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From Tape, R. Shlomo at R. Yankele Shames' Chanukah 1993
Taped by Yakov Rottenberg
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Teaching ends at Start of Side B; followed by conversation.
PRIMARY TOPIC:  Hanuka
Secondary topics:  Rebbes:  The Kallover, Rebbe Reb Shamlke 
Hanuka torah from Redomsker and from the last Alexanderer Rebbe 
3 Niggunim
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Ok. let's learn for two minutes -- I know everybody's tired, but - we must as well.

	Teaching of the Baal Shem Tov:  Hanuka is the highest andmost intense of yomtov's (Moments)

{300}
I'm sure everybody remembers -- if not, I'll tell you -- 

You know, the Baal Shem said -- I'm sure you remember, but anyway,it's good to remember -- the heilige Baal Shem Tov says, whereveryou reach, Rosh HaShana and Yom Kippur, wherever you reach without knowing??,  wherever you reach Simachas Torah withHafkoffet, does not compare with where you reach when you bentschlicht, Hanuka.

See, what it is, and it's mamash an important torah to remember:  
Hanuka is the only yomtov when the whole thing is just a fewminutes.  Pesach, you eat matza all week, right, Sukka, the wholeweek, Shavuot is 24 hurs, Yom Kippur -- Hanuka, the whole yomtovis those few minutes, when you bentsch licht.  
	Why is it that it's just a few minutes?  Because it's sostrong, they couldn't bear longer.
	It's so awesome.

	Stories of Rebbes:  The Seer of Lublin, Rebbe Reb Shmalke,The Vishnitzover, The Kallover

You know, there's a gevalt story.  I told it to you last year, soforgive me if I tell it to you again.  

	The daughter of the holy KALLOVER married the son of the holyVISHNITZOVER.  And so she came to the Vishnitzover.  So theheilige Vishnitzover says to her -- you know it's a joy if youknow this ??? -- Galicia -- and he was a pupil of the SEER OFLUBLIN.  And the heilige Kallover -- I don't know if you know this-- REB LEVI BERDITCHEV mamash discovered him -- Reb LeviBerditchev was told -- 
{YIDDISH  _________  die Welt.}
He was told that somewhere in the mountains, in the CarpathaRusslands, you know that's like the mountains of Russia, there's abig neshama.   So he went there, and he saw a little boy of seven,playing the flute, a shepherd.  So he says, who are you.  So hesays -- nebuch has no father, we should always have two(?) parents{400} -- and -- my mother   ______ heder, and I'm a shepherd.  Andhe was mamash making up this unbelieveable niggunim, you know. Reb Levi Yitzkah right away smelled [scented], this is somethingfrom the Beis haMikdash.  So he brought him to the REBBE REBSHMALKE . And basically, the Rebbe Reb Shmalke, if you remember,he was the first Rebbe of the Seer of Lublin.
And then Rebbe Reb Shmalke, descendent of David ha Melech.
	The Rebbe Reb Shmalke, when he was learning, he had, like --you know, you're always thinking it's a new thing of the holyhippies, you know the Rebbes were mamash like, with everything --the Rebbe Reb Shmalke had a whole thing of incense on the tablewhile he was learning.  He was teaching Gemora.  So the Lublinersays, the whole room was smelling like -- gevalt.  So he thoughtit was the incense.  But one time he made his way to the otherside of the table, in front [ie, upwind] of the incense, where theRebbe Reb Shamlkie was sitting.  And he realized that it's mamashhis fragrance, and in order to cover up, he put, like, a littleincense on the table.

	But the heilige Karlover did not go to David ha Melek, he wasjust Rebbe Reb Shmalkie and Reb Levi Yitzhak, back and forth, andit was like a gevalt, right.
	
	Just to give you a taste of what the Kallover was like.  OneSeder night, he didn't go to the Seder, he's standing by the door,waiting waiting waiting.  Suddenly a carriage came, with 3 men andfour women.  And the heilige Kallover ran out, and he kissed thethree men, he kissed the 4 women.  And they were talking for a fewminutes.   And he went to the Seder.
	You don't remember the story?    There were so   ____ there 
were so _____ there, I thought  -- Karlover hassidim,Bratslover??? also  -- all the Rebbes -- what's going on there -- 
waiting there, "they're coming, they're coming" , kisses the women-- so after that he told the story.

	He said, Rabbenu shel Olam, Mamash, I'm not going to theSeder {500} unless you promise that Meshiach's coming.  So mamash,the holy 3 father and the four mothers came down to ask him,mamash, he should stop turning  ____________, because it's nottime yet. And he says, am I not permitted to kiss my mother? _______ This was the level of the Kallover.

	So he asked the daughter of the Kallover, how do you like ithere in Lidichov.  So she says, I tell you, I like everything,there's only one think I'm missing.  My father was sitting by thecandles six hours -- you know, like all, most, Rebbes were sittingthere with their eyes glued to the candles for hours -- and inLidichov the Rebbe _____ walks in, kindles the lights, looks atthe lights for a few minutes and runs out.  
	So he says to her, instead of asking me, why am I not sittingwith the candles for six hours, why don't you ask me, how come I'mnot consumed when I kindle lights.  

	The Samzer Rebbe at Hanuka
                    
	You know, I heard in Bobov that people were watching the holySAMZER .  You know, how long can you keep your eyelids withoutmoving.  Without blinking.  The Holy Samzer (Rebbe), when helooked at the candles, he looked at the candles for 6 hours and hedidn't blink.

	The place of Hanuka candles in today's world

	I hate to say bad things, but this is really funny.  I  wasonce in the house of a big Rabbi -- officially a Jewish leader --so, he is having a 'phone in his hand, and he is kindling thehanuka lights, {600} and then he makes a bracha fast, and puts hismouth away from the phone, he holds the phone like this, you couldhear what the person __________ it was mamash, like a CharlieChaplin. ... And then he _____ down and finished his phone call.

	The custom that women light hanuka lights:  courage of theMakabi women

Q.:  Why is it, that all year the woman lights Shabbos candles,but on hanuaka, the woman doesn't light candles.
R. Shlomo:  Not true.
Q2:  But usually, a lot of people, the husband lights for both,right?
2Q:  Chabad does.
R. Shlomo:  Chabad's another thing -- I don't want to say anything... that's also very holy, that there's  one light.

	You see what it is.  Basically "Shabbas light is a fixing ofChava, because she ate the Tree of Knowlege -- so the woman has to-- it's one of her fixings -- Chanukah is a fixing for all Israel,not only for the woman -- so the women should do it also -- firstof all because: 

	The whole story began with Yehudit, the daughter of the HighPriest. I mean, gevalt, mamash the whole thing [the incident thatsparked the Makabi rebellion against Syrian-Hellenic occupation]happened here [Modi'in], you know?  I don't know where, exactly,the chuppah was, when Yehudit said, mamash, my brother's acowards, but I'm not.                                     

	She was the daughter of the Cohen godol.  The Greeks had thething that -- it's too heartbreaking to tell -- but the Greeks hadthe thing that every Jewish bride has to spend the first night ofthe wedding with Greek soldiers.  Nebuch, gevalt, what yidden hadto go through in their lives. 
	So in the middle of the chuppah, Yehudit mamash tore off herclothes, and she was mamash completely in armour.  Sword andeverything.  Spear.  And she says, my brothers are too much of acoward to protect me, so I have to protect myself.  
	So when Yehuda Makabi heard this -- the Greeks knew that theHigh Priest's daughter was getting married, they were comingslowly to collect her.  They were not prepared that someone wouldjump on them.  So mamash within 5 minutes they were all in armour,when the Greeks came, they knocked them off completely.  
	That was how it started.  The whole story of Chanuka here.

	Don't be afraid to bring about a miracle

	You see what it is, what hanuaka is, the depth of Chanukah is{700} that we're mamash not afraid.   Not that we're `not afraid'on the level of `within the limits of nature' -- we're not afraidof mamash bringing about a miracle.
	Which is awesome, right?

	The miracle of the Makabi military victory
                    
	How can 70 cohenim drive out an army of 400,000.
	You know what's so special:  within the history of the world,this  was probably one of the most heroic moments in the history;70 people driving out an army of 400,000.
	And the world doesn't say anything about it, 'cause it's notfor them to know.

	The superficiality of supposed 'avoda zora'

	If you remember, in the House of Love and Prayer, we werelearning it 1000 times.   How did he [Yehuda Makabi] get this armytogether?  In those days it was mamash like today.
All the young people were serving in the pagan temples...  YehuudaMacabi went down and he asked them, what would you give to restorethe Holy Temple to its holy ____ place?  You know, all the socalled pagan kids  [said] 'We mamash would give our lives'
So he mamash gathered an army.                        

	It's crazy, It's mamash like today.  He didn't get an armyfrom the kids who were frum.  He get an army from this emeshanuka??  He took them out from Greek culture -- he mamash put outa candle in the darkness -- awesome.
	He had no Sukkah -- You know how much non-fear they had -- 
Judah Makabi must have taken thousands of soldiers without beingafraid.                             

	A Hanuka torah from Redomsker and from the last AlexanderRebbe (d. Warsaw Ghetto); possibly originally from the Seer ofLublin

	Anyhow, I want you to know -- the most important part of it - as far as I'm concerned: 
	I heard it that two Rebbes said it.  Makes it an old   Redomsker Torah, it's also an old Alexanderer Torah.  So when yousee two Rebbes saying the same thing, it means it comes from ahigher place, ______ they're Rebbes.  So the way it looks to me,most probably comes from the Seer of Lublin   

	Everybody's asking, when do we have 7 days.  {800} Because wehad oil for the first night.  The miracle was that it lasted forseven days, but at first it was not a miracle, at first it wasnatural.
	But this is a Torah which Alexanderer said the last year?? hehad??  in the Warsaw Ghetto.  Mamash awesome.  But it's also aRedomsker Torah.  
	So he says, G-d does not perform a miracle unless you'remamash praying for it, unless you're asking for it??.
	He says, can you imagine how many tears the Makabees werecrying the first night, begging G-d the light should last forseven days.
	And he says, everybody's asking, why do we not mamshcelebrate the [ victorious Makabi ] War [of liberation] which wasa bigger miracle than one little light lasting for seven days.(Eight days; I'm sorry; you're -- thank you -- mamash correctingme in the strongest way; I accept the correction. ) The War wasthe greatest miracle in the world.
	The answer is very simple.  Just imagine that the Cohenimcoming back -- they won the war -- and then they see the light isonly there for one night.   You know what it shows to them?  Thatthe whole thing you did won't last.  
	You know:  you give your life for something, want somethingto happen so much, and then you come home and it doesn't last. Heartbreaking.  So gevalt, they were crying so much, that thelight should last forever, _________ forever.  

	So the Alexanderer said -- 
Gevalt!, can you imagine how much he cried, the last Hanuka, hewas in the?? [Warsaw] ghetto, that Yidden  should remembereverything -- ___________

	Reb Nachman torah, based on Gemora (??):  Fixing [tikun] ofthe seeing, of the Miraglim

	Reb  Nachman ... {HARD TO HEAR}
	A person bought something -- it was shining a bit -- itlooked like copper -- let's say it's worth $100.  Then he sold itto someone for a little profit, $150.  But then the other persontook it to an expert, he says it's not copper, it's gold, puregold.  And if it's pure gold, it's worth $100,000.  So the story______ .  So the question was:  maybe he has to give it back, orpay him $100,000, or maybe because he sold it to him because hethought it's copper, maybe the deal is off.  So the Rosh says thedeepest thing in the world:
	Your ownership extends only {900} to as far as you think it'sworth.  When you thought it's copper, your ownership was the worthof copper, $100.  So there's a big controversy [makloket] but it'sso deep:  if something belongs to you, sadly enough it onlybelongs to you, whatever nebuch you think it's worth.  

	Most Rishonim say it's not true.  Because my ownership doesnot depend on my knowlege how much it's worth; it's mine. Whatever's mine, is infinite.  Because [the concept of] 'worth'[applies] -- only when it comes to somebody else.   I have to payas much as it's worth.  But between me and myself -- {HARD TOHEAR} 

	But anyway:  you know when the Miraglim came -- and they saidbad things about Israel -- and even if you came back to Israel --but our ownership was only as much as we thought it's worth.  Andthe spies affected us -- you don't know it -- like everybody ____ -- they say: "Israel is beautiful BUT  -- it's got problems"  --so sadly enough -- bad thing??

	And if you remember, we were learning it:  The way you lookat eretz Israel, that's the way you look at every Jew.             	So I say, "Every Jew is holy BUT -- ...

	In eretz Israel, why is Hanukah Sholam Beits ... 
The Holy Temple was destroyed because we didn't love each other.  Hanuaka, when we initiate the Beis HaMikdash, it's not the SecondTemple.  Hanuka we initiate already the Third Temple.

	If you remember, Hanuka is always the time when we learn theBeis Yakov.  Parsha Beit Yakov.   ______ Miketz.  Because theThird Temple is Yakov Avinu.
	First Temple is Avraham, seond is Yitzak, Third is YakovAvinu -- 
How are we building the Holy Temple?  

	Remember we are learning, it is so true.  If a person isshalom bais, if a person is mamash with his wife and children sogood, then you have mamash light for the whole world.  And if youdon't, {1000} it's already like a little bit, you are listening tothe ______ 

	So Reb Nachman says, the real fixing of the Spies is onHanukah.  Because hanukah everything is with the eyes
You're not permitted to use the light {HEBREW},  you're onlypermitted to look at the light.

	Q: {HARD TO HEAR}
	A: It obvious that you haven't fixed it, the Spies, hetv'shalom.   
	The deepest fixing would be if you look at the light withdifferent eyes, look at yid?? with different eyes.
	The way it begins is really looking at your own husband, yourown wife, with different eyes.
	You know, sometimes you ask parents, how's you son, yourdaughter, they say yeah, they're cute, BUT -- 
	What's this 'but'?  What's 'but'?
	You know, Hanuka is the only holiday I walk in the street,and I see the light of another yiddele, I say a blessing over it. Because why don't I, when I see -- putting on tfillin -- 

{Conclusion of story, above, of the Karlover Rebbe)

	So she says, I'm missing the looking at the candles for sixhours.  He says to himself, how come I'm still alive after Ikindle lights.

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	Torah of Reb Nachman:  Fixing on Hanuka of the [out-ofperspective report of the] Miraglim

	Ok, this is a Torah of Reb Nachman.
	The huma??   of the beis haMikdash -- all began with themiraglim.  How are we fixing it?  Becuase it's clear to me thatevery yid who kindles lights, it's clear to me, G-d is so proud ofthis person.  
	Everything is beautiful, but there is a kind of beauty whichlight has, which nobody else has.  
	Imagine a person is very beautiful, but they're dark, theirface is dark.  Maybe they're good for Hollywood
	Sometimes a person may not be so beautiful physically, butthey're shining.  So light is the most beautiful thing
	So he says:  On Hanuka, when every yid kindles light, what isshining in the light is _______ everything right.   How theRabbenu shel olam is proud of every yid.  
{1000}
	{HEBREW} everybody has to kindle light because mamash G-d isso proud of every light.

	And this is the deepest depths.
	I remember brother B-Z taught me, he told it once, chevre youknow, the old torah:  
	Hanukah is the only miracle which happens in eretz Israel, inYerushalim.  Why did it happen in Jerushalaim.  Because it says"Ayin haShem el la kecha????", G-d looks at eretz Israel all thetime.  Mamash, the eyes, right.

	So what is all the trouble in Israel?  Because we are notglued to the land, because we do not see the miracles in it.  Sochas v'shalom, G-d is also not looking at the Land.
	But if your're looking at it because it is so beautful --

	Story of Karliner Rebbe in Eretz Israel

	There's a _______ story.

	The heilige KARLINER, if you remember, Reb Yisrael,Stoliner??, the Yenuke kaddische,  had five sons.  Only one madeit, actually, out of Auchwitz, Reb Johanan.
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[N.B.:  Wolf Zeev Rabinowitsch, Lithuanian Hasidism, Schoken,New York, 1971 (ISBN 0 853 03021 9), translation of Hebreworiginal, HaHasidit HaLitait, published by Mosad Bialik,Jerusalem) notes in an attached geneological  chart that R.Yisrael the "Yenuka" of Stolin, 1870-1921, had 4 sons:  R.Yohanan in Lutsk (d. 1955), R. Yaakov in USA d. 1946, R.Elimelekh of Karlin (Killed in the Holocaust, 1942), R. Mosheof Stolin (Killed in the Holocause, 1942).]
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But anyhow, Reb Stoliner?? Elimelekh, he came to eretz Israel.
He arrived by ship in Jaffo, 1936, took a cab to Jerushalyim
And the whole time, the windows are open, and he stares outside.  
So someone says, Rebbe, you're so tired, why don't you rest alittle bit.  He says, G-d's eyes are glued to the land, G-d'slooking at the land, {Ayin HaSHEM _______}, G-d always looked atthe land.  If G-d looks at the land, how can I not look at italso. 
	It's unbelieveable fixing of the eyes.
                 
	Fixing of the misperception of the Miraglim:  restoringbeauty to our perception of our allotted holy land

	What is beauty is all about -- beauty is, it's so beautiful,I want to have it.  What's the strongest drawing card in theworld?  That something is so beautiful, I see it, I want to haveit.   What's happened to the Miraglim?  Because they made it lessbeautiful to us, so we didn't want to have it.  So the fixing ofit is, that on hanunka, mamash I look at the light, and I see,mamash, how proud G-d is of us, how proud G-d is of any yidden, Ilook at eretz Israel, mamash, I want to have it so badly.

	You know what is the most special thing about a candle? Acandle does not take away the darkness.  It's still dark.  But Isee a little better.  
	When you look at another yid, why does it have to do with acandle.  Why is {HEBREW  NeR haSHEM ish m'asot???},  my neshama islike a candle.  
	Because I know very little.
	Imagine, I know how beautiful you are, and I'm proud of you,{1200} what do I really know -- right?  I just know a little bit.

	The worst thing in the world is when you think you knoweverything.  The Greeks think they know everything. [FN1-sa]

	And we are mamash like a little candle.  Gevalt is thiscandle so precious.
	G-d should give us the privilege, all our families shouldkindle lights, we should all be so proud of each other.  So proudof our children.  So proud of eretz Israel, b'ruch haSHEM.

	Story of Reb Josef Chaim Sonnerfeld in Jerusalem: perceivingthe beauty of the land and people of Israel

	You know, I heard, I think I shared with you. Reb  JosefChaim Sonnerfeld was walking in Yerusahliym with someone of theso-called kanoyin??, and suddenly there was Hashomer Hatzair [FN2sa], you know, a little militaristic, a few hundred boys & girlswlaking down, marching down the street.
	So -- [I] don't mention the name of the other one -- the bigkanoyin, the big fanatic, "Let's get away from it, disgusting; theway they look." [FN3-sa]  So he ran off to another street, not tohave to see it.  And Reb Yosef comes over, standing there, lookingat them.  And he was leaning on his stick, looking at those kids. 
	And when he came back, he was mamash like -- gevalt -- 
So someone walked up to him ______ , he hears Chaim Sonnenfeltsaying, "{HEBREW, quote from Deuteronomy 1:11, "Y'oisef'aleikhem"}, G-d should bless you, make more of you, a thousandtimes.  
	You know the way those tzadkim look at people, they see howbeautiful yidden are.  How beautiful Jerushalim is.  How beautifulthe Beis haMikdash is.  

	You see what is is:  The Tree of Knowlege knows only good-orbad.  The Tree of Knowlege doens't know about beautiful.  So it'sgood therefore???
	You know, when I want someone else to get closer toyiddishkeit, and eretz Israel, [if I] tell them eretz Israel isgood -- nobody's coming, 'cause it's _______.  [But if I tellthem] Ah, it's beautiful -- what a drawing-card.

	On Hanuka we recover our own beauty

	And if you remember, we were learning it.  You know when, hasv'shalom, when we do something wrong, first we become a little bitdirty, seondly we become ugly -- stop being beautiful.  So on YomKippur G-d gives us back the purity of we are becoming cleanagain; but beautiful is for Hanukah.  On Hanuka a yid becomes sobeautiful.

	Paradigms of inner beauty:  a baby being diapered by a father

	Q. {presumably from one of the mothers in the chevre}:  Sowhat is this beauty that you are talking about?  And how is itthat it exists, and it doesn't exist?
	R. Shlomo:  It does, but it's like -- I'll tell you somethingvery deep.  Imagine -- you know, a lot of babies are really notfit to clean.  The most beautiful babies in the world.  So why isa baby so beautiful -- what do you see in a baby -- so much light.
	You know:  A lot of brides may not be so beautiful, but whena bride goes to the chuppah -- so mamash beautiful {1300} --mamash, G_d's light is shinging upon her.
	So:  This Light is more beautiful than anything in the world. 
	An Ishbitzer torah: the difference between knowlege andillumination

	And here I want you to know -- the ISHBITZER, a long torah,but in a nutshell -- 

	Imagine, I know everything in the world, but it's dark inside my head.  And sometimes a yid knows only a few things, but there'slight behind it.
	What's the light behind it.  You know, the light is --

	You know, like, [suppose] I'll tell you another story about[for example] the Seer of Lublin -- so you'll tell me, I [already]know the story of the Seer of Lublin, like a lot of people comingout with English haddidische stories, they copies?? it fromsomeone who heard it -- doesn't change them, doesn't lift them up.
	_________  I learned something and it's full of light, liftsme up to a higher level, beyond them, beyond the story, beyondeverything.

	The goyim overlook the inner beauty of Jerusalem

	The world [the non-Jewish peoples (Hebrew, `goyim') of theworld] also knows Jerusahlim is special, is beautiful, but whatthey're missing out -- they don't know how mamash Jerusalim liftsme up, beyond myself.  _____ completely beyond myself.
	So the [Ishbitzer] torah is:  All holidays I'm stillcompletely within the limits of my neshama.  Hanauka, mamash G--dlifts me up, beyond myself.

	Q, continued:  Are you saying that the beauty was there allthe time, and it depends on us to see it?  You mentioned thekallah [bride], the babies; and the kallah is beautiful that day,the day she went to the chuppah, but that woman was there the daybefore, and she will be there a week after, so what happened tothat beauty?

	R. Shlomo:  It's a gift from G-d for that one day.  She cankeep it, or not keep it.

	Q, continued:  So why can't we see??? the same when we talkabout the Miraglim, and eretz Israel, when they saw it -- theycame, and whatever they said -- they didn't see the beauty oferetz Israel at that time, so what happened? 

	R. Shlomo:  I mentioned before:  G-d gives you only what youreally want.  
	You know:  Someone says, I have a pound of apples for you,bit some of them are not so good, so I say, ok, give to me --right?  But I'm not dying for it. 
	So G-d gave us Jerushalim, G-d gave us the Holy Land.  Butunless you're convinced it's the best, the greatest thing in theworld -- The way you want it, you are the owner of it.  [As in theabove-referenced example from Gemora where] I thought it's copper,but it's gold [and so, in one (minority) opinion, if I had already sold it, I am entitled only to additonal payment only up to theFMV of copper].
	I am the owner of eretz Israel as much as I think it'sbeautiful.  That's how much it belongs to me.

	{Short hanuka teachings}

	Ok, just one more thing.
	The whole Gemora of hanuka is just one page.
	You know, you can learn the whole Talmud by heart, but ifthere's no light behind it, it's nothing.  Hanukah is one page.
But this one page, those few lines!

	Ok, just want you to know, Hanuka is the time that mamash wecan pray for our wives, for our husbands, for our children,beyond, beyond the limits.  
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	The mitzva, for the people of Israel,  of living in the landof Israel

	Q.:  All mitvot are beautiful.  Being in Israel is a mitzva. But then we have other mitzvas, some of them say you can't?? dothem in Israel, being an olah.  Like the mitzva to give kavod toyour parents [FN4-sa]
How do you know which is the most important mitzva, which is themost beautiful to haSHEM, and which is going to lift your soul upthe most.

R. Shlomo:  I'll never know, and you'll never know, but you havejust to trust your inside.
	Remember that torah which is awesome.  The KOTZKER Rebbe'sgrandson said, {HEBREW, quoting Genesis, Lech L'cha:  ... go tothe land which I will show you."}  He says, there's no mitzva inthe world where there's so much controversy, if you have to do itbefore Meshiach's coming.  Go to eretz Israel or not.   SomeRebbes say yes, some say no.  So he says:  At the end, there's nodecision.  So he says:  But if G-d wants you to be Israel, HE'lllet you know.  Says [loc cit.] "I will show it to you".
	He says:  eretz Israel is so precious to G-d, G-d only wantsthose people to be in Israel, whom he really wants there.  If HEwants you there, HE'll let you know. 
	Let's hope HE wants us to be there, miR'S'T haSHEM.

	What do we know?

	What's wrong with being homeless

	The most important thing to remember: Hanuka we initate theThird Beis ha MIkdash.  Not the Second Beis haMikdash.  
	And also:  Hanuka, you have to have a house. [FN5-sa]
You cannot kindle hanuka lights in the street.  It has to be ahouse.
	In an emergency, so you make a little bit yoser.  
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[Ie, there is no provision for absolving someone of theobligation to kindle hanuka lights in his home, but one whois away from his home for the entirety of one or more nightsof hanuka may be included in the hanuka blessing of someoneelse.] 
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Q.:  Why did it take so many days to make new oil.

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SIDE B {000)

	One more thing whic is very important to know: basically:  
If all of Israel is not pure, you can do it even when the oil isnot pure.  It was permitted to do it.  But you know, they cameback from the war, they said:  Mamash, G-d,  we worked so hard, wegave our lives, I don't want to kindle an unholy light.  I wantYOU to give it to me, mamash, in the holiest, sweetest way.

	Piece Process

	I said to someone this week (12/93), so:  they're bringingpeace to Israel, right.  Yeah, but the way we want peace, youknow, it doesn't look right.  There was the story with the yid whohadn't eaten all week, and he found a piece of gold in theouthouse, _______, if YOU want to give me money, don't give it tome there.  Give it to me.  Crazy.  What do we know.
                           
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	I {368} want to tell you something, because Amera remindedme. 

	Basically, at the beginning, right the beginning, right afterthe 6 Day War, I was talking to all the top generals, because Iwas singing for the soldiers, and I said to them:  Who am I totell you, but I'm still telling you.  You need an army to makewar, but you need an army to make peace.  (This was my first yearyear in the House of Love & Prayer.)  I suggest to you, just bringover a thousand hippies, and all the thousand hippies from mychevre should go all over the country {400} playing every Arabschool, make friends, every Arab has to know, there's one Jewwho's his friend.  
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Has to be like, personal contact.  Has to be, like, personalcontact.  That's the only way we'll keep them peaceful.
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[Comment from the Editor:  Well, life in Arroyo Hondo didmellow out after the Chicanos discovered pot about '69,although of course they did first have to work through theirwarlock phase.] 
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Ok, let's have a strong army, but there's no personal contact wecan offer them, won't last. 
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{Some amongst the chevre then, simultaneously, share relatedcomments from their own experience.}
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You see what it is, the truth is, that imagine Arik Sharon 
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{a tractor-driver from the Negev, formerly involved, in hisown way, in the peace process in Gaza}
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would have been [still Minister of Defense??] -- the moment theystart throwing stones.  You had to establish --
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[boundaries?, limits, as Kissinger had at the outset of theintifada suggested?] 
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-- it would never have come to this.   Ten thousand ways to doingit.  Like a little bit strong, little bit peaceful.
Comment from audience:  Rabin used the worst one.
R. Shlomo:  Because he cares more for what goyim think that forwhat yidden think.
	Arafat said a good torah, as much as ______ . Only good torahI heard from him.He says Shamir lied to the Arabs, and told Jewsthe truth.   Rabin is lying to the Arabs and lying to the Jews.
	Q.:  When did he say it?
	A.:  One of his torahs, one of his shala sheudes torahs.
Jake:  This big terrorist, Jibril, in the Jerusalem Post, he sayshe has proof that Arafat's grandmother is Jewish, she's fromMorocco, and he names the name of the family -- Koo something likethis.
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R. Shlomo to Zahava Gilmore (?):  At your wedding, I said for thefirst time the torah, Eliahu haNavi is bringing the kallah to thechuppah.  

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Q.:  I gave over one of your torahs, at Gimzo, on parenting, onHinuch?? de Modi'in??  You have to tell me who you said it in thename of.  Of "make yourself strong."

R. Shlomo.:  The heilige WOLKER.   The heilige Mizrach.  Iremember ____ of children, ___ four or five _____.  Make yourselfstrong {600} --

	There's also a torah he says:  Whenever you get angry, hesays, if it's an averas, you're not permitted to get angry.  So[should I then]I understand this [teaching to imply that]:  When Ihave to, it's a mitzva?!  If it's a mitzva -- [then I couldappropriately] put on my streimel, my shabbosdike kapote.  
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	The 300-years War of Mitnoggim against California

[Q.:  The Satmar hasidim believe that Chabad is bringing back toomany (ill-prepared, or un-committed?) Jews back into Yiddishkeit.]

R. Shlomo (joking, apparently, albeit deadpan).  They're right.

	I told you about this Satmar woman.  Her husband was takingcare of yiddishkeit in Budapest.  I met him in Jerusalem, inGeula.  Which is mamash _______
So he called me up in New York, I got the message, called him up.  ________ So his wife says, don't you call here, we have Satmarhasidim who don't like you.   I says, listen to me, I'm notcalling you because I like you; your husband called me because hewanted to talk to me; if your husband doesn't want to talk to me,he has a right; let him tell me he doesn't want to me.  {700} Shesays to me, you're doing the biggest avera in the world.  I say,what's the biggest avera in the world.  She says, men and womenbeing in the same room.  The biggest avera in the world.  I sitthere, I say:  [if, heaven forbid, I bless you to be well, if yourhusband were sick] are you taking him to an an emergency room, oryou're not going in because men and women sit there [without amehitza].  So that you understand in your head, it's an emergency. So I said: I'm running an emergency ward.

	Counterproductivity of politicization of the Israelirabbinute


Q.:  Forgive me --
A.:  Any time.
Q.:  No -- A lot of times when I hear you speaking on the radio,you knock off other rabbonim.  I don't understand it.
A.:  I do it because they have to hear it.
Q, cont.:  But the klal (?) [the public] doesn't have to hear it. The klal needs to know to respect all rabbonim, that they canlearn from all rabbonim.

A.:  Why is Israel Yiddishkeit so strong.  Because they think thatthe rabbis really represent G-d.  If they would know that a littlerebbele is not representing G-d ...  the real tzadikim -- mamash,the real ones -- what do they need rabbis who mingle in politics, 
and this one took money from this one, this one took money fromthis one -- so they have to know that they're not G-d'srepresentatives.
Maybe you're right, I don't know.

	Mr. Rottenberg converts a UJA Fundraiser

Y. Rottenberg:
I made my first convert.  Last week this couple comes into therestaurant 
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[Luciano's Glatt Kosher Neapolitan Pizza Emporium, featuringthe best pesta east of Ancona;for reservations telephone 9728-262526 -- Editor]
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collecting money for the UJA [from Moshav Modi'in?].  Bigfundraisers.  So she says, what's going on in this place.  I said,I don't know, I'm retired.  She says, Wow, did you hear that Jack? So it goes on.  He says, there's nothing going on here; the placelooks like a ghost town.  So I tell a good story, they mamashdidn't give us any funding here.  He says, oh, you need a goodlawyer, I have one.  I says well, you pay?  He says, oh, who's incharge here.  I said Rabbi Shlomo Carlebach. "Ahh ---  he's notsuch a good rep-u-ta-tion --- with women. "
I said listen, 23 years I'm with Rabbi Carlebach, I'm sleeping onhis floor, I'm sleeping here.  I said, for all these women, Isays, you know, I never seen running after him yet complaining.
I says, if this is true then for sure he's my Rebbe.
So her husband likes it, he says, I'm with you, brother.
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Comment, by Rabbi Shlomo Carlebach:                Unbelieveable.

R. Shlomo adds:  The World Needs Fixing.

	Bearing witness

Q.:  I work for a woman in Makabim ... she told me she never met aRav to respect.  I said, what happened to you in your life thatyou feel so badly ... she said she never met a Rav, she neverspoke to a Rav, she comes from a total hilloni [non-observant,lit. 'hollow'] family and all she knows is the news -- the radioand the television, and they really mashmit -- but today she toldme, if there was a shiur in Makabim, she'd come, even though she'snot observant.
A.:  You're not doing it?  Why not? ... Don't be afraid _____ justdo it.
Ya'kov Rottenberg:  You already worked on the floor, so now moveup.
R. Shlomo:  _______ darkness with a stick, you must make a lightand it will disappear. 

I tell you what; I am personally angry at the rabbonim.
Someone told me an unbelievable story.   That a woman comes to arabbi who was sitting there.  She comes crying, she says, mydaughter is leaving tomorrow night for India, I don't think she'llever come back.  Please rabbi, I'm begging you, do something.  Therabbi was in the middle of dinner.  Glatt kosher.  And he keeps oneating, says 'what can I do'.  {HEBREW, HARD TO HEAR.}  Suddenlyhis wife comes in.  And she says, there's an emergency phone callfor you.  Emergency.  What happened?  They found that the baker inBorough Park, with the margarine she doesn't have a U.  All firedup.  Gevalt!  Right away, tomorrow morning, we have to put upsigns all over, {900} we should have ______ to this bakery. Wasn't even [a question of] kosher or not-kosher; didn't have a U.
	So he says to me. I couldn't believe my ears: talking about aperson, a yid, that's getting lost; talking about the cake. ______.

Comment from chevre:  Should have sent you you on the case.

R. Shlomo:  One of my biggest enemeies, really sworn enemies, hisnephew ___________.  So his nephew says, the only rabbi I wouldlike to talk to is Shlomo.  So against his better wishes, calls meup.  He says, you know what I think of you, but this is anemergency, my nephew wants to see you, so, when could he come. It's an emergency, so I [say] come tonight, one o'clock.  Hecomes, and there she wouldn't shake hands with me of course, _____
He comes in, sits on the sofa.
This boy is so sweet, 19 years old,  went to yeshiva -- rebbesdidn't know how to talk to him and everything, pushed him out.  Talked to him for an hour.   Not that I'm so good; but you see, I didn't knock him off [didn't shout that he was committing]  IdolWorship! [avoda zara]  [invited him for shabbos]
This rebbele there, he walked out to me, mamsh there are tears inhis eyes [the uncle]

	Failure of contemporary Jewish education

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[The proprieteress of one of Israel's most outstanding glattkosher rural Italian restaurants, with delightful al frescodining in the summer season (reservations 972-8-265625),discusses a USA classmate who meditates in front of a largepicture of her guru's feet.]
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R. Shlomo:  You know what it is; I understand it:  whatever shewas looking  for, she didn't find it in Yiddishkeit.
But you see what it is with Yiddishkeit, I always say it likethis:  everything in the kitchen, and nothing on the menu.  Theyhave everything, but we don't dish it up.  We need better cooks.

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	The fixing of the routine of halachic Judaism is Shabbos

Q.:  How do you deal with [religious Jewish] routine becomingtired, become bored.  All the mitzvot, daven 3 times a day ... 
R. Shlomo: ______________

It's the hardest thing in the world.  
The whole thing with the Baal Shem -- said not to do anythingmechanic.
Basically, do you need anything more permanent that Shabbos?
Shabbos is {HEBREW kria v'kain???________} .  And Shabbos is,mamash, all the time is Shabbos.
According to him?? , if you suffer from this {HEBREW kriav'kain???________}  ,if it's always a routine, then your fixing[of it??] is Shabbos.   That's what he says.

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[Discussion of someone who was -- critical of R. Shlomo'sapproach]
R. Shlomo:  Let's hope he grew up.
Comment from audience:  [Someone had once said, years ago] If yougo there, if you go to Shlomo's chevre, then don't set foot in myhouse again.

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	Don't worry, the kids are ok {Cf. a similar remark by ShmuelKoussitsky, Modi'in, ca. 1992}

Q.:  {1168} Do you think our children are going to make it,Shlomo?
R. Shlomo.: _______ I think that our children are about 10,000times better than we think that they are.
Q, cont.:  Why are they taking away __________. I'm so worriedthat they're going to be just b'nai ha'Olam, and not b'nei Torah,b'klal.
R. Shlomo:  Obviously Meshiach's  _______ to put it in a ______
You see, the yeshiva doesn't connect them to the world in a deeperway.  In the Yeshiva there is no world.  Yeshiva teaches themthere is no world.
Q., continued:  Except -- there not in those kind of yeshivas.
The boys that are in those kind of yeshivas, maybe they do better,I don't know.
R. Shlomo: To a certain point in their life, and then they ____
I don't know. Everything is a miracle, you know.  Hanuka's amiracle, you know.  Hanuka comes _______ education, right?
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Why is it __________ .

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SOUND ENGINEER YA'AKOV ROTTENBERG:  Good manager, right?Professional, very professional.
R. Shlomo:  Straight.

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	Hanuka means go for it

I just want to say: {1300} The holiday?? -- we have so much togive, so don't hold back.
I was learning last week, Reb Kallover??, Hanuka: 
Even Simchas Torah, G--d is still holding back a little bit.
Hanuka-- light is not holding back.  Mamash, it burns.  Let'shope.

Let's go.
Brothers and sisters, your brother's going.
           
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Editor's notes:
	I find now most rewarding tapes of R. Shlomo speaking to thechevre at Moshav Meor Modi'in, where he had his home and where, Ithink he was truly at home.  The closer I get to verbatimtranscription, the richer the result; the most esoteric teachings(eg, the never-revealed-but-often-alluded-to kabbalistic way totie one's shoe-laces) are often hidden in what seem to be asidesand parenthetic remarks.  And anyhow, like the Black Englishmovement showed, Anchorman English is Des Moines -- amongst theleast informational of provincial dialects.  (sa, Haon, 12/20/94)

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[FN1-sa] Editor's Comment:  Sokrates articulated the concept of'Sokratic ignorance'; that the pre-requisite to knowlege isadmitting that you don't know. (The Siddur says it better, butSocrates did the best he could, for someone stuck in Athens.).  Onthe other hand, the Athenians did not precisely deal justly,kindly,  and truthfully with Sokrates.]
Ok, like I say:  Don't knock the Greeks; it was the Syrians.  Andif you'd like to invite them back to the Golan, there is also analligator at Hamat Gader who is advertising for a peace-lovingroomate (non-smoker).
Macedonia conquered Greece; with the death of Alexander the Greatof Macedonia his empire split into three parts; at the time of theMakabim, the land of Israel was occupied by the (Hellenized)Syrian empire, under Antiochus.
Culturally, the greatest challenge to Judaism in the land ofIsrael was Hellenism, until the invention of Coca-Cola.


[FN2-sa] Zionist-Socialist group, the secular-humanist/ideologicmirror image of religous-Zionist, distinguished for foundingfrontier kibbutzim; opposite of contemporary post-Zionist-Labourcoaltion; never quite adjusted to the fact that in 1967 thefrontier moved. -- sa]

[FN3-sa] If it was the dry season, it's quite likely that theyoung women wore shorts. -- sa]
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[FN4-sa] Eg if they remain in galutz, know of Israel from CNN& TIME,  & so can't even imagine what you're doing here --sa]. 
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[FN5-sa] which may be one explanation of why Israel, unlikethe USA and the nations of Europe, which are continuallyhectoring us on morality, goes to extraordinary effort toguarantee every citizen a personal   
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