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Yud Gimel Elul, Fall, 1987 Tismach Jerusalem, Home of Yocheved, 
                                      Jewish Quarter

Reb Shlomo speaking:    
               	You know my beautiful friends, just to make 100%sure, I'm sure you do know.  This is the nusach of Rosh Hoshanahand Yom Kippur.  This is the way we are chanting our prayers onRosh Hoshanah and Yom Kippur.  Let me tell you the story.  Youknow the prayer says, "Let the whole world know that there is oneG-d.  Let the whole world know that He created them.  And let thewhole world know that the G-d of Israel is the King of the World." So I needmamash the softest harmony, just hold onto my last note all thetime.  
	It's a beautiful story.  The Chiddushe HaRim, the old GererRebbe, before Rosh Hoshanah, received a letter from one of theChassidim, and this is what he said, "Heilage Zeisa Rebbe, my HolyMaster, please let me know... please tell me... please enlightenme... Which is the most important prayer of Rosh Hoshana and YomKippur, the High Holidays?  The Chiddushe HaRim answered him backand this  is what he said, "I want you to know, I want you toknow, I receive so many letters that I could never answer them.But I hasten to answer your letter, because your letter was wetwith tears, when I received it.  So I hasten to answer you."  Andhe says, "Please do know that every prayer, every prayer isimportant.  Every prayer reaches heaven.  And the heavens areopen.  But I want you to know, I want you to know, when it comesto this prayer, I want you to concentrate, with the deepest,deepest depths of your heart, of your soul, of everything youhave.  Because this is all there is to Rosh Hoshana.  This is whatwe are praying for on the first day of the year, and the last dayof the last year.        "Vayaydah kal pa-ulekee Atah p'alto.  And every creation will know that You createdhim.)  To know that there is one G-d.  Let the whole world know. Let the whole world know.       

	Reb Nachman says, the Heilage Reb Nachman says, you know whypeople hate each other?  Because deep, deep, deep down they don'treally believe that G-d created them.  And they hate each other. If it would be clear to them that there is only one G-d, and G-dcreated them, they'd love each other.  
	I want to tell you something.  It's not a commercial.  I justremembered, I have this on a record, some of you know I made thiswith Neal Siedel, I don't know if some of you know him.  NealSiedel is one of the absolutely greatest guitar players.  You knowwhen Segovia came to America...  Segovia, gevaldt, he was alreadyold, it was really the last time he came in his life to America. So he sent letters to all the universities that he wants fourteenstudents for the summer.  They interviewed thousands.  And out ofthe thousands, they collected fourteen.  And then when he came, hesaid out of the fourteen, I want to take seven.  And Neal was oneof the seven.  Gevaldt, right.  Not from this world.  Anyway, sowe made a record, and the person who wrote the harmony, so tospeak, is a non-Jewish brother and he really put his whole heartinto it.  And I had just came back from Eretz Yisrael, so I had noidea what he was planning, and I just left it completely in Neal'shands.  I arrived in Los Angeles and it was just so beautiful.  Sowe are coming there and he has one of the absolutely... the bestchoir in Los Angeles.  They were also not Jewish, that's OK withme. So here I am explaining to them the words, right.  Gevaldt,"The whole world should know there is One G-d."  And they weremamash very, very holy people.  And they said, "How do you want toharmonize?"  I said, "Do me a favor, let's forget the notes."   Iwant you to know, I began singing it, like I'm singing with younow...  and it was so good.  And then I started telling the storyand the floor was wet with tears.  And then Neal's wife came up tome, into the room and she said, "If you don't know what'shappening in here, all the people crying there."  And then Nealsays, "Should we do it one more time?"  When we do a song, we doit a few times.  Everybody said, "No, this is a one time shot." If you listen back to the record, just thinking about it, thefirst time they heard the song, and the way they just let loose,from the deepest depths of their hearts.  I mean everybody knowsthat the nusach of Rosh Hoshana and Yom Kippur, the way we arechanting the prayers is mamash from the Holy Temple. It's just sobeautiful.  All year long, I'm waiting for it.  Give me harmony. (Singing)
	                                                            	Now beautiful friends, I had a flash.  You know, there's agevaldt story.  The Heilage Rebbe Reb EliMelech, it was about 180years ago.  The Holy Rebbe Reb EliMelech, you know a few minutesbefore Shabbos, there he was, suddenly the door opens and a Polishfisherman walks in with a big fish in his hand, and he says inPolish to the Rebbe, "Do you need a fish for Shabbos?"  He didn'teven look up.  "You're asking me?  Ask the Rebbbetsin.  Go to thekitchen."   He goes to the kitchen, the Rebbetsin says, "Now, tenminutes before Shabbos?"  She says, "Next Friday, come earlier,I'll buy the  fish from you.  Now everything is cooked..."  Hegoes back to Reb EliMelech, and he says in Polish, "The Rebbetsinsays everything is cooked for Shabbos."  So Reb EliMelech says,"So what do you want?"  So he says, "Why don't you buy the fishfor the Feast of King David?"  Suddenly Rebbe Reb EliMelech liftedup his eyes and said, "Oy, why didn't you say so?  Why didn't youtell me that it's you, my holy grandfather?"  So he says, "HeilageZeidie, Holy Grandfather, I know you are angry with me.  Because Iam celebrating with the Chassidim only the three meals of Shabbos,but the fourth meal, the Feast of King David, Saturday night, I'malways eating by myself."  But he says, "G-d is my witness, afterthe Third Meal, I'm putting so much heart into it, I just don'thave strength anymore."  But he says, "I swear to you, that mychildren and grandchildren, until the Messiah is coming, willalways celebrate the Feast of King David with alot of people."  SoKing David says,  "For that I promise you, whenever your childrenor grandchildren will sit by the Feast of King David, I will bethere."
	Anyway I want you to know, that I had the privilege that theBobover Rebbe... The Bobover Rebbe was the first Rebbe to comeover from the camps.  He came in '47.  The first few weeks I didn't have enough guts to write everything down.  Unbelievablestories.  But one of the things he told us, he was caught by theNazis, 127 times.  He was dressed like a Polish officer.  And hesmuggled out children from the concentration camps.  And Iremember the first Bar Mitsva in Bobov was a little boy who hesmuggled out, when the little baby was two days old.  And theRebbe mamash was crying so much.  "I carried you out.  Did I everdare dream that I would be at your Bar Mitsva."  But anyway tomake it very short, the Rebbe was caught 127 times.  And each timehe had a little piece of gold in his shoes, so he would alwaysbribe the Nazis, and they would let him go.  By the 127th time hehad nothing.  So you know, the Gemora says, when something goeswrong, make a little vow.  So mamash he says, "Ribbono shel Olam,I make a vow.  I'll always eat the Feast of King David with alotof people."  At that moment, another Nazi came up, and he says tothe first Nazi, "Do you have a match?  I want to smoke acigarette."  He put his gun on the wall... In the meantime, theBobover Rebbe took off.  Eliyahu Navi came, I'm sure.  Or maybeKIng David, himself.  
	I want you to know the first year, Chanukah... You knowcoming out from five years of running around, and every day...  You can imagine how his nerves were shot.  So nebech, Chanukah,the first Shabbos, he had 104 fever.  By Shalosh Shudis, the Rebbecouldn't even talk.  So everybody said, the Rebbe is not going tocelebrate the Feast of King David, he's sick.  But there were someinside people, like my brother and humble me, and a few more kids. And we knew that the Rebbe is going to keep his vow.  We were surethe Rebbe is taking a few aspirins, and maybe by three or four inthe morning he'll come out.  In the winter, Shabbos is over byfive, six.  If you take some strong medicine, by two or three inthe morning, you can already be a little bit better.  So we waiteduntil four in the morning, I'll never forget it.  The BoboverRebbe mamash, gevaldt.  He came in.  He came down the steps,    mamash into the Bais Medrash.  All the chassidim were there,     "Thank you so much, thank you so much".  It was mamash the highestMelave Malka of my life.  Mamash the Rebbe sat with us until eightin the morning, it was maybe fifteen kids.  Fourteen, fifteen,sixteen kids...  Gevaldt.  That's all there were.
	But anyway, I have a flash.  Sadly enough, or stupidly, Ihave to go to America on Wednesday, maybe if the Messiah comes,folks, I'll save the money and stay, but since the Messiah is notso much into saving lately...  Ayway I had this flash, I have aconcert Saturday night, in Tel Or, I was thinking if some of youhave nothing else to do, if Yocheved doesn't mind, if we can comeback here, about 12:15, mamash.  Try to be here, and we'll justcelebrate.
          I want you to know that this Shabbos is mamash talkingabout King David in a million ways.  But the most important thingit says,      (Kee tivneh Bait Chadash)   "When youbuild a new house."  We are all waiting for the real House of KingDavid.  And we are all waiting for "Mechias Amalkek", for evil to be wiped out from the world forever.  If you can it would bebeautiful.  And really, the feast of King David, gevaldt is thathigh.  
	I want to share something very deep with you friends.  How doyou know how much you love a person?   OK, very simple.  Here Ilove this girl very much, we're standing on a street corner,saying good-bye to each other.  Let's say, I have to say good byeat 7:25, right, and that's it.  She goes her way and I go my way. It wasn't gerferlick yet, it was so...     you can still live. But now listen, I walk to the corner, then I realize that I can'twalk away from her.  She walks to the other corner and sherealizes I can't walk away either.  I turn around, and I see thatshe's also standing at the corner.  Gevaldt, suddenly we run backto each other.  Gevaldt is that deep.    
	Do you know what King David is all about?  Why King Davidkeeps us alive?  Do you know what King David is all about? Shabbos is over, right.  I make havdallah, Shabbos is over. Suddenly I realize, I can't forget about Shabbos.  I look around,gevaldt, Shabbos is standing on the other corner.  And that feastis even deeper than Shabbos.  Gevaldt, gevaldt, is that deep. Because gevaldt is that deep.  So King David gives us strength. King David gives us strength to keep Shabbos until next Shabbos. You see, to keep Shabbos on Shabbos is not so hard.  The questionis, do you keep Shabbos on Monday, on Wednesday?  That's whatShabbos is all about.  
	 You know when I'm sitting with my girlfriend, I rememberher.  What's so hard about it.  I'm looking at her, right.  Thequestion is how much do I remember her when I have to walk away. Here comes the acid test.  This is what King David is all about.  
	Ok, friends, I'll make it short.  Because basically, again, Idon't want to impose upon you, but if we could learn a little bitand then go up and have a little Kiddish Levana, (Sanctifying theMoon) it would be a gevaldt, gevaldt, gevaldt.  I don't know howmuch some of you put energy into Kiddish Levana.  The world sadlyenough doesn't put so much energy into it, they are just knockingit off.  
	OK, this Shabbos begins,       (Kee satsayl'milchama al oivecha), When you go out to battle, to fight yourenemies, and it says,  '   (oonisano HashemElokecha biyadecha) G-d will give your enemies unto your hands.ۅ  (V'ra-eeta bashivya) And then you see in captivity,ۀ   (aishes yafet toar) a very beautiful woman and youjust realize    (V'chashachta ba) so much connection.  Andyou want to marry her.  Then you have to take her home, and she'ssitting there, because sometimes you're just maybe blinded by heroutside beauty.  Let's see how does she look like in our language. How does she look like without makeup?  Then, the rest, I'm sureyou learned the Parsha.  So deep.  And the end of the portion is,you have to wipe out Amalek.
	  And if you remember, also last Shabbos we read, we needjudges, we need police.  Holy police, holy judges.  And you needto be a king. A must. And here I want to start from the end.  ByAvraham Avinu it says, after he entered the covenant with G-d, itsays       (Hoo yoshave bipesach ohel.  He sat bythe door.)  I want you to know my beautiful friends, there are twostruggles going on in our lifetime.  One struggle is going onmamash inside, inside, inside.  I don't even want to know if Iwant to be a Jew.  I don't know if I should keep Shabbos.  I don'tknow if I should be married to my wife or should I not be married. Should I have children?  I have already grown up children, but Ihaven't decided yet if I should have children.  Some people aresitting in Israel, and they still don't know if maybe I shouldlive in Alaska.  Inside struggle.  But then there is somethingelse.  The inside.  My inside is already fixed.  Mamash it's clearto me, it is clear to me.  It is clear to me in 200 million ways. That I cannot move an inch away from the Torah.  I can't, even ifI want to.  It's beyond... I don't have choice.  
	You know friends, did I tell you.  I met this beautifulChinese girl, and I decided I'm going to take off a week fromYiddishkeit. So I told her last week, do me a favor, come 9:00 tothe moshav.  She came in a limosine and I promised her we'd go outto Tel Aviv and have a little Chinese food.  Let me ask you in allhonesty, can I Friday night walk out from the Moshav and step intoa limosine and go with my Chinese girlfriend to have Chinese food? It's not even a question of choice.  I look at my feet.  Theywon't move.  They won't move.  Gevaldt.  Because why?  What's thefirst sign that you make a covenant with G-d?  That there arecertain things inside that you don't have to stuggle aboutanymore.  You know I don't have to struggle.  And I'm not knockingG-d forbid any religion, it's holy, but for me.  You know I cansit with Swami Satchanonda for 100 years, I can sit with PierreViliot Kahn for 2,000 years...  As much as I love them, and Irespect them in the deepest way.  They are beautiful, they arevery holy, but I- I'm a Yid.  Inside, inside, inside I don't haveto struggle anymore.  Yea, sure, it's hard, you have to makedecisions every minute, G-d is testing you every second of yourlife.  So what I'm doing is only fixing the outside of me.  Youknow, it's clear to me I cannot step in a limosine Friday  nightand go to a discoteque in Tel Aviv.  I can't.  But you know I havechoice.  I'm sitting by my table, I can sit there and say badthings about other people.  Ah, I can suddenly realize... I don'tknow what... or I can mamash keep Shabbos on the highest level. You know something, I don't have choice not to put on tefillin. Even if I don't want to.  Imagine one morning I wake up, I say,"It's too much."  Everyday since my Bar Mitzva, I mean how muchcan you go, right!?  And the same "phylactery".  I would like toput it sometimes in my right hand... And instead of having it uphere, I want to have it here...  I'd like to have some change inmy life.  I can't help it, right.  The only thing is, I havechoice.  If I put my heart into it, or if I knock it off.  This isan outside struggle.  So here, the Torah says,    , Keesaytsay l'milchama, you are going out from your insides.  We arenot talking about a person who has inside struggles.  Because aninside person who still has struggles inside, don't you dare goout converting the world.  You are not on the level yet.  Becausewhen you see how beautiful the world is, you are going to getstuck.  You better watch out.  You better watch out. Kee satsayl'milchama, when you are going out.  Inside, Baruch Hashem,inside, you are strong like a lion.  Let me ask you, it says, insingular, how can one Jew go out and conquer the world?  It'scrazy.  You know why one Jew cannot go out and conquer the world? Because that one Jew hasn't finished the struggle of inside. Obviously I cannot conquer the world for G-d, because I'm not sosure yet if there is one G-d.  I'm not 100% sure that Shabbos isreally necessary.  I can learn Torah for 200 years but deep, deep,deep, inside inside there is one little corner left,  in which Idoubt if the Torah, really- every word is from heaven.  Andremember what our holy Rabbis tell us, Amalek is numerically,"safek" (doubt). Amalek doesn't say anything bad about G-d. hejust says, "Are you sure?"  You know the greatest evil is not that voice that tells me, "Step in a limosine Friday night and go to adiscoteque.  That's a cute little retail evil.  We're talkingabout wholesale evil.  Wholesale evil doesn't tell me anythingwhat to do.  Wholesale evil just comes and says, are you positive? You are a thinking person, right?  You have a PHD in logic. Aren't you overdoing it?  You are too serious about it.  Amalek.
     	So here I want you to know, we started learning it lastSunday, and it is just so, so, so, so deep.  I want you to knowthe deepest depths.  If the inside of me is fixed..  Don't youremember, it's very simple.  Rebbe Levi Yitschak Berditchovernever saw evil in another human being.  He just didn't.  Why not? Why do we see so much evil?  Because, nebech there is so much evilinside of me, right.  Basically the whole world is a mirror to me,so wherever I look, I see something bad.  Rebbe Levi YitschakM'Berditchov was so much fixed inside, wherever he looked around,he only saw good.  And this is the Torah from the Holy Ishbitserwhich is awesome.  Which is the beautiful woman that the Torahtalks about?  And again, the whole Torah is too long.  Just listento this, awesome.  Remember when the miraglim, the first ten spiescame back and they said, Israel is too strong, we can't conquerit.  Terrible country, it's beautiful, but you can't conquer it. Then, nebech, nebech gevaldt, they sat forty more years in thedesert, everybody died.  Then Yehoshua sent two more spies.  Calevand Pinchas.  And what did they say when they come back.  You knowbasically they only went to Yericho.  They didn't look at thewhole land.  Just Yericho.  They came back, and they said, youknow something.  We met Rochav.  Without sounding prost, Rochavwas the call girl of that generation.  Rachav was the call girl ofthat whole neighborhood of the Middle East.  And the Gemora saysshe was one of the most beautiful women in the world.  And who hidthem when the King of Yericho was looking for them?  Rochav.  Nowlisten to this.  After they conquered the land, Rochav marriedYehoshua.  And the Gemora says she had grandchildren, eight kingsand eight prophets.  OK, Calev and Pinchas come back.  They say,you know what happened?  We saw the lowest woman there, right,officially the lowest.  Gevaldt is she holy.  Gevaldt did she tellus there is one G-d.  I want you to know, and  it's even tooawesome even to say.  Calev stood on Mount Sinai.  Pinchas stoodon Mount Sinai.  You'll ask Pinchas, how do you know there is oneG-d?  Pinchas would say, because Rochav told me.  Awesome. Because you know why?  Because he was so holy inside.  When helooked at Rochav, you know what he saw?  Why did Rachav tell himthere is one G-d?  Why didn't she tell her customers?  Do you knowwhy?  Remember, I always tell my friends, when you stand next to arefrigerator, you always get cold.  When you stand next to a fire,you get warm.  Can you imagine how holy Calev and Pinchas were,that Rochav is standing next to them and she says "Gevaldt, thereis one G-d.  Gevaldt there is one G-d."  You know what that means? Pinchas and Calev cut through all the garbage.  That means Calevand Pinchas were so holy they could cut through the thickestlayer, the thickest anti-holiness, anti-G-d layer.  And theydidn't have to cut. 
	 And you know it says here?       Keesatsay l'milchama al oyavecha, you are going out to battle intothe outside world.  And basically the Torah should say, the battlewill be two years, two days.  It doesn't say anything about thebattle.  It says G-d will give them in your hands.  G-d will giveyou a gift.  You don't have to struggle.  And how do you reallyknow that G-d gave them unto your hands?  Ah, when you meetRochav.  And you know what Rochav tells you?  Rochav doesn't tellyou, you know my profession, I'm ready.  Rochav tells you gevaldt,there is one G-d.  Ah.  Gevaldt, is that deep.  Gevaldt is thatdeep.  
	You see friends, let me tell you something.  We were learningit a thousand times, but last time we learned it from Reb Nachmaneven deeper.  Mamash the deepest.  Remember we were learning it,why did Noach not pray for the people of the flood?  And G-d madea covenant with him, just the world will always exist.  There willalways be good people, bad people.  There will always be a littleNoach'l hanging around, one good man, but really doesn't doanything.  Avraham, G-d made a covenant with him that one dayMashiach is coming and mamash, gevaldt the world will be so holy. You know why Noach didn't pray for the people of the flood? Because he really didn't believe that G-d is strong enough.  Hedidn't believe it that G-d could take a perverted creep, and makea Baal Shem Tov out of him.  He thought if you're always good,you'll remain good.  If you're bad, you're lost.  What's Avrahamall about?  What's  Mashiach all about?  Mashiach is all about,this is what you are doing with Rochav.  I mamash believe thatsuddenly one Yid can come riding on a donkey.  He's blowing theshofar.  Which is just ridiculous, right.  We have nuclearweapons.  We have unbelievable electronics.  And a Yiddele comesand blows the shofar, and the whole world will come running toYerushalayim.  You must be crazy.  Crazy- You know why?  Because Imamash know it's true.  Because inside, inside, inside, I know. You know what I know?  That deep, deep, deep, deep inside, thewhole world is so holy.  Gevaldt is the world beautiful.  Gevaldtis the world longing for something holy.  You think Rochav becamea prostitute because she wants to be a prostitute?  She waswaiting to meet somebody who is filling her soul.  She was waitingfor something beautiful to happen to her.  It never happened.  Ah,Pinchas came and he slept on her roof.  Pinchas, Eliyahu HaNavi,Pinchas is the one who never dies.  Suddenly she met somebody soholy.  So beautiful.  She was ready to give birth to eight kingsand eight prophets.  She was ready to become the wife of Yehoshua. Without struggling.   You don't have to struggle.  
	You remember the deepest Torah.  I shared it with you a fewtimes.  The Seer of Lublin, the Holy Seer of Lublin was thegreatest pupil of Rebbe EliMelech.  And he was really hissuccessor.  And one day he said to the Seer of Lublin, I taughtyou alot of things.  But there is one thing I cannot teach you. You have to go to my holy brother, the Rebbe, Reb Zusha and hewill teach you.  So he comes to the Rebbe Reb Zusha, and theHeilage Rebbe Reb Zusha says to the Holy Seer of Lublin.  He says,Yaakov Yitschak.  Tell me one thing.   When you want a person tobecome better, how do you reach them?  He says, it's very simple,I point out to them everything they do wrong.  I tell them you seeyou did this, you're not permitted.  You did this, oy, it's evenmore forbidden.  You did this, oy vey, it's terrible.  You betterdo tshuvah.  And then I'll tell you, tell me your lifestory.  Yourlife story, OY VEY!  What an ugly story, gevaldt, WOW!  You betterrepent.  The Rebbe Reb Zusha says, you know what you are doingwith them?  You push them down in a garbage pail.  You take awaytheir last ounce of self confidence.  You take away their lastounce of self confidence.  The Heilage Choze said to the Rebbe RebZusha,  "How are you doing it?"  "Ah", he says, "I do itdifferently.  I don't tell anything bad to them.  I'm just prayingso hard, I'm opening gates of light for them.  I open gates oflight for them.  And when a great light of heaven is shining intothem, they won't do wrong by themselves.  You don't have tostruggle."  
	You know what it is?  You know what struggling comes from? If the inside isn't fixed yet.  If the inside isn't fixed yet.  IfI have my doubts deep inside.  Then you know what it is, I havetrouble keeping Shabbos.  And then I turn you onto Shabbos.  Whatkind of Shabbos am I turning you onto?  That every Friday nightyou have to struggle to keep Shabbos.  Because you receivedShabbos from somebody who's also a little amalek, he's not sure ifit's Shabbos, right.  
	You know I met somebody, I told you in the old city.  And Iasked how are you doing?  I'm struggling.  What do you mean you'restruggling?.... You have to struggle Friday night?  You know whatthat means?  It's all outside stuff.  Nothing inside.  
	You see what it is.  We were learning it last week.  RebNachman says, the sin of Adam was, Adam HaRishon, Adam, did notbelieve in himself.  And here I want you to open your hearts inthe deepest way.  Why don't I believe that one Yiddele can blowthe shofar and turn the whole world around.  You know why? Because I'm not so sure if the message of Mashiach is really theright message.  I really don't think...  What do you have to say? You mean the Mashiach will come to the world and give over Torahfrom Reb Nachman?  You must be kidding.  Nobody is interested. He's going to say a Torah from Mei HaShiloach?  What do you thinkthe world is like?  I don't believe it myself.  So here RebNachman says, this is the deepest depths.  Reb Nachman says, andhere I want you to open your hearts.  Why did Eve eat theforbidden fruit?  And just really give me your attention for oneminute.  Remember I told you, if I have to struggle with Shabbos,and then I'll tell you to keep Shabbos, you'll struggle also,right.  Can you imagine, Adam says to Eve, G-d says to us, don'teat the forbidden fruit because if you eat it, if you eat it, you'll die.  Obviously he didn't believe in it himself.  I'm surehe said it to her.  Do you know why he didn't believe in ithimself.  He could not believe that you can eat one apple, you candestroy the world.  And he did not believe that if you eat oneapple from the Tree of Life you can live forever.  Don't give methis apple business.  I have a PHD, right.  I'm not stupid, G-dtells me, eat this apple, don't eat this apple...  I'm beyond allthis, right.  I want you to know something.  I want you to knowthe deepest depths.  Imagine I love somebody very much, and theyask me a little favor.  It's a small thing, so I won't do it. What's my problem?  I don't believe that they love me so much,that one little thing can destroy the whole thing.  If it takes abig thing to destroy, then it wasn't so big.  The smaller the loveis, the bigger the thing is which destroys it.  It's a gevaldt,one apple can destroy everything.  One apple.  
	Friends, what is the first thing we're doing Rosh Hoshanahnight?  Everyone knows we are taking an apple and we put honey onit.   Because on Rosh Hoshanah, Chava, Eve, gave one apple to Adamand she brought death to the world.  So Master of the World,please let me eat one apple.  Let it be so sweet, let it be fullof life.  I just want you to know mamash.  I bless you with a goodRosh Hoshanah, but I  want you to know something, Rosh Hoshanahnight, everything we are doing, is so awesome.  So holy.  Somepeople put a little energy into blowing of the shofar.  What aboutthe apple and the honey?  Gevaldt is that deep.
	OK, let's go back. Here it says, Kee tsaysay l'milchoma.  Youare going out, you are not struggling inside.  Inside, BaruchHashem, it's mamash clear to me, there is one G-d.  It's clear tome that every word of the Torah is from heaven.  You know whatelse is clear to me?  It is clear to me that the inside of theworld is so holy.  It is clear to me that the whole world, thewhole world is not hungry for money.   The whole world is nothungry for power.  You know what they are really hungry for?  Theyare mamash hungry for something so deep. 
	 And if I can just have your deepest attention for one moreminute.  The Ishbitser says, I mean this is so awesome...  TheIshbitser says the deepest depths.  Moshe Rabbainu.  MosheRabbainu, everybody knows, the generation of Moshe Rabbeinu stoodon Mount Sinai. It's all head stuff.  Do you know why the miraglimcame back and said Israel is hard to conquer?  On a head level,they are 100% right.  Moshe Rabbainu is the head of Yidden. Yehoshua, Eretz Yisrael,       (Dor ba-aye ha'arets, thegeneration that comes into the Land) is mamash doing.  Mamashdoing.  In Eretz Yisrael, you plow the fields, you take trumah,you take ma'aser.  You do everything.  You live in the world ofaction.  And you know what it is?  The people who think, don't do,and the people who do, don't think.  And you  know what it is,when you think, when you do, it's even more important, theIshbitser says.  When you get into doing, you mamash cut yourselfoff from your heart and your soul.  What's going on with the socalled frum community today, without saying anything bad?  Theyput their whole energy into one piece of glatt kosher meat.Where's heart?  Where's soul?  Where's loving Yidden?  Where'streating your children right?  Where's all the depths, the deepestdepths of Yiddishkeit?  I mean for some people today, a frumperson is someone who eats glatt kosher meat, but he can beat uphis children and still be called a frum Yid.  And for us,hopefully, a person who is beating up his wife or his children, Idon't know what.  I'd rather eat ham in the house of a Yid who isgood to his wife and his children than eat glatt kosher meat by aperson who beats up his wife.  As simple as it is.  Because to eatin the house of a person who is beating up his children, the airis traife, the plate is traife, the hands are traife, the housesmells from paganism.  He doesn't believe in G-d.  Because don'ttell me you believe in G-d, and you beat up your children.  Youcould have a shtriemel from here to heaven.  The pope wears ayamulke, also.  Nothing, nothing under it. 
	So listen to me friends.  The Ishbitser says the most awesomeTorah.  That Rochav was the link between Moshe and Yehoshua. What's Rochav all about?  Rochav was all about... She never didanything... everthing she did was wrong.  Inside, inside, inside. And you know why Yehoshua married Rochav?  Because from Rochav he took over... And you know how you conquer Eretz Israel, how do youconquer the world?  When it's clear to you that the world isreally longing.  The world is longing for the deepest, deepestdepths.  But again, let it be clear to you, if you're full ofdoubts, you won't get it.  You know why the miraglim didn't seeit?  Because inside...  If you remember, because sadly enough,because we made the Golden Calf.  And here I want to sharesomething with you.  You know what Amalek did to us?  I'll tellyou what Amalek did to us.  Because.. Let me ask you the deepestquestion in the world.  Why didn't the whole world come to MountSinai?  G-d invited the whole world to come.  Do you know why? Because we met Amalek on the way to Mount Sinai and if youremember, Amalek cooled off the whole world.  And you know whatAmalek did to us?  Because there was one little billionthell of ashade of a doubt left. So the whole world didn't come.  Andbecause the whole world didn't come, we made the Golden Calf. Because if the whole world would have come, we wouldn't have madethe Golden Calf.  And because the whole world didn't come, wedidn't go into Eretz Yisrael. 
	 And here I want you to know, Avraham Avinu,   ۄ "Yoshave pischa ohel" (sitting by the entrance of the tent). After he entered the covenant with God, his inside was fixed.  Youknow what he did?  He prayed for S'dom.  He said     ے  (Kee taytsay l'milchoma al oyvecha, when you go forth tobattle against your enemies)  Gevaldt did he pray for Sodom. Gevaldt did he see something beautiful in Sodom.  You know what hesaw?  There's another "aishes yifat Tohar", there's anotherbeautiful woman in the world.  And this is our holy mother, Ruth. Which is awesome, awesome.  
	Anyway, my beautiful friends, I want you to know that thefirst thing on Rosh Hoshanah is, it has to be clear to you, to me,to everyone, that it takes only one Jew to blow the shofar and tosave the whole world.  But you know what it is, on Rosh Hoshanah,I'm begging G-d, please let the whole world know you are there,because they are so hungry for You, Master of the World.  And yousee, I don't even have to struggle to tell you.  What I have to dois fix my insides.  And when I fix my insides, there's meltingaway.  Rochav said my heart is melting.  When Rochov saw Pinchasshe saw Eliyahu HaNavi.   '   (oo'nisano, HashemElokecha biyadecha, and the L-rd your G-d delivers them unto yourhands)  G-d just gives them into your hands, you don't have to doanything.
	And here I want you to hear the deepest depths, you know whatI'm doing after Yom Kippur?  I'm going to the Succah.  Ah,gevaldt, is that holy, gevaldt.  
	First of all, let me tell you my beautiful friends.  Why am Iasking my friend for "Mechila" (forgiveness) on Yom Kippur.  Oneof the two, if I did something wrong to them, then I shouldimmediately ask him for forgiveness.  And if I didn't do anythingwrong, why should I ask for forgiveness before Yom Kippur?  I wantto share with you the deepest depths.  On Rosh Hoshanah, whensuddenly it's clear to me that it takes only one Jew to bringMashiach.  It takes only one Jew to blow the shofar, and I fix myinsides, because Rosh Hoshanah is the inside fixing.  And suddenlyI look at my friend, I realize,  gevaldt, you are so beautiful,and judging by your beauty I didn't treat you good enough.  Andsuddenly I ask my friend for forgiveness.   
	And here I want you to know the deepest depths.  On YomKippur I ask G-d for forgiveness, and I ask every Jew forforgiveness.  On Succos, I go one step further.  On Succos, Ibuild my house on the street.      (when you goforth to battle against your enemies) I'm going out on the street,and do you know what I realize?  How beautiful is the world and Ibring 70 sacrifices, asking the whole world for forgiveness. Because if my insides would have been fixed, I could have fixedyou also.  
	And then I want you to know, comes Simchas Torah.  SimchasBais Hashoava, (on Succos) I'm still in the Bais HaMikdash.  Andthen comes Simchas Torah.  Do you know what happens to me onSimchas Torah?  On Simchas Torah, for the first time, it is clearto me...  You know, if you want to tell me something, you knowwhat I'm telling you?  Tell me first what you want, and I'll seewhat it says.  You know, on Simchas Torah, I'm not even learningthe Torah.  I learn it later.  First I'm dancing.  And here I wantto share something with you.  Awesome.  Imagine I'm dealing withCoca Cola, I'm selling Coca Cola, and I get a business letter.  Ihave to read the letter first to know what they are telling me. Here I'm in love with this girl, most in love with her.  I get aletter from her.  You know when I dance?  Before I read theletter.  I dance gevaldt, I got a letter from her.  Gevaldt.  
	And here Reb Nachman says, the fixing of Rosh Hoshanah is...And you see what it is, if I don't believe that I can bringMashiach, it's not because I'm so clever, it's because I'm full ofdoubts.  I don't believe it myself.  I hate to say bad things, butplease forgive me.  We're living in a world with two kinds ofYidden.  There are the Yidden who say don't go out on the street,don't have to do anything with non religious people becausethey'll turn you away.  You know what their problem is?  Theirproblem is they haven't yet fixed their insides.  They haven'tfixed their insides.  Because if I know what Shabbos is, you cansend me to Alaska to two thousand Eskimos.  My Shabbos is sostrong.  Do you think the Eskimos can make me go in a car Fridaynight to go to a discotheque?  No.  I will take all the Eskimosand I will sing, "Mizmor shir l'yom HaShabbos". (Let's sing theSong of Shabbos)  Do you know why?  Because it's clear to me,
I know what Shabbos is.  Gevaldt is Shabbos good.
     	Have you ever been in one those big department stores,what's a good sales lady?  A good sales lady who believes in theproduct.  You walk into a store and this salesman or saleswomanmamash believes in this product, the way, gevaldt are they sellingit.  They say it's good, I think it's good, it most probably isgood.  I don't know.  Who wants to buy it?  Who wants to buy it?  
	And friends, on Rosh Hoshanah, we are blowing the shofar, andit's clear to me, do you know why Mashiach didn't come last year?  Because I didn't blow the shofar properly.  Because I didn'tbelieve in it so much.  I didn't have the guts to believe in it.. I didn't have guts.  I didn't have guts to believe that if thewhole world hears one blow of the shofar... they come running. 
	You know how we broke down Yericho?  We blew the shofar.  Doyou know why we blew the shofar?  Because Rochav told us.  Because Rachav told us that we need just one word of G-d.   ۄ (Nimogu kal yoshvai ha'arets.  And they melted all thedwellers of the earth)  Everybody is melting.  Everybody ismelting.
	I want you to know something heartbreaking.  Last Friday Ibought this magazine.  And there it says, what's the problem ofJewish young people in Israel?  It was heartbreaking.  Theygathered 5,000 high school students, in the last two highestgrades.  They spoke to 5,000.  And again, just remember, when youstand next to a refrigerdaire, you get cold.  Next to a fire youget warm, right.  Imagine the holy Amshinover would have beenthere.  What he would have gotten out of them.    ۉ  (V'ra-eeta b'shivya eshet yafet toar, and you see amongthe captives a beautiful woman).  So the person who interviewedthem was Amalek in person.  And here he writes the 17 mostimportant problems that happen.  The first 7 have to do with, Idon't want to sound "Prust" (vulgar) have to do with sex. Seven. Eight have to do with the Army.  Nine, politics. Religion, is themost unimportant number 17.  Makes you vomit.  You mean, to be aJew or not to be a Jew is the most unimportant thing in youngpeople's lives. For that we came back to the Holy Land!  And whyshould an American Jew from Dallas come to Israel, so my kids alsoshould also have seven problems about sex.  They can have it inDallas. Maybe in Dallas they won't have any other problems, whichis even more healthy.  That's what my psychiatrist says!?! Mishiga of toit.  Crazy!!  You know what is clear to me?  Theproblem of the world is, mamash the problem of the world is, onthe deepest, deepest inside, they are so hungry.   ' ہ (Oo-nisano Hashem Elokecha b'yadecha, And Hashem will deliverthem unto your hands.)
         I want you to know something, in order to tie somebodydown, I need two hands.  To shake hands?  One.  Do you know whatthe Torah says, do you know how much you need to conquer theworld?  You don't need two hands.  Don't tie them down.  Just holdout your hand.  Do you know what G-d is doing on Yom Kippur?  ۅ    (V'yamincha pashuta l'kabel shavim, And withHis right, He stretches out to receive the ones who return)  G-ddoesn't tie us down.  G-d is holding out His hand.  Gevaldt isthat deep, gevaldt is that deep.       Do you know what Esav is doing?  Esav needs two hands. "Hayadayim", (hands) plural.  Esav is working with two hands.   He's tying the world down.   Yaakov is mamash-  '  ۅ    (V'natnu Hashem Elokecha b'yadchav'yamincha pashuta likabel shavim) And G-d delivers them unto yourhands, and with His right hand He stretches out to receive theones who return)

	Remember the Slonimer Torah.  "Yedid", a friend, is acombination of two times hand, "Yad Yad".  Is a friend.  So youknow what we're doing?  On Yom Kippur, G-d gives us one hand, andwe are holding out our hand to the world.  Do you know what we aredoing on Succos?  I want you to know something very deep. Sometimes I meet a person, and they give me one hand, right. Sometimes they love me very much and I love him very much.  I taketheir hand between my two hands, also two hands, a different twohands.  Do you know what we do on Succos?  I take the fourspecies.  Hold them up.  Mamash, I take all the Yidden, and I takethem between my two hands.  
	Do you know something?  I've seen parents carrying theirchildren in one hand, sweet.  If you love your baby the most, youhold them with two hands.  So special.
	G-d created the world with one hand.  The Bais HaMikdash, itsays, "Mikdash Hashem Konnena Yadecha", (The Temple of G-d isacquired by your hands.)  With both hands.
	Friends, I want to bless you, I want you to know, "HaKol KolYaakov" (the voice is the voice of Jacob).  On Rosh Hoshanah, youare fixing the voice  of Jacob.  But the hands of Esav, we arefixing on Succos.  Mamash when we take all the Yidden, mamash whenwe are taking all the Yidden between our two hands.  On SimchasTorah, when we carry the Torah in both hands, and even more so, Gd should bless us with children.  When we carry our children inboth hands.  I want you to know something, I'm sure you feel thesame way, Baruch Hashem, you know, I grew up in a frum home, Icarried the Torah on Simchas Torah,  all my life.  But what did Iknow about  Simchas Torah, until Neshamala was two years old, andI carried her mamash, and I danced with her all night, right.  Acompletely different two hands.  
	And I just want you to know one thing.  You know my beautifulfriends, where is anger coming from?  You know where anger iscoming from?  When I am torn apart with doubt.  When my inside isclear, nothing really bothers me.  Everybody knows that Esav isthe master of anger.  Esav is the master of Amalek.  And here Iwant you to know something.  The Ishbitser says, the next parshais  '     (V'haya kee tavo el ha'aretz, And itshall be when you come in unto the Land)  Do you know what thegreatest joy is?  When you get rid of anger.  Gevaldt is thatgood.  As long as you are full of anger, you don't know what joyis.  You know when we wipe out Amalek, we wipe out all the doubts. We wipe out all the...  not seeing the beauty of the world.  
	By Amalek it says,     (Kee yad al kayska)
I want you to know, this one hand, with this one hand which G-dgave me to hold hands with the world.  If I don't know what to dowith it, I'm covering G-d's name with Amalek.
	I want you to know my beautiful friends, Amalek is anger. You know, you can walk out to the world, and if you are angry atthem, you can't conquer them.  Yea, you can kill them, but youcan't conquer them.      ("Tsatsay limilchomaoyavecha", When you forth to battle against your enemy).  You knowsomeone I'm angry at, I don't see how beautiful they are.  ۄ'   (Oo-nisano Hashem Elokecha B'yadecha, And G-d givesthem unto your hands)
	Friends, I want to bless you and me, the whole world shouldbe in our hands.  We should have the privilege of bringing such aholy message to the world.  We should have the privilege ofblowing the shofar and the whole world should hear it already.  Weourselves should hear it.  And our insides should be so clear. The inside of the inside should be so absolutely, absolutely... "Hoo yosahve pesach haohel"  (Avraham sat at the entrance of thetent).  Do you know why Avraham can take three pagans, and theybring him a message from G-d, because inside, inside...  

	You know I just wanted to say one more thing and I didn't sayit.  You know why I make so many mistakes?  Because I don't reallybelieve that if I do everything right, it will be right.  BecauseI have my doubts.  So before Rosh Hoshana, before blowing theshofar, before I blow, I wipe out all the doubts.  Mamash, and Ibelieve in myself again.  I mamash believe that I can stand andblow the shofar and turn over the world.  And stop makingmistakes.  You know friends, why I hurt people's feelings. Because I don't believe that if I tell them I love them it has anymeaning.  So if I tell you I love you and it has the same effectlike I call you a dirty name, so why should I be so careful.  Doyou know why I don't do you a favor?  Because I think... I don'tbelieve in love anyway.  I only believe in manipulating people. So I'm not doing you a favor, because you manipulate me.  I havethis assertiveness training, and I won't. 
	  I just thought, you know, , David, is the same like Yad,Daled, and Vav Daled is Yud.  When Mashiach is coming, mamashwe'll hold out our hand.     (V'havee-oseem elhar kodshee, And I will bring them to My Holy Mountain).  
	Do you know how I'm learning Simchas Torah?  I'm holding theTorah in my hands.  You know why I didn't hold out my hand to thewhole world before?  I was learning with my head.  I want you toknow something.  Obviously on Succos we conquer Eretz Yisrael.Because on Yom Kippur when I fix everything and the Kohen Gadolcalls out the Shem HaMiforash, G-d's Name is whole again.  Thenmamash we go out in the world, and I build the Succah outside andthe Succah has to be so beautiful, the esrog has to be beautiful. Because then suddenly I realize how beautiful the world is.  Andthen like the Ishbitser says, there are two Aishes Yafas Tohars,Rochav the wife of Yehoshua, and Ruth the mother of Mashiach. Mamash, those two holy women,       ۅ   (V'ra-eeta b'shivya aishet yafet toar v'chashakta bav'lakachta lach l'isha, And you see among the captives a beautifulwoman, and you desire her and you want to take her for a wife)
then Mashiach is coming and it will be the real marriage betweenus and G-d, between us and the Torah.  

	...You know G-d cannot stand nudnicks.  You know why we can'tstand a nudnick?  Because G-d can't stand him either.  What's anudnick?  A nudnick is someone who says the same thing one hundredtimes.  Let me ask you something.  You mean for forty days I'msitting there and asking G-d for forgiveness?  To ask G-d forforgiveness takes one second.  Let me tell you something.  If allthe Tshuva of Elul would be just to ask G-d for forgiveness for mysins, believe me, G-d heard you.  I said, "Master of the World,forgive me."  That's it.  It takes one second.  Naturally, if youlike, if you talk to yourself like a nudnick...  Some people talkabout the same thing for a hundred years.  Can't change thesubject, right.  So for them, Elul is really mamash doing tshuvah.  I mean this kind of talking about their sins all the time.  Letme tell you something.  It's clear from all the S'forim.  Why dowe blow the Shofar for forty days?  Mamash we are preparingourselves to receive the Ten  Commandments again.  But with somuch depth, with so much depth.  
	You know we prepared ourselves for Shavuos, seven weeks.  Itwasn't good; we made the Golden Calf.  Obviously, we didn't knowhow to receive the Torah.  So I prepare myself.  Do you know whatblowing the Shofar is?  It is reaching into the deepest depths ofmy heart.  Everyday, when I hear the shofar, my heart gets deeperand deeper and deeper.  
	You know I want you to know something so deep, my beautifulfriends.  You know what dying is all about?  You know why G-dforbid..  what does G-d say to Adam if you eat the forbiddenfruit, you'll die.  You know what it means?  That the body and thesoul are not really connected.  You know if I know you today, andI don't remember you tomorrow, because we didn't connect properly. If I can stand before G-d and forty days later, I can say that the Golden Calf is my G-d, it wasn't so deep.  So what's the Tshuvahof Elul all about?  Not "Krechsing" over my sins.  It's mamashpraying  so hard, "G-d, open my heart, let it be so deep.  Let theTorah get into my heart, so deep."
	And I want you to know something.  The craziest thing in theworld is, the first tablets were just Torah sh'b'Ksav. (thewritten Torah)  You learn it one time, and you don't forget it. How deep is that?  You know, if I'm the biggest genius in theworld, and whatever I learn, I don't forget, how deep does it have to reach me?  It doesn't have to reach me deep at all.  I have aphenomenal memory, I learn it one time, and I know it.  But youknow, if I can forget it... But you know why I don't forget it?  Because it reaches so deep.  You know friends, imagine if youcould not forget anything, then I meet a friend after ten years,and they remember my name.  What's so big about it?  People don'tforget, right.  But we are living in a world of forgetfullness. And then I meet a friend after ten years, and they still rememberme.  I blow my mind.  Unbelievable.  You mean I reached you sodeep, and you still remember me?  


