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LISTING OF SONGS, AND TRANSCRIPTION OF TEXT FROM COMMERICIAL TAPE:LISTING OF SONGS:
SWEETEST FRIENDS TAPE 1, THE GIFT OF SHABBOS:(Carlebach Fdnt 1995)
SIDE A:
ELiayhu HaNavi (#2) - Za#46:  ALIaHU HaNaVIA
David Melech Yisrael -- Za#41
Shrei Shabbos -- {sa36}; 
Yism'chu   [B'Malchus'cho #2] -- Za#25   YiSMaChU
Ain (K)elo(k)eynu [#4 -- Za#28]
Am M'Kadshi -- APPARENTLY NOT LISTED. {sa45} 
SIDE B:
Asher Boro.  NOT P139; APPARENTLY NOT LISTED; So {sa46}
Ahavas Olam:  APPARENTLY NOT LISTED:  So: {sa47}
Hodu L'':  APPARENTLY NOT LISTED;  So: {sa48}
V'Sham NaShir: ( a phrase from Yiboneh MaMikdash, which follows --teaching chanted, hazzanut style.)   
Yiboneh HaMikdash    Za#35
"The Gift of Shabbos"  (teaching only; see below)
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SWEETEST FRIENDS, TAPE 2, SHUVA (Carlebach Fdnt 1995)
SIDE A:
U'vnah Osah  - NOT P43; So sa{49}
4/4       
Carriage horse trotting:

{ee}/ a{aa} a{aa} gf E     /  
    / aa    aa    gf E     /
    / aa    aa    gf ef    /
    / ed    cb    A2       /  [repeat]

    /<dD     d    ab    C  /    [bis]
      dD     d    ag    cb /
      A      A    A     A  /  [repeat]

      D&      e   F     D /
      C      D    E     C / 
      rB^     c   D     B^     ??(parallel, but I can't get it)
       A     B^   C     A      ??? 
 
Composed Motzi Shabbat, Tu B'Av, (Kiddush Lavana) 1993, MeorModi'in                        

The again, as fast as possible.
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Tzur Yisroel  -- to Za#2, Good Shabbos 
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V'tov B'eincha -- Like the lst 2 lines of Adir hu; the next linepulls the punch, but it's pulled out with extensive hazzanut.
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SWEETEST FRIENDS, TAPE 2, SHUVA (Carlebach Fdnt 1995)

Od Yishama -- Apparently dedicated, as a wedding march, to ZacharyBaumel.
Today I had the privilege of meeting the parents of Zechaya[Zecharia Baumel] , and I bless them and me and all of Israel thatwe should dance at Zechaya's wedding together.

Not P140A, P140B, Nor p141.  So: {sa50}:
4/4, Slow moderato:  MM=60?

c g  f g  A^ >F  /
f<c  b^a^ G  >F  / 
c f^ e^f  G  >F  /      Yup, f^:  See Note 1.
e^e^ d d  C&   <c/

b^<c cc   B^  C  /  [bis]
r  c b^c	B^  A^ /
g  a^gf   F&    c/ [to start of Verse 2]; then D.C.

[Then double-time.]
                                           
I know f^ don't exist, but there it is , half-way between e and f
Fingered on the C-soprano halil:  L: x x x R: x o x  x
Like, I don't want to say anything bad, but -- I think, a dash LesAmants de Teruel (the movie).  (I think Israelis accept stuff likethat, even if we can't bear to.  Golda Meir once said, what shecouldn't forgive the Arabs for, was making our boys act likesoldiers.  We underestimate how much it costs some of the finestpeople in our history.

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Niggun  -- Hazzanut style --quite movimg

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D'vei Haser  -- Like V'tov B'eincha, above, it seems cut from thecloth of Adir Hu.

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SWEETEST FRIENDS, TAPE 2, SHUVA (Carlebach Fdnt 1995)
SIDE B:
V'Yivtechu B'cha -- Apparently not transcribed, so {sa51}

c / cc d#&{d} gG & /
  /<C  A#     gG & / 
  /<D  B      G A# /
  / gf d#f    G2   /  [repeat]

Hazzanut cadenza:
Then double-time:
With variants
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Olam Haba (BeShT)  (Story)

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SWEETEST FRIENDS, TAPE 2, SHUVA (Carlebach Fdnt 1995)
Shamor V'Zahor	-- P65
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SWEETEST FRIENDS, TAPE 2, SHUVA (Carlebach Fdnt 1995)
Shuvah '' #2 -- Za#36
Composed:  Kilil, Rosh Chodes Shvat 1986, Home of Alan and SusanAfterman
(These last two selections seem like old songs added for filler.)
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Sweetest Friends -- The Final Sessions, double tape, $17 (NIS 45JPost)  Digital Audio.
from Carlebach Foundation, Tel: POB 2543, Jerusalem 91025; Tel:02-345264   
produced by the Carlebach Foundation, distributed by the JerusalemPost
Copyright (all rights reserved) 1995; Presumably by CarlebachFoundation.  
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[Although I (sa) think the editorial, moral and financialrights to at least Tape 2, Shuva ought to be with the MIAGroups; since that presumably was the intent at the time ofrecording.   The liner notes state "He [R. Shlomo] wasplanning to dedicate the evening's recording [which consistedof Tape 1 as well as Tape 2, I assume] to the soldiersmissing in action."

Now the word 'dedicated' is used by the Carlebach Foundation;it's not clear whether or not R. Shlomo used it, although heoften used the word 'dedicated' with various songs [eg theBest series].  And one one can argue over the meaning of'dedicate'; in the good old days it included a completefinancial commitment, with rather serious penalties forinfringement (as Joshua ben Nun pointed out one day atJericho); nowadays it usually takes no more form than a fewwords, but typically those are the only entirely personalwords an author allows him/her- -self, and usually carry theweight of the expense and years of work that went to producea book.   So in short, it ain't just jive; it may have ratherthe force of a will-&-testament.  Says I.  
Webster's Collegiate Dictionary (10th ed.) says all sorts ofstuff about the use , but not much about the meaning (pace &shove over, Wittgenstein).
                       So anyhow, QED, more or less, says me.
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LISTING OF SONGS:
TAPE 1, THE GIFT OF SHABBOS:
SIDE A:
ELiayhu HaNavi (#2) - Za#46:  ALIaHU HaNaVIA
David Melech Yisrael -- Za#41
Shrei Shabbos -- {sa36}
Yism'chu   [B'Malchus'cho #2] -- Za#25   YiSMaChU
Ain (K)elo(k)eynu [#4 -- Za#28]
Am M'Kadshi -- APPARENTLY NOT LISTED. {sa45}

4/4 Moderato

Verse:  Strong moderato, but nostalgic:
cf a^f G2
cg b^g A^2 
cf a^f G2   [repeats lst line]
cg b^g G    [Same as 2nd line, but resolved on tonic] 
       
Chorus: (Like a 19th-century military parade)
A^    a^{a} A^ F
a^a^  a^{a} A^ F
G^    g^{g} G  E
eg    fe    F2     [repeat Chorus]                 ]
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SWEETEST FRIENDS TAPE 1 (GIFT OF SHABBOS) SIDE B:
Asher Boro - NOT P139 --                            

4/4, Brisk
First note really is g; I was bound to get it right 1 time in 12.
(If the chamsin don't shrink the olivewood halil.)

 g G a gf ef / (3 times)
 G  G  G  G  / [D.C.]

Then go up a 3rd, and step on back home:

c C d cb ca / 
b B c ba bg /
a A a ag af / G G G G   [repeat these 3 lines]

 G2    A  fa / G2 E& e / 
 G  G  A  gf / G4      / [bis]            

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{sa47}
Ahavas Olam
3/4, the usual grand waltz; at 1 beat per measure, MM40? 
(MM is Metronone Malzel, where the figure is beats per minute. That is, Mr. Malzel re-invented a noisy clock.)                   

Phrase 1:
> D2 G    /  B^2   G /    C B^ C / B^3    /
  D2 G    / <dc B^ A /    G3-   -/-G3     / D.C. Phrase 1
         
Phrase 2:
< C  B^ C /  B^2   G /    C B^ C / B^2 G  /
< C  D  E^/ <F  E^ D /(1) C B^ C / B^2 G  /  D.C. Phrase 2
                     /(2) C B^ A / G3
                              
Verse:

< D3 / <F3 / C3-/-C3/
  C3 / <E^2 C / B^3-/-B^3 / D.C. Verse:


Some  days I think R. Shlomo re-invented the Well-Tempered Clavier
Maybe that what it means to be drawn to say that his songs aresimple, but they work, and that that's the mystery.  Bach was anhonest man too.  Both were for real, and that's where music's at.

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{sa48}
Hodu L
4/4
In a key that ain't hardly been heard since the Greeks went home,as far as I know, which ain't much farther than my dog can see.

 b B a^ ga^ ga^ / [3 times]        
    			 / B B B B     / [bis]
Signa:
<E^2   >C  <E^  / D4          / [bis]
<F2    >D  <F   / E^2 <C <E^  /
 D  C   B   A^  / G4          / 

Then D.C., but a half-tone-less-than-an-octave, higher, which is abrilliant touch:                                

<< a^ A^ g fg fg / [3 times]
                 / A^ A^ A^ A^   [repeat this variant]
                
Then D.S. , which brings it home, in this very unusual mode.    

It should be clear even to me, if I had the musical vocabularly,that R. Shlomo's unit of composition was not notes, nor phrases,but forms of progression of phrases, rooted in common experience. Insofar as one catches that, one can start composing a bit likehim.

(Like I say, I once said to my Oberlin college roommate Ed Brewer,who later made the harpsichord at Lincoln center, it should beeasy to write like Bach; and he said, yup, but only on thesuperficial level.)
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I was once selling Ed my motorcyle, of visa-versa, and hesaid, "I wouldn't Jew you."  I tried to mumble some sort ofobjection, and he assurred me, "No, honest, I wouldn't."  Hewas from Indiana, and as good a person as I've met.  We alsohad a Jewish suite-mate, but he became a Professor ofEconomics at Stanford.
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I really oughta be putting in the <  and >'s but what the heck, ifmodern Hebrew won't put in vowel marks because any fool can figureout what's logical,                         
	Only problem is, brilliant music by definition ain't logical. Like Marilyn Strauss said of late Beethoven, in that child-likeawe that was her gift, "You can't write like that."
	On the other hand, what do honest folk need with brilliance,most of the time.  But Bach was as honest as they come I reckon,and he went for it sometimes.                     
                                                               
Like Kasparov intimated, maybe it's the musicality of chess thatlet him trick Deep Blue, like a stupid bull.
                                               
But I digress.

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Hodo L''
V'Sham Nashir
Yiboneh Hamikdash
"The Gift of Shabbos" 



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TEXT FROM PUBLISHED CASSETTES, R. SHLOMO CARLEBACH, SWEETESTFRIENDS
Copyright, all rights reserved, the Carlebach Foundation, 1995

Sweetest Friends -- The Final Sessions, double tape, $17 (NIS 45JPost)  Digital Audio.

from Carlebach Foundation, Tel: POB 2543, Jerusalem 91025; Tel:02-345264   
produced by the Carlebach Foundation, distributed by the JerusalemPost
Album notes state:  that All proceeds go to the Foundation
Recorded with a large back-up band at Yellow Submarine Studios,Talpiot, May 31, 1994.  Liner notes state that R. Shlomo hadplanned to dedicate the recording to Israeli soldiers MIA; thatnight was 12 years since the capture of Zachary Baumel, still MIA,20 Sivan 5742.  
Contents:
TAPE 1, "THE GIFT OF SHABBOS"
SIDE A:  Eliyahu HaNavi, Dovid Melech, Shrei Shabbos, Yism'chu,Ayn Kelo(k)ena, Am M'kadsahi; 
SIDE B:  Asher Boro, Ahavas Olam, Hodu LaSHEM, V'sham Nahir,Yiboneh HaMikdash, "The Gift of Shabbos"
TAPE 2, "shuvah"
SIDE A:  U'vnay Osayh, Tzur Yisroel, V'tov B'einecha, Od Yishama,Niggun, D'vei Haser
SIDE B:  V'yivetchu b'cha, Olam Haba (B'eSHT), Shamor v'Zahor,Shuvah.
REMARK:  Apparently the only teaching would be "The Gift ofShabbos".  I don't what the "Niggun" is.

Liner notes add:
U'vneh Osah, opening cut on Shuva album, was composed MotziShabbat Tu B'Av 1993 at Modi'in, during Kiddush Lavana.
D'vei Haser:  R. Shlomo said "It's one of the greatest songs I hadthe privlege to write.  We have to record it."
Notes indicate that R. Shlomo's first 2 songs wer Esa Enai andHaneshoma Lach; that V'Yitechu B'cha may be the 3rd song hecomposed.
"Ein Kelo(k)eynu was composed [as a niggun, without the text] inNew YOrk and poularized as a wedding niggun at weddings at RebShlomo's shule.  The words were added much later, at a simcha onMOshav Me'or MOdi'in."
No other specific notes given.

There is also a brief "A message from Shlomo", but no source isgiven and it seems quite editted; there are a number of phrasesthat don't seem typical of him.  It may have been an exceptionallast statement; or it may be largely editorial additions.

"I have never sat down to compose a song.  Songs came to me atgreat moments.  When I heard the music of heaven or the sounds ofhell, or when I felt the deep silence, whenever my heart wasbroken, or whenever my soul was uplifted.  There is till the cryof war -- heaven and earth still tremble at the sound of the 6million broken strings.

Yet, there is a soft murmur coming down from the Holy Wall, thebeautiful people of the world are singing a song of love andpeace.

I hope that my melodies are part of this great song.  I hope myfriends, that you will keep singing these melodies until ourvoices will be enough to reach heaven, or maybe 'till our voiceswill be soft enough, so we can hear the angels join in.

There is a little tear in every song.  Don't wipe if off.  It ismy gift to you. There's a little in every note. Dance it 'till weall dance we all dance together on the streets of Jerusalem.

Wish you "the best"                  Love,                "
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TAPE 1, THE GIFT OF SHABBOS
SIDE A:  Start: {000}


	Introduction to ELiayhu HaNavi (#2) - Za#46:  ALIaHU HaNaVIA

Now listen to me my beautiful friends.  Sometimes you want to senda message to somone you love so much.  But you don't know wherethey are .  But then there are always two who always know whereevery Yid is.  You and I know, you and I know, that Eliyahu HaNavilives forever, because he's every Yid's best friend.  So it'sEliyahu HaNavi, Eliyahu HaTishvi, ... who's sending messages toall of Israel who still has not come to the Holy Land.  Andsomehow, some of the Yidden are so far away, not only physically - mentally, spiritually -- Eliyahu HaNavi, please bring them back.
[singing:  Eliyahu HaNavi]

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	Introduction to David Melech Yisrael (Za#41) :  DaViD MeLeK
You know friends, I want you to know, I'm -- I always worry aboutthe Holy Land -- because we don't know sometimes if you can trustour government so much -- but the truth is -- the truth is -- wehave a king, who lives forever -- and you know he'll take care ofevery soldier -- he'll take care of every Yid -- and he'll takecare of every inch of the Holy Land -- 
[Chanting:] David Melech Yisrael -- 
[Singing:  David Melech Yisrael

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SHREI SHABBOS   Yiddish SHRIY ShaBaT (KaRLiN)

	You know my beautiful friends, there is something -- G-d giveus a gift -- something very special -- something -- once a weekwe're not in Exile -- once a week [R. Shlomo says this withsorrow] we are not prisoners of war -- once a week every Jew isalive -- once a week we're able to be with ______ one day -- 
	So there's an old Yiddish tune -- by the holy rabbi of Karlin-- and this is what he says:

Wenn ich wolt gehat koach
Wolt ich geloffen in die Gassen
Und ich wolt geshrien Shabbos  or?* und ich wolt geshriein hoyach
Shabbos, Shabbos / Shabbos, Shabbos
Shabbos haYom HaSHEM
Shabbos haYom HaSHEM
                    
(If I would have had strength
I would have run through the streets 
	(or: Gassen = lanes, of a shetl))
And I would have cried with all my might 
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{Geshrie:  to cry:  as in announcing the approach of theonset of Shabbot (done nowdays with a siren!) so that peoplewill stop work; also, as a peddlar calling his wares

[hoyach:  "to high".  Cf. the vision of Ezekiel, the pillarsof the universe]
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Shabbos (4x)
Shabbos, the day of the LORD

so sing with me friends, wherever you are: 
[repeats song:]

*  The variant is as I remember it from the 70s Harvard CollegeHillel Songbook, compiled (I think) by R. ben-Zion Gold, Directorof Harvard Hillel.        
The songbook also includes the melody to some songs; maybe thatone.

As I remember it:
Apparently C Major:

dD C   cFe eD(2)   better: {d}/   D& c&((c)) / F& e&((e))/ {e}D2
[bis]
cC F   fFg gA(2)           {c}/   C  ff     /  F& gg     /  A2
                               {g}D  
gD Gfe feD          Shabbos, heilige Shabbos [bis]
or: R. Shlomo:      (acb) (cba)  Shabos,  Shabos
                    (ada) (agf)  Shabbos, Shabbos

ad!A daG / gcG cgF  Shabbos, Shabbos 
                    (softly, but with contained intensity)!

fF   fGfg A(2)      [repeat chorus]
fF   fGfe D         [Fine]
                 
I rather that R. ben-Zion Gold had heard that song before the War,but I don't know.  He was born in Europe before the War; I thinkPoland.
       
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Yism'chu   [B'Malchus'cho #2] -- Za#25   YiSMaChU

So:  A few years ago I made up this niggun -- I had the privilegeof making up this niggun, but I had no words to it -- And -- so Iwas still in San Francisco -- and Shabbos in the House of Love andPrayer was so good, what a Shabbos we had -- gevalt gevalt gevalt-- every Shabbos ... every Shabbos turned on hundreds, hundreds of young people to Shabbos -- and motzi Shabbos some of the chevredrove me home to my hotel -- and one little boy of 14 -- who toldme this was his first Shabbos -- he was sitting in the back of thecar -- and we were all quiet, and suddenly I could hear thislittle boy singing -- and he was singing [R. Shlomo hums theniggun -- Ai-di-di-di-di -- Sha--a-bos [bis, 4 times; then repeat]
So it's(?) a gevalt -- it struck me so deep -- ah, this is it --our generation needs a new Shrei-en Shabbos but -- not Shrei-ingangry, but so sweet, mamash -- so join me friends, and I bless youand me an all of us, we should walk the streets of the world andtell the world, Ah, we have such good merchandise -- we have theheilige Shabbos ---
[Singing:  Yism'chu]
So gevalt, he was sending messages to every Yid in the world, wesend you a little Shabbos, a little Gan Eden, a little hope, alittle warmth.  

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AIN KALo(K)eNU

	But now listen to me friends.  Sometimes, sometimes sometimesit's so hard to believe in G-d.  Sometimes life disappoints you somuch. But then suddenly (each Yid?) remembers 
[singing: Ein Kelo(k)enu

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'aM M-KaDShI
 
	You know friends, sometimes, somtimes you  forget -- how muchthe Rabbenu shel Olam, how much G-d loves us.  But then if youremember -- Ah, then everything is good again.  Sometimes weforget that we have a Covenant with G-d .  The Covenant G-d madewith our father Abraham:  that G-d can't live without the Yidden,and the Yidden can't live without G-d.
[Music: Am M'Kadshai]
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SWEETEST FRIENDS TAPE 1, GIFT OF SHABBOS, SIDE B

	Asher Boro   ASheR BoRA
(I think I have to sing it one more time.  A little bit stronger,yeah?)
[Re-sings at a faster tempo, more vigorous singing andaccompaniment]   
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	Ahavas Olam  AHaVaT 'OLaM
[Klezmer clarinet solo, uncredited]
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	Hodu LaSHEM  HODU L-''
Transcribe above.
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	*V'Sham NaShir  V-ShaM NaShIR

[chanting:]
You know, my  beautiful friends, we are still singing the oldmelodies, everything is old -- Yiddishkeit is old -- and not realyiddishkeit is old, but the yiddishkeit and the way we are doingit -- the way we are teaching it -- Shabbos is old -- whatever wethink of Yerushelayim is old -- whatever we think of each other isold -- so this is my deepest prayer -- in the name of all of us:
V'Sham v' NaShir -- Master of the World -- put a new song into ourhearts -- 
[singing, hazzanut style]
You know my beautiful friends, you and I, we're walking thestreets of Yerushelayim, of Tel Aviv, of Haifa, Beersheba, and welook at our young people -- you know what they need -- 
V'sham Nashir, shir hadash
I walk the streets of New York, of Paris, of Sydney, of Rome , ofStockholm, and I see the eyes of the people -- you know whatthey're crying for -- 
But that new song comes only from the Holy City --
And one day, one day, the whole world will learn from us, to singa new song, a song without hatred, a song just with love -- 
Just from my children, your children --

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	Yiboneh HaMikdash   V-BoNeH HaMiKDaSh
[uptempo VaSham NaShir
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(Teaching, not song: The Gift of Shabbos)           

So the Talmud says -- Shabbos, shabbos, the heilige shabbos -- isa gift from heaven.  And you know my beaUtiful friends, it ispossible to keep every law of Shabbos, but the gift of Shabbos,the sweetness of Shabbos, the oneg shabbos, the holiness ofshabbos, you have to ask for and you have to pray for -- we needit so much.  You know my beautiful friends, we all would like[that] the Holy Land and everybody should have Shabbos -- but whatwe have to do -- we have to give each other the gift -- the giftof Shabbos -- and here we say [singing]:  we have the power, G-dgave us the strength, to make this Shabbos so holy, so beautiful. I bless you, I bless you and me, we should give over Shabbos toour children, TO our neighbors, and maybe one day -- one day thewhole world will be filled with Shabbos -- with bliss, withsweetness -- the whole world will be Shabbos --

	Reb Nachman, the holy Master Reb Nachman, the holy RebNachman says:  You know, why? there is no peace in the world,because you can only make peace with so much joy.  You cannot makepeace with anger.  Shabbot shalom, u m'borach },,,, only withsweetness, with bliss, with holiness,we bring peace into theworld.
{900}                                         
END TAPE 1 SIDE B OF SWEETEST FRIENDS
END TRANSCIPTION OF REMARKS ON TAPE 1 (2 PASSES)

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SWEETEST FRIENDS TAPE 2, SHUVA


 

START: {000} 
ASPEC COUNTER SCALE:  45 MIN. = 1500
TRANSCRIBED ON 2 PASSES, with a bit of re-check.
Song titles:  English as given in liner notes, followed by mytransliteration of Hebrew title as given in liner notes.

U'VNAY OSAH / V-BNeH AOTaH 
{200}

{ ... is my ellipsis, for omitted words; but I have intentionallyomitted only repititions}

You know my beautiful friends, tonight .... is a very special holynight.   A night which is cutting everybody's heart.  A nightwhich is breaking our hearts into 10,000 pieces.  Exactly 12 yearsago some of our best, of our sweetest, our holiest soldiers werecaptured, 12 years ago.  And we don't know where they are.  And weare here in the name of all of Israel ... praying they should comeback.

TZUR YISRAEL / TzUR YiSRAeL
{282}
V'TOV B'EINCHA / V-TOV B-'aINKha          
{430}

Today I had the privilege of meeting the parents of Zechaya[Zecharia Baumel] , and I bless them and me and all of Israel thatwe should dance at Zechaya's wedding together.

OD YISHAMA / 'OD YiShaM'a
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{585}
NIGGUN / NIGuN YOM KIPUR  [noted as Yom Kippur Nigun only inHebrew title, not in English title nor liner notes]  
[PRAYER FOR IDF SOLDIERS]

So you hear my beautiful friends, we children of Abraham Issac andJacob, we have have two kinds of yidden, we have two kinds ofbrothers and sisters.  Two kinds of holiness.  There is theholiness of the Seer of Lublin, the prophet, the person who doeseverything G-d wants you to do.  He is learning Tora, he isfulfilling every law.  And every minute of his life he is servingG-d.  But then there was another holiness.  The street-barber --the one who takes the lashes for another yid.  And you know mybeautiful friends, here in the holy land we have so many holyyidden, great kabbalists, great scholars, people that do mitzvasall day, but then we have the holy barbers -- the holy soldiers,the holiest ... the sweetest the holiest in the world.  	And here we are praying for them:  Master of the World, protectthem.  Master of the World, bring them back to us.  Master of theWorld, answer their prayer.
{663}
[CONTINUES NIGGUN]
 Master of the World, protect our soldiers.  Protect the holyland.  Protect all the yidden.  Protect the world.  ProtectYerushelayim, Ir HaKodesh.
[CONTINUES NIGGUN]
{795}
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D'VEI HASER / DVI HaSeR
       
{700}
END SIDE A: {850}
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START SIDE B: {000}

V'YIVTECHU B'CHA / V-YIVTeChU B-Cha

You know my beautiful friends, I'm singing -- we all are singingthis -- not only for the holy soldiers, for their parents, for allthose who love them {HEBREW} Rabbenu shel Olam, YOU Promised us,YOU won't forsake us -- this is to give them strength, and hope --
 all of us -- 
{Resumes singing}
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OLAM HABA (BeSHt) / 'OLaM HaBAH

The holy Midrash says:  Every night ... when David HaMelek ....awoke at midnight, and this is what he said:  Master of the World,let me hear the prayers of all of Israel.  And the Master of theWorld took King David up to the highest place {HEBREW} and hecould hear the prayers of the Jewish people, and of the wholeworld. And of the whole world.  And when he heard all thosepryaers he composed the Sefer Tehillim, the words of the Psalsms. 
	You know friends, my beautiful beautiful friends, I'm sureit's clear to you:  A holy person is somebody who's very holy ineverything. But if you don't hear somebody crying -- you're notholy.  Maybe the rest of you is holy, but your ears are definitelynot holy.  
	The holiness of us yidden is:  Sh'ma Yisrael.  You could heara cry far away.  
	So while we are sitting here, and I'm telling you the story,and we're singing together, deep deep deep inside, we're beggingYOU, Master of the World, let us hear the prayers of our holybrothers.  Master of the World, let us hear the prayers ofZechaya, of Zvi, of Yehuda, of Ron, of Rachmin and of Yossi. Gevalt are we crying with them.  

	So here's the story:
	Everybody knows, everybody knows:  The holy of holiest, theholy Ba'al Shem Tov, the sweetest of the sweet, the holiest of thethe holiest:
	Sometimes he had the clear vision, clear prophecy; [and] alot of [other] times it was not clear to him, but he knew what hehas to do.  
	So one Thursday night he said:  Harness the horses, we haveto go somewhere for Shabbos.
	And everybody knows:  The Baal Shem Tov, he had a horsedriver, Alexi.  But the horse-driver was not sit[ting] with hisface to the horses.  The horses would go by themselves.  Alexiwould sit with his face to the holy Baal Shem Tov.  
	They traveled ... all night.  And suddenly ... they stoppedin front of a palace.  And next to the palace was a broken house. 
	They stopped in front of the broken house.  Man walked out,looked like a gangster, like a thief, like a murderer.  Awesome,gruesome.  He came out, and he says:  "Wadda you want!?"  
	And the holy Baal Shem Tov said very softly, with greatrespect, "Could we stay here for Shabbos?"
	And the yid said:  "I know people like you:  You pray for 10hours, then you make kiddish for 10 hours, until you come to eatShabbos is over.  By me, I daven one minute, kiddish half aminute, and then I eat.  If you want to stay here, you have to doexactly what I do. "  And he started yelling at them, and cursingthem, and abusing them -- and the Baal Shem Tov didn't say a word.              

	And the end was, the Baal Shem Tov couldn't even daven, theBaal Shem Tov couldn't make kiddish, the Shabbos was like Tishab'Av. It was just abuse, and curses.  And the hassidim wondered,why the Baal Shem Tov is taking it all in.
	After havdala, the gangster & murderer & thief disappeard and-- ah -- the Baal Shem Tov didn't know what to do.  

	Now open your hearts, my beautiful friends:
	The door to the Palace opened.  And an utmost utmost elegantmost beautiful young lady come out.  She looked like ourforemothers.  So holy, so beautiful.  And she opened the door tothe Palace and she said:  "Holy Master, Holy Master Baal Shem Tov,let me have the honor of inviting you to the 4th meal, to theFeast of King David."
	And the holy Baal Shem Tov and the hassidim walked into thepalace.  And there the table was set with little candles, and itwas mamash the house of our father Abraham.  
	The holy Baal Shem Tov was wondering.  And she says to theHoly Baal Shem Tov:  "Heilige suisse [Yid. sweet] Rebbe, don't yourecognize me?"
	And The holy Baal Shem Tov looked at her, and this is what hesaid:  "Aren't you Feigele -- aren't you the cutest little Feigele-- aren't you the orphan girl who worked in our kitchen many yearsago when you were nine years old -- "
	And Feigele with tears in her eyes, she says, "Heilige suisseBaal Shem Tov, thank you so much for recognizing me.  Remember Iwas an orphan, I had nobody in the world, and you adopted me and Iwas helping the holy rebbitzn in the kitchen." 
	And everybody who has children knows, sometimes our childrenhave lice 
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[at least that was common at Moshav Meor Modi'in, from itsfounding in the 70s into the 90s -sa], 
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and you have to comb out the lice with a comb, and that hurts somuch.  

	So she says," I got lice, and the holy rebbitzin was combingout my hair, but the rebbitzin did is SO rough.   And I wascrying, I was crying, I was crying with all my heart.  And I said,`Rebbitizn, please do it more softly, heilige rebbitizn, I cannotbear the pain.'  And you stood there, and he didn't say a word,you heilige Baal Shem Tov, you heard me crying and you didn't saya word.
	"Shortly after, I left your house, and I was wandering allover the world.   Then I met my holy husband."  

	At that moment ... the door opened, and that ex-murderer, expirate, who looked so terrible yeserday, came into the room.  Hehad a streimel on his head, and was all dressed in white, youcould see he is the holiest of the holiest.

	And she says:  "Heilige Baal Shem Tov, meet my husband, meetmy holy husband.  My husband is the head of the Lamed-vovTzadikim, the head of the 36 holy hidden  people.  When I marriedmy husband, he says to me:  `Feigele, don't you know ... thatbecause of you the holy Baal Shem Tov has no share in the comingworld. Because when you were crying - when you were crying -- whenyou were crying and the Baal Shem Tov was silent, there was avoice in heaven, that the heilige Baal Shem Tov lost his share inthe coming world.'  
	"I was so broken.  I was so sad.  Because Rebbe, I love youso much.  And I didn't want you, just on account of me, to have noshare in Gan Eden.  So I'm begging my husband all the time,`please, please, can't you Fix [tikkun] the neshama of the BaalShem Tov. Can't you please get him back his share in the comingworld.'
	So what is Gan Eden:  it's Shabbos.  "So my holy husbandprayed you out:  that one shabbos of your life, it should be TishaB'Av and not shabbos.  And my holy husband took it upon himself toget you here for Shabbos.  And he abused you and yelled at you -took away every ounce of Shabbos from you.   
	"But now heilige Baal Shem Tov:  my husband just told me, heheard a voice in heaven:  The heilige Baal Shem Tov has again hisshare in the coming world.  "

	So you hear my beautiful friemds:  I'm so worried.  I'm soworried.  All of us -- who -- why don't we  hear our soldierscrying -- why don't we hear their parents crying.  And I don'tever, ever, ever want us to lose our share in the coming worldbecause we didn't hear them crying.
{Singing:  Tzur Yisrael}

	And you know my beautiful friends:  I have a little bit of aclaim to G-d, because it says:  G-d only tells us to do what HE'sdoing.  Master of the World, if YOU want us to hear another yidcrying, why didn't you hear us crying.  
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{The following paragraph is corrected on the basis of theeditted version input in "Friends, Listen to This: RabbiShlomo's Teachings and Stories", compiled by Zivi Ritchie: }
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	You know my beautiful friends, who are the real holy yidden. Every yid is, all over, there are some special yidden are so holy,and their children need protection.  The holy Mitnachlim [JewishSettlers], gevalt are they holy, they're sitting in this MesiratNefesh ["self-sacrifice"] , and who dares, who has the chutzpa,who has the chutzpa to minimize their holiness, who dares -- whodares telling soldiers -- not to protect them --   
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[Said in a tone of outrage, as strongly as I recall hearingR. Shlomo saying anything, except once when he heard thatsomeone was hitting their children. -- sa]
[The point at issue here was and is the alleged reduction inIDF protection of settlements and of roads used by settlers;that alleged reduction in protection is associated, notimplausibly, with the withdrawal of IDF troops from areas ofJudea-Samaria under the Labour-Meretz administration. -sa].


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COMMENT on this story (sa):  One may note several pointshere.  (1)  The influence of R. Shlomo's closely to children,eg those of the Witts and at the Moshav, on thecharacterizatons.  (2):  That, like Reb Nachman, R. Shlomohas nested this story in nested settings:  the Talmudic storyof how King David wrote the psalms; the essentially oflistening in Judaism; listening to people cry;  the need tokeep oneself aware, with appropriate political followthrough, of the suffering of soldiers, particularly thosemissing in action.  
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(Given a temptation to popularize the stories of R.Shlomo and take them out of context to make thempalatable to a wide readership, I think it is useful tonote that authentically they are essentially connectedto context.)
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(3)  It is the custom in ultra-orthodox prayer service andsiddurim, based on their theoretic anti-Zionism 
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(that is, on the theologic position that a legitimatestate of Isreal can only be established by Meshiach;although theoretically anti-Zionist or non-Zionist, manyultra orthodox groups and people make extraordinarycontributions to the people and culture of Israel, andmany have risked and lost their lives in military andmilitary-related service)
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not to include a prayer for the soldiers of the IDF. Although R. Shlomo always respected his obligations as anordained (smicha Lubavitch) member of the ultra-orthodoxcommunity, he here clearly takes exception to that custom.  
Various members of Moshav Meor Modi'in could recount storiesof R. Shlomo singing to soldiers in the Sinai and in Lebanon(summer 1982), and I suppose many other places.
He also sang for Volunteers for Israel (Sar-el, Tel Aviv).

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N.B.:  R. Shlomo often grabbed the name 'Feigele' when he needed aname for a character in one of his stories; and I've just latelyread that the name 'Feigele' has a rather noble significance [incontrast to, eg, 'Spritzele'] but I can't recall where I read itor what was.  [Beyond the obvious meaning Yid. Feigel, bird;Hebrew Zipporah]. 



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Shuva 
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APPENDIX:
I input the following text of a flyer distributed at the Rovaentrance to the Kotel, Pesach 1996, by the International Coalitionfor Missing Israeli Soldiers, POB 32380, Jerusalem 91322, Israel;Tel/FAX 972-2-236-083.   
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{ Input verbatim, except that in one bracketed [  ] case Ihave substituted a title for a proper name.  Remarks prefacedby asterisks occur as such in the text of this leaflet.}

In my opinion it would be inappropriate to delete thismaterial (although it should be revised in accord withsubsequent information, as confirmed by the aboveorganization) from any reproduction of the preceedingtranscription of the R. Shlomo Carlebach teachings on the"Shuva" tape:

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"FACT SHEET:  ISRAEL'S MISSING SOLDIERS

[Fact Sheet by the International Coalition for MissingIsraeli Soldiers, POB 32380, Jerusalem 91322, Israel; Tel/FAX972-2-236-083; (tax deductible U.S. and Israel); distributedPesach 1996.  (The International Coaltion for Missing IsraeliSoldiers is approved as a tax-deductible organization in U.S.and Israel.).   

"June 11, 1982:  In the wake of the tank battle between IDFand Syrian forces in Sultan Ya'akub, northeastern Lebanon,six Israeli soldiers go missing.  Later, three men arereturned, but there is absolute denial of information aboutthe others.  ZACHARY BAUMEL, YEHUDA KATAZ, and ZVI FELDMAN. The 1949 Geneva Convention Section 2, Articles 11 and 12 holdSyria responsible for the fate of the men.                 
* On that same day, CBS Televsion shows the captured Israelitank and crew being paraded in the village of Ayta, nearDamascus.

May 20, 1985:  Israel releases 1150 convicted Palestinianterrorist in exchange for three Israeli soldiers, among themHezi Shai, comander of Zachary Baumel's tank.  Shai was heldin captivity by Ahmed Jibril, leader of the PFLP.
            
February 19886:  YOSEF FINK and RACHAMIN ALSHEIKH areambushed and seized by extremist Hizbollah forces whilepatrolling the security zone in Southern Leanon.  Thefollowing day positive information is produced to confirmtheir captivity.  Radio Beirut issues a Hizbollah ultimatumto kill the prisoners if Israel does not withdraw fromLebanon.  Hizbollah later declares that one of the soldierswas executed.

October 1986:  RON ARAD is taken hostage after bailing out ofhis crippled phantom plane above southern Lebanon.  Arad iscaptured by Amal, a Lebanese Shiite organization, and takento Beirut.

1987:  A photograph and letter are sent to his family.  Todate, this remains the only contact that Ron has had with hisfamily.
* Presently, Ron Arad is believed to be held in Iran.

1991:  John Picco of the UN negotiates for proof of thedeaths of Fink and Alsheikh in exchange for a prisonerrelease.  Although evidence of their death is produced,return of their bodies for proper burial is denied.

July 1993:  A Russian Near-East expert states that at leasttwo out the three missing soliders from Sultan Ya'akub arealive and being held in Syrian controlled Lebanon.

December 1993: [The PLO "Chairman"] delivers half of ZacharyBaumel's dog tag to Jacques Nerieh, advisor to Prime MinisterRabin.  [The PLO "Chairman"] also promises that moreinformation will be forthcoming.

May 4, 1994:  PLO - Isral Cairo Accord includes a commitmentfrom [The PLO "Chairman"] to give more information.  None hasbeen forthcoming.

July 1995:  Jordanian journalist Haroun Machamid reveals thathe saw missing Israeli soldiers Zachary Baumel, Tzvi Feldmanand Yehuda Katz in PLO captivity shortly after their capture.

September 1995:  The U.S. Congress conditions $500 million inaid to the Palestinian Authority on [The PLO "Chairman"]'srevealing all information on the fate of Zachary Baumel.

October 1995:  Prof. Ibrahim Suliman, a businessman close toSyrian President Assad and president of the Syrian-AmericanFoundation for a Comprehensive Peace, says that Ron Arad andZachary Baumel are alive."
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[END LEAFLET.] 