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Topics: Havdala, assimilation, Shabbos, 4th meal, Midrash onexpulsion from Eden, the lst Shabbos, Korach vs. Aaron haCohen, Ropshitzer Torah, the Spies, Reb Shimon Skernovitcher,Vorker torah on tzdaka, chuppa, torah from Seer of Lublin.
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  South Africa-Alex  1986

Song:     to the tune of  

	Listen, friends.  Can you come here friends?  You knowwhat beautiful friends?  Could I have your sweetest attentionfriends?  You know what we're doing one second after shabbos?
We're making havdala.  You know what havdala is?  And this isone of the things the world needs most, most, most... Thequestion is always, do you know the difference?  Do you knowthe difference?  You know, sometimes you can meet a personand you can tell him, gevalt, shabbos is so holy.  RoshhaShana is so holy, right?  Tell him the deepest Torahs inthe world and the person with glowing eyes will say, "Youknow something.  It reminds me of Christmas."  It happened tome a thousand times.  Nebach, what is the problem?  Theydon't know the difference.  I can tell someone, "Gevalt, theheliga Baal Shem Tov!"  Someone says, "It reminds me ofBishop Sheen."  What should I do then, right?  I want you toknow something.  It's not enough to know what it is to be aJew.  Do you know the difference? 
	Imagine I tell you something.  You know I am madly inlove with this girl, let's say Shprintza, right?  And I wouldsay, "You know something, Shprintza looks exactly likeRivka."  How does it sound to you?  If I'm in love withShprintza, what do you mean she reminds me of Rivka?  Whatkind of talk is that?  You don't know the difference.  
     I remember I was once on television in Washington andthe person says to me, "You know Jerusalem reminds me of theSan Fernando Valley in California."  A yid, you know.  A goy,I would say it's beautiful.  A yid!  I said to him, "I hopeyour wife doesn't remind you also of someome else."  
     You know, a lot of times you meet people and they say,"Maybe for you shabbos is only shabbos, but for me shabbos isthe whole week."  So, what do you do with them?  Sure, if youdo nothing, it's shabbos the whole week.  It's still notshabbos!  You don't know the difference!  O.K., ", we had agood shabbos.  But now the deepest question in the world is,do you know the difference between shabbos and Sunday?  Doyou know the difference between holy and unholy?  Do you knowthe difference between light and darkness?
Song:    
     You know my beautiful friends.  Let me tell you mybeautiful friends, it is very beautiful to be an emesta yid,but you need a lot of strength.  You need a lot of strength. We were learning a little bit today about Korach.  But justfrom my heart to your heart, friends, I'm not talking aboutan ordinary yid.  I'm a yid.  I have a yalmaka and tzitzit.This goes without saying.  I'm talking a little bit deeper. Inside.  Inside.  And that's frightening.  It is frightening.It's so easy to be nothing.  It's easy to be a little herringamong herrings.  It's very easy to be a bagal among bagals.But it's a little bit frightening mamash to be real, mamashreal.  
     You know what the world is all about?  Don't be real! When you smile, don't mean it.  When you cry, don't mean it. When you say hello, please don't mean it.  When you inviteme, I hope you don't mean it.  You know what kind of a worldwe're leaving in?  When you go to a funeral it looks like awedding and when you go to a wedding it looks like a funeral.   I want to tell you something.  Just recently, nebach atragedy, mamash.  Nebach, a young man of 33 nebach died. Middle of his sleep.  The doctors didn't know what, when, wasno heart attack.  Just didn't wake up!  Should never happento you.  I know the family so they call me up.  What am (going to say?  How can you console the parents?  But friends,I didn't have to console them.  I'm coming in there and I'mso broken.  What am I going to say to his father and mother? The mother says, "Hiiiii."  Hi?  
     When I was in Lakewood, when it was Purim, I was thePurim rav.  I would say, "Give me a pasuk and I'll say sometorahs."  I don't remember what I said.  I just remember thefirst Torah.  He tells me, "Say a devar torah on the firstpasuk,   ".  And i was like a little bit high,so I just remember the first torah.  I said, " is twowords.  Vi Hi.  Woo to those people who always say Hiii,Hiii."  Vi Hi, right.  The mother says, Hiii."  Your son hasonly died last night, what are you hi-ing around?  And thefather comes and says, "How was the trip?"  Because thefuneral house was in Long Island and I was coming from NewYork.  "How was the trip."  I want you to know something. Think they are not broken?  Afraid to show it.  Afraid to bereal.  Nebach, the mother is afraid to come out with it andsay, "My dear friend, I don't know what to do with myself."  	I want you to know something.  O.K., ", we had agevalt shabbos.  What does G-d want of me the most?  But youknow, I can also be saying, "I believe in G-d."  You knowthere are some people who say " every two seconds.  And I'ma little bit suspicious.  Because sometimes people say onetime " too much.  I realize the whole thing is not real. It's not real.  The rebono shel olam does not need you to saybaruch hashem.  The rebono shel olam needs you to be real.  	So you know the way we make havdala, we say  -ۉ   .  Rebono shel olam, I promise you I willnot be afraid anymore.  I will not be afraid.  You know why? ۋ   -   .  Mamash shabbos gives me somuch strength.  
	Sometimes I'm on a non-Jewish television station.  Theyask me, "Hey you Jews, what are you living from?"  So, I saylike this.  Economically, you goyim live from AmericanExpress.  We live on G-d express, right?  G-d's paying ourbills.  The second thing I say is, we have one vitamin whichyou don't have.  Vitamin S.  Vitamin shabbos.  Gevalt, thisis a strong, strong vitamin.  You know, we are ready to giveit out, but the world isn't ready. So I say,    -ۅ  .  The rebono shel olam, you give me so muchstrength. 			 And then listen tome friends, I want to sing it.  Just one more thing.  Then Isay,      .   You know friendssometimes I'm at the end.  What do you do when you're at theend?  I want you to know.  Physically, when you're at theend, you're hungry, you didn't eat, you need a lot of food toregain your strength.  When you're at the end sometimes,emotionally, divanly, spiritually, I don't want a lot. I wantone drop, just one drop.  Give me one word.  So we say,ۅ .  Rebono shel olam, master of the world, thankyou for showing me, for showing me where it's at.  
Singing: -    	          ۗ-   .
	Listen my beautiful friends.  I don't want to doubt yourmusucal abilities.  But you could do a bit better.  I can doalso better.  You know I'm singing like this and it's soeasy.  Really, open your hearts.  You know the differencebetween a speech and singing?  Very simple.  When someone'sspeaking, someone says yes and the other one says no.  It'soff, right?  The gemora says,    .  You can'tlisten to two people.  That's talking.  When it comes tosinging, you know, I can sing high and you can sing low.  Youknow, when messiach is coming, you know how it will be? Suddenly you'll see the whole world is full of harmony.  Allthe things we thought were against me, right?  Even yidden,when you think they're anti-semites.  Not true.  It'sharmony.
Singing:  ...
	We are getting there.  Sing loud!
Singing:   ...   
	O.K., good vork, mine zisa yidden.
	Everybody knows shabbos is three meals, Avraham,Itzchak, Yaacov.  And now is the time of David haMelech, David Melech Israel,  .  You know what the saddestthing is?  Imagine I love this girl very much.  And then shesays, "You know something, tell you the truth.  I'm sorry, Ihave to leave."  And I argue with her a little bit, but I lether go.  How sad!  Why did you let her go?  I want you toknow, shabbos is my soul-mate, shabbos is my soul-mate. After shabbos, shabbos says to you, "Sorry, I have to leave." You argue a little bit.  Keep shabbos a little bit longer. Make havdala.  Why do you let shabbos go?  You know what willhappen one shabbos?  All of Israel will refuse to makehavdala.  Say to the rebono shel olam, "Don't take thisshabbos away from me.  I'm begging you, rebono shel olam,don't take this shabbos away."  And you know something, deep,deep, deep inside all of us.  What can we do, we're living ina world.  I can not suddenly say, "O.K., I'm not part of theworld anymore.  I'll be shabbostick."  You can't, right?  Iwant to but I can't.  But deep, deep, deep inside, I want tokeep shabbos forever.  
     And do you know what tonight is?  And here I want you toopen your hearts.  What's messiach all about?  You know, whenmessiach is coming it will be the same world.  People willwake up in the morning.  They'll drink coffee.  They'll haveorange juice, right?  They'll go to davan.  Friends, theoutside of the world will not change.  There will still betrees.  There will still be clouds.  You know what willhappen when messiach is coming?  The inside will be shining. Suddenly the inside will be so clear to us.  Gevalt, right? Now we're living in the world.  Everything is hidden.  Theinside is hidden.                                                             You know what G-d is all about?  We can't seeG-d because we can't see the inside.  We are only seeing theoutside of the world.  What are the tzaddikim?  What are theholy people who are close to messiach?  What are they allabout?  They can see with their physical eyes that there isOne G-d.  Because they see the inside.  What's the differencebetween a good friend and not a good friend?  A good friendhas messiach eyes.  They look at you and they see yourinsides.  You know, not a good friend sees me smiling, theythink I'm smiling.  A good friend says, "Oy, gevalt, coveringit up, right?"  They can see the insides.  
     So this is the time of David haMelech.  You know what wesay, "Rebono shel olam, David Melech Israel chai v'kiam." I'm having a feast.  I say, "Rebono shel olam, master of theworld, you know what the truth is?  I wish shabbos was therewith me forever.  And inside, inside I want to be shabbasticthe whole week.  And you know friends, it's up to you and me. We have choice.  On the outside I have to make a phone calland I have to go to the bank.  I have to do my business.  Butyou know what yiddishkiet is?  The question is, how much areyou shabbistic inside?  And you know the real tzaddikim...
You know, there's a whole thing.  The Chozeh of Lublin sent aletter to the Zidachover.  Told him, don't say tachanunanymore because you're shabbistic all year long, right?  Sohe can't say tachanun, because it's shabbos for him, it's yomtov.  			And I want you toknow in a nutshell.  Everybody knows that we eat Saturdaynight malava malka.  There is a little bone, benda luz, inour spine which is indestuctive.  Now I want you to open yourhearts.  That little bone inside is only fed by what we eatat malava malka.  That's a fact.  I'm   not a doctor and Idon't care to ask a doctor.  It says so in the gemora and theZohar Kodesh and all the sefarim.  
	Now listen to this.  You know why Adam ate on Friday theTree of Knowledge?  Obviously that bone wasn't fed becausethis bone only lives from what you eat on Saturday night.  Sothat little bone was never touched by the Tree of Knowledge.
Now I want you to know the deepest depths.  I want you toopen your hearts.  It's so deep.  O.K., keep your hearts openin the deepest way.  Adam and Eve ate the forbidden fruit onFriday.  O.k. you remember they were driven out from paradiseand they're mamash coming to the gate of paradise andsuddenly mamash it's getting dark.  And it was the first daythey were alive, right.  They didn't know there's such athing as night.  I want to share with you an unbelievablemedrash.  If we had all night, I would sing this medrashbecause it's so deep.  But I want you tp hear it.  Themedrash says that they came mamash to the end of paradise andsuddenly it was dark.  Chava and Adam thought it's the end ofthe world.  They never saw dark.  It's the destruction of theworld.  So Chava began crying and she says, "Rebono shelOlam, Master of the World, I brought so much destruction intothe world."  So suddenly she could hear a voice from heavenand the voice says, "If you believe that you can destroy theworld, why don't you believe that you can rebuild the world?  If you believe that you can bring darkness, why don't youalso believe that you can bring light?"  And if you rememberthe unbelievable medrash at that moment two angels came withtwo candles and Chava mamash kindled lights by the gates ofparadise.  Gevalt, right?  
	O.K. so Shabbos they were the guests of G-d in paradise.And everyone of us, shabbos, we are in paradise, right? Shabbos is somewhere else.  Gevalt is shabbos good.  See, theworld says shabbos is a day of rest.  Yea sure it's a day ofrest.  That's the outside of shabbos, the outside of theoutside of the outside of the outside.  You know what shabbosis?  I don't drive in a car.  That's what shabbos is allabout?  Shabbos I don't go to the bank.  That's what shabbosis?  It's not even the outside.  Shabbos I'm somewhere else. Shabbos I change my address.  Maybe not outside.  Inside. Shabbos is parasise, right?  Shabbos I'm in another world.  
     I remember one time I was in Beunos Aires and there wasa lot of interviews.  Suddenly, Friday night I was sittingwith hundreds of young people.  Suddenly the door opens and avery sweet lady comes in and she says, "I'm a writer for aCatholic magazine and I came to interview you.  What do youfeel about all the persecution we Catholics are putting upagainst you Jews?"  I said to her, "I'll tell you the truth.
On shabbos, in my world there is no persecution.  If you wantto talk to me about persecution you'll have to me on Sunday,not on shabbos.  On shabbos the whole world is good.  Thewhole world is beautiful.  O.K., shabbos Adam and Chava arein paradise.  Now open your hearts.  One second after shabbosthey are back out of paradise. And here I want you to openyour hearts in the deepest way.  When was the first time thatAdam and Chava really got close to each other?  When did theyget close to each other?  At that moment when they weremamash driven out of paradise.  I want you to know, there's amedrash which is so deep.  When two people walk on the streetand it's day light, they don't have to hold hands.  Theywalk.  Everybody knows where they are going.  When do peoplehave to hold hands?  It's suddenly so dark!  I don't knowwhere I'm going.  I don't know where I`m going.  
	You know, I bless everyone with children.  Sometimeswith children you hold there hands, sometimes not.  When youwalk on a dark street what's the first thing you do?  Youhold your children's hands.  I want you to know, when didAdam and Chava hold hands for the first time?  When they weredriven out of paradise.  And you know what Chava said toAdam?  "Sadly enough, Friday I gave you the wrong apple.  Butnow I love you so much.  I'm mamash close."  And here if Ican tell you the deepest depths.  Why did she give him thewrong apple?  They weren't close yet.  They were married butthey weren't close yet.  You know who can give you the wrongapple?  Someone who's not so close to you.  
	I want you to know.  I was once interviewed in amagazine and they asked me, "What's your favorite food?"  Isay, "I don't care what they give me.  Depends who's givingit.  You can give me the best cholent from someone I don'tlike, the cholent doesn't taste good.  And you can give methe lowest herring from someone I love, it tastes likeparadise.  
     O.K. the first real emesta feast, that feast which keepsus going forever and ever was David Melech Israel.  I wantyou to know friends, when do we yidden get close to eachother?  While we were in eretz Israel we hated each other.Sadly enough, we hated each other.  The gemora says we weredriven out because we didn't love each other.  And you knowwhen G-d hopes us to love one another?  Now listen to this. The first time in the world there was really a feast of thetree of life was right after havdala, after we were drivenout of paradise.  And there is the deepest torah in theworld.  Do you know what it means to live forever?  Hopefullywe'll live forever.  But the question is not how long do youlive, whether you live 200 years or 1000 years.  You know,there's a lot of yidden who are here for 200 years.  Theydon't live forever.  You know what it means to live forever? Moments! Great moments!  Do you know what makes us yiddenlive forever?  We were in the beit haMikdash 2000 years ago.Crazy!  2000 years ago you and I were in the beit haMikdash.
Maybe in the last lifetime we were one time in the beithaMikdash.  It keeps us going forever.  It keeps us goingforever.  One moment, gevalt.  
     Now listen to this.  Shabbos is 24 hours.  Melava Malka,David haMelech is a few minutes, but those few minutes arechai v'kiam, forever and ever.  I want you to know something. I meet yidden who become a little bit frum, a little bitJewish and then they get lost.  Then there are some peoplewho stick to it.  What's the difference?  The question is doyou have a malava malka?  Do you have David Melech Israel,chai v'kiam?  Do you have one moment, one moment whichtouches that inside of you which is forever?  You know, myspine keeps me up right?  And in the spine is another spinewhich keeps the spine up, and that is the bendaluz.  This onebone keeps the insides of me up if it is touched.  And thisbone is only touched by something which is forever.  You knowfriends, we meet so many people.  Hopefully we like eachother, we love each other.  But then there are some peopleyou meet and mamash you love them forever and ever and ever,for all eternity, for all life times.  The question is wheredid they feed you?  Did they feed your head, your heart, yourkishkas?  Or did they feed your bendaluz, that one, thatspine of your spine?  
     O.K. let's sing it one more time.  Real good singing!
Song:   ...  
	Moshe Rabanu says,     , that oneperson G-d has chosen,  .  And everybody's askingthe deepest questions in the world.  We are talking aboutAharon haCohen. Aharon haCohen was already chosen to be thehigh priest.  So what does   , future, I willchoose.  So the Zohar Kodesh says,     , thisis David Malka Meshicha. Something else!  You know what MosheRabenu is telling to yidden?  You're touching the deepestdepths.  The question is not only who is the Cohen haGadol. But the question is do you believe that messiach is coming? Do you know what yidden are all about?  Do you know whateretz Irsael is all about?  Do you know what the world is allabout?  
     Listen to this and just give me your attention in thedeepest depths.  On the outside Korach looked more holy thanAharon haCohen.  Why?  Because Korach had longer peot and hisgartel was much bigger.  Aharon haCohen went to the mikvetwice a day, Korach went 20 times a day.  Aharon haCohen wenton the street and he talked to every Yid.  What does it mean? He's not so holy, right?  Korach walked on the street and hehad two gabbayim.  And he walked with closed eyes.  When hewalks on the street they think Korach, gevalt is he holy. Gevalt is he holy.  Korach only talks to rebbes.  Mamash doyou know who Korach is?  And even when he talks to rebbes hiseyes are half closed.  Korach looked like a rebbe.  Iwouldn't be surprised if Aharon walked with beads and talkedto everyone on the street.  Cause Aharon haCohen's avodah ispeople!  I don't have to tell you, but just in case.  Aharonis the High Priest.  You would think Aharon haCohen, he isthe High Priest, so he's sitting in his office in the holytemple looking at the clock.  Now it's time for korban Tamidin the morning.  Let's get ready and he rings the bell.  Orde has maybe a walkie-talkie and he says, "Let's get readyfor the korban Tamid."  And everybody gets ready and thenAharon haCohen is tired right.  He has a little sofa in theBeit haMikdash, lies down and then he gets up and hemeditates right.  He puts on Rabanu Tam's tefilin, gevalt. Then he waits for the korban tamid shel ben ha'arbayim,right, for the afternoon.  And mamash, who knows?  I wouldsay this is the way a cohen gadol should live, right?  Do youknow something? I am sure Aharon haCohen was nearly lateeveryday for the korban tamid, because Aharon haCohen wasbusy so much bringing peace between Yidden.  And I'm sureAharon haCohen wasn't even makriv the korban tamid cause hesays to the cohen, "Do me a favor.  I don't have time.There's a broken Yiddle and, nebach, he just had a fight withhis wife.  I gotta make peace between them!"  What was AharonhaCohen doing all day?  Aharon haCohen didn't have time toput on a kallit and begisha, because he ran out early in themorning.  You know how Aharon made peace?  He walks on thestreet.  He sees Yankala is sad.  "Hey Yankala, why are youso sad?"  He says, "I`ll tell you something.  I just had afight last night with my wife, Lea, and I'm so broken." Aharon haCohen says, "I gotta do something."  He runs to thehouse of Lea.  He says, "Lea, you know something, I just sawYankala.  He is so broken.  Gevalt we gotta get you togetheragain."  He runs back to Yankala.  He says, "Yankala, youknow something, I just spoke to Lea.  She's crying."  And hetakes Yankala by the ears and he goes back with Yankala tothe house of Lea.  You know, Aharon haCohen is the one whoutters G-d's name, the shem hameforash, on Yom Kippur.  Canyou imagine how holy his lips were.  Can you imagine theholiness of his mouth when he says to Yankala and Lea, "Please I'm begging you, for G-d's sake make peace."  Gevaltare they making peace!  Aharon is walking on the street andhe sees little Moshala crying, little Yankala crying, littleLeala crying, little Chanala crying.  He says, "What are youcrying about?"  "Oh," he says, "my father yelled at me.  Mymother yelled at me.  Oy, my heart is bleeding."  He says,"Let's go back to your parents."  Gevalt does he make peacebetween children and parents.  So, when you look at Aharonyou say, "Hey, what's going on there?  He's the High Priest" Gevalt is he a high priest!  He is the emista High Priest!  
     Cause what is G-d doing?  G-d is sitting up there inheaven and sends messages to the earth,    . G-d is everywhere.  G-d is everywhere.  I want you to knowthis is not my own fabrication.  This Torah, this is aRopshitzer torah.  And he says this is the pashat intehillim,  '     .  Listen to this. Moshe Rabenu was sitting mamash in his office.  Moshe wassitting in his camp.  So Korach says, "What kind of leader isthis.  He's sitting there talking to G-d all the time." Aharon, who is running out to the streets, Korach says, " '? Holy unto G-d?  He's supposed to be holy."  You see, Iwant you to know there was a team, Moshe and Aharon.  Mosheis talking to G-d.  Aharon is talking to Yidden.  Moshe andAharon .  Korach doesn't like Moshe and he doesn't likeAharon.  But now listen to me friends.  On a non- messiachlevel, on non-messiach eyes, Korach is holy, right?  When hewalks on the street he doesn't even open up his eyes.  He'safraid he'll see something unholy.  So two gabbaim areholding him.  And you know, all the Yankalas, all the Leasare passing him by crying and he doesn't even know it.  He'sso busy guarding his eyes, right?  I want you to knowsomethimg.  This is not holy.  Yea, in a non-messiach world,in an outside world this is called holy.  Listen to me, theZohar Kodesh says Korach is  on shabbos. Korach didn'tkeep shabbos?  I'm sure he kept shabbos.  He's  on theinside world.  Cause shabbos looks like sunday, right?  Ifyou have outside eyes, shabbos looks like sunday.  If youhave shabbostica eyes, the world looks different on shabbos. So here the Ribono shel Olam says, it's not a question ofKorach or Aharon.  The queation is, is everything inside oris everything outside?  Now, open your hearts in the deepestway.  The spies came to eretz Israel and they say bad thingsabout eretz Israel.  What's their problem?  Same thing,outside eyes!  Do you know a person can come to Jerusalem andsee Jerusalem.  "Ridiculous.  What do you see in Jerusalem?Horses, a few garbage pails, and what's the Holy Wall?  Awall, nothing.  You know what I like?  Rockefeller Center. It's beautiful. It's built.  Looks like something.  Even, youknow, the new Hilton, the new Ramada Renassiance in Jerusalemmakes sense.  It's a beautiful building, has an indoorswimming pool.  This is something civilized, right?"  TheWall, crazy!  If you have outside eyes, you don't seeanything.  If you have inside eyes, gevalt, gevalt!  Can youimagine standing in front of Rockelller Center and davaning?Can you imagine?  The lowest, lowest Yidden, goyim.   ہ   .  I watch a lot of non-Jews.  I'vewatched a lot of Yidden.  You come by the Holy Wall. Something opens up inside, right?  It's all inside stuff. The Rebono shel Olam says,     .  He says tothe Yidden, you think I'm playing?  The question is not onlywho is a cohen.  The question is if messiach is coming ornot.  Korach is not a messiach Yid.  Korach is an outsideYid!  Aharon haCohen, gevalt!  You know what happens toAharon haCohen when he meets a baal avera?  You think AharonhaCohen says to him, "Wow, are you bad?"  No, you know whatAharon says to him?  Suddenly in the presence of Aharon everyYid was an inside Yid.  Suddenly the inside began shining,right?  
	I want to share with you a fast torah in honor of mycousin Alexander.  I'm so proud of you and Tzipporalah, bestin the wprld.  I want to bless you that this shul should bean emista Aharon haCohen shul. I bless you that Korachshouldn't make you troubles.  I want to bless you somethingvery special.  You know, by Aharon haCohen,  it says when hewas kindling the lights- and Rashi says, , this goes toteach us   that he didn't change.  So everybody isasking, Aharon haCohen chas v'sholam would change something? G-d says kindle the lights to Aharon haCohen, the holy ofholies.  What will he do?  He'll turn on the electric lights?Sure he'll do what G-d told him to do!  There are millions oftorahs.  Let me tell you my humble Torah.  How does the worldapproach a Yiddle who's not so religious and make him morefrum?  You know what they tell him?  Brother and Sister, youbetter change.  You better change.  It's disgusting the wayyou are.  You know what Aharon haCohen says?  , How didhe teach?   , He didn't walk up to a Yiddle and saychange.  But when you met Aharon suddenly your fire begins toburn inside.  You don't have to change.  Because the problemof a Yid is not the Yid.  It's only because I'm not inside. You don't have to change.  Every Yiddle is holy.  The onlything you have to do?  Be more inside.  Be an inside Yid. You know the question of loving people is not an outsidequestion.  The question is do you see that you are in G-d'simage?  Do you see how deep people are?  How deep life is. What do you see?  What do you feel?  Are you inside or areyou outside?  
	So this shabbos is so good friends.  But can youimagine, can you imagine that mamash after the meraglim,after last shabbos where we were so broken.  Because welooked at eretz Yisrael like outsiders.  G-d says to Moshe,"I'm sorry I can not give them eretz Yisrael, because eretzYisrael is not given to outsiders."  The meraglim were alsoholy, right?  But where's inside?  So, this shabbos, at theend of this parsha, when G-d's fixing us again.  	And I want you to know next shabbos is   .  Andit says.        
                    
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And this is a most heart-breaking Zohar.  The Zohar Kodeshsays the para is eratz Yisrael, is Yidden.    ,nebach Aushwitz, the Inquisition.  Gevalt are we burned. Gevalt are we burned from all sides.  But then it says, ۀ .  Ish Tahor, the emista Ish Tahor, the Rebono shelOlam promises us, I'll gather all the ashes.  And friends, doyou know what time period in history you and I are living? This is our time,   .  The Rebono shel Olam isgathering all the ashes,  all the burnt out Yidden.  Mamashthe Rebono shel Olamis gathering you and me, our children. Mamash the rebono shel Olam is gathering us back into theholy land.
Singing:   
	I want to share with you two stories.  Because motzaishabbat you gotta tell stories from the tzaddikim.  
	One of the biggest rebbes before the second world warwas the helega Reb Shimon Skernovitcher.  And you know, it'sso heart-breaking.  Everybody talks about the six million,which is cute and sweet.  Nobody really tells our youngpeople who were the six million!  Who were they? Unbelievable people!  So many rebbes.  So many tzaddikim.  
Singing:  (whistling)    
	There was a rebbe, Shimon Skernovitcher.  He was ananacle of Reb Mendal Vorker.  And before he became a rebbe hewas a successful business man.  He kept on being a businessman even after he became a rebbe.  But then somehow hestopped being a businessman.  I just want to share with youwhat kind of an Aharon haCohen he was.  In Warsaw before thewar, Skernovitch is a suberb of Warsaw.  Can you imagine,here Reb Shimon Skernovitcher has thousands of Hasidim,thousands, mamash thousands.  And imagine you'll come to askhim for tzadaka, he'll give it to you but that doesn`t makehim into a rebbe.  I want to tell you something.  EveryThursday night Reb Shimon Skernovitcher disappeared.  Nobodyknew where he was,  One time the Hasidim made it theirbusiness to sneak up behind him.  Do you know, he walkedaround in the poorest neighborhoods in Warsaw and he didn'tgive out tzadaka.  He didn't walk up to a poor Yiddle andsay, "Hey, I'll give you ten rubles."  You know the way hedid it?  He'd walk up to a poor Yiddle and he says, "I wantyou to know something.  Today I made so much money, I'm onthe level that I can give you a loan.  Would you like to takea loan from me?"  Can you imagine how holy that is?  He'dwalk around and give out loans all Thursday night.  I wantyou to know something.  In the deepest , deepest depths youknow what it means to receive a loan from Reb ShimonSkernovitcher?  The rebbe believes that I'll be rich again. I'll be able to pay him back again.  The rebbe said it's aloan.  If the rebbe said it, it's not a lie.  
	 I want you to know, there is a Vorker Torah.  How areyou supposed to give a poor man tzadaka?  A poor man comes. He's broken.  "Mamash I'm at the end.  I need ten dollars." So you take out ten dollars and you give it to him.  That'scute and sweet, right?  G-d needs more than that.  G-d didn'ttake us to Mount Sinai just to tell us to give him tendollars.  For that He could have met us on a street corner totell us.  Got to be more than that.  You know what the helegaVorker says?  I have to tell the Yiddle, "Listen to mebrother.  Today I give you ten rubles. I promise you tomorrowyou'll be so rich you'll give a hundred.  I promise you." And I want you to know at that moment when I give a Yid tendollars, I have rebbisha kochot.  At that moment, I am arebbe.  At that moment I can declare in heaven, "Master ofthe World, I want this Yiddela to be so rich tomorrow that hecan give a hundred rubles."  It's not enough to give him afew rubles.  You have to give him back his neshama, give himback his self-confidence.  Got to give him back his pride.  
	But this is not the most important story I want to sharewith you.  I want to share with you one more story which Iknow Alexal was there when I told it a thousand times.  It'smy favorite story.  Do you know why so many people leaveYiddoshkeit?  And you know it's true.  I know it's true. Because they really don't think we miss them.  Imagine if allyoung people today would go to shul.  THen suddenly oneshabbos one young man or young woman was missing and thewhole shul mamash fell to the ground crying.  Master of theWorld, where is this one person?  He would come back nextshabbos!  But you know, they know nobody cares.  They're notstupid.  Friends, if I have an appointment and somebody'swaiting for me, I show up.  If it's clear to me they're notwaiting for me, why should I go?  
	So, this is the story.  You know, nebach, in Polandbefore the war, a lot of times there were Yidden, one Jew wasliving in a whole city all by himself.  So the story is thata Hasidisha Yid comes to Reb Shimon Skernovitch and says,"Rebbe, I'm living all alone in a village.  I'm the only Jew. And naturally, there's nothing I can do, my children playwith non-Jewish kids"  And he says, "You know, my daughter isengaged to a non-Jewish boy.  But it's not only that she'sengaged to a non-Jewish boy, this boy is a drunkard.  Hebeats her up all the time.  And she has so little selfconfidence that she lets him.  Not only he beats her up, butshe's converting for him.  And she is in a convent already. In two weeks is the wedding."  He says, "Rebbe, I'm at theend."  You know, Shimon Skernovitcher has thousands ofHasidim.  He could call up Yankala, Chatzkala, Avramala andsay, "Listen, try to get her out."  No problem.  The helegaRebbe Shimon Skernovitcher, rebbe of thousands, thousands,thousands... went to that village where that convent is. This is a true story because I heard it in Amshinov. Everybody knows that Amshinov is a nephew of theSkernovitcher.  Listen to this!  The helege Skernovitcherwent with one more Hasid and they bribed a little non-Jewishboy.  Gave him a few rubles.  "Please smuggle this letterinto the convent when you go on Sunday there to pray.  Butmake sure it gets to this girl."  I want you to know theywere sitting on the street corner for three and a half days. They wrote in the letter:  We are sitting here on the streetcorner waiting for you.  Do you know?  She came on the fourthnight.  The rebbe and the Hasid were there too.  If one wouldgo for a minute the other would be waiting there.  The fourthnight the girl showed up.  Can you imagine?  What a rebbe! What an Aharon haCohen.  They asked the girl, "What made youcome?"  She says, "Because it was clear to me if the rebbesays he's waiting for me on a street corner, he'll neverleave till I come."  Gevalt, what a rebbe!  What a rebbe! I'm singing here    .  You know friends, gevaltwe need our tzadikim back again.  We need the Skernovitcherback.  We need all the big rebbes, all the pushta Yidden.
Singing:    .
            
     Friends, I want to say something to the chatan andchalla.  I have nothing new to tell you, but I just want totell you again.  Do you know what's going on in heaven on YomKippur?  Gevalt, right?  How much traffic in heaven on YomKippur.  Can you imaginr the Rebono shel Olam is making thewhole operation just for two of you, mamash Yom Kippur.  Iwant to share something very beautiful with you.  At the endof the day, when the chuppa begins, when Yom Kippur is overright?  Because the chuppa is already Succas, right.  Thechuppa is like the Succah.  The dancing is like SimchatTorah.  			If I could have yourdeepest attention friends. I just want to share with you atorah.  The beginning of the chuppa is that the chatan coversthe face of his bride.  And I want to say something.  I'msure it's not true, but maybe it is.  The bedeking is SimchatTorah
     Do you know who`s writing.  At the end of Yom Kippur,hopefully every person is writing.      .  Every person on Rosh haShana, I write myself into the book. On Yom Kippur I seal myself.  Because it depends on what I'masking.  If I'm asking of G-d real life, He puts me in thebook of Life.  If I ask of G-d lollipops and more money, theRebono shel Olam says, "I'm sorry, use the other book."  
	Here I want to say something very special.  On YomKippur we ourselves write ourselves into the book of Life. You know, chatan and challa, who writes your names into thebook of Life?  Your children.  Have you ever seen thehandwriting of little children, how cute it is?  Can youimagine the handwriting of little children in heaven?  Gevaltis that awesome.  Gevalt is that sweet.  It's too awesome tolook at.  
	So the chatan says to the challa, "You know something,I'm not on the level to see that.  I cover your eyes and Ibless you that you should see the handwriting of ourchildren."  And here Aviya, I want you to know something. According to our deepest most holy, holy tradition, at thatmoment when the chatan covers the face of his bride, at thatmoment all the children and grandchildren come down to yourchuppa.  It's that moment when mamash G-d connects you toyour children.  And I always bless the challa, she shouldfeel those little hands holding on to her.  Gevalt is thatdeep.  And I always say that I don't let my little children    walk on the street alone, right?  Do you think the Rebonoshel Olam lets his little children come down to the worldalone?  The Rebono shel Olam has four holy baby sitters.  Themost proven baby sitters and mothers in the world.  Sarah,Rivka, Rachel, and Leah.  That means to every chuppa, everyJewish woman that gets married, her children come and thefour mothers are coming.  What a monent that is.  What amoment that is.  So mamash I bless you to take advantage ofthat moment.  
     You know, sadly enough, even some of us who have socalled fruma weddings, it's still Korach's wedding.  It's notdeep enough.  It has to be so deep.  You know, baruch haShem,and Alon is my witness, on the moshav we have the privelege. Our weddings are so, so deep.  You don't go up to the challaand put something over her face and then walk away.  That'sgalus, right?  Doesn't go this way.  And you know something,I have a feeling that so many mothers are not connected totheir children becayse the missed out at the great moment ofthe bedeking.  
      I want to share with you something very simple. Imagine I meet a person and the first time I meet them Iignore them.  And even the second time, I like them but nowthey're angry at me.  Why did you ignore me the first time? The first time you meet your children, and G-d forbid thechalla is just busy fixing her dress or looking at someonewho is smiling at her.  It's cute, right?  No it isn't.  Ihave to tell something to Alon.  Do you remember Josh Laufer? Remember his calla?  I want you to know something.  One ofour friends married a girl who was completely non religious. She was just a few weeks religious.  I want you to know sheputs to shame all the chasiidisha weddings in the world. Remember, I have never seen a girl mamash getting ready forthe bedeking with so much holiness.  Mamash there was noworld.  Yea, there was a world, but what a world.  It wasawesome.  I'm telling you it was awesome.  Mamash gevalt!  	And I want to tell you something from my heart to yourheart.  And maybe you'll agree, I hope you will.  You knowthere are masectas for everything.  There is a masecta on howto keep shabbos.  There is a masecta how to get married. There's a masecta, chas v'shalom, how to get divorced. There's a masecta Rosh haShana.  Everything!  What about themasecta ahavat Yisrael?  It's a big mitzva, right?  Where isthat masecta?  Where is the masecta how to love anotherperson?  How to love your wife?  How to love your children? Where is that masecta?  Now, let me tell you where thatmasecta is.  Everybody knows, when Messiach is coming,Messiach will teach us torah.  What will he teach us?  Whatwe don`t know.  I know what salami to eat.  I know how big mytephillin should be.  When messiach is coming mamash, and Iwant you to know Avraham Avinu asked G-d, "Whem nessiach iscoming who'll be the most important?  And again it has amillion meanings.  G-d answered to Avraham,  .  You'llbe the signature.  And I most humbly say, you know whenmessiach is coming, what will be the most important thing? Avraham Avinu's masecta.  That will be the most importantthing.  How to welcome strangers.  And I just want to say onemore thing.  Why did G-d reveal to Avraham Avinu that hewould have a son, while he is receiving strangers?  It's verysimple.  Do you know what the biggest   is?  How toreceive your children.  Gevalt are they little strangers thatcome in from another world.  They're coming from anotherworld.  G-d says to Avraham, "I want to give you a child, letme see how you receive strangers."  And you know what Avrahamgays back to G-d?  "Master of the World, I know you want totalk to me but I have no time now. I've got to receive somestrangers."  And this is the acid test.  If I say to my   children,"You know, I don't have time for you.  I have toserve G-d."  Damn you!  G-d is only testing you.  If this iswhat you say then you're not Avraham Avinu, the emista Yid. Avraham Avinu says to G-d, "Rebono shel Olam, you have time. My baby's crying.  My baby has no time."              I'lltell you something.  I'm sure you share my feelings.  If theBaal Shem Tov would walk in now and the Baal Shem Tov says,"I want to talk to you."  And my daughter, Neshamala, iscrying.  I say to the Baal Shem Tov, "Heliga Baal Shem I haveno time.  Neshamala is crying."  I can assure you if I wouldsay to Neshama, "Please stop crying I have to talk to theBaal Shem."  You know what the Baal Shem would say to me? "Damn you.  I don't want to talk to you.  My name is notKorach.  I'm a follower of Aharon haCohen."  And you know byAharon haCohen, his children, they're children like no otherchilfren in the world.  Cause Aharon haCohen knows whatchildren are all about.  Cause Aharon haCohen is an insideperson.  Aharon haCohen is the inside of the inside of theinside of the inside.  
	Singing:  
	Singing: Peace in Yerushalayim
              Peace in the Holy City
              Peace in the Holy Land

    Whenever a Yid says, "Rebono shel Olam, from now on Iwant to serve you."  It's Rosh haShana.  Whenever a Yid saysto G-d, "Forgive me everything I did wrong to you."  It's YomKippur.  So, sometimes you look at your children and youthink, just for my children's sake I'm beginning.  You have achance to enscribe your children into the book of Life. Sometimes you look at your children and say, Rebono shelOlam, Master of the World, I wish I could be better just formy children's sake.  It's Yom Kippur.  Inscribe yourchildren, sign your children into the book of Life.  
     I want to bless you one more thing.  You know, at theend of the chuppa you break a glass.  It has millions ofmeanings, but basically I am saying, "Rebono shel Olam,Master of the World, You're building a house for me.  Thankyou very much.  But why don't you build a house for yourselfalready?  Why don't you build a house for all of Israel?"  Ijust want to say this.  If I live in a subway, if I don'thave a house, I don't know how it feels to live homeless.  I,myself, have no house.  Ah, if I have my own house, then Iget a little taste how it feels not to have a house.  Until aJew is married, you don't even know what it is that the BeithaMikdash is not there.  Standing under the chuppa, you get alittle taste how beautiful it is to live in a house.  So,rebono shel Olam, Master of the World, I'm begging you. Mamash, I am begging you.  
	 I want to tell you one more Torah.  Obviously, when theRebono shel Olam makes a chuppa for you, He wants you to behappy, right?  So, you have G-d in the palm of your hands. And you say, "Master of the World, you want me to be happy? Until you build the Beit haMikdash I can't be really happy. If you want me to be really happy, then you better build thebeit haMikdash."  
	I want you to know friends that there is a gevalt Torahfrom the Seer of Luvlin.  He says if one chatan and challawould really mean it, messiach would come.  They would haveG-d in the palm of their hands.  They say, "Rebono shel Olam,you really want me to be b'simcha?  OK, I can't really beb'simcha till messiach is coming."  But sadly enough we areso happy with the little simcha we get, we say it's cute.  Itwould be beautiful if Messiach is coming.  I'll appreciatethe Beit haMikdash.  In fact, I want to say what I heard fromsomeone. When Messiach comes we'll go for free to Israel. You know how much we'll save?  It will be a gevalt, right?  Ialways say the only ones who don't want the Messiach to comeare the travel agents.  But you know, I bless you, mamashbless you that you should mamash mean it.  And if you havethe privalege to be married in the week when the three weeksbegin, when Messiach is really beginning to come, I bless youthat you should have a hand.  You know friends, I always tellmy friends and myself, when the Messiach is coming, hopefullysoon, and then i'll be introduced to the messiach, right. And Messiach will ask me, "Who are you?"  I'll say, "My nameis Shlomo."  He'll say, "I've never heard of you."  I'll beput to shame forever.  But imagine I'll be introduced tomessiach and he'll say, "Who are you?"  I'll say, "I'm Shlomoand here are my two children."  And he would say, "You knowwhat, because of you I came a day earlier."  Gevalt, I wouldthink that's paradise.  It's more than paradise.  You know,all of us we are looking so hard for a little bit ofYiddishkeit.  But you know what I would like to do.  I wouldlike to know that I did something.  Imagine that I keepShabbot.  I put on tephilin.  I work so hard.  Then Messiachis coming, he'll tell me, "Well, you didn't do anything." I'll be so much put to shame, I won't want to be there,right.  Above all, I bless you when messiach is coming,you'll be introduced to him and say, "I'm Choni and Aviva." And messiach will answer, "Ahhh, at your wedding you broughtme two miles closer to the world."  And maybe a hundred milescloser to Yerushalayim.  
     Let's sing one more good song!
        Singing:  
        Singing:   