=scha2138 < =scha4b < =scha4a.*
Continuation of (=schaint + =scha0013 + =scha1420 + thisdoc)
RSC, 'The Carlebach Haggadah' Critial retype of teachings 21 thru
38

RSC EDITTED EXCERPTS:
{?} = I doubt this/those were RSC's verbatim words
!text! = a gvalt
All Retype is complete word-for-word, except for typos
{squiggly-braces} , and only that, are used to set off all witty
quips by the typist; usually prefaced      {Comment (sa) 
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TEACHING #21
Retyped (sa) from:
['The Carelebach Haggadah' [abbrev. 'BOOK'] (c) 2001 Urim
Publications (NYC / Jerusalem ) Edited Chaim Sefansky,
www.UrimPublications.com , ISBN 965-7108-31-4 ]
HAGADAH TEXT:  
"And '' heard our voice"
V_Y_SHMa' '' AeT QoLe_NU

RELEVANCE TO TEXT:
ESTIMATED AUTHENTICITY (i.e., how badly over-edited:)
START FROM BOOK PAGE:  Middle 57
SOURCE:  Don't yet know. 

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There is an awesome Torah in Parashas Vayeitzei.  Yaakov Avinu was
lying on the ground and dreaming:  here is a ladder standing
firmly on the ground and reaching upwards.  Angels are going up
and down. And the Torah says, "v'hineth '' nitzav alav, behold G_d
is standing above him."  
    The Izbitzer Rebbe explains that there are two different words
in Hebrew for 'standing'.  There is omeid, which just means
standing there, and there is nitzav, which means planted in place
like a matzeivah, a gravestone - it has no choice, it can't move. 
A human being is always omeid; he can pick up his feet and walk
away.  A stone is only nitzav.  So it was as if G_d said to Yaakov
Avinue, "Do you think I have a choice not to be with you?" 
V'nineith '' nitzav, it was as if G_d was saying, "I have no
choice."
     Gevalt!  This means that G_d was telling Yaakov, "You have a
ladder, you
[START BOOK PAGE 58]
have the choice to go up and down.  But I - it's as if I have no
choice.  I am always with you be there for you, because you are my
child{?}.  I'll always love you, no matter where you are on the
ladder, no matter what the situation{?}.
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TEACHING #22
Retyped (sa) from:
['The Carelebach Haggadah' [abbrev. 'BOOK'] (c) 2001 Urim
Publications (NYC / Jerusalem ) Edited Chaim Sefansky,
www.UrimPublications.com , ISBN 965-7108-31-4 ]
HAGADAH TEXT:  
"And our oppression"
V_AeT 'aMaL_NU

RELEVANCE TO TEXT:  Darned if I know.
ESTIMATED AUTHENTICITY (i.e., how badly over-edited:)  Middling.
RANKING IN THE SHLOMO CANNON:  Low.

START FROM BOOK PAGE:  Middle 58
SOURCE:  Don't yet know. 

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The Seer of Dublin, who lived one hundred years ago, was so holy
that if someone who was sunk in materialism{?} touched him, he
couldn't bear it.  That meant that when he needed a haircut, there
could be complications.  All the barbers in the city would work
all week long on doing teshuvah and bring out their Jewish purity
and holiness, so that they would be pure enough to give the Rebbe
a haircut, but they weren't always successful.
     Once it was erev Shabbos and the Rebbe's hair need cutting,
and out of all the barbers in the city, there wasn't one who had
really grown at all in purity that week.  The Chassidim searched
all around, and finally they found a "street barber," an itinerant
who roamed from city to city finding work wherever he could. 
There wasn't anybody else, so they brought him before the Seer -
who knew, maybe he was a heiliger Yid under his rags?  Well, the
moment the barber put his hands on the Rebbe's head, the rebbe
melted away with pleasure.  He mamash enjoyed the haircut. So
after the barber finished his job and they paid him, the Chassidim
took him aside and asked him, "Who are you?  Gevalt, are you
holy!"
     The barber didn't say anything; instead, he took off his
shirt, and they saw that his holy body was full of the most
terrible scars.  The Chassidim asked where the scars were from. 
He told them, "You know that I'm just a street barber, and I
wander from city to city looking for work.  One time I walked into
the market place of a city, and I heard a big commotion.  A
[START BOOK PAGE 59]
woman and her children were crying and screaming.
     "what was it all about?  You know, in Russia, whenever a
crime is done in the city, the police grab the nearest Jew and
accuse him of the crime - it's easier than finding the real
criminal.  This is what I had walked in on.  They had just grabbed
a Jew and sentenced him to a hundred lashes, and his wife and
children were screaming to Heaven about it.{?}
    "I looked over at the victim and I could see that he was going
to die after seventy or seventy-five lashes.  There was no way he
could survive a hundred.  So I went to the police and told them I
had done the crime.  They didn't care one way or the other; they
untied the Yid and told him he was free, there had been a
'mistake'.  He ran over to his wife and children, and they were
all crying.  Meanwhile the police tied me up and began whipping
me.  I'm strong, I can take fifty lashes, but I figured that after
much more than that I would die.  So I started praying, 'Master of
the world, I did it only for YOU.  I don't know this Jew and he
can't ever pay me back.  Please save me.'  Then I fainted, and
when I woke up, the hundred lashes were over."
[END TEXT PAGE 59]
[END RSC EDITTED EXCERPT]

{Comment (sa):  This is darned near a pointless parable.  The guy
does a good deed, lives to tell the tale, and henceforth puts out
a good vibe.  Mazaltov.}

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TEACHING #23
Retyped (sa) from:
['The Carelebach Haggadah' [abbrev. 'BOOK'] (c) 2001 Urim
Publications (NYC / Jerusalem ) Edited Chaim Sefansky,
www.UrimPublications.com , ISBN 965-7108-31-4 ]
HAGADAH TEXT:  
"It is I an no other"
ANI HUA V_LoA ACheR


RELEVANCE TO TEXT:
ESTIMATED AUTHENTICITY (i.e., how badly over-edited:)
START FROM BOOK PAGE:  60
SOURCE:  Don't yet know.  

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   Everybody knows that when the Seder night comes, it becomes the
holiest night of the year.  There are other holy nights, but his
one is right now, and how it's the holiest of all.  !Everybody's
Seder, even one made by the most unlearned Yid, is accepted in
Heaven in the deepest way.!  On Seder night, Heaven wakes up every
Jewish heart.  The lowest, most distant Yiddele feels so strongly
Jewish, so holy, so redeemed and free.
     On Shavuos G_d gave us the Torah; on Rosh Hashanah and Yom
Kippur 'HE' forgives us; on Sukkos and Simchas Torah the Ribbono
shel Olam gives us joy.  But on Pesach the Master of the world
reveals to every Jew that there is one G_d.  "Ani '', I an not an
angel, I and not a messenger; I am '' and no one else."  And the
smallest most unlearned little Yiddele - who knows how high he
reaches on Seder night?  We have no concept.  It's totally beyond
us.

     One Seder night at the holy Rebbe Tzvi Elmelech's table, the
Chassidim said to him at the end of the Seder, "Rebbe, nobody in
the world makes a Seder like you."  Rebbe Tzvi Elimelech said to
them, "What do you know about Seders?  Do you really want to know
whose Seder reached the farthest to Heaven?  Moishele the water
carrier's Seder reached the highest.
    The next morning, after davening was over, Rebbe Tavi
Elimelech said to
[START BOOK PAGE 61]
the Chassidim, "Please bring Moishele the water carrier to me, and
let him tell you what he did last night, how he conducted his
Seder."  The Chassidim went to Moishele and brought him before the
holy Rebbe.  The Rebbe said to him, "Moishele, tell us what you
did last night at your Seder."  Moishele the water carrier broke
down in tears, totally broken, and said, "Rebbe I promise you I'll
never do it again.  I promise you I'll never make such a Seder
again."
    But the heilige Rebbe Tzvi Elimelech was smiling.  He said,
"Moishele, Heaven forbid, I didn't bring you here to put you to
shame.  On the contrary, your Seder as so beautiful, I want you to
tell us what you did."
    He said, "Rebbe, you know I'm so poor that I have no joy in my
life.  The only thing I have is sometimes to get drunk; that's my
only joy in life. But everybody knows that on Pesach you can't
drink vodka, since it's made from grain, so I had a great idea. 
The night before Pesach I would drink all night
[START BOOK PAGE 62]
and then I'd be drunk all Pesach long.  Now Rebbe, I know that
you're not permitted to drink vodka from ten minutes after nine in
the morning, so in the morning, exactly ten minutes after nine, I
stopped drinking.  But gevalt, Rebbe was I drunk!  I was lying on
my bed all day.  In the evening my wife Chanele came to me and
said, 'Moishele, aren't you ashamed before your children? 
Everybody in the world is making a Seder for his children, and
your children have no Seder.'  But I was so drunk I just said,
'Chanele, I wish I could suddenly not be drunk, but please let me
sleep a little bit more.'  Every fifteen minutes Chanele came and
said, "Moishele, please, the children are waiting for the Seder.' 
But I couldn't move.
     "Finally my holy wife Chanele came in and said, 'Moishele,
it's five minutes before dawn!  In five minutes it'll be too late
to make a Seder.'  I used all my strength to get up.  I made it to
the table, and this is what I said:  'My sweet holy children, I
want you to know I'm so ashamed of myself.  Vodka can take away
from me the power to give a Seder for my children.  I swear to you
I'll never drink again, just for my children's sake.  But
children, I want you to know what the Seder is all about.  I want
you to know there is one G_d Who created the world.  I want you to
know that there is one G_d who chose Avraham, Yitzchak, and
Yaakov.  Then their children were slaves for two hundred and ten
years in Egypt.  They ere crying; their lives were so full of
pain, it was unbearable. They prayed to the Only One, and the
Master of the world heard their prayers.  Tonight of all nights
'HE' took us out of Egypt.  Children, swear to me, swear to me
tonight, that you'll never forget there is one G_d Who listens to
all your prayers.  Children, make sure you never stop praying.' 
That's all I said, and I feel asleep again."

     Rebbe Tzvi "Elimelech was crying and crying.  He said to the
Chassidim, "Did you hear what kind of Seder Moishele gave?  I wish
that once in my life I could get it across to my children the way
Moishele the water carrier did that there is one G_d/

    "Ani '' v'lo achier.  There is only one.
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{Comment (sa):  Nu:?  It's nice to be sincere, and sincerity can
be born of desperation; that's who miracles occur, what the
Christians call Grace.

There's a much nicer story on this theme, without the alcoholism;
I've got in input somewhere.  The protagonist is a chosid, not a
shiker, an intellectual, not from the lumpenproletariat.  He does
a standard first-night Seder.  Pesach day, he has a bit of wine in
the afternoon, or at mid-day, and falls asleep.  Evening comes, he
says to himself, I'll just take a little nap more, then do the
Seder [this guy lives alone, so he's not breaking an obligation to
his children, nor even wife.]  So he keeps dozing and waking and
dozing, and then it's about half an hour before midnight, and he
still hasn't done it, and he gets up, realizes he hasn't done it,
and heartbroken, rushes through the whole thing, pours his whole
heart into it of course; how could we not.
    So the morning after he goes to his Rebbe, and his Rebbe says,
being quite formally polite and addressing the chosid in the third
person, as if they were colleagues reflecting on their disciples
progress, 'Reb ____ 's first night Seder was perfectly good,
although rather ordinary.  But his second night Seder - Ah, that
was something special."

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TEACHING #24
Retyped (sa) from:
['The Carelebach Haggadah' [abbrev. 'BOOK'] (c) 2001 Urim
Publications (NYC / Jerusalem ) Edited Chaim Sefansky,
www.UrimPublications.com , ISBN 965-7108-31-4 ]
HAGADAH TEXT: "I am '' ... and no other"
ANI '' ...V_LoA ACher 
RELEVANCE TO TEXT:
ESTIMATED AUTHENTICITY (i.e., how badly over-edited:)  Might be
largely counterfeit.
START FROM BOOK PAGE:  bottom page 62  
SOURCE:  Don't yet know. 

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[START RSC EXCERPT:]

     These few words give us the whole message of the Hagadah. 
This is what is was all about, going out from Egypt:  believing in
one G_d, just the Only One.
     What dos it mean to believe?  Rebbe Nachman explains - there
are two kinds of knowledge in the world -they're so different
they're almost like two worlds.  There is emes, truth, and there
is emunah, believing.  It's
[START BOOK PAGE 63]
not that the things we believe in aren't' the truth; it's that
belief is so much deeper than just truth.  Because truth is just
things that we know, things that we can figure out, things that
can be understood and proven.  But that sort of thing is so
limited; and that's where faith begins.  It begins where knowing
the truth leaves off.  Belief is so much deeper - I can't prove
it, but I know it's the truth.  It's an extension, it goes past
what knowledge can do, it's something that goes beyond knowing. 
You know, it's like a beautiful song:  I can sit here describing
it all day, but really it's beyond my power to describe.  Beyond
what I can tell you lies so much more - gevalt, is it deep!  My
blessing for you is that you'll be able to pass on to your
children the belief in the One, the only One.  It's the best thing
in the world for them to have, because with belief we fan survive
all the tornadoes of the world.
    When everything looks wrong to us; when the house is falling
apart; when the house has already collapsed; when someone has just
died - what do we do then?  We get up and yell, "Yisgadal
v'yiskadash shmeih rabba!  G_d's name is great; everything is
still good."  
    You know, my sweet friends, we can really say that, because in
the deepest, most inside part of us, we know that '' is taking
care of the world.   And even if we don't know what's going on
just now, we believe it's for the good, we believe it will be good
in the end; and believing is so much more than knowing.
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TEACHING #25
Retyped (sa) from:
['The Carelebach Haggadah' [abbrev. 'BOOK'] (c) 2001 Urim
Publications (NYC / Jerusalem ) Edited Chaim Sefansky,
www.UrimPublications.com , ISBN 965-7108-31-4 ]
HAGADAH TEXT:  "With signs"
V_B_AoTOT
RELEVANCE TO TEXT:
ESTIMATED AUTHENTICITY (i.e., how badly over-edited:)
START FROM BOOK PAGE: PAGE 64  
SOURCE:  Don't yet know.
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[START RSC EXCERPT:]

     Everybody likes it when G_d does miracles for him.  The
question is, do you understand that you age a miracle, that you
life is all miracles, that everything is a miracle?  If you're
living on the level where miracles are part of your life, if your
trust in G_d reaches the level of a miracle, then miracles happen
to you. If you're not living life on that level, then miracles
won't happen to you.
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There are no RSC excerpts on the plagues, nor the "how many
plagues" pilpul.  Commentary resumes toward the end of "Dayenu":

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TEACHING #26
Retyped (sa) from:
['The Carelebach Haggadah' [abbrev. 'BOOK'] (c) 2001 Urim
Publications (NYC / Jerusalem ) Edited Chaim Sefansky,
www.UrimPublications.com , ISBN 965-7108-31-4 ]
HAGADAH TEXT:  Dayenu:  "Had 'HE' given us the Shabbat
Ai_LO NaTaN LaNU AeT Ha_ShaBaT 
RELEVANCE TO TEXT:
ESTIMATED AUTHENTICITY (i.e., how badly over-edited:) Maybe close
to verbatim.
START FROM BOOK PAGE: Page 72 
SOURCE:  Maybe "The Gift of Shabbos" [published tape ]

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    You can keep every Shabbos according to the letter of the law,
and all the same you haven't kept Shabbos yet.  Unless Shabbos
reaches the highest, deepest place in your heart, you haven't felt
it yet.  What is the highest place in your heart?   Where it
touches you the deepest.  Kosveim al luach liecha, it should be
written on your heart, "I realize that I can never do without it. 
I can't live without it.

    The Talmud says that the heilige Shabbos is a gift from
Heaven.  The sweetness of Shabbos, the oneg Shabbos, the holiness
of Shabbos - you have to ask for these.  You have to pray that ''
should give you Shabbos, because we need it so much.
    We too, we have the power, G_d gave us the strength to make
Shabbos so holy, so beautiful. We all would like everyone in the
Holy Land to have Shabbos, but to do that we have to pray that ''
should give us all the gift of Shabbos, and we have to give each
other the gift of Shabbos.  We have to make our Shabbos so sweet
that everybody wants a piece of it.  This is the meaning of am
mekadsehi shevi'I, the people that makes Shabbos holy.

     My blessing to you and to me is that we should give Shabbos
to our children, to our neighbors.  Maybe one day the whole world
will be full of Shabbos, the bliss, the sweetness of the yom
shekulo Shabbos, the day that's all Shabbos.  The whole world will
be Shabbos.

[START BOOK PAGE 73]
[MAYBE NEW SOURCE]

   Rebbe Nachman says, "Do you know why there is no peace in the
world?  Because you can only make peace when you're full of joy." 
You can't make peace when you have anger in you - anger doesn't
make peace.  Shabbos shalom umervorach; only with Shabbos, with
sweetness and holiness can we bring peace to the world.
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TEACHING #27
Retyped (sa) from:
['The Carelebach Haggadah' [abbrev. 'BOOK'] (c) 2001 Urim
Publications (NYC / Jerusalem ) Edited Chaim Sefansky,
www.UrimPublications.com , ISBN 965-7108-31-4 ]
HAGADAH TEXT:  Dayenu:  "Had 'HE' given us the Torah]
AiLO NaTaN LaNU AeT Ha_TORaH 

RELEVANCE TO TEXT:
ESTIMATED AUTHENTICITY (i.e., reciprocal of how badly over-
edited:) 
START FROM BOOK PAGE:  Middle 73
SOURCE:  

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[START RSC EXCERPT]

    It says "ki heim chayeinu, the Torah is our life and our
length of days and we will study it day and night."  Every night
before a Yid goes to sleep he reminds himself what it means to be
a Yid.
     And what is a Yid?  The Gemara says that there are people who
eat bread just for the sake of more bread.  You meet a person on
the street and ask him, "Why do you eat?"  He'll say, "In order to
have strength."  "Why do you need strength?"  In order to make
money.  You need money to buy bread."  Why do you need bread? So
you can work for bread?  It's bread for bread and nothing else.  I
hate to say it, but this is most of the world.

{Comment (sa):  Right-o; it's called the survival instinct.  Or
Bergson, ?lan vital.  I must try it sometime.}

     Now if you ask a little Yiddele, "What are you eating for?",
he'll tell you
[START BOOK PAGE 74]

in order to have strength to serve G_d, to be a Yid, to make the
world better."  And that's just the lower type of Yiddele. 
There's also a higher type, who doesn't even live on bread and
water.  You ask him what he's living on and he says, "Ki heim
chayeinu - Torah is my life .  I'm living on learning and praying,
on being a Jew.  My very life depends on it."

     There is a story in Tanna d'Vei Eliyahu.  Elijah the Prophet
walked the streets of the world, and one night he met a little
fisherman on the street.  He asked him, "Have you studied the
Torah?  Have you studied the five book of Moses?  Have you studied
the Talmud?  Have you studied the mysteries of the world?"  the
little fisherman's eyes began to shimmer with tears and he said,
"Believe me, my holy prophet, I have tried so hard, I have tried
so long.  But the Almighty has not blessed me with a mind to
fathom 'HIS' holy teachings."  Eliyahu Hanavi asked him, "Tell me,
little fisherman, are you good at your trade?"  His eyes glowed
with pride and he said, "Holy prophet, believe me, I'm the best
fisherman on this entire coast."  Elijah began to cry and told
him, "Do you know why you're the bet fisherman in the region? 
Because you know that your life depends on fishing.  If you only
knew that your life depends on learning, you'd be the greatest
scholar in the region"

[SECTION BREAK; SEEMS TO MEAN NOTHING MORE THAN A PRETTY PARAGRAPH
MARKER
But maybe it indicates a change of Source.  What follows sounds
authentic; what preceded, sounds like more pareve yeshiva slop;
good to fatten up the little etcs.]

   Imagine if I knew the Torah was given only to me, all its
holiness was made just for me j-how I would throw myself at every
word!  How I would cry over every word to understand it!  When I
receive a letter from someone
[START BOOK PAGE 75]
I love I can't stop reading.  This is how we have to learn Torah,
as a love-letter from G_d to us.
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TEACHING #28
RETYPED LIBERATED EDITED EXCERPT; NOT YET CHECKED FOR AUTHENTICITY
Retyped (sa) from:
['The Carelebach Haggadah' [abbrev. 'BOOK'] (c) 2001 Urim
Publications (NYC / Jerusalem ) Edited Chaim Stefansky,
http://www.UrimPublications.com , ISBN 965-7108-31-4 ]
HAGADAH TEXT:  Dayenu:  "Had 'HE' brought us in"
AiLO Hi_BNIs_NU 
RELEVANCE TO TEXT:
ESTIMATED AUTHENTICITY (i.e., reciprocal of how badly over-
edited:)
RATING IN THE CARLEBACH CANNON:
 
START FROM BOOK PAGE: Middle page 75 
SOURCE:  I don't know yet.

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[START RSC EDITED EXCERPT]

When '' created the world, 'HE' stood in Eretz Yisrael, in
Yerushalayim, 
And from there "HE" created the world.  Do you know why Moshe
Rabbenu, our holy leader, died?  Because he didn't go to Eretz
Yisrael.  Moshe Rabbenu brought down into the world the reality
that unless I go to the Holy Land I can't live.
     When the Jews walked in Eretz Yisrael in the time of
Yehoshua, it was all the Jews together.  But Avraham Avinu, when
G_d gave him the Land, one mamash the one Jew, who went in all by
himself.  All the holiness was for him alone.
     Later on Moshe Rabbenu stood alone on the mountaintop, seeing
the Holy Land all by himself.  Seeing the Land was another great
thing that he accomplished.  Many people live in Israel, but don't
see the Land any more.
[START BOOK PAGE 76]
You know what happens - many people come there and they get
swallowed up by little details until they don't' see the big
picture any more.  They don't see the Land any more. But then,
there are many people who see the Land all the time even though
they're not there.
     The difference between Yidden and the world is like this. 
Take a German:  when he's in Germany, he lives there - it's his
home.  If he lives somewhere else, that's his home now, and
Germany doesn't matter any more to him.  With the Yidden, however,
between us and Eretz Yisrael there's an unbreakable connection. 
We couldn't be there for two thousand years, but we're still
connected, because G_d brought us in there.
[END RSC EDITTED EXCERPT ]

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TEACHING #29
RETYPED LIBERATED EDITED EXCERPT; NOT YET CHECKED FOR AUTHENTICITY
Retyped (sa) from:
['The Carelebach Haggadah' [abbrev. 'BOOK'] (c) 2001 Urim
Publications (NYC / Jerusalem ) Edited Chaim Stefansky,
http://www.UrimPublications.com , ISBN 965-7108-31-4 ]
HAGADAH TEXT: "How much more"
'aL AchaT KaMaH V_KaMaH  
RELEVANCE TO TEXT:
ESTIMATED AUTHENTICITY (i.e., reciprocal of how badly over-
edited:) Sounds ok.
RATING IN THE CARLEBACH CANNON:  Good.
 
START FROM BOOK PAGE: Middle page 76 
SOURCE:  I don't know yet.  

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[START RSC EDITED EXCERPT]
     We left Egypt and we think we're free.  You know what's so
beautiful about it?  On the first night of freedom I'm free
inside.  Inside I know there's one G_d, even though I didn't
actually walk out of Egypt.  I'm sitting with my family the whole
night, with my children.
     When we walked out of Egypt we weren't free yet.  We were
still afraid of
[START BOOK PAGE 77 ]
Pharaoh.  After six days Pharaoh came running after us to bring us
back, and the Torah says we were afraid.  Here we are at the great
moment; we're crossing the Red Sea and pharaoh is drowning.  We
see with our eyes not to be afraid of Pharaoh -- he has no
dominion over us.  Friends, what we and Israel need most is not to
be afraid of the world any more. G_d is the King of the world, the
maser.

    The heilige Izbitzer Rebbe teaches us why the Red Sea became
dry land for us.  The sea looked at us Yidden, who were slaves for
two hundred and ten years, and six nights later we're standing by
the shores of the Red Sea.  Gevalt, have we changed!  In one week
we've reached the highest of levels. By Shevi'I shel Pesach, the
seventh day of Pesach, we were ready to dance through all the
obstacles, all the oceans, winds, and tornadoes in the world.  The
sea took a look and said, "For their sake I will change too."
     You can see the holiness of Yidden in the fact that for the
sake of G_d we can change in one second.  For our families, too,
we can change instantly.

[MAYBE NEW SOURCE]
    The Talmud says that getting married is like crossing the Red
Sea.  The
[START BOOK PAGE 78]
difficulty of finding and marrying your soul mate is just like the
difficulty of splitting the sea. You know why so many marriages
break up?  They don't love each other enough to change from water
to dry land.
    I want to bless you and me that we should always be ready to
be anything for the people we love.  For G_d I can be water, I can
be fire, I can be dry land.  For my child I would do anything in
the world.  The Talmud says that when we came to the Red Sea the
children led the way.  They're so open, so infinite; they want to
be everything and they can be anything they want to be.  The real
redemption is on the seventh day, when we are so
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    We have 613 mitzvos, 613 laws.  I don't like the word 'laws':
it reminds me of the police, some straight{? -- this is maybe
Herzberg?} character sitting there and telling is us what do. 
'Mitzvah' means something different; it means that '' gave us 613
ways to come close to 'HIM'.  The ways are divided into two kings,
248 ways of reaching G_d by doing certain things, and 365 ways of
reaching 'HIM' by not doing certain things.  When I have a chance
to do something wrong, and I stop myself, something happens inside
me.  I walk a few steps higher.
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glorify  ...]"
L_PIKaKh  
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  This story was told by the heilige Rebbe Asher KARLINER. 
  Somewhere there was a priest who preached in the church every
Sunday.  He preached a gevalt:  inspiring, great sermons.  The
only problem was that he was always drunk.  All the same, though,
he preached really well.
    Finally the people got together and told him, "If you're a
drunkard, you must stop preaching."  He said, "I'll try to stop
drinking."  But he couldn't, so then he said, "Let me give on last
speech."  And this is what he said:  "It's true that I don't
deserve to speak about G_d, but I can't help it.  What I do?  I
can't stop preaching.
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HAGADAH TEXT:  "From sorrow to joy"
Mi"YaGON L_SiMChaH 
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Rebbe Nachman says that the greatest sin in the world is to be
sad, not be  filled with joy.  My beautiful friends, all of us
want so much, need so much. We don't have it, because of what
happens when we ask for something from Heaven.  Just think, when
you ask for something from another human being, they're not going
to pay attention to you unless you have a joyous heart.  People
are always happy to give to someone who's happy. So just imagine
it:  I'm asking for millions of tons from Heaven, and here the
heavenly servant knocks on my door.  HE wants to give me
everything I ordered; but when I open the door I'm sad, I'm
broken-hearted.  Who wants to have anything to do with a sad
person?  So they throw me a few crumbs and take off.

{Comment (sa):  It's back to the story in Kitov, from Talmud I
assume, of the guy who went -- was sent, to be more accurate -- to
purchase olive oil; but when he got there, he didn't have any
vessels to carry it all home.  
Like, that's a good parable; Jesus might have said it.
The Indians told us, when you pray for something, you better
accept it when it's given to you.
Like -- if you ask for something, be sure you remember also to ask
for the vessels to carry it home in.
That's what I say.}

    If you ask somebody for a favor and then you just sit there
and cry, they can't get rid of you fast enough.  But if you're
filled with joy, if your heart is dancing and your eyes are
shining, people want so much to be close to you.
    People only hate when they're sad.  If you're dreaming that
one day the whole world will be one {Note (sa):  That's from the
conclusion of the Alenu.}  , you should know, it will only happen
with joy.
     Even deeper than that, G_d wants to give me so much that it
needs a lot of strength to carry all of it. When you're full of
joy you're full of strength, and you can carrying anything j-- the
whole world -- on your shoulders.
     We all have certain reflexes{?}.  They don't come from our
head, they come from our insides.  You don't like to shake hands
with somebody that has dirty hands.  Even if you have to because
you have good manners, you don't want to, and you try to take your
hand back as fast as possible.  If someone has clean hands, you
like to shake hands with him.  If you love someone you can
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hold their hands forever.  Our holy rabbis teach us, sadness makes
us dirty.  It's the sprit of uncleanness, unholiness, that
descends upon us.  Believe me, most friendships break up because
there is not enough joy in them.
     Rebbe Nachman says, "Why age you sad?  Because everything
goes wrong in your life.  But gevalt, do you know why everything
goes wrong?  Because you're sad."  If you ask me, "I'm so sad, how
do I get happy?" -- friends, believe me, I wish I knew the answer. 
I can only pray that G_d gives you the gift of joy.  Life is in
G_d's hands, and 'HE' gives it to anyone 'HE' feels is fit for it. 
Even joy is in "HIS' hands, only it's your job to ask for it, and
then 'HE'"ll give it to you.  Even if you're not fit, even for
misfits like you and me, there's a way:  to pray and pray.  Every
second you have to ask G_d, you have to ray and beg, "Let my heart
be filled with joy."
    Friends, one day there will be peace in the world, and
suddenly G_d  will give us as a gift the greatest joy in the
world.  You know loneliness is such a deep sadness, and being one
with another human being is such a great joy.

{Comment (sa)  
[after -- 

tho maybe rather a long way after -- 

I mean, I catch a short pass on the 45 yard line and make it to
the end zone, do they buy the quarterback a pizza) 

--teachings of Leah Golumb]:  And this is the guy, he made a bad
marriage and got divorced, and ever after they made his life
miserable every time he even hugged a woman.  
Ah, Narrischkeit; oy, machmeres. }

Can you imagine being one with the whole world?  What joy! 
Unbelievable!

    When someone's sad he wants to run away from the world, from
himself, from G_d.  What happened to Adam and Eve?  The first
mistake:  they ran away from G_d, from paradise.  Sometimes you
talk to your best friend, the person you love the most, but you
can't get through to him. He's hiding, building walls around
himself.  But someone's a true friend if, when you him why you're
sad, you're not sad any more.  The holy Bal Shem Tov taught the
world that every person needs a good friend.

    Every child needs a father and mother.  You know what parents
are for?  People think their biggest job is to tell the children
whey they're doing wrong.  But that's not it; parents are someone
for the children to run to.
     Chava knew from the moment of her creation that she was in
this world to bring forth children.  She thought to herself,
"What's the greatest thing I can do for my children?  I'll eat
form the Tree of Knowledge and I'll ell them what's right and
what's wrong."  G_d said to her, "Look at yourself:  you're hiding
in the garden, you're running away form ME . Don't you know what a
mother is for?  When the children are crying, they run to their
mother or their father."  So 
'' said to Chavah, "I'm sorry, it's going to be hard for you to
have children, because you don't know the secret of what parents
are really for."

    Sop you hear me, brothers and sisters, fathers and mothers,
all over the world, I bless you:  When you r children are crying,
may they come running to you.  I bless myself, all of us, that
instead of running away from teach other, together we'll run to
the ONE, to the Only One, Who brought us out from sorrow to joy.
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HAGADAH TEXT:  "Say a new song before 'HIM'"
V_NAMaR L_PaNIN ShIRaH HaDaShaH  
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singing for wounded soldiers, are quite important, because much of
the ultra-orthodox haven't officially acknowleged it.
 
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I would like to pour out my heart to you.  The Torah tells us that
when our father Avraham met Shem, who was the High Priest then, he
brought out wine and bread in his honor.  Our holy Rabbis teach us
that the older wine gets the better it tastes; but bread is only
good when it is fresh.  The world needs bread; the world has such
longing for new revelations, for new teachings, for new lights,
for new ideas, for everything new..

{Comment (sa):  Yup, that was St. Paul's critique of the
Athenians.}

Yet in the deepest depths it's crying for the old wine.

{Comment (sa):  Cf. Jesus, something about pouring old wine in new
bottles.  But I forget what he said, and what the point was.
Remember, Sports fans, Jesus was a Jewish rabbi.  Ok, so maybe he
got a bit off the beaten track, but they still quote that turkey
from Tiveryia.}

    Shem the high priest saw Abraham, G_d's spokesman to the world
until today.  Where would we be without our father Avraham?  This
is what Shem told him:  Avraham, if you want to be closer to
people and to bring people closer to G_d, you have to know the
secret of bread and wine.  You have to know that when a person
comes and is crying for bread, you must give him fresh bread. G_d
gives us new things all the time.  We say in our prayers,
hamechadesh betuvo, that G_d renews the Creation every day.  The
truth is that G_d renews the whole world every second; G_d is
never old, and the Torah is never old.  Sometimes, Avraham, you
have to know that people come crying for old wine.  Always have a
drop of wine for them:

    But the deepest truth is that G_d's world -- anything which is
holy, precious, and beautiful -- is always new and old together. 
I knew everything beautiful yesterday, and today I'm seeing it all
for the fir time.  I've known my children since the moment they
were born, but each time I see them it's like the first time.

    I want to share something with you , sweetest friends: You
know when you kiss your wife whom you love very much, you close
your eyes and you open them.  You're saying, "I've known you for
eternity, but I'm seeing you now for the first time."

    My dear friends, I feel that there was never a generation
which had such a craving for something new.  {?}We're living in a
world where so many old ideas have gone bankrupt. We look at the
lives of so many people whom we exalted, people we thought were
great.  Now re realize they were actually bankrupt, so we look for
something new.{?}  But in the deepest depths we want the old wine. 
We want G_d to reveal to us every word 'HE' taught our forefathers
on Mount Sinai and in Yerushalayim, our holy city.

{Comment (sa):  Mount Sinai is torah sh'b' ktav; Yerushelayim is
torah sh'b' peh.}

     The summer I had the privilege, the sad privilege, to play
for wounded soldiers.  At one center I played for soldiers who
were wounded in their eyes. There was a solder who could barely
see at all.  I walked in there, and suddenly he said to someone,
"Please help me on to the table.  I want to dance."  Out of
nowhere a melody came to my heart and my soul.  Very seldom does a
melody come to me together with the words, but at that
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moment the words came right along with it.
     We say, v'sham nashir shir chadash, that when the Holy Temple
is rebuilt our hearts will be filled and we'll sing a new song --
the old song will be renewed.  Friends, I want you to know that
his holy soldier danced on the table for a whole hour.  He
couldn't stop dancing and we couldn't stop singing. 
    So here's my prayer for all the wounded soldiers, all the
people in pain, all the people who are still blind, still waiting
for G_d to give them new eyes.  May G_d give a taste of the new
song that we'll someday sing.

{*Comment (sa):  Judy AvrahamHai told me:  AvrahamHai was in the
army, I suppose that's the 1973 war.  R. Shlomo came to sing to
the group of soldiers he was with.  They had had a hard day; I
think maybe that was on the Golan.  R. Shlomo asked AvrahamHai,
should I sing.  AvrahamHai said, Sing.}

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HAGADAH TEXT: First Hallel:  "The mountains skipped"
HaHaRIm RaQDO 
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A long time ago we lived on the hills of Yerushalayim, but then we
went
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into exile. We went into the valley.  One valley was called the
Inquisition, one was called Auschwitz, and the last valley was
called Siberia.  How can the hill dance, as long as the valley is
till in exile?  But the great day will
[START BOOK PAGE 86]
come when from al the four corners of the world, from all the
valleys, we will come back to Yerushalayim. The valley people will
tell the hill people, "When you were crying your tears rolled into
the valley; and your tears come from so high."  The hill people
will tell the valley people, "Your prayers rose up to the hills'
and your prayers come from so deep."  Then the valleys and the
hills will come together.  The six million will dance together
with the three million from Russia.  Israel and the world will
sing together, G_d will sing with the angels, we will sing with
G_d.  Yerushalayim and the world will dance together on the holy
hills.
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HAGADAH TEXT: No English heading in book; English is:  "We will
then thank YOU with a new song."
V_NODeH Lkha ShiR HaDaSh 
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teaching, but of European cities, not Israel cities, and as a set-
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My beautiful friends, we're still singing old melodies. 
Everything is old, Yiddishkeit is old -- not real Yiddishkeit, but
Yiddishkeit the way we're doing it and teaching it. Shabbos is
old.  Whatever we think of Yerushalayim, or of each other, is old. 
My deepest prayer in the name of all of us is v'sham nashir shir
chadash, Master of the world, put a new song into our hearts!

    You know, my friends, I've walked the streets of
{?}Yerushalayim, Tel Aviv,
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 Haifa, Beer Sheva.{?}  I look at the young people, and you know
what they need?  A shir chadash, a new song to sing.  I walk IN
THE STREETS OF New York, or Paris, of Rome, of Stockholm, and I
see the eyes of the people.  Do know what they're crying for?  A
shir chadash.
    A new song comes only from the Holy City -- v'sham nashir,
from there we'll sing.  One day the whole world will learn from us
to sing a new song:  {?}a song without hatred, a song with just
love.{?}
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HAGADAH TEXT:  [Motzi Matza]
MOTzIA / MaTzaH

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    My father was appointed to the Rabbinate of Berlin a little
before Purim, at the end of the First World War.  A few days after
Purim he received a letter from a soldier serving at the front. 
(Most of the soldiers sent to the front never returned.)  the
letter said, "My name is Moishele Cohen.  I'm the only matzah
baker in my whole home town.  If I don't' come home immediately
there won't be any matzos in my town for Pesach, so please go to
General So-and-so and beg him to give me some leave so I can come
home and bake matzah."
[START PAGE 89]
    You only had to show this letter to anyone, and if he had a
brain in his head he'd tell you not to waste your time.  To try
and get leave for this solder was a big joke.  It was the
desperate end of the war.  Every day thousands of soldiers were
drying, and there was nothing to eat in Berlin'; and you think the
General Staff has nothing on their minds besides matzos?  My
[START BOOK PAGE 90]
 father, yes, he was an important rabbi with a big shul, but to
come to the General in the middle of a war and tell him we need
matzos!  For us it's life-and-death, but what would it be to him? 
Crazy.
     But my father had a pure soul.  HE said, "I didn't ask for
this letter, the letter came to me, I must go."
     Dearest friends, in my life I never saw my father without a
sefer in his hands.  This time too, he took within a few sefarim,
because who know how much time he'd have to wait to speak to the
General?  When he got there he saw hundreds of people waiting. 
The General had several officers who did nothing but take down
names and give out numbers -- my father understood that it would
be days until he got to speak to the General. What did he do?  He
gave in his name and continued learning.
    A few minutes later an officer came over to my father and
said, "Rabbi, the General asks you to come to him immediately.  He
must see you."

    He walked in to the General's office, and the General took my
father's hand and kissed it!  Unbelievable!  What's going on?  HE
asked, "Aren't you the son of Rabbi Shlomo Carlebach, the Rabbi of
Lubeck?"  My father said, "Yes, I'm his youngest son."  He said to
my father, "Whatever you want will be done."  My father said right
away, "I need to bring a soldier from the French front back to his
home town."  He said, "Just give me his ID number."  And right
away he dispatched an order to the staff in France to send Moishe
le Cohen home.
    My father asked the General, "How do you know my father?"  --
But if I want you to understand how that happened, I have to take
a minute and tell you another story first.

    In the early nineteen hundreds, thousands and thousands so
Jewish youths from Germany left for America.  To our sorrow, their
parents lost all connection with them.  This left thousands of
parents without any help or support when they grew old.  There
were old people simply dying in their houses without anyone even
realizing.  My grandfather, the Rabbi of Lubeck, thought, "I must
build an old age home for these people."  He decided he would look
for new contributors, people that never gave to causes like this
before.  The heard that the banker of the German Kaiser was a Jew. 
Why was he a Jew?  Simply because the Kaiser never asked him to
convert -- all the Kaiser worried about was that he should take
care of the money.  But if the Kaiser asked him to convert, he
would;' that's what they told my grandfather about him.  "This man
had certainly never associated himself with anything Jewish.  But
what do we know about the Jewish soul, the depths of the Jewish
soul?
     My father went to baron von Bleichroeder's palace, and they
brought him to his office.  All of a sudden the Baron stood up
when he saw my grandfather.  HE went over to him, kissed his hand,
and started crying.  He
[START PAGE 91]
said, "Rabbi, you must know that G_)d sent you to me.  I'm seventy
years old; today is my birthday, and last night I cried the whole
night.  I thought, "I'm Jewish, but I've never spoken to my
bretheren.  I never spoke to someone who could purify my soul.' 
Today you came to me."
    They became close friends.  Anything that my grandfather asked
of him, the Baron did immediately.  He built a huge building for
an old age home.  It was the first old age home in Germany, and
probably the first in the whole of Europe.  (The our great sorrow
the building was totally destroyed, because the Nazis, mimach
shmam, made it into their headquarters)  After five years during
which my grandfather spoke with the Baron almost every day, he got
a call from the Baron's son, who said, "Holy Rabbi, you were my
father's best friend.  My father wasn't a simple man.  This
morning I entered his office and saw a letter on his desk.  This
is what was written:  'If, G_d forbid, I don't get up tomorrow
morning, I want only Rabbi Carlebach to eulogize me.  If he
cannot, I don't want any eulogy.'  I ran into my fathers' bedroom,
but he was already in Heaven."
    My grandfather said a hesped, a eulogy for the Baron, and
understandably, the Kaiser of Germany with all his family came to
the funeral.  The brother of the Czar of Russia came too, and the
kings of England, Denmark, Sweden, Norway -- all the European
leaders.

     Now I can return to the original story with the General. When
my father asked him how he know the Rabbi of Lubeck, he answered,
"I was fortunate enough to be there when Rabbi Carlebach eulogized
Baron von Bleichroeder.  Let me tell you, generals don't dry and
they don't laugh.  My heart is dead, and my soul died before I was
born, because you can't be a general and remain in a person.  I
don't believe in anything; if you came and told me that half the
world just died, I wouldn't blink an eye.  But one time in my life
I cried like a baby for a quarter of an hour.  Once in my life I
believed in people, in a living G_d .  Once in my life I prayed
that G_d would forgive my sins.  That was when your father spoke.
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HAGADAH TEXT: {Shulchan Orech)
ShULChaN 'ORKH

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deals with advanced halacha.
 
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    In the time of the Yeshuos Yaakov there was a Yid in Lemberg
who was so hungry you couldn't even call is fasting.  "Fasting'
means that sometimes you ear and sometimes you don't.  But he
never ate.  Nebach, once a year he got to eat; the Yeshuos Yaakov
got the community together on Pesach every hear to give food, so
this man and his family would have something to eat.
     One year, in the middle of the Seder this poor Yiddele came
running to the Yeshuos Yaakov.  They didn't have caterers{?} back
then; they would take 
[START BOOK PAGE 93]
one big pot, throw everything in, and cook it.  One of the poor
man's children just threw something into the pot, and he was
pretty sure it was chametz.
    Everybody knows that with chametz even b'elef, even if it's
only one part in a thousand, there's no way out.  The whole pot is
chametz.  Ok now,
[START BOOK PAGE 94]
open your hearts.  There's one opinion, the heilige Rav Achai
Gaon, that although chametz isn't batel b'shishim, it is batel
b'melah.  With other treifeh things, if there's sixty parts of
other stuff in the pot it's all kosher; and Rav Achai Gaon says,
although that's not true with chametz if there are a hundred other
parts it's all right.
    We don't hold this way, because only Rav Achai says it, but
now the Yeshuos Yaakov is thinking, "It's Seder night.  Gevalt, if
the pot is chametz he'll have nothing to eat, and he has eleven
children."  He thinks, "Reb Achai Gaon can carry this; he has
broad shoulders."  He says to the Yid, "Go home; it's a hundred
percent kosher."  That night Rav Achai came to the Yeshuos Yaakov
in a dream and said, Thank you so much, because I want you to
know, I only wrote that decision of mine for the sake of this one
Yid."
     It's awesome.  A thousand years beforehand, Rav Achai saw
with the ruach hakodesh, with holy foresight the saw one yid in
Lemberg.  Now you know what kind of sages we've had.  So whenever
I say Amar Abayei, that Abayei said this or that, it has to be
clear to me that when he said it he was thinking of me.  When the
Torah's being left uncared for in a dark alley{?}, it 
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has to be clear to us that Rashi, Tosafos, R. Akiva Eiger, they
were all thinking of us.  Today, even if our heads aren't as great
as earlier generations, we have such siyata dishamay.  Heaven
helps us to understand the Torah.
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TEACHING #38
RETYPED LIBERATED EDITED EXCERPT; NOT YET CHECKED FOR AUTHENTICITY
Retyped (sa) from:
['The Carelebach Haggadah' [abbrev. 'BOOK'] (c) 2001 Urim
Publications (NYC / Jerusalem ) Edited Chaim Stefansky,
http://www.UrimPublications.com , ISBN 965-7108-31-4 ]
HAGADAH TEXT: "A song of ascents" [Shir haMalot, grace after
meals]
ShIR Ha_Ma'aLOT

RELEVANCE TO TEXT:  [to birkat hamazon]
ESTIMATED AUTHENTICITY (i.e., reciprocal of how badly over-
edited:)
RATING IN THE CARLEBACH CANNON:  Surprisingly profound. 
Universal.
 
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    Hazorim b'dimah.  If yo8u work with tears, if whatever you do
is with
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tears, then b'rinah yiktzoru, you'll reap with joy.  That's what
the words mean;' but old Chassidim, old Yidden who knew the truth,
knew that these words hold the secret of being teal.  The mean
hazor'im b'dim'ah b'rinah, whatever you do it's with tears and joy
together.  You do everything with joy and with tears together. 
Whatever we do, whether planting or reaping, it's going to be with
joy and tears, for in this world nothing can ever be composed of
only one of them.
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