The Medrash says {HEBREW,egel?? t'noi?? k'shobbos??   ____} ________ children.  _________ (They're going to anyway)?? ________

And I want you to know the deepest depths.  You know, we werelearning it.

I can bear living in a non-kosher world.  I can bear living in a___ world.  For my children I can't.

Kavod for babies by Hassidic Rebbes:  Rebbe Elimelech, Reb ShlomoLutsker (or Reb Shlomo Karliner)

Ok, I just want to add a few _____
We all know that some holy women when they were pregant, the wouldgo the rebbitzin.  And you remember the mother of the heilige ZviElimelekh, she came to REBBE ELIMELEKH, and Rebbe Elimelekh got upwhen she walked in, so the hassidim asked him, are you getting upfor the lady?  And he said no:  I'm getting up for the baby.                              
There's also ________
The heilige REB SHLOMO LUTSKER, the mother of the holyStrevisker(?) came, and it's a whole long story, the mother was alamded-vov Tzadik but it's hidden, officially was a very simpleperson.  The mother walked in.  And I don't know who it was, RebShlomo Lutsker or REB SHLOMO KARLINER, don't remember, -- he gotup.  And he says:  I'm getting up before the Aharon haKodesh. Because this woman is an Aharon haKodesh, she has a holy baby inher.                            

Women are permitted to carry the torah on Simchat Torah

I just want to tell you something.  For the first time in my shul[Congregation Kehillat Jacob, upper West Side, Manhattan] -- Idon't want to say anything bad, my father [R. Dr. NaftaliCarlebach ] didn't do it --  the first year when I became therabbi, so to speak, gave the torah to our holy sisters to danceSimchas Torah.  And one straight yiddele got up _____ he says.

I said to him brother, if our sisters are good enough to carry{500} our children for 9 months, they're good enought to carry ourtorah.

[Shmuel Silver, of Moshav Meor Modi'in, once called the youngchildren, 'torah scrolls' -- sa]
         
So here I want to share something, and I want you to open yourhearts.  This is really the deepest depths.  
You know, there is a torah -- and again, I don't want to sayanything (bad??) -- there is a torah which has letters.  And Ireally want you to open your hearts.  There is a torah which hasletters.  And then there's a torah which doesn't have (letters??).

Friends, what happened when Moshe Rabbenu broke the tablets.  Youknow what happened to the tablets?  The letters flew away.[Traditional teaching.] {2 SENTENCES FAINT}

Why are we still yidden after we break the tablets.  {500} Becausewe're yidden without _____ 
All those baale tchuvas _____
You know what Moshe Rabbenu is telling us ?  Even if you wipe off,if you destroy all the letters. you still can ______              
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{KEY WORDS IN PRECEEDING TEACHING SUBMERGED IN WHITE NOISE ONMY TAPE; USE OF AN EARLIER TAPE, BETTER PLAYBACK SYSTEM WITHLOWER MINIMUM VOLUME, AND ESP. PROGRAM TO FILTER OUT WHITENOISE, SHOULD MAKE THIS MATERIAL RETRIEVABLE.  AGAIN, CHECKWITH BEN-ZION SOLOMON AT MOSHAV MODI'IN.}
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I want to say the deepest torah in the world.
Can you learn the torah just as strong without the letters?  
Sadly enough, we're living already in the world, the Tree ofKnowlege, we don't have vessels for it.  You know who has vesselsfor it?  While the mother is pregant with the baby, they teach thebaby in heaven the torah which is _______ [Traditional teaching]

You know, Hanuka became?? in  so few words in the Gemoara
because basically hanuka is not the torah of words, of letters
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START SIDE B {000}

On Simchas torah we are dancing, not with the words.   
If you remember, the last word of the Torah is {HEBREW: ASheR'aSaH MoSheH l''aiyny KoL YiRaeL (Deut. 34:12) Rashi _______

The last word of the Torah is that G-d says to Moshe, 'Thank youfor breaking the tablets." 
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[Reference is to the Rashi commentary on the last phrase inDeuteronomy:  "Before the eyes of all Israel [Deuteronomy34:12]":  His heart inspired him to break the Tables in theirsight, as it is stated, (Deut. 9.17) 'And I broke them inyour sight.'  And the opinion of the Holy One, b'ruch hu, wasin agreement with his opinion, as it is stated (Ex. 34.1)'Which thou didst break' may your strength be firm for havingbroken them."]
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This is crazy?  We are finishing the Torah, the whole Torah is soholy, G-d says to Reb Moshe, thank you for writing -- at the endof the second perek, thank you for writing so beautiful.  G-d saysto Moshe, Thank you.  I'm glad that you wrote the Torah, but thankyou for connecting the yidden to the Torah so _______.    

And here I want you to know the deepest depths.  After that beginsBereshis Rabba(?).  What am I doing?  After I learn the Torah, ofthe no letters, I go home, I get married in Bereshis.  And I wantto mamash create ______.  And I want you to know, just ___ -- youknow friends, I just to bless all over the world, all the holymothers.  All the holy mothers.

You know friends, between people also there's a torah of words andthere's a torah deeper I write down.  You know, I can be connectedto a girl because I like her nose I like her ears and I havewords.  All words.  And what's beyond the words.

And here I want you to know the deepest deepest depths.
Here [in Talmud, Bereshis Rabba, disucssing the halachot ofmarriage??] I'm the tzadkik k'doshin, right, b'ruch haSHEM, I'mgiving her a ring, write the kesuba, you know what I do at theend?  I break a glass and I tell her, you know, I don't?? want tobe connected to you ______ I want to have the torah ________.
The truth is I want to be connected to you beyond everything --beyond the ring, beyond the b'rachas -- all those words are holy. 
And then we yell mazeltov.  We don't yell mazeltov when we readthe kesuba, you know.  If?? we are straight people.  Every word ofthe kesuba we should yell mazeltov.  You say 'b'rei p'ri haGofen' I should yell mazeltov; I don't.  
You now when I yell mazel tov its shrias ha luchas {the brokentablets}.                                                

Q.: ________
R. Shlomo:  Remind me to come back to it later.

Chevre, I see mamash everyone's going to sleep, so let's make astop here for one minute, let's sing a song, stretch a little bit,and then we come back later.
Friends bear with me, I hope you're not broigas at  me, that I'mtaking up so much time.

Niggun to wake people up:
{TAPE SIDE B ={100}
4/4 Moderato  no accidentals, G Major(?)
(Cf. Ben Zion Solomon, Shlomo Shabbos, #37, Horachamon huy'Zakeinu (1977), which is in 2 #'s and begins  b(dd)
In verse 2, where I have   D , B-Z would have db (& has af#)

g(gg) gg ga ge / [bis]
a(aa) aa ab A 
ab    ag G  G
                 [repeat verse]

b(bb) bb  bc D
bc    D   bc db
a(aa) aa  ab C
ab    C   ab ag   [repeat verse, 
      ca? G  G    [2nd ending]
                 [repeat song from beginning]
                 [subsequent repetitions may accelerando, esp. if                    the chevre includes more hippies than yekkes]
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Chevre, I have to tell you a personal story ... 
In the blessed year 1958, in the blessed year, I bought myself aguitar.
You know the difference between me and every other so-to-speak?
Everybody is playing guitar for years, and they're making up 2000songs, and then they have the chutzpa to give concerts.  I boughtmyself a guitar, and I made up a song, (right, Joshua)??, EishaEina, and about 4 weeks later I give already the concert.  Andmamash I still play guitar bad, but then was -- 
The first time I played guitar for?? was 1959.
And listen to this.  A person from the New York Times comes tointerview me.  He says, how many years you played the guitar?  Isaid, a few months.  He says, how well do you know the guitar?
I says, I know two chords.  He says, you have the chutzpa to playwith 2 chords?  I say, [R. Shlomo recounts his response with asort of nu? or the-porush-may-die intonation:] wait until it'sover.  I gave a gevalt write-up, he says, without too muchbragging, he says, I've never seen anybody knowing two chords intoso much _____.  

	But anyway, that year like every good Jew, I had to dosomething in the summer, and I was a rabbi in the city, and there -- it's a whole long thing, I was a rabbi in Dorsey?? New Jersey,and there -- they went all bankrupt because the ads cost them 53cents to make it, but they could only sell them for 45 cents.  Itwas mamash ____

So that summer I had nothing to do, so I went up the mountains,and ?? by the ____ country club, they gave me like free board and-- olav v'shalom -- 
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[olav v'shalom:  a Yiddish expression which in this contextmeans, eg, `and they didn't even charge extra for the freshair']  -- 
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and I was playing there.

	One night a poor yiddele comes into the hotel, and he hasnowhere to stay.   But by me he was sweet, but _____ -- they gavetzedaka to yeshivas, but then again, a poor shlepper like that tosleep there, no. 
	So there was another hassidische yid had a hotel in themountains, and I knew he'd let him in, but how do you get there? And I mamash I didn't have money for a cab.  I'm walking aroundasking everyone, will you please drive this poor yiddele toWoodrich to the  hotel.  Everybody was busy.  Finally I walked out-- his name was Yeshai _____ -- he's now a big shot super-frumiein Borough Park, he's my very good friend, but he's cute -- he'ssitting there with a very cute girl.   I said, Yeshai, do me afavor, you have to drive this yiddele to Woodrich.  He said, Ican't, I have a date here with this girl here, you know?  I can't.Anyway, the girl was cute.  I walked up to her, and I said to her-- listen to this -- because I was desperate, this yiddele has togo to sleep, and I don't have koach anymore to shlep, to beggingeverybody -- I said Phyllis, I'm giving you half of my share inthe coming world if you let Yeshai drive this yiddele to thehotel.  So that was it.
	So anyway -- but you see like   _________ asked her for hershare, you know?                          
	I want you to know, Phyllis is mamash a gevalt, she haschildren learning in yeshivas, and she made aliyah to eretzYisrael, she left Chicago, she left everything behind her, and I'mso proud of her, she's the sweetest  girl in the world and -- itmight take me ____ a long time to sit next to you in heaven, butwhenever I get there I'll be overjoyed.

But I'll tell you something.  You know what I alway say to peoplewho want to commit suicide, I always tell people:   l'havdish???___  you're never late there.  
	There, you're never late.  What's happening there? Whatever's happening, it's nothing exciting.  This world isexciting.
Even if it's ______ days,  tomorrow might be beautiful.

	You know, crazy.  A yiddele called me up, an Israeli -- _ Itwas Yom Kippur in my shul, and you know, like, sweet -- calls meup, He says Shlomo, I'm opening a new office, I want you to putthe mezzuzah on.  And officially he's a real, like, real, hilloni,you know, officially.
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[Ie, he is like a hilloni, officially, but of course he isn'treally a hilloni; and anyhow, unofficially he's like a ba'altchuva]
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	I say, "Listen,  I'm overjoyed to put the mezuzah on you;what happened?"  
	He says:  "Let me tell you something.  Last year I wasbankrupt.  I had mamash ten dollars, and that's it.  And my wifehad to leave for Israel, she had a ticket from her parents, I gaveher the $10 at the airport and I didn't have a single penny in mypocket."  {200} So he says, "What would you do.  What I would do,"he says.  What can you do.  All you can do is daven."  He says,"Would you believe it, I did it.  I davened," he said.  He said,"I dunno how G-d did it, but b'ruch haSHEM I'm rich _____.  So Igotta put a(??) mezuzah in my office."
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[N.B.:  I think that the preceeding is a monologue by thebusinessman, but it's a bit tricky to pick up the syntax fromthe tape.]
l1

Anyway, you know, like, this world -- The special thing about thisworld is the up and down.  (Y'alla v' yova)??, up and down,backward forward, and all four sides -- 
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[R. Shlomo says this slightly as if it were a childhoodchant]
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And I want you to know something.  You know the BOBOVER REBBE,when he came to America, the first Friday night he said a gevalttorah, you know --  _____ he came _____ in that time ___ right now___ to write all the words ____ .  You know he arrived one night. One night he told some of the people, to drive him around _____All the Rebbes you know ____ kodesh k'dosh, _____ gevalt.
	He says to me, he says, I can tell you one thing.
Whatever the hassidim in Mezribush were tested  all their lives --but this is how much people are tested in New York in one hour.
	He says, "Imagine a Baal Shem Tov's Hossid wants to do anavera, it's Mezribush so what should he do?"  [R. Shlomo a bitlike a New York cab driver:] He wants t' sin, so what can  he do,y'know?  [In his own voice:]  You can get crazy, but there'snothing to do [for sin in the golden age of hassidut] right?  Whatcan you do.  In New York, gevalt can you do, right.   Also not_____ and people like that -- gevalt, right?  'Cause the wholeworld isn't big enough, right?
	The beautiful thing about our generation is that we have itso easy.  Mamash we have it so easy doing wrong.  But you knowsomething?  It's also becoming more and more easy to do rightalso.  Mamash, G-d is  opening gates, and I want to bless you andme, G-d should make it even more easy.
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Niggun (well-known) (Shabbot 2nd meal -- Cf. ben Zion)
who honors the Shabbat with etc.
Stately, exultant  4/4   ^=flat   # sharp e.   g.= 3/16 (g)=1/16 

b / E G E B  / E     G       E       B     / 
    E A G F# / e.(e) e^c#e^  E&       b    / [repeat lst 4 bars]
                                        (g)  [on repeat only]
    G B E B  / A     C       E       B     /
    G B C A  / G     A       B&       g                         
    G B E B  / A     C       E       B     /
    G B C A  / g.(g) f#ef#   E
                                                [repeat song]
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R. Shlomo:  very very soft
{TAPE=300}
Niggun (not well known) ! ! ! poignant
4/4   A Minor  Slow , maybe 48 bps           

C A C A /                  D B    C A 
C A C A /                  B G#   A2    
C A C A /                  D B    C A 
C A C A /                  D B    A     [Fine]

(cba) (agf) (fE) D      / (def) (e cb) A2  [repeat]   or
                             a   g#        I think   or
                            ag#  g#                  or
                            ba   g#                  or
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Niggun
4/4, Stately, with dignififed nostalgia, slow,   A Major
	No words, but often used in erev Shabbat ma'ariv for 
     V'shomru b'nai Yisrael

e / G& e A2  / G      ag     E2  / G  ab    A ba / E4               v'  shom ru   b'nai  Yisra  el  / et       haSha  bat

    G& e  A2  / G      ag     E2  / G      ab    A   ba  E3&  b
    l' at sot   et     haSha  bat   l'doro tom b'rit o   lam  

    E2    D& b   / E eb D2 / C C cd ca / B3& b
    E2    D& b   / E eb D2 / C C cd ca / B3& e  [repeat lst line]

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Code:  Capital letter A -- full beat
Lower-case letter:  Lower unit of time -- 1/2 beat in 4/4 time,1/3 beat in 6/8 time  
(   ) 1 beat
& extended note -- add 1/2 beat in 4/4 time, add 1/3 in 6/8 time
{TAPE=400}
Niggun: Well-known:      Associated with shomer, shomer Yisrael
6/8
                 ef#
/ Gf#e F#ed E&   ef#     
/ Gf#e F#ed E&   ga
/ Bag  Agf# G&   ga
/ Bag  Agf# G&   bc
/ Dcb  Cba  Bag Aef#
/ Gf#e F#ed E&   ef#  Da Capo
            E2        Fine
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I just want to say one thing.
{Interruption}
A torah from the Holy Baal Shem.
The holy Baal Shem says, everybody knows that [when] Meshiach iscoming, first Eliahu haNavi is coming, and then Meshiach iscoming.  So the Baal Shem says, what is Meshiach telling us, whichEliahu haNavi is not telling us.  What can he tell?  He says likethis.  
	Eliahu haNavi is walking in the street, he sees two yiddenfighting. He says, stop fighting, you both are right.  Don'tforget it.  When Meshiach comes, he sees two yidden fighting, hesays, you both are wrong. How can one Jew fight with another.

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{repeats previous niggun}
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 ... = held note  | = preceeding note stacato
Niggun (old, &/or improvised)
Very Slow, free-form

		 rallentado
 (g)G(ag) ee E       
 B ... a / (rallentado) (ggg) G   (45 bps or slower)
 (with longing, aspiration):
 bab C ... agf# B ...
 (bgeb) (cb(a)|A)                  !
 (ag(f#eee) B    (rallentado)       Apparently not decisive line
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{TAPE=500}
Niggun, well-known:  6/8

                         b
/ (ed#)e2 (ed#)ef# G   e2b
  (ed#)e2 (ed#)ef# G   &2e
  (ag#)a2 (ag#)af# G   e2b
  (gf#)g2 (f#e)f#2 (ed#)e2 & b  or
  g2(f#e) f#2(ed#) E       e2     [repeat verse] 
                   E2             Fine

  (ba)b2  (ba)b2   ded cba 
  (ag)a2  (ag)a2   cdc bag [repeat these 2 lines]
                           [D.C. al Fine]
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{pause}
R. Shlomo:  Chevre, I want to share something with you fast. Where's Shai?  Is he still here? [Someone answers: yes.] Is thetape recorder on?  Still on?  Chevre can you give me just twominutes.  I want to finish the story.
{530}
HERE THE RECORDING OF THIS TEACHING ENDS, 
Clearly it was 60-minute tape.
Probably the teaching is concluded on the 3rd tape of the set,which Haskala Sasson at Modi'in may have.
HERE THE TAPE REPEATS FROM SIDE A
From: "What's the greatest joy in world"
To:   "... she's right."

{NO RECORDING}
.P
