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R. SHLOMO CARLEBACH -- EXCERPTS ON REBBES
		
Includes excerpts dealing with the following Rebbes:

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ALEXANDRA REBBE
THE ALTER REBBE
BELZER REBBE
BOBOVER REBBE
REB CHAIM BRISKer 
REB MORDEKHAI CHERNOBELER
REBBE REB ELIMELECH (CA. 1700)
GERER REBBE
THE HAFLAH ,
REB SHLOMO #HYMAN  
REB KOLONIMOUS KALMAN
REBBE ELIMELECH KADINER (=KARLINER?)
KARMANER RAV
RAV KOOK
REBBE OF KOTSK
REB LEBELE AGAS
REB DOVID LELLOVER
OLD LUBAVITCHER REBBE
R. MENACHEM SCHNEERSOHN, LUBAVITCHER REBBE                 
SEER OF LUBLIN                                                       doc=rebb1094
REBBE FROM MAHARASH
MEZZRICHER MAGGID
MUNKATCHER
PONIVITCHER  
REB SHLOMO REDOMSK
REB HERSHELE RIMANOVER                                            RIZHENER
ROBSHITZER
SANZER REBBE                         
SHAVLER RAV
REBBE REB SHMELKE
SOCOTEVER                   
REB SHALOM SHACHNA
SHIPSKER 
REB SHIMON SKERNOVITCHER
REB MENDELE VORKER
VISHNITZ HASIDIM
THE YID HAKODESH





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COMPILER'S CAVEATS

	The following are excerpts from R. Shlomo Carlebach in whichhe speaks of particular Rebbes.  
	R. Shlomo's thought is interwoven; so excerpts on any giventopic may be included in a collection of excerpts on anothertopic.  Serious students should of course read the originaltranscripts, not excerpts.

	R. Shlomo was, so to speak, a member of that fellowship ofgreat rabbis/rebbes who bridged over the Holocaust.  Most now livein Israel; and their love for the land and people of Israel,however ideologicaly complex its theoretic articulation, isunlimited.  For those of us unleared in Judaism, not fluent inHebew, and practically ignorant of Yiddish, R. Shlomo was almostour only window into that intellectually and spiritually gloriousworld.  It is to that fellowship that this work, as inadequate asit is, is offered in dedication, for correction and improvement.
		

	R. Shlomo taught very often on the basis of texts from RebNachman and from the Ishbitzer Rebbe; those teachings are tooextensive to excerpt here.  Nor have I included his teachingsabout the Baal Shem Tov.
	I have not drawn on Yael M'Sinai's editted collection of R.Shlomo's tales of the Hassidic rebbes; she prepared a manuscript"Everybody Knows" ca. 1988, and has re-written it for publicationin 1994.  
	In any event, I am concerned here not with Tales abouthassidic rebbes, but with R. Shlomo's comments on the teachings ofsome of his predecessors.

	Further administrative notes are in the Appendix.

	I bear sole responsiblity for all the errors in and defectsof this booklet.
	Whatever credit is due it, accrues to the chevre of R. ShlomoCarlebach, to whom I cannot find words to express my gratitude.




      Stephen Benjamin Amdur  (Kibbutz) Haon    Marchesvan  5755
                                                 
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GENERAL REMARKS ON REBBES

What is a Rebbe, what is a holy master:  somebody who connects youto your eternity, right?  Everybody can tell me how to go toChicago; who who can fix my soul to make it into
eternity -- for that I need a Rebbe. {<shlomabo} 

	I have to tell you something.  I think I mentioned it to someof you.  You have so many rebbes in your life.  Rebbes are notjust `rebbes'.  You can have a drunkard tell you things.  
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ALEXANDRA REBBE

=C[E93]<"Reb Shlomo's Thoughts on the Seder", 
Connections, Vol. 1 #2, (April-May 1985).
	The Alexandra [Rebbe] says `Why doesn't the Seder begin rightaway with questions...He says 'there are certain things which areso holy -- don't ask questions.  Just take them the way theyare...because if you ask, you degrade them, you profane them.  Sohe says, when it comes to kadesh, don't ask.  Urechatz (washingthe hands), don't ask.  Karpas (dipping a vegetable), don't ask. Maggid -- then, you can ask.  And, he says, the world is analyzingeverything in the world, and they don't know when to stop.  Theyare destroying everything holy, by asking questions about thingsone shouldn't ask.

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#THE ALTER REBBE

[FROM d:\BOOK3:=rebbes < B4a, p2:
	You know the famous story about the Alter Rebbe and "TheAngel" -- "The Holy Angel."  Remember, the son of the MesritcheMaggid was called The Holy Angel because he was really not in thisworld.  So at one time the Alter Rebbe and The Angel were studyingtogether and suddenly the Alter Rebbe saw he's taking off.  So theAlter Rebbe went in, got himself a bagel, put butter on it, put itin his mouth.  So the old Hassidim said it was not the great thingthat he got the bagel.  The miracle was that he still put butteron it.
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The old hassidim said:  "The Alter Rebbe is so close [to theBeyond], it's a miracle he can talk for 6 minutes."

{Cf. =sh122892, R. David Zeller retells the Alter Rebbe's story ofthe Dirty Penny}

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A Torah from the Alter Rebbe -- a person needs 3 things:  food,shelter, clothing ...

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#BELZER REBBE

from sa2-s5.ein <Modiim/IBM-PC/WORDMILL 3.1/SA1-5/05-28-86

In the middle of World War II, the Belzer Rebbe miraculouslyescaped from his concentration camp [('a concentration camp')] andmade his way safely to the land of Israel.  He spent his firstShabbat in Tel Aviv.  In Belz it was a custom after the Fridaynight meal to approach the Rebbe with a cup of wine, tell him yourname and that of your mother, and he would bless you.  So a veryold yidele came tottering [(that's rather a derogetory word)] upto the holy Belzer.  When the Rebbe asked him his name, heanswered, "Schwartzer Wolf."
     "You must be the grandson of the first boy named afterSchwartzer Wolf, the lamed-vav zaddik.  Please, do me a favor.  Sofew Jews are left in Europe who know this story.  Get on the tableand tell everyone." [(since this is a re-creation of an actualconversation, it should not be presented as a quotation.)]
     So the hasidim lifted this ancient [(!)] old man onto a chairon the table and the ninety-year-old man who had barely made it toIsrael told the story of how his grandfatehr Schwartzer Wolf wasborn and named afster the lamed-vav zaddik.  I wasn't present whenhe told the story, but I ehard it later from a friend.  Later, Iwent looking for the yidele, only to learn that he had died.
     One night, some years later, I was giving a concert anddecided [(suddenly felt moved or urged or somesuch, not 'decided'-- or so I recollect Shlomo's saying)] to tell this story.  Therewas a big commotion in the back row, so I asked:  "What is it,brothers?  What's the matter?"
     They told me they knew of a little boy born in B'nai Brak (atthat time he was only six or seven years old) who was calledSchwartzer Wolf after his grandfather [(great-grandfather?)].
     So there is yet another Schwartzer Wolf to arry on the nameof [(a woodchopper who, a century ago, was)] the head of thelamed-vav zaddikim.

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#BOBOVER REBBE
   
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	Even little people have certain feelings..about the future,if we would only listen.  Such holy people.  I guess on thatFriday he {the Bobover Rebbe?} know this was his day, so hemanaged to go to the mikve and he got all dressed up, Shabbasdik,strimele, and with his sons and with his son-in-laws.  It sohappened that one son..is now in New York, and the oldest son,when the Nazis walked in, he just stood behind the door, and they,miraculously, didn't look for him, because they were so happy tofind the Rebbe that they didn't search.  ...{At least one line cutoff from bottom of xerox.}
	[That] he  was very holy, goes without saying, but as apersonality he was one of the most magnetic personalities in theworld.  I heard...hundred of stories about him.  If he would walkin Lemberg on the street, and so far from Carcow, he would...seesomeone who he felt...had soul, he would walk over and justshake......this person's hand, without saying anything.  And thisperson literally couldn't sleep anymore.  He's want to know, whowas this great person I shook hands with?  And usually this personwould end up being the next Shabbes in Bobov, you know, hewouldn't leave anymore.  One Rebbe, one great rabbi told me that,at one time in Bobov at the Yeshiva there were hundreds of peoplelearning, and he wrote the Rebbe, sent him a telegram, I have tosee you.  So he arrived in Bobov 4:30 in the morning. ...He cameinto the Yeshiva and it was mobbed!  4:30 in the morning!  And heasked 'What's going on there?'.  And the boys told him, 'You know,we don't know what's going on.  The last few days we didn't sleep,because the Rebbe's up with us all night, just, you know, we're soturned on, we just can't go to sleep, it's unbelievable.  And theRebbe was walking up and down and the boys wwere learning likemad!
	One time he [the Bobover Rebbe] said, 'I have asked G-d onefavor, that I should be privileged to compose meolodies, melodieswhich people will sing, and when they sing those melodies theyshould really wash out their souls."  I don't know, you know, whenI sing a Bobover niggun it really washes my soul.

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"The old Bubover Rebbe...[had about 30,000 kids from all overGalitza] learning in [the] Bubov yeshiva [before the war].  "Sothey ask the Buvov Rebbe - what kind of yeshiva do you have  So hesays that -- I have gevurim {?--qv} in the yeshiva -- who pour outtheir hearts with every word they learn...

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	I [R. Shlomo Carlebach] heard from the Bobover Rebbe, that afew years before the second World War, there was a big conventionin Poland of all the big Rebbes.  And they were talking to eachother, what are we going to do when the Messiach comes?  How arewe going to greet him?  Gevalt! It would have been interesting toknow what every Rebbe said!  He [the Bobover Rebbe] said [toShlomo Carlebach] only what his father said, the holy Rebbe BenTzion.  He [Rebbe Ben Tzion] says, 'When Meshiach is coming I willnot be ashamed to walk with my yeshiva to greet him.  Everybodywill carry his gemorrah Kitsot ha-Chosen in his hand, and Meshiachwill open the gemorrah, and he will see that every page is wetwith tears."  Not tears of pain.  So deep.  A different kind oflearning...This is the learning of David HaMelech.  Meshiachlearning.
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FROM =ELUL

	Anyway I want you to know, that I have 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 hedidn't have enough guts to write everything down.  Unbelievablestory.  One of the things he told us, he was caught by the Nazis,127 times.  He was dressed like a Polish officer.  And he smuggledout children from the concentration camps.  And I remember thatthe first Bar Mitsva in Bobov was a little boy who smuggled out, alittle baby when he was two days old.  And the Rebbe was mamashcrying so much.  "I carried you out.  Did I ever dare dream that Iwould be at your Bar Mitsva.  Anyway to make it very short, theRebbe was caught 127 times.  And each time he had a little gold inhis shoes, so he would always bribe the Nazis, and they would lethim go.  By the 127th time he had nothing.  The Gemora says, whensomething goes wrong, make a little vow, so he says, "Ribbono shelOlam, I make a vow, I'll always eat the Feast of King David withalot of people.  At that moment, another Nazi came up, and he saysto the first Nazi, "Do you have a match?  I wan to smoke acigarette."  He put his gun on the wall... In the meantime, themeantime, the Bobover Rebbe took off.  Eliyahu Navi came, I'msure, or maybe KIng David, himself.  
	I want you to know Chanukah, the first year... after fiveyears of running around, and every day, you can imagine how hisnerves were shot.  So nebech, Chanukah, the first Shabbos, he had104 fever.  Shalosh Shudis, the Rebbe couldn't even talk.  Soeverybody said, the Rebbe is not going to celebrate the Feast ofKing David, he's sick.  There were some inside people, like mybrother, humble me, and a few more kids.  And we knew that theRebbe is going to keep his vow. So we were sure the Rebbe istaking a few aspirins, and maybe three, four in the morning...  Inthe winter, Shabbos is over by five, six, if you take some strongmedicine, two, three in the morning, you can already be a littlebit better.  So we waited until four in the morning, I'll neverforget it.  The Rebbe mamash came in,  then they served a cocktail              He came down the steps,     into the Bais Medrash                   All the chassidim were there,      "Thank you somuch, thank you so much".  It was mamash the highest Melave Malkaif our lives.  Mamash the Rebbe sat with us until eight in themorning, maybe it was maybe fifteen kids.  Fourteen, fifteen,sixteen kids...

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	And here I want to tell you an unbelievable story I heard inBobov. The Bobover Rebbe tells this story every first night ofSuccos.  And he said he heard from his father that this is thegreatest Hassidishe story in the world.  I'm sure you know thestory anyway but it's good to retell.  The story is, that theHeilage Reb Nachum Chernobler was poor, like some of us.  The onlything he had was the Tefillin of the Holy Baal Shem Tov.  Andthere was a rich man in the city that was ready to give him athousand rubles.  But how could he part with the Baal Shem'sTefillin?  Reb Nachum's children had nothing to eat, nothing towear.  His wife was telling him...you know in those days athousand rubles, you can mamash live ten years.  Mamashcomfortably.  In those days, a thousand rubles was maybe liketoday a hundred thousand dollars.  Because people lived onpennies.  So she was begging him, "Please sell the tefillin.  It'snot fair to your children."  He said, "I can't."
		So one year, there was absolutely no Esrog and Lulavavailable.  Nothing was available to Russia.  Mamash nothingavailable.  Suddenly, Reb Nachum Chernobler heard that on ErevSuccos...You know that Reb Nachum, nebech, made a little brokensuccah somewhere, but there was no food or anything.    So on ErevYom Tov, there was a rich man in town, who had an Esrog for athousand rubles.  Reb Nachum blew his mind.  He  took the Tefillinfast, sold the Tefillin, bought the Esrog, and came home.  Drunkwith joy he says to his wife, "Feigale, can you imagine, nobody inRussia has an Esrog, and me, shlepper Nachum, has an Esrog!" 
	She says, "How did you get the Esrog?"  He says, "Verysimple.  I sold the Tefillin and I got myself an  Esrog."  Thatwas too much for her.  She said, "What?  An Esrog which you needeight days, you gave up a thousand rubles that your children couldlive for ten years!"  She got so angry, she took the Esrog and shesmashed it. 
	This is where the story begins.  You know what Reb Nachumdid?  The Bobover Rebbe said this is the greatest Hassidischestory in the world.  Reb Nachum.  Can you imagine how he felt onesecond after she smashed it...nothing left.  He said to her,"Feigale, listen to me.  Feigale, there was a time that we hadTefillin, we don't have them anymore.  There was a time when wehad an Esrog.  We don't have the Esrog anymore."  He says, "Butyou know what we have?"  He says, "We have each other."  Gevaldt,it's too awesome.  He says, "Feigale, let there be peace betweenus.  We'll have a real Simchas Yom Tov."
		And the old Bobover Rebbe says every year the samething.  He says, "It's not to be fathomed."  It was not, `first hewas angry, then he remembered the Torah says you shouldn't beangry.  He went from the house to the room, slammed the door, thenhe came back.' He didn't have to shift.  I mean, how can you be onsuch a level?  So he said, Reb Nachum, every second, he was onlyserving G-d.  There was nothing else in his heart.  So, when heheard there was an Esrog available for a thousand rubles, it wasclear to him that he has to sell the Tefillin and buy the Esrog. When Feigale smashed the Esrog, it was clear to him what he has todo now, to make her feel good.  That's the highest thing he can doright now.
              
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The old Bobover Rebbe said a Torah like this: Imagine thatsomebody from the 12th century would be resurrected (when Mashiachcomes the people from all generation are coming back to life) andhe would get up from his grave. Then he hears that there is a war.G-d forbids, and he says: "Trust me, I'll win the war." How is hegoing to win the war? He says: "Do you know the way I fence?Unbelievable, I can fence off a hundred people."
They say to him: "Today, Are you crazy? These are not the weaponsof today. Today we have more sophisticated weapons. You push abutton and you kill two millions at one zetz."
So the holy Bobover Rebbe says, all the rabbis in every generationgive us weapons to fight evil. But the weapons which they hadeight hundred years ago are very cute but they are not what weneed today.
So we need new Torahs. And I just hope that the Russians who arecoming here will open gates for all the Jews of Israel. 

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From =ees32893	@

The way the Bobov Rebbe danced  from the baking to the oven...
              
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*The Bobover Rebbe [in WWII he was impersonating a Polish officer,as a member of the underground] -- he carried people out ofconcentration camps -- he once organized a coal train with 20 cars-- on top was coal, underneath were hundreds of people -- he wascaught 127 times by the Nazis [but escaped]
	1000 people came to see him when he came to the USA [afterthe War] -- a little girl of 9 -- he was 38 when he came toAmerica -- the king -- the Rebbe put his arms around her, andcompletely ignored the whole world --

My Rebbe for Sukkos is Bobov ...  every Rebbe has theirspeciality.  The Bobov Rebbe never takes his eyes off the Sukka. 

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REB CHAIM #BRISKer 

From =LG2.AK

	You know what's the first sign of Torah Sh'Baal Peh?  Thateven after you know everything, you really know you don't know. You mamash know you don't know.  You know Reb Chaim Brisker neverPaskined, because he said, "I mamash don't know," right.  You knowit's very crazy, all the big poskim, were not the biggest  lomdim(learners).  Because you reach the level, you don't know, youcannot Poskin. Because you have 50,000 sides to every side, right. ================================================================= 
REB MORDEKHAI #CHERNOBELER
              
The Gomorra says, if the Yiddelech would keep two Shabbos thenMoshiach would come. Rav Mordekhai Chernobeler says: it is theShabbos above and the Shabbos below. Shabbos below has 39 thingswhich you are not permitted to do. It is very important. Thenthere is the Shabbos above. The question is where do you begin.Are you going to begin by telling  people: "Don't do this, don'tdo that". They are not interested. Or are you going to give them aShabbos above. Oneg Shabbos, the bliss of Shabbos, Shabbos is sogood.  {I failed to note Source -- sa}

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I'll tell you something.  It's a good thing to tell a story of
Reb Motele Chernobler under the Chuppah.  Reb Motele Chernoblerwas the one who looked after the Lamed Vav Tzaddikim, and EliyahuHanavi would always hang loose around Reb Motele Chernobler.  RebMotele Chenobler, when he was twelve, thirteen, fourteen, he hadthis craziness, that he would walk up to someone, and mamash givehim a frask.  You know, a patch.  He didn't say anything, he'djust give them a patch.  I'm sure he knew what it's for, and theperson who got it, also knew what it's for.  But he never saidanything.  So there were some Chassidim who were complaining,"When he'll be a Rebbe, he can do whatever he wants, but now he isjust a Bar Mitzvah boy". Maybe he has clear prophecy from onecorner of the world to the other, but which Chassid who is seventyyears old wants to `chap' a frask, from a boy of Bar Mitzvah?  SoReb Nachum,  his father, calls him in.  His father says to him,"You know you are making me trouble with my Chassidim.  Do me afavor, stop giving people patches."  So Reb Motele says, "OK". 
	 And the truth is, whenever Reb Motele was travelling, nobodywanted to go with him, because they were afraid. But since wordgot around that Reb Motele stops hitting... so OK.  The next dayReb Motele announces that he's going to a certain village.  So aChassid says, "I'm going with you.  Still, the Rebbe's son needs aShamesel, a holy escort."  So they're coming to that village andthey arrive there four in the morning.  And as they are drivingin, suddenly the dogs begin to bark.  So Reb Motele looks at theChassid and he says, "The dogs are barking."  Gives him a `frask'. He says, "What's going on there?  You promised you won't hitanyone."  Reb Motele doesn't say anything.  Let's say they arrivedin that city ten minutes after four in the morning.  A few dayslater, they come back, and the Chassid runs back to Reb Motele, "You know, when we arrived in that city, ten minutes after four,my wife prematurely gave birth to a baby."  A  little boy or alittle girl, whatever it was.  So Reb Motele says, "Now youunderstand why I hit you?   Because the dogs were telling you`Mazel Tov'.   And you, stupid fool, didn't understand it."  Sohere, all the dogs on the Moshav are barking.  Mazel tov.  Mazeltov. 
	
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FRom =brit

Reb Mottele Chernobler says,     ( this is a Torah which changedmy whole life) the Yid who does not believe that you can do themost terrible, terrible sin in the world, and two seconds lateryou can go in the corner and pour out your heart before G-d likeon Yom Kippur, then you are really deep down a pagan.  It meansthat if you can really think that there's anything in the worldthat can make you a stranger to G-d, then you have no idea what 
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REBBE REB #ELIMELECH (CA. 1700)
FROM =ELUL

	Now beautiful friends, I had a flash.  You know there's agevaldt story.  The Heilage Rebbe Reb EliMelech, which was 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.  Are you asking me?  Ask the Rebbbetsin, go to thekitchen.  He goes to the kitchen, the Rebbetsin says, "Now, tenminutes before Shabbos?  ext Friday, come earlier, I'll buy the fish from you.  When everything is cooked..."  He goes back to RebEliMelech, in Polish, "The Rebbetsin says everything is cooked forShabbos."  So Reb EliMelech says, "So what do you want?"  So hesays, "Why don't you buy the fish for the Feast of King David?" So Rebbe Reb EliMelech lifted up his eyes and said, "Why didn'tyou say so?  Why didn't you tell me that you are my holy friend? So he says, "Heilage Zeidie, Holy Grandfather, I know you areangry with me because I am celebrating with the Chassidim thethree meals of Shabbos, but the fourth meal, the Feast of KingDavid, Saturday night, I'm always eating by myself.  But he says,G-d is my witness, after the Third Meal, I'm putting so much heartinto it, I just don't have strength anymore.  But he says, I swearto you, that my children and grandchildren, until the Messiah iscoming, will always celebrate the Feast of King David with alot ofpeople.  So King David says, for that I promise you whenever yourchildren and grandchildren will sit by the Feast of King David, Iwill be there.
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< =ELUL

	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 enlighten me,which is the most important prayer of Rosh Hoshana, Yom Kippur,the High Holidays?  The Chiddushe HaRim answered him back and this is what he said, "I want you to know, I want you to know, I'vereceived so many letters and I could never answer them. But Ihasten to answer your letter, because your letter was wet withtars, when I received it.  So I hastened to answer you."  So hesays, "Please so know, every prayer, every prayer is important,every prayer reaches heaven.  And the heavens are  but I want youto know, I want you to know, 
because this is all there is to Rosh Hoshana, because that is whatwe are praying for the first day of the year, the last day of thelast year, 
that's all there is to know, that's all there is to know.     

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THE #HAFLAH ,
 < =Moshe.ak
	I want you to know, my favorite story, your favorite story,the Gemora says that before the chasan and kallah go to theChupah, there has to be a little fight.  So the Heilage HaFlah  says to Reb Shmulkie and his two holy brothers, the son of theHaFlaw married the daughter of the Rebbe Reb Shmulkie, he says,you know something, we completely forgot to fight.  So he says,OK, let's start a fight.  So the HaFlaw says, I will not let myson marry your daughter because your daughter is much too holy formy son.  And then the Rebbe Reb Shmulkie says I will not let mydaughter marry your son because your son is much more holy than my
daughter.  And then they bagan fighting.  Each of them said, yourchild is more holy than my child.  And then after two minutes,they said, OK, we fought, let's go to the Chupah.   
                  
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REB SHLOMO #HYMAN  
< =fROM LG      

Remember I told you what Reb Shlomo Hyman, my Rebbe told me once. If you ever want to be a Lamdan, he says, you have to know onething.  Whatever you knew yesterday, is meaningless today.  Youhave to mamash start every day all over again, every day.  And youthink yesterday it was deep, today it isn't deep enough anymore.                             
You know Reb Shlomo Hyman, my Rebbe, he never Poskined.  He wouldalways go to Reb Moshe, right.  Reb Moshe was a big Gaon, a Posek,but he was not this awesome depths.  So he said, "Ok, that's whatit is," right. 

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REB KOLONIMOUS #KALMAN
< =klonim}

     OK friends, I'll make it very short. In the Warsaw Ghettothere was one rebbe, the heilige Reb Klonimus Kalman.
And it would be too far-reaching to tell you the whole story. Butthe special thing about him was, that he wrote a book, andobviously,  he knew prophetically that he won't make it. He putthis manuscript under one of the stones in the Warsaw Ghetto andit was found after the war. Anyway, his specialty was, that he hada yeshiva,  not of young people; of children...children. And hewas accostomed to say,  that my followers eat on Yom Kippur. Youknow why, they are not Bar Mitzvah yet. And you know,  imagine, agreat rabbi comes to him, or an old man, and a little boy or girlof five, he would say to the older man, you'll make it withoutme... this child needs me. With older people he would spend fiveminutes; with children, all night. He had thousands of kids, hewas their father, their mother, their best friend. And the saddestthing in the world is,  that after the war, there was nobody left.My whole life I was hoping and dreaming, I'd love to see one ofthose people who learned by him. 
     OK, here's where the story begins, it's very short. A fewyears ago, I walked down in Tel Aviv on the Yarkon, and there Isee a hunchback. A street cleaner. And you know, sometimes we allare little prophets, ... our heart tell's us something. I had afeeling this person was special. ....he was a real hunchback. Thatmeans, his face was very  very handsome, but every part of hisbody was misfigured and broken. And I said to him, "Hey, Shalomlecha adoni, my friend". And he answered me back in a very heavyPolish- Yiddish-Hebrew. He says, "aleichem shoolem". Aah, aYiddele from Poland. So I said to him in Yiddish, "mein zeisseYid,    my sweet Yiddele, where are you from?". He says, "I'm from
Peshineschte". Peshineschte! Gevalt!  I said, "Did you ever seeReb Klonimus Kalman?". He said, "What do you mean if I saw him, Iwas a student in his yeshiva, from the age of five until I waseleven. I was in Aushwitz for five years. ..and I want you toknow, when I came to Auschwitz and I was eleven, they thought Iwas seventeen, I was so strong. And they beat me up so much allthe time, I never healed. So that's the way I look. I have nobodyin the whole world, really nobody".
	I said to him, "You know something, my whole life... my wholelife, I'm waiting to meet you, to meet one of the students of RebKlonimus Kalman. Would you be so kind and give me over one of histeachings". 
     He kept on sweeping the street. 
     "You mean to tell me", he says, "after five years inAuschwitz, you think I remember the teachings". I said, "Yes. Theheilige Reb Klonimus Kalman; his words penetrate you forever". 
	He stopped sweeping. He looked at me and he said, "Do youreally want to know?". He touched me so deeply with his words, andyou know, you shouldn't swear all the time,  but I did. I said tohim, "I swear to you, and I mean it with all my heart, and Ipromise you. Whatever you'll tell me, I'll tell all over theworld".
	You know, he was a real Chasidische Yid, so he put the broomon a house and went to wash his hands. And friends, I want you toknow, his tears were as big as the smoke in Auschwitz. 
     And this is what he said, all of you give me the softestsweetest harmony. (Reb Shlomo strums his guitar and sings the restof the story.) 
	"I want you to know... I want you to know... I want  you toknow. There'll never be a Shabbos like by my holy master, by myheilige rebbe. There'll never be       like by my rebbe. Can you imagine, by my rebbe, hundreds, hundreds,  sometimes thousands,  of young people dancing BoiBe'Shalom; the holy rebbe in the middle, what a sight, not until Mashiach is coming. Can you imagine, the Rebbe's making Kiddush.Can you imagine the rebbe sitting with hundreds,  hundreds ofchildren,  with so much holiness. But now," he says," payattention. I want you to know, the rebbe was giving over teachingsbetween the fish and the soup, between the soup and the meat,between the meat and the desert. But after every teaching",  andhere I need your harmony, "when he would end the teaching he wouldsay,   `Kinderlach, teirre kinderlach, teire kinderlach, my mostprecious children, gedenkst shon, remember, die greste sach in dievelt ist, tun emetzin a tova. Children, precious children, justremember, the greatest thing in the world is to do somebody else a favor'. I want you to know, he said it all the time. Kinderlach,gedenkst shon, gedenkst shon, die greste sach in die velt ist tunemetzin a tova. The greatest thing in the world is, you hearfriends, the greatest thing in the world  is to do somebody else afavor. 
	He said, I want you to know, when I came to Auschwitz, I knewmy whole family was killed, I wanted to kill myself. And each timeI was just about to kill myself, suddenly I heard the rebbe'svoice, and the rebbe says to me, Gedenkst shon, remember, thegreatest thing in the world is to do somebody else a favor. Hesaid, Do you know how many favors you can do in Auschwitz late atnight. People dieing, people crying, nobody has the strength evento listen to their stories anymore. I would be up all night.  Afew weeks later I wanted to kill myself again, always in the lastmoment I'd hear my rebbe's  voice. Now I'm here in Tel Aviv, butbelieve me, I'm all alone, I have nobody. There are moments when Idecide to commit suicide. I'm going down to the ocean and thewater is reaching my nose, suddenly I hear my rebbe's voice,Kinderlach, gedenkst shon, remember, the greste sach in the veltist, the greatest thing in the world is, tun emetzin a tova, to dosomebody  a favor. I just can't permit myself, I can't commitsuicide. I'm running back to the streets. Do you know how manyfavors you can do on the street?
     Now listen to me friends, and give me harmony. This wasbefore Rosh Hashana. After Succos I came back to Israel. The firstmorning I went back to the Yarkon. And I asked the people on thatstreet corner, where's the hunchback? They said, the hunchback,don't you know, he died on the second day of Succos. Listen to memy beautiful friends, when the Messiah comes, when the Moshiach iscoming, when all the holy people will come back to the world, andthe holy hunchback, the holy street cleaner will come back. Youknow my friends, the street cleaner will clean the streets of theworld. Do you know how he will clean the world? He will go fromone corner of the world to the other and he will say, "Yiddelach,gedenkst shon, the greatest thing in the world is to do somebodyelse a favor". 

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REBBE ELIMELECH #KADINER (=KARLINER?)
< =JW13 p19:

	The Holy Kadiner, Rabbe Elimelech, one of the sons of theYanuka [Rebbe] arrived by ship in Yaffo.  They picked him up.  Hewas very tired, but he kept his eyes open looking out the carwindow.  They said, 'Rebbe you are very tired, why don't you closeyour eyes?'  He says 'This is the land where G-d looks all thetime.  How can I take off my eyes?'
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	Listen to me, the Heilage Karliner, Rebbe Elimelech, theHeilage Reb Elimelech of Karlin, nebech, came to Erets Yisrael,and then he left. The people said to him, "Rebbe, in Europe it'sso bad now, can't you stay?"  At that moment, they didn'tunderstand what he said, but he was telling them, "I'm not comingback".  Nebech.  Gevaldt... You know, Rebbe Elimelech of Karlin,when he arrived in Israel, he arrived by ship in Yaffo and he wasvery tired.  And then they drove him in a car from Yaffo toYerushalayim, and the whole time he was sitting and not taking offhis eyes from the land.  They asked him, "Rebbe, why don't yousleep?  Close your eyes and rest."  He says, "The Ribbono shelOlam is looking at the Land all the time.  How can I close myeyes?"  

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#KARMANER RAV
< =AV

	Bob: (Story of the Karmaner Rebbe)  I found a letter in anold tefillin bag.  The letter was in Yiddish and I showed it toone of the chevre on 79th Street, and she said she would look atit.  So I walked around with this letter for awhile and brought itto shul and she looked at the letter and she said, "Bob, this is agevaldt letter!  It's from the Karmaner Rebbe.  Shlomo's got tosee this!"  So Shlomo came by.  He looks at the letter.  It's akamea from the Karmaner Rebbe for my great grandfather.  And allthe Karmaner were killed in the Holocaust but the grandson of theson is in New York; you should see him.  I showed him the letter. That's OK, that was in April... Nothing came of it.  In May, lastyear, I took my first trip to Israel, and came for Shavuos. Andthe plane was three hours late, and it was dark, and I get into asherut and I want to sit in the front seat, and these two boyssitting in the middle seat say, "No, no, no, you can't sit there,that's for our father, so I get into the back seat of the sherutand I crawl in and I sit next to the window and it's cramped and Isit back there... And it's dark and as I'm looking out the window, and I don't speak any Hebrew and I haven't spoken to anybody yet,and this great big guy comes walking by, maybe 6 ft. 2, 6 ft. 3,heavy, he's blowing his nose, he has a cold, he wants to sit inthe front seat.  "No, no, no, you can't sit in the front seat,that's for our father."  So he walks away.  Some women folk areheading in the back seat, oy, there's a man there.  So this greatbig guy gets into the back seat of the sherut and he sits next tome and his head is hitting the top and I looked at him and I saidto him, "It's a good thing I'm a little guy"  and he said, "Onlyyour body is small, your neshama is very large."  And this is thefirst person I spoke to in Israel.  I look out the window, it'sdark, and we start to drive down the road, and I don't seeanything, and we are riding down the road, and I hear the wordKarmaner...  I don't know if it's Yiddish or Hebrew, but I hearthe word Karmaner.  And I said, "What about the Karmaner?"  Hesaid, "You are interested in Kaballah?"  "No, I'm interested inthe Karmaner Rebbe. I've got this letter from the Karmaner Rebbeto my great grandfather."  And he says,"I am the Karmaner Rebbe!" And this is the guy I was supposed to meet in Brooklyn, and hegave me his phone number, and I met him in Brooklyn.  And that wasmy first trip to Israel.  The first person I met.

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RAV #KOOK
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81. This is Rav Kook's Torah.  All year round, I'm looking forchamets in somebody else's house.  Pesach I'm searching my ownhouse.

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REBBE OF #KOTSK
=[E103]<"Thoughts on Rosh HaShanna and Yom Kippur", 
Connections Vol. 1 #4 (August-Sept. 1985)
	... The first person who did something wrong was our motherEve.  The Kotsker Rebbe said that he wished that one time in hislife he would stand before G-d in so much holiness, on Yom Kippur,as Eve did when she stood before G-d after eating from the Tree ofKnowledge.

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36. Thank G-d every person looks different.  The Rebbe of Kotsksays, "Aren't you happy that your neighbor doesn't look like you? So why aren't you happy that he doesn't think like you?"  
 
FROM =T-M

	Do you know something.  The Kotsker Rebbe was supposed towear glasses and he never did.  He said, "I don't want to make awall between me and the Torah," right.  Why should I havesomething between my eyes and the Gemora.  How could I?  

	The Heilage Reb Hanoch was on his way to visit his mother. And after he finished seeing his mother, suddenly he had a chanceto go to Kotsk.  He says, "No, I have to go home first, andprepare myself, and then I can go to Kotsk.  Because you don't goto the Rebbe just because you have a hitch."

FROM =TAY

	Yehoshua [Attias], I'm sure you are forgiving me that I'm anAshkenazi, you forgive me?  For us, the master of love is RebbeLevi Yitschak of Berditchev, right?  You know what the KotskerRebbe said?  And when Rebbe Levi Berditchev became a Rebbe, hewent up to heaven and he opened all the gates of love.  But sadlyenough, after he passed away, they realized that there is nobodywho could control so much love, it's too much!  So sadly enough,they closed them again.  So I would like to offer them to justTara and Yehoshua.  Sing with me.                                
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REB #LEBELE AGAS
< =rebbes < From B7p10:

	Reb Labele Agas was beyond time and space...there was no dayor night for him...he would, like...not make Havadalah untilSunday morning...He would always say...I am not a time worker, Iam a piece worker.  I don't work on time, I give by piece...I givea morning prayer...I don't know what time I'm giving it, but whenI'm giving it, it's a real good piece.

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REB DOVID #LELLOVER

he Heilage Reb Dovid'l Lellover was on his way to shul, YomKippur night.  He passed by a house and obviously the parentsthought the baby was asleep.  It's really an old fashioned classicYiddisha story.  Thousands of people waitng for David Lellover,one of the biggest Rebbes in the world.  And he passed by a house,and there he hears the baby crying.  I'll        the parents whilethe baby is asleep.  They went to shul, the baby woke up.  Andthere's no one in the house.  The baby was crying.  So Reb DavidLellover didn't go to shul.  And he stayed with the baby.  So youwould say he gave up davining Kol Nidre, mamash he gave everythingup, and let me ask you.  OK, after that they asked David Lellover,It must have been very, very hard for you. You know, in shul, youdavin with thousands of people. And the thing is, after shul wasover, late at night, the chassidim passed by.  Reb Dovid Lelloverwas still holding the baby, chuckling the baby, davining byhimself. 
  	Let me ask you on a very stupid level, which Kol Nidre wasthe highest for Dovid Lellover to come up to heaven.  Or let's saywhich Kol Nidre did he pour out his heart before G-d the most? The most, the most.  Everybody in their right mind understands     at all, you know.  He gave everything up for a little baby,gevaldt, right, did he reach....You see, Reb Dovid Lellover wasready not to davin at all.  He was ready just to play with thebaby until the parents come.

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OLD #LUBAVITCHER REBBE

I want you to know, I had the privilege of being by the oldLubavitcher rebbe, and he said, "You know why I'm a little bit ofa chassid, because I had the privilege of davening with my father.While I was with him he took me under the tallis." He said, "Iremember one time, Yom Tov, Hallel, I heard my holy father saying,Ana Hashem, Hoshia Na. He said, "This one 'Ana HaShem Hoshia Na'made a Jew out of me forever.
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	There is a very strong story:  The late Lubavitcher Rebbecame to a city in Russia.  There he saw old hasidim with longbeards cleaning
the house.  He asked them, "What are you doing?"
	They said to him, "Tonight the holy Toliner Rebbe is coming.
We're cleaning the house."
	He said to them, "This is beautiful, all of you old people
cleaning the house.  Where are your children?"
	They said, "We wouldn't let the children do it.  It is such abig honor."
	He said, "That is why you should let the children do it!"

	The Rebbe wrote in a letter, "I hope I am wrong, but I doubtvery	much that their children are still hasidim."
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	I have to tell you something, just to mention Tsaddikim, youknow my holy brother, my twin brother, I hope his light is shiningupon me and upon us.  The day after he got married, the oldLubovitcher Rebbe nebech, was paralyzed, so he couldn't come tothe wedding.  So my brother came to him the next day.  So theLubovitcher Rebbe said to them, why did G-d make it that peoplehave to get married?  G-d could have created the world indifferent kind of ways...  So who dares to speak up in front ofsuch a holy man.  So they didn't say anything.  So the Rebbe says,"I'll tell you.  When you are alone, you think that you are alwaysright.  So G-d gave you a soulmate to let you know that you arenot right."  It's a gevaldt teaching, right!  Some men think,disgusting, I got married, and here she always says no to me. HEY, GEVALDT, you should dance like crazy.  Thank G-d there's aperson in the world who tells me I'm wrong.  

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*The closest anyone could get to the Baal Shem Tov was the old#LLUBAVITCHER Rebbe

*When the old #LLUBAVITCHER Rebbe came to America, the first thinghe said was:  we have to purify the air.
 
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R. MENACHEM SCHNEERSOHN, #LUBAVITCHER REBBE                 
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[If I get up to give honor] to the Lubavitcher Rebbe -- which partis getting up -- my neshama.
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SEER OF #LUBLIN                                                                
The Seer of Lublin, the Holy Seer of Lublin was the greatest pupilof Rebbe EliMelech.  And he was really his successor.  And one daythe Seer of Lublin says, I taught you alot of things.  But thereis one thing I cannot teach you.  You have to go to my holybrother, the Rebbe, Reb Zusia.  He will teach you.  So he comes tothe Rebbe Reb Zusia, and the Heilage Rebbe Reb Suzia says to theHoly Seer of Lublin.  This is Yaakov Yitschak.  Tell me one thing.  When you want a perosn to become better, how do you reach them? He says, it's very simple, I point out to them everything they dowrong.  I say, you did this, you're not permitted, you did this,oy, it's even more forbidden.  I'll show you this, oy vey, it'sterrible.  You better do tshuvah.  And then I'll tell you, tell meyour lifetime.  Your life story, OY VEY!  What an ugly story,gevaldt, WOW!  You better repent.  Rebbe Reb Zusia says, you knowwhat you are doing with them?  You push them down in a garbagepail.  You take away their last ounce of self confidence.  Youtake away their last ounce of self confidence.  The Heilage Chozerto Reb Zusia?  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.  When a great light of heaven is shining into me,they won't do wrong.  They'll have to struggle.  

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