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Excerpts from JW73
Motzi Shabbos, Warsaw, Poland, January 1989
Xerox (oversize) typescript, pp3
Transcriber not indicated; frequent gaps in transcript
Level:  introductory, primarily non-Jewish audience
Topics:  
   Peace,  
   Eliahu haNavi; Maleva Malka
   Reconciliation between Jewish & Polish (gentile) peoples; 
   Story of the Ba'al Shem Tov, Reb Nachum Chernobler, and                 Moishale the Ganuf
   Autobiographic note
   

" ... Good evening!  You know, friends, there are certain dreamsthat you permit yourself to dream.  And then there are certainthings that you are afraid to dream.  I want you to know, I dreamtabout playing all over the world.  But I was little bid afraid ofdreaming about playing in Warsaw...
 ... You know, the most important thing that you and I have to doin our life is to bring peace and more love to the people.  ...Letevery human being know that they are created by G-d.  Let everyhuman being know that they are only here to make the world morebeautiful. ... 
	... You know, my beautiful friends, our religion, so tospeak, has four wheels.  Our wagon has four wheels.  One wheel isour father Abraham who taught us how to love G-d, and to love theworld.  Then our father Issac taught us that your life has to beso deep that whatever you believe in, you have to be ready to diefor a thousand times.  But the third wheel is our father Jacob,and he taught us how beautiful it is to be servant of G-d, howbeautiful the world is.  And then comes King David.  King Davidtaught us, 'Don't every stop singing!  Don't ever, ever, ever giveup!"  And according to our holy tradition, Satudrday night is thetime of King David.  And this is one of the things you and I haveto teach the world very badly.  Because most people give up on thedream of ever having peace in the world...

	According to our holy tradition, whenever you are about togive up, some messenger comes from heaven to let you know, don'tgive up.  And the name of this holy messenger is Eliayu haNavi --the prophet Elijah.  And according to our tradiion, Saturday nightis also the night of Elijah the Prophet.  He comes to everyone andwhispers in our ear, 'Don't give up'

	Everybody heard of the Holy Baal Shem Tov.  About 200 yearsago, one of his greatest pupils, Reb Nachum of Chernoble, decidedto lend him money for a poor bride.  One night the Baal Shem Tovsays to him, 'I need 10,000 rubles for poor brides.  I want you togo to Roy*, in Poland, and there are a lot of rich poeople and youcollect 10,000 rubles.'
	I hate {transcript sic; typo for 'have'?} to tell you severalthings.  He went abroad for two weeks and didn't collect a penny. So what can you do?  You give up.   He went to the outskirts ofthe city.  He sat down under a tree.  And he was crying so much.   He was angry at G-d.  He said, "Master of the Wrold, if I would{have tried to} collect money for myself, I would {could?}understand, but to collect money for you children --  {blank intranscript } 
G-d, from now on, I'll never collect money for somene else's kids.
	While he's crying, suddenly he sees police walking with alittle prisoner.  Was the prisoner obviously a {sic; blank intranscipt} the police had trouble holding him becuase he wasdancing all the time.  And he was singing  (R. Shlomo continueswith a melody.)  And he was filled with joy.  So Reb Nachum said,'Gevaldt, I'm a free person and I'm crying {gap in transcript} andhe's dancing.  So he ways to him, 'Who are you?'  He {theprisoner} rolls his eyes and he says, "I am Moshe the ganuf, I amMoshe the thief!  I am the most famous thief in Lodz.  How comeyou don't know me?  Reb Nachum says, 'You know I'm so sorry, I'm astranger, I didn't have the privilege yet of meeting you.'  Hesays to him, "If you are such an important thief, how come thepolice caught you?'  He says, 'Don't worry if I'm with the policesometimes.'  And he says to him, 'Moishela, when you come out ofprison, will you become a decent person and stop stealing? Moishala looked a him, crying from the depths of his soul, 'Don'tyou know?  You are not permitted ever to give up what you have todo!'  
	So Moishale the ganuf went off with the police and Reb Nachumdanced back to the city of {blank}.  He collected 10,000 rubles,and then he came back to the holy Baal Shem Tov, and he put themoney in his holy hand.  The Baal Shem Tov says to him, "How doesEliayhu haNavi look like when he's dancing bwtween two policemen?'

	I would like to sing one song which is not {blank intranscript}.  It is the song of Reb Levi Yitschak of Berditchiv. And from all our holy masters, wh was the one who loved people themost.  He didn't believe that any person in the world was bad.  Hejust believed that maybe they make mistakes some time, but everyone was just so holy.

	... You know my beautiful friends, I'd like to sing with you,maybe for us Jews, the oldest melody in the weorld.  Because theHoly Baal Shem Tov says the way we are chanting the prayers on theHigh Holidays, this is the way we were singing in the Holy Temple. And in the Holy Temple, there were songs.  {gap in transcript, butmay not indicate omission from tape.}  And maybe some of you know,that in the Temple there were 150,000 Levis, 50,000 instrumentsand 100,000 voices.  {Source?  Talmud?}  And until the Meshiachcomes, there will never be such music again.  So I need all of youto sing with me, in the words of the {gap in transcript}.  Givehope to those, the only hope.  Fill the Holy Land with joy, andevery city with bliss.  And let all of us know that salvation{original word?} is so near.  ... {Transcriber notes:  "R. Shlomosings a prayer."  The Birkat ha Cohenim? } 
	You know what the Talmud says?  One day the whole world willbe the Holy Land.  One day every city will be Jerusalem.  One dayevery house will be a Holy Temple.  And one day every human beingwill be a High Priest. {jw73n1} 

You know, my beautiful friends, to build Rockefeller Center or abig building takes a long time.  To build a Holy Temple takes notime. {jw73n2}
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It just takes one minute of loving each other, of {gap intranscript} -- 
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probably a poor recording, since there was apparently a verylarge, predominantly non-Jewish crowd at this talk, which wasnot in their native language -- now I know that `Salima' (nother given name) Alexander (could she not be Jewish -- as inthe Alexanderer Rebbe) -- w.j. Cebuil 13/1, 42-600, TarnowskiGory, Poland) -- did some of the translation for R. Shlomo,and so she may have an original tape.
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to each other.  I would like to sing a song that we sang before,and I {gap}.  Because the Holy Temple of G-d, you cannot onlybuild it with your head, you have to use your hand.
	Adn I bless you friends when you go home, that your hosuewill be the Holy temple again and just remember, all of us, thatevery child is a High Priest. ...

	You know, beautiful friends, everyone nees a face, everyperson needs a face, every country needs a face, very idea needs aface.  There's not much left of the face anymore.   So this is aprayer:  please G-d give us back our face.   You know littlechildren, when they are born, why are they so beautiful?  Theyhave a face, and then when they get older, they unface them.  Youknow sometimes, when I talk to my little children, I'm ashamed. Because they nevere face tehm ... {eo} my face is much {gap} ...You know what's so beautiful about a face?  ... (Song:  barrchenuAvinu kulanu ki=-echad, kulanu ki-echad be'or panecha -- 'Blessedbe our Father, all of us, as one, all of us one in the Light ofYOUR Face.'.
	I don't know so much about Polish music, sadly enough.  But Ithink there are also {word missing from xerox} marches fromPoland, right?  So if you permit me to play one of my marches ...
         
Autobiographic note

	You know, my friends, my whole family comes from Poland.  AndI spoke with some of you that my holy great great grandfatherabout 400 years ago, was the Chief Rabbi of Krakow. 

(Resumes)

 ... I composed a little lullaby for my children ... it says,'there are angels before you, behind you, surroundng you, butabove you there is one G-d.  And I'd like to sing it for mychilren, your children, because it is clear to me that I don'tknow if we adults will every make peace in the world, but ourchildren will.  
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{Text from siddur, prayer before going to sleep.  Maybe benZion Solomon, at Moshav Meor Modi'in, has or could get themusic.}
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	... Listen to me my sisters and brothers.  I'm sure, I'msure, I'm sure that you and I are here, I'm sure that maybe ourgreat, great, great grandparents were neighbors and they were thebest friends.  {gap} ... sadly enough there was a period when ourgrandparents were not {gap}  So for tonight, let's be the bestfriends.  My beautiful friends, I want to thank all of you forcoming.                        

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