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Chanukah No date (Yiras Hashem and Kavode)
Trans. ed. AF   with headings  xerox typescript with Hebrew 
Input sa 12/94, with additional headings
DATE EST. 1979
Xerox, typescript with Hebrew block-nekudot inserts, somehandwritten English inserts, pp6
headings by transcriber
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Summary:  This transcript is a teaching by R. Shlomo on a teachingby R. Nachman on Yirah (awe) and kavod (honor); with a discussionof what it means to 'draw down'
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.h2, =sh_t4 < T4, R. Shlomo Carlebach, Chanukah, no date 1979 --

REB NACHMAN ON YIRAT (Awe) AND KAVOD (Honor)

Yiras HaShem -- the Highest Knowlege

	Reb Nachman says:  'The Torah is the inside and 

		
		YiRAH
		Awe

is at the door.'  Fearing G-d and standing in awe of G-d is thedoor of the House of G-d.  The Torah is inside the House.  Whilewe are waiting to enter, we kindle the Chanukah lights by thedoor.  This strengthens us in the hope and memory that there evenis a door, and that this door will one day open." {T4n1}

	The Awe-someness of Weddings

	A few days ago, I met a man, and we began talking about hisdaughter.  He said, 'Thank G-d, I have givem ny daughter a verygood education.  My daughter knows so much that she doesn't need arabbi at her wedding.  She understands how to do everythingherself.  What is there to know?  A ring is put upon her finger. You make a bracha.  You read the ketuba, you break the glass, andfinally it ends with saying 'Mazel tov!'.  So what is there toknow?
	This man knows about weddings the same way an auto mechanicknows excactly how an engine runs.  What is he missing?  He doesnot have one ounce of fear of G-d.  Do you know what 

	 
	YiRAT HaTyK ??

means?  Everything that G-d has taught me is so awesome. Everything that G_d has created is so deep.

	Knowing that you don't know ('Socratic ignorance')

	There are two kinds of not-knowing.  The first is that Idon't know.  I never heard of it before.  Then there is the placeof giving utmost honor to G-d.  

	 
	YiRAT HaSheM
	Awe of the NAME

I don't know because it's deeper than anything I can think aboutit.

	If the Baal Shem Tov was standing here, how would I feel?  Icould stand close enought to him to see his nose, his beard, andhis ears.  But what would I know abouyt the Ba'al Shem?  I couldstand next to him while he prayed.  But would I know what he wasthinking about when he was praying?  Would I know what he wasthinking about when he said one word?  I couldn't know.  But thisnot-knowing would already be the highest level of knowing.  It isthe level of Awe of how much I can't know.  This is Yirah.
	Yirat HaSehm, Awe of G-d, is the highest level of knowingG_d.

Reb Nachman on Learning:  Drawing light from the roots of words

	Reb Nachman asks, 'How should a person learn?  With everyword that he learns, he has to reach to the depths, to the rootswhere the life of every letter is, to the roots of the word.

	If you are learning on the level of one and one is two, of "Iam learning something and therefore I understand it,"  cansomething happen to you while you're learning?  Nothing can happento you on the inside.  You're simply learning facts.  
	How is one supposed to learn?  You must draw light upon yoursoul.  With every word that you utter, you draw light upon yoursoul.

	What does it mean to draw light from the words?  Let's saythat I see you in the morning and say, 'Good morning.'  When I say'good morning' to you, if it is on the level of a statement,nothing will happen.  But if I'm on the level of constantlydrawing light from the ultimate places, and then I say 'goodmorning' to you, then I actually draw down a good morning uponyou. [FN1] The deepest place is to utter every word from thislevel. 

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[FN1] `Shalom aleicha', `peace be unto (upon) you'; though R.Shlomo taught at Yakar in 1993, until you have said themorning prayers {davined shaharit?}, try not to say 'shalom',for that is one of the NAMES of the Divine (and one firstgreets the Eternal before greeting temporal beings); sayinstead, 'boker tov'.}
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	Learning in Pairs:  

	When two people meet together to learn, they can teach eachother something neither of them knew before they met.  Their beingtogether isn't on the level of "Now I know something that I didn'tknow."  But something happens.  Something begins to draw together.

	Reb Nachman says that there are six hundred thousand lettersin the Torah, and every Jew who has ever or will ever live has oneletter. [FN2] 
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[FN2] As I recall, the late Lubavitcher Rebbe had, in themid-70s?, a campaign based on this premise.  If I recall,each Jew was asked to contribute the cost of writing oneletter of a sefer Torah.
R. Shlomo Carlebach received smicha from Lubavitch in ______,
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If one letter comes very close to another letter, their closenessis the closeness of marriage.

	What happens when two people sit down and learn together?  Ifone of them learns something and can teach it, can hand it over,to the other, then their two letters become one.
                     
		A mystic theory of conversion and tchuva

	How can somebody who is not a Jew suddenly become a Jew?  Twopeople are learning together.  Their letters become close to eachother.  Their letters become married to each other.  From thiscloseness, a new soul is born.  Somewhere at one end fo the world,two people were learning.  They drew so close to each otherthrough their learning, that as a result, the soul of someonestanding at the opposite end of the world is touched.  The soul ofthis someone begins to shine.

	Reb Nachman says this is also what happens to a Ba'al Tchuva. Sometimes a person becomes completely engrossed in total darkness. In some other part of the world, two people are learning together. The coming together of their two letters draws down a light whichbreaks the barrier of darkness surrounding this person engrossedin darkness.  It reawakens the soul of this person. {T4n2}

	The meaning of 'drawing down'

	What does it mean 'to draw'?  To draw means that I don't haveit.  You have to get it from somewhere else.  

	I can say 'good morning' to you, and nothing will happen as aresult of my words.  But I can say 'good morning' to you, and drawa good morning upon you.  If I can see you in the morning, walkingacross the street, in the bitter cold of Winter, and say 'Goodmorning,' and you can answer 'good morning' in return, do you knowwhat has happened?  We have drawn peace upon one another from thehighest place.

		Drawing down Peace

	Peace does not exist in the world.  Peace is not an ojbectthat you go to a store to find.  You cannot buy it off the shelfin a supermarket.  Peace is something that can only be drawn downfrom above with 'yearning'. {devikut? term from hassidut.}.  If itis to be drawn down, you personally have to drag it down fromheaven.  Peace is the greatest, highest, deepest revelation of G-din the world.

	How will there be peace in the world when the Mashiach comes? The moment Mashiach comes, the revelation of G-d will be socomplete and so total that there could only be peace in the world.the highest revelation in the world is that there is one G-d.

			Shalom Bais (Peace in the Home)

	What is the idea of Shalom Bait?  {'Peace of the house;harmony between husband and wife.} What is the idea of peacebetweenm the husband and the wife?  The relationship between ahusband a a wife is like a little world.  The highest revelationof G-d between them is when there is peace between them.

	There are people in the world who think they understandShalom Bais by reading a book on sex and another book on thepsychology of communication.  This is sweet, but this is not whereit really is.  What I need, and pray for, is to know how to bringdown peace from Heaven.

	The struggle between good and evil is the struggle for andagainst G-d's ONEness.  This is the essence of the fight.  Simplythe existence of the Tree of knowledge already breaks everythinginto two.  Already, there is Good and there is Evil.  The holinessof the Tree of Life doesn't ever mention two.  The Tree of Life isrooted in ONEness, and is therefore always speaking about ONE.

 	What is the holiness between a husband and a wife?  Theholiness of a husband and a wife is that they ae really two, andthe two are becoming one.  This is G-d's holiness.  
	But if my attitude is that 'I am the master and you, my wife,are nothing,' then our relationship has nothing to do with G-d'sOne-ness.

	Peace, 'Socratic ignorance', 

	Why isn't there peace in the world?  Isn't it because I thinkI'm right and you are wrong?  It is as simple as that.
	But if I am blessed with the knowledge that every word that Iam learning, I'm drawing down from Heaven, then there is no longersuch a thing as 'I am right' or 'You are wrong'.  Drawing thewords from heaven is a completely different level.  Maybe you areright.  I don't know.   It may simply be that I don't draw it downproperly.  What do I know.

	There are two people learning.  One says to the other, 'Iunderstand it the right way, and the way you understand it iswrong.  This means that their learning is on the level of headlearning and head-knowledge.  'I learnrd it and you don't knowit.'
	If there is something that I know, and it is something thatyou don't kow, what is my relationship to you?  I look down onyou.  But if I don't know thsi thing and you don't know it, thenwe look at each other as equals.

	I am learning from the Gemora, and I know I don't understandwhat I'm learning.  I find someone else who also doesn't know, andI sit down to learn with him.  I hope that our learning willremind him, and simulataneously remind me, of the roots of thewords.  This is Yirah-knowlege, learning with awe.

Yirah (Awe) and Kavod (Honor)

	'Yirah' is giving honor to G-d'.  How do I give honor to G-d? HOw can I make the whole world realize that there is one G-d?

	Reb Nachman asks, 'What does it mean to be in exile?  To bein exile means that holiness has no kavod, no honor.  Whatever isholy loses the glory of kavod.

	The loss of the sense of honor in the modern world

	Today we are living in a world where people don't honoranything that is holy.  Holy has no kavod.  If people meet a veryholy man, who is alwo very successful, they give him kavod becausehis is very sucfessful.  He'll recevie a write-up in the New YorkTimes, and get invited to speak in Madison Square Garden. Everybody will give him honor.  He can be a holy man, but peoplewon't respect him for his holiness.  People will respect himbecause he draws as tremendous crowd in Madison Squre Garden.

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Reb Dovid of Denitz:  Story of the Gypsy Musician 

	Reb Dovid of Denitz told about a trip his mother made toVienna.  She wa walking along the street .  Someone stoppedher to tell her that the greatest violinists of the gypsieswas giving a concert in the city that night.
	When she walked into the ticket office to buy as ticketfor the performance, she noticed a poor gypsy sitting againstthe wall, playing his violin.  None of the people who passedhim bothered to listen to what he was playing.  They were alltoo anxious to buy their tickets to hear the famous musicianwho would be performing in the concert hall.

	That night, the concert hall filled up quickly withthousand and thousand of people.  The lighs dimmed.  Withawe, everyone directed their attention towards the stage tosee this great perforemr.  He appeared on stage.  Sudddenlyeverybody recognized that this violiist was the sameviolinist who was sitting outside against the wall of theconcert hall.  He has been playing beautiful, awesomemelodies, and nobody had paid attention to him.

	Everybody in the conert hall was absolutely silent.  Sohe said to them, 'You know, I had the impression that yourespect me for my music.  Now I realize that none of you whowere waiting outside cared to listen to what I was playing. While I was sitting outside, I performed the entire concertthat I was going to perform here tonight.  Not one of youlistened to me, because you didn't have to pay twenty rublesto see me.  You don't respect me.   You only respect yourtwenty rubles.  I should play the music that comes from thedeepest depths of my soul, which is the holiest thing that Ihave to hold onto in this life, for your lousy twenty rubles? I don't want any part of it.'
	So this gypsy walked down from the stage and walked outof the concert hall with everyone staring after him in aweand shame.  He walked out, and he was never heard of agian. He disappeared.

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	Reb Nachman:  In Galutz,  kavod originates in shadow

	Reb Nachman says that in exile, all honor originates from the'other side'. Kavod is not in the hands of holiness.  Even thekavod that people give to each other is completely without life,completely without holiness.
	
		Reb Nachman on the need for humility

	In order to be on level of holy honor, you must posses yirah,awe.  If you are filled with pride, than there is no place withinyou to give kavod to someone else.  In order to give kavod tosomeone else, you have to be able to give kavod to yourself.  Youhave to be able to humble yourself before yourself.

	Reb Nachman speaks of four levels of humility:  To be humblebefore someone who is greater than yourself.  To be humble beforesomeone who is the same as yourself.  To be humble before someonewho is smaller than yourself.  Finally, you have to be humblebefore your own self.
           
		The humility to honor oneself; learning with humility

	How can a person be on the level of giving himself kavod. While you are learning, you are below yourself.  What a blessingit would be if we could be on the level, even for one second, of'humbling myself before my own self.'

	Why do we generally forget what we are learning?  Because wenever listen to ourselves when we are learning.  If I could humblemyself each time that I open my mouth to learn, then the learningwould reach to the deepest depths of my insides.

Recapitualation

	So Reb Nachman says, 'The Torah is the inside, and Yirah isthe door.  Standing in awe is the door of the House of G-d, andTorah; the words, the letters, the roots of the letters, and theroots of the words, are inside the House of G-d.

	Yirah is bringing down Awesomeness into to world.  Yirah isthe awesomness of bringing down Chaunkah into the world.
  
	Kavod is also at the door.  When is honor shown to a person? When the person walks through the door.  Honor is always at sthedoor.

Coda:  honoring children

	I have seen so many place where children walk through thedoor, and there is no one to open the door form them, to blessthem with honor.  If the President was at the door, knocking toenter, someone would be waiting by the door to greet him, to usherhim through.  But you don't wait for your own child, your ownlife.  Who told you that you have the right to not stand by thedoor.

	For me personally, when I wait for Neshama to return homefrom kindergarden, it feels like the waiting during Yom Kippur. What a blessing and what an honor to open the dooor for my child.

	Cna you imagine what it means to know that a child isstanding by the door, to know that his or her parents are alsostanding by the door wit the same fervor.


	Do you realize how deep it is to draw light upon each other. Can you begin to imagine how much eveyone needs just a little bitof light?  Just one drop of light is so deep.

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Greeting children with honor when they come home and walk throughthe door.