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RSC, 'The Carlebach Haggadah', Critical retype, Teachings 39 thru
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HAGADAH TEXT: [Grace after meals]  "For YOUR Torah"
V_'aaL TORaT_Kha 

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    You know, my beautiful friends, we all feel that Pesach is  so
special but each one of us feels it in his own way.  Every Yid is
looking for his own words, to describe what he feels is so special
about Pesach.  Let me tell you about my own feelings.

    We have this holiday of Pesach, when we celebrate how '' took
us out of Egypt.  Then comes the holiday of Shavuos, that
celebrates the fact that G_d gave us the Torah.  There is a
difference between these two holidays -- there are a lot of
differences, but in a nutshell, on Shavuos you don't have to sit
up with your children until late at night.  It's beautiful if you
do, but there's no special commandment that tells you to sit and
tell them, "Tomorrow G_d is going to give us the Torah."  On
Pesach, thought, there is such a mitzvah.  On Pesach I have to sit
with my children, even all night long, and tell them about the
Exodus.  Gevalt, the night is so deep -- I'm sitting with them
until the coming of Mashiach.  I'm telling them about the One God
Who took us out of Egypt and Who chose us to be 'HIS' people, and
uplifted us, and made us special by giving us the Torah.
    The Torah was only put here, in this world, for the Jewish
nation to use.  How do you use the Torah?  You learn from it to
become holy, to become
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G_d's own nation.  But that's not something that just anyone can
teach you.  From a teacher you can learn every word of the Torah,
but who can put the feeling of holiness in your heart, the feeling
that the Torah was given to us by G_d, that we and G_d are the
highest oneness in the world?  That's something only parents can
do.
    And that's why we have the special mitzvah to reach our
children on Seder night.  Because on Pesach G_d gives us a taste
of what it is to be a Yid, and only your parents can really get
that across to you.  What a privilege, to be able to put this
feeling in a child's heart!  What a gift!  I tell my child, "When
we made you there were three partners:  your father, your mother,
and G_d.  Tonight I tell you about the third partner."
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HAGADAH TEXT: [Grace after meals] "On the great and holy House"
V_'aL Ha_BaIiT

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    When the Holy Temple is rebuilt, the prophet says it will be
"beis tefillah l'khol ha'amim, My house will be called a house of
prayer for all the nations of the world."  Someday the world will
realize there's no other way.  "Wars don't bring us anywhere,"
they'll say.  "Hatred doesn't lead us anywhere.  There's only one
way, we know that now.  Let's all run to Yerushalayim, the holy
city, to the One and Only One."  And at that moment the whole
world will run to G_d and to each other, and everything will be
filled with joy.
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HAGADAH TEXT: [Grace after meals] "And rebuild Yerushalayim"
V_BneH YRUShaLaYiM

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    Last night I prayed by the Holy Wall, and I asked the Almighty
all my questions:  "If YOU are the ONE who loves the world, if YOU
are the ONE who cares for every little creature, if YOU are the
ONE that gave us the Holy Land, where were YOU when six million
walked into the gas chambers?  Where were YOU when people break
each other's hearts?   Where are YOU when homes are destroyed?" 
And I looked up to Heaven and I heard the angels singing, and I
knew the Almighty is on 'HIS' way to do great things.  Because
whatever happens in the world is only a preparation for this one
great thing:  u'vneigh Yerushalyim, the rebuilding of Jerusalem.

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    What do you think about when you eat? Some people forget the
whole world when they eat.  There are holy, deep people who have
different thoughts than ordinary people. After they eat they
bentsch and say, "thank you, G_d, for feeding me, for sustaining
me.  Than YOU for the Holy Land."
But then they're left with one big question, because they're the
kind of people who, while they ate, remembered all the hungry
people.  They remem-
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bered all the people who are heartbroken.  So now they ask the
Almighty, "If it's true that YOU're feeding the world, why is the
Holy Temple destroyed?  Why are so many people hungry?  Why are so
many people standing on the corners of so many streets?  Why are
hearts broken, windows broken, doors broken?"
   It's only natural to say, "Almighty{?}, I have one request for
you.  There's only one way to rebuild the world word:  u'vneth
Yerushalayim, rebuild the Holy city, the capital of the world, the
capital of everything that's beautiful
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and holy in the world.  Bimheirah b'yameinu, in our days, let us
be there.
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HAGADAH TEXT: [Grace after meals] "He will be bountiful to us
forever"
HOA Y_GMaLe_NU L_'aD

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    The heilige Rebbe Moshe Zleib of Sassov, who was famous for
the greet love he had for every Jew, left his world and went up to
heaven.  When he came before the Heavenly Court, they announced
that he could enter Paradise without delay.
    But the Rebbe surprised them.  He announced, "I'm not gong to
go there and I'll tell you why.  If it's true that G_d wants me to
live in heavenly bliss, filled with only and everlasting content,
then all of the Yidden have to come into Paradise with me.  Just
think, what kind of please could I take in Paradise as long as one
yiddele is in pain?  How could I live in bliss, knowing that
another Yid is in hell?  So I'm telling you, if you want to give
me my heavenly reward there's only way you can do it.  You'll have
to take all the Yidden out of Hell{?}."
    The Heavenly Court thought it over, and this was their
decision. If there had ever once been a time that  Jew need the
Sassover Rebbe and the Rebbe hadn't been there to help him, then
his merit would not be enough, and the Yidden would have to stay
in Hell.  But if he had never once missed a chance to help, if his
whole life long he had never turned down even one person, then his
merit was so greet that for his sake all the Yidden could come out
of Hell, just to make him happy.  And that is how the Sassover
took
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everyone with him into G_d's eternal bliss.
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HAGADAH TEXT: [Grace after meals] "May 'HE' send us Eliyahu
HOA Y_ShLaCh LaNU AeT AeLiYaHU Ha_NavIA 

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with the opening the door bit.
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    There's a piece of Torah that the heilige Viznitzer Rebbe
said:  Everybody knows that before the Mashiach can come, first
Eliyahu Hanavi has to come, "viyevaser lanu besoros tovos, and
he'll bring us good tidings salvation, and consolation."  In other
words, he'll let us know Mashiach is coming.  But if that's so,
how do we say bimheirah yavo eilinu im Mashiach, maybe he come to
us quickly WITH the Mashiach."  We just said that he comes before
hand, not with him!
    So the Vizhnitzer Rebbe says like this:  the prophet said,
"b'itah achishenah", in its proper time I will hasten the
Redemption."

{Note (sa):  There is a very deep Mishkanot teaching by RSC,
titled Achishenah - before the appointed time -- I don't recall
the filename; maybe even it's not input; it is, or was, in the
Witt collection; quite deep; about those of us who are sometimes
so filled with zeal, we try to bring about what should be
(Ideally; Whitehead's eternal objects if not Plato's Ideon,
Archetypes; 'the Divine Plan' if you like ) before it's time for
it (in this "floating world", this world of maya, the self-styled
'real world', earth, the domain of temporality)}

If it's b'itah, if this the right time for Mashiach to come, then
Eliyahu Hanavi comes first to let us know Mashiach is coming.  If
it's achishenah, if he comes early because
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Yidden do teshuvah and we have the privilege -- may we all have
it! -- to bring Mashiach one step closer to the world, then the
Ribbon shel Olam brings him suddenly, because if we do teshuvah
there's no time for Eliayahu Hanavi to come first.  So we say
bimheirah yavo eileinu, let him come quickly.  Master of the
world, have mercy!  Let it be tonight that he comes with the
Mashaich ben David.
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HAGADAH TEXT: [Grace after meals, conclusion:] "'' will give
strength to 'HIS' people'
'' 'oZ L_'aM_O YiTeN

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   G_d, please give strength to your people.  
   You know, friends, sometimes we don't know where are strength
will come from any more.   Let me tell you about a Yid who came to
the Holy Land.  He fought in 1948 and again in 1956.  He had two
sons, two holy sons.  In the war of 1967 one son left this world. 
He sanctified G_d's name he gave his life for the Holy Land.  On
Yom Kippur 1973 the second son joined his father Abraham in
Heaven.
    I heard this story from the person who has the job of telling
parents if, G_d forbid, their children die.  He told me he just
didn't have the strength any more.  He drove around the block five
times.  How can you tell parents such a thing?  But regardless
finally he made himself strong.  He walked up to this Chassidische
Yid and said to him, "I'm so sorry to tell you, the son you had
left is also gone."  You know what this Yiddele did?  G_d gave him
so much strength from Heaven; he took a little wine and said,
"L'chaim, my holy son.  I envy you that you gave your life for the
Holy Land."  He said L'chaim to his wife too:  "You we privileged
to have tow holy sons who gave their lives for the Holy Land." 
May '' give strength to the 'HIS' people; may '' bless 'HIS'
people with peace.
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HAGADAH TEXT: [The Cup of Eliyahu]

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RATING IN THE CARLEBACH CANNON:  The first of these 3 teachings,
is deep and important; on the Tree of Life.  Clearer than other
expositions from RSC.
The other two are standard stories, very nice, but much better on
tape than in writing.  Moishele the Gonif, and the wedding story,
"Say, are you two married, or are you just -- fooling around.  RSC
tells it with a very nice recreation of a New York City Afro-
American subway accent.
 
START FROM BOOK PAGE: Page 112
SOURCE:  There are 2 or 3 separate teachings here.  The first I
don't recall, it seems deep and important.  The other 1 or 2 are
stories, I recall them from a tape, I'm pretty sure a published
tape.

{Comment (sa):  Of course the essential RSC teaching on this part
of the Seder, and it's published in HBG or CNS, so I must have it
input, is that RSC reads 'Pour out your wrath' as "Pour out your
warmth'.
Incidentally, the text is, ShPOKh ChaMaT_Kha , ShPOKh ChMT_Kh , so
I suppose it's just by a variation of vowels that RSC gets his
version; and variation of vowels is allowed {"read not X, but
Y").}

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    Our sprits are so high.  At the end of the Seder it's clear to
us that Eliyahu Hanavi has to come in.  A lot of people today
think that maybe we need a different Haggadah.  Sadly enough, most
of these people don't even speak Hebrew.  They have no idea what
the Hagadah is really about.  Let me just share with you what the
heilige Radziminer Rebbe said he heard in Pshischa.  They said
there that the Hagadah was composed by Eliyahu Hanavi the one who
lives forever.

    One Seder night, death and everything that's unholy is wiped
out from the world.  The Tree of Knowledge brought death to the
world, and it made everyone either good or bad.  The Tree of
Knowledge is all head, but the Tree of Life is heart.  A pure
heart is a vessel for the utmost joy -- yhl'yishrei leiv simcha. 
If I'm completely alive, I can love everything.

    If you love someone with your heart -- I don't mean
emotionally, but deep inside -- nothing can change it.  When G_d
in 'HIS' great mercy revives the dead, all the people we loved
before, we'll still love them, even though thousands of years have
gone by.  Imagine if you're very tired, you're about to go to
sleep, and then the person you really love comes in to visit.  At
that moment you get a new infusion of life.  Even greater: 
Imagine a person's on his deathbed; he's about to die, and the
person he loves comes in.  He can't die then, he's so connected to
the Tree of Life.

    We have to reach our children first of all to love the world;
we have to show them the beauty of it.  If we teach them from the
Tree of Knowledge
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first, we're bringing death to the world.  If I tell the, "there
are so many criminals in the world, every third person you meet is
a criminal," then what will happen when they're sitting in class? 
They'll look at their classmates and think, "This one is bright,
this one is stupid; he's ugly, he's terrible."  First you have to
connect them to the Tree of Life.  

     People, nations, don't all think the same way.  They're all
so different.  They can only make peace by holding on to the Tree
of Life and saying, "We don't mind how you think, what your belief
are.  We love you."                             

     The SPOLER ZAIDE was called Zaide because he loved everyone
like a grandfather.  They say the Baal Shem Tov put his hand on
the Spoler Zaide's heart when he was still and young boy and
blessed him to have a real Jewish heart.

    Pesach comes after Purim.  On Purim we erase Haman's name; we
wipe out evil.  There's no Tree of Knowledge any more.  I'm so
drunk, I'm only aware of things that are real.  ZI don't give a
darn about theories -- I know that an apple is an apple, a banana
is a banana, and wine is wine.

     Only on Purim you can send shallach manos.  During the year
if I bring
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you a gift of a banana and an apple, you'd say, "A bannanna costs
15 cents and an apple 12 cents.  What kind of chutzpah to give me
these things!"  This is what happens when you eat from the Tree of
Knowledge,; you measure, this is good, this is bad.  You buy me a
house in Monaco, or you donate two million dollars to my yeshiva -
- then you're okay.  But on Purim it's the Tree of Life.  I don't
measure, because my head isn't running the show nay more.  I love
with my heart.  So whatever you give me, thank you.

    After Purim can come the Seder night.  We know how to use our
heads, but now we're above the head.  We're heavenly; our hearts
are open.  I look at every human being, every Jew, and see G_d's
image -- it's so much deeper than a question of good or bad.  I
look at my children, and I see G_d's face; I'm back in paradise.
     Eliyahu Hanavi comes at the end of the Seder.  Every adult
and every child goes out to greet Elijah the Prophet, and
sometimes we stand there for infinite time.  At this moment all
the gates of Heaven are open; you can ask 'HIM' for everything.   
The most important thing, and my blessing to you is that you'll do
it:  to hold your children's hands while you wait for Eliayahu
Hanavi.

    Sometimes you want to send a message to someone you love, but
you don't know where they are.  But then there are always two who
know where every Yid is:  HaKadosh baruch Hu, and our friend
Eliyahu Hanavi.  You and I know that Eliyahu lives forever -- of
course we know it, because he's every Jew's best friend.  Through
im we're sending messages to all of Israel who still haven't come
to the Holy Land.  Some of the Yidden are so far away, physically,
mentally, spiritually.  Eliyahu, please bring them back.

[SECTION BREAK]

    I want to share with you two Eliahu Hanavi stories, one from a
long time ago, and one from today.

     The heilige Rebbe Nachum Tchernobiler all his life collected
money for poor brides.  The holy Baal Shem Tov one time told him,
"In a village in Russia there are ten brides and I need ten
thousand rubles to marry them off."  Rebbe Nachum decided to go to
Brod, Poland, a big city with a lot of rich Jews.  Hopefully, with
G_d's help he'd collect the ten thousand rubles.
'
    The story turns a bit sad now.  Rebbe Nachum was in Brod for
two weeks and he didn't collect even one penny.  In the end he
walked right out of the city, fuming with anger -- he was angry at
G_)d.  He walked along the road, then he stopped under a tree and
started to talk to G_d about his anger:  "Ribbono shel Olam,
Master of the world, if I came to collect money for myself, YOU
have the right to help me or not help me.  But it's not for me;
I'll never see those ten brides, I don't even know why they are. 
I did it for YOU, Ribbono shel Olam.  Why don't YOU help me?  I'm
so angry!  I'm going home
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to take care of my own children; I'm not collecting any more to
help poor brides."  He was angry at G_d, but at the same time he
was broken inside, because he didn't want to be angry.  He was
torn apart.

     Suddenly he saw the police coming.  They were holding a
little Jew between them, and the Yiddele was dancing while they
held him.  He was singing, glowing with joy.  Here Rebbe Nachum
was free, and he was sitting and crying; and this Yiddele, who was
obviously a thief who[d bee caught, was glowing with joy.  Rebbe
Nachum said to him, "My dear Jew, who are you?"  He opened his
eyes very wide and said, "'What/  You don't know me?  I'm Moishele
the ganov; the most famous thief in Brod."

    Rebbe Nachum said, "I'll tell you the truth, I was in Brod for
just a few days, so I didn't have the great pleasure of meeting
you yet.  But I'm so glad to meet you now."  Then he said to him,
"Moishele, if you're such a polished thief, how come the police
caught you:"  He said, "Even the most polished thief gets caught
sometimes."  The rebbe said, "Moishele, now you're arrested and
you'll be in prison, I hope when you get out you'll stop being a
thief."  Mosishele the ganav started laugh and said "Do you know
what a Jew is all about:  A Jew never stops doing what he began
do."

     Rebbe Nachum got the message.  He went back to the city with
great simacha, and within a few days he collected the ten thousand
rubles.  Then he went back to the holy Baal Shem Tov, who looked
at him and said, "Nachum, how does Eliayahu Hanavi look when we
walks as a thief between policemen?"

    You understand, my dear friends:  according to our holy
tradition, whenever you are about to give up Eliahu Hanavi comes
to give you strength.  

{Comment (sa):  And as I have heard, mostly at Zenith, in Islamic
tradition, Elijah the Prophet is Kidr, "the little green man of
the desert", who comes to the rescue of those wandering in the
desert without water.}


My blessing for you, brothers and sisters all over the world, is
that you let Elijah the prophet come to you.  Maybe as a thief,
maybe as a policeman, maybe as a Rebbe, but let G_d send someone
to you with a message, to tell you, "Don't give up!"

{Comment (sa):  The last line, maybe an edit insert, is just about
an allusion to Reb Nachman's last words -- "Gvalt!  Never give
up!"}

[SECTION BREAK]

     I had the privilege several years ago to marry a couple --
sweet as sugar, holy like the angels in heaven, but very poor. 
The wedding took place in a loft somewhere in Greenwich Village in
New York.  They had a jar of herring and a box of matzah; that was
it.  But gevalt, was there joy!  Behind me stood a very wealthy
woman,  her father had millions.  She was married for four weeks
and then got divorced.  It was just two weeks since the divorce,
and she was standing behind me watching the chuppah.  She said to
me, "My father spent thirty-five thousand dollars just on the
flowers, but there was no joy at the wedding.  This couple have
just a little bit of herring and matzah, and look at the simchah."
"
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     By now, thank G_d, this couple have two children.  I met them
a few months later, and the wife told me this story.  She said,
"The last night of sheva berachos, was while in the Bronx.  We
were on our way back to Brooklyn, and on the subway in New York. 
Now you know, the first stop is at 72nd Street and the next
express stop is 42nd Street.  The whole time my husband was
telling me, 'I love you so much, and it really doesn't matter if
we're rich or not; but you know something?  Tonight I wish I was
rich, because the sheva berachos are over, and it's just you and
I.  So I wish we had enough money to go to a hotel for a few days
together.'
    I head a tear in my eye, and I said to my husband, 'I wish so
too.'  At 72nd Street the door opened and black man walked in; a
good man, but a little drunk.  He sat down next to us and said,    
     'Hey, what's going on here?  Are you married, or just fooling
around?'  
     We said 'No we just got married.'  
    'Oh, that makes me kind of feel good.  I wish I'd been at the
wedding.'  
     He talked to us for a while, and before we'd even noticed it
the train was the 42nd Street.  Tthe man suddenly said, "I'm
leaving,' and walked out the door.  Then, a split second before
the door closed, the threw an envelope into my hand.  The door
closed, and he was gone.  I opened the envelope -- a thousand
dollars in cash."

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HAGADAH TEXT:  Hallel   HaLeL

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     I had the privilege to say Hallel on Rosh Chodesh in a
prison.  Nebach, there were young Jewish people, young cheverah,
twenty or twenty-two years of age.  How could I tell them about
Hallel?  I look at their faces -- nebach, how can I ask them to
say Hallel?                    

    I head an story form the heilige Bobover Rebbe about why R.
Mendel Riminover was worthy to study and become a top student of
Rebbe Elimelech.  There are many versions of this story, and here
is one of them:

    The Chasidim of Rebbe Elimelech, on the way to Lizhensk,
passed by a village .  On the balcony of a broken-down house, a
little boy was standing and mamash dancing like crazy.  So they
asked him, "Why are you dancing?"  He answered, "I'm dancing
because I haven't eaten in three days."
    The looked at him.  He said, "I'll tell you the truth: I'm all
of nine years old; and I was so angry at G_d -- gevalt was I
angry!  I said, 'Master of the world, I'm only nine years old; how
many aveiros, how many mistakes have I made in my life, that I
deserve not to eat for three days?'  Suddenly I realized:  It's
true G_d hasn't fed me for three days, but I have a mother, a
father, a brother, and sisters.  Our house is not so big, but
still, it's a house.  I realized I've never thanked G_d for what I
have, so I'm dancing."
    The Chasidim walked into the house and said to the parents,
"Do you
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know what kind of son you have?  What a neshamah?  Are you sending
him to cheder to learn Torah?"  They said, "We're too poor to send
him to cheder."  "Such a heilige neshamah: said the Chassidim,
"such a great soul!  Please let us take him to Rebbe Elimelech." 
This boy eventually became R. Mendel Riminover.            


    So I told this to the people, the chevrah, our brothers in
prison.  I said, "I'm sure you have lots of reasons to be angry at
G_d, and I'm not here to offer excuses for 'HIM'.  And I wish and
bless you to come out of here fast.  But maybe, in the meantime,
let's dance and thank 'HIM' for what we do have."

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HAGADAH TEXT:  [Text is:  "Israel, trust in ''":  YiSRAeL BtaCh
B_''

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    You know friends, sometimes it makes me sad, and yet sometimes
it makes me happy:  Israel has no friends in the world.  The Holy
Land, the holy people of Israel, are all alone.  Am l'vadad
yiskon, we are truly a people that dwells alone.  But you know
what we have?  YiSRAeL BtaCh ba_'', we have One friend in Heaven,
and we can trust 'HIM'.
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HAGADAH TEXT:  Hallel   HaLeL
"The pains of death surrounded me" [ 
AFaFONI ChevLI MaveT
RELEVANCE TO TEXT:  I'm not entirely sure that King David, in
composing the Psalms that comprise the Hallel, and which would
conclude the Seder, was contemplating the emotional trauma of a
fiscal liquidity crisis.
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   About a hundred and twenty years ago there lived a rich Jew in
Odessa who was a banker.  At least, he thought he  was rich.  One
day he told his accountant, "Let me look at the books."  When he
did, he realized that unless
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he put two million rubles into his bank he would go bankrupt in
four days.                           

     Today if someone is bankrupt, he declares bankruptcy and
that's all the does.  Then he goes on vacation to Switzerland, and
sends letters to all the people he owes money to:  "I wish you
were here, I'm having a great time."

{Comment (sa):  The boilerplate USA phrase, ca. 1940's, is: 
"Having a great time; wish you were here."
In a variant, that I saw on a mildly bawdy postcard at a 5-and-10-
cent store in a tourist town in Maine:  A middle-aged man is
sitting on a beach, contemplating a zaftig young woman, as he
writes a postcard to his wife:  "Having a wonderful time; wish you
were her."
But I digress.}

In those days, if you declared bankruptcy you were on the next
rain to Siberia 
{Comment (sa):  The original version, as I recall, adds, in
effect:  if you were lucky.}

But, he thought, he needn't be so desperate.  "I have enough
credit, I'll just borrow from another bank."

     To make it short, he found he couldn't get credit.  By the
second day he decided he had to commit suicide in order not to go
to Siberia and put his family to shame.  
                      
{Note T48}

But he thought, "I can't commit suicide near my wife and children,
I'll do in the synagogue."  He went to the synagogue and put the
poison on a top shelf under one of the books; but then he went
home; he decided he'd leave himself two more days.  He tried and
tried to get the two million rubles.  He couldn't get it.
    On the fourth night he thought, "It's heartbreaking, but what
can you do?"  He told his wife after dinner, "I have to do some
errands," and he went to the synagogue.  There was no electric
light then, just candles, so he put the candle on the table and
reached up with his hand to take the poison out from under the
book.  He was, nebach, trembling so much that the book that was on
top of the poison fell down.                                

    And what book was it?  The teachings of Rebbe Nachman, the
holy master from Breslav.  Now, usually on the first page of a
book it says the name of the book and the name of the author.  But
those who printed Rebbe Nachman's Torah decided to write on the
first page:  Rebbe Nachman, our holy master, says, "Don't ever
give up!"  And only on the second page it says, "These are
teachings of our holy master Rebbe Nachman."

    The book fell down and automatically the banker bent down to
pick it up.  The book had opened, and he looked and it said: 
Rebbe Nachman says, "Don't ever give up!"

    He sat down at the table with the book and said slowly,
"Master of the world, is this a message from you?  I won't commit
suicide tonight.  I'll wait another day.  But please don't
disappoint me."           

{Note T48-a}

So he sat there, and just looked at the words, "Don't ever give
up!" all night long.

{Comment (sa):  Having forgotten that-it-is-said:  It is forbidden
to rely on a miracle.  Oy, piety.  The last refuge of a wimp.}

    On the fifth day, each time there was a knock on the door{?}
he was sure it was the police.  It wasn't.  For three more nights
he went to the synagogue and just stared at those words all night.

    On the seventh day he got a letter form a bank in Holland.  It
said, "A thousand pardons{?} 

{Comment (sa):  1000 pardons ain't in the original, not so's I
recollect.}

Seven years ago we took a loan from you and we completely forgot
to pay it back.

{Comment (sa):  Yes quite; it's because the bankers in Amsterdam
had clear prophecy and foresaw that 100 years later in Amsterdam
you couldn't even sit down in a hotel lounge to gaze out at the
canal and read the local hooker stocks without either holding your
breath or getting stoned; so they took a few tokes on credit.}

"Now we are paying it back with interest."  It came to over two
million rubles.  That night he went to the synagogue again, his
heart full of joy.  This was the first time he turned to the
second page of the holy book.  There it said, "These are the
teachings of the master Rebbe
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Nachman, the great-grandson of the holy Baal Shem Tov."  He turned
another page and he found the teaching of "Happy are those that
walk in the way of G_d." [Ashre]

    He was so tired form the previous nights that soon he fell
asleep on the book.  In his dream he saw a youngish man, maybe
thirty-eight, with earlocks{?! -- peyos} and a small beard.  He
asked, "Who are you?"  The man said, "My name is Nachman, and
you're learning my book.  A hundred years ago, when I was shouting
never to give up, I was praying for you."  The man asked, "Holy
master, what should I do now?"  Rebbe Nachman answered, "I'll tell
you.  Sell your bank and go to the Holy Land.  Please print my
book in the Holy Land."                    


     I want you to know, I met an old Breslaver Chassid, ninety
years old.  He is a student of that banker from Odessa, who turned
him on to Rebbe Nachman.  From him I heard this story.  That
means, I heard the story from someone who knew the banker.  I
bless you, friends, don't ever give up.  Don't ever be sad. If you
see someone sad and desperate, give him strength.
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HAGADAH TEXT:  Hallel   HaLeL -- "Return, my soul"
ShUvI NaFShI

RELEVANCE TO TEXT:
ESTIMATED AUTHENTICITY (i.e., reciprocal of how badly over-
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RSC.
RATING IN THE CARLEBACH CANNON:   Very moving, a prayer and
meditation, no sugar-coating on it.

{Note T49}  

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   Master of the world, let my soul be a peace again.  Let me be
filled with joy again.  Ki '' gamal alaykhi, '' has given me such
a gift.  Thank YOU for the gift you gave me; I know I don't
deserve it.  Thank You for the heavenly soul in me .  Ki chilatza
nafshi mimaves.  YOU saved me from death.  Gevalt, all of us, we
look back at what happened to us just over the last year, and --
Master of the world, YOU redeemed us and our children from death a
thousand times.  Es eini min dim'ah.  You spared my eyes from
tears.  So much pain YOU could have given me, but YOU took it away
so my eyes wouldn't weep.  Es ragli midechi.  You spared my feet
from slipping.  So many stones You cleared away form me so I
wouldn't stumble.
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HAGADAH TEXT:  Hallel   HaLeL  -- "My eyes from tears"
AeT 'eI_Ni MiN DiM'aH

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RATING IN THE CARLEBACH CANNON:  A haunting retold tale.

{Note T50} 

START FROM BOOK PAGE;  Bottom page 123
SOURCE:  One of the posthumously published cassette/CD series, I
think; either Best of Shlomo, or Torah Times  

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    For the Rebbes -- our masters, our giants -- from this world
to the other world was a very short distance.  After R. Yitzchak
Vorker died, his son, R. Mendele, was very worried.  He'd been
sure that his father would come and talk to him in a dream, and as
yet he hadn't heard from him.  So he went to his father's best
friend, the Kotzker Rebbe.
[START PAGE 124]
    The Rebbe said to him, "To tell you the truth, I was also very
worried that he didn't come to me and tell me what is happening to
him in the other world.  So I went to him.  I went to all the
palaces:  the palace of Rashi, the Rambam, Rebbe Akiva.  They told
me he'd been there, but he'd left.  I asked the angels, 'Do you
know where my best friend, the holy R. Yitzchak Vorker, is?"  They
said, "You have to go through a very dark forest, and at the end
of the forest you'll find him.'
  I summoned up all my energy.  I walked through the forest, and
at the end was a great ocean.  I never before heard waves crying
in such a way.  And there was my friend Yitzchak, leaning [typo: 
learning] on a stick, not taking his eyes off the ocean.  I said,
'Yitzchak, my best friend, what are you doing here?'  He said to
me, 'Mendel, do you recognize this ocean?'  I said, 'No, what is
it?'  He said, 'Mendele, this is the ocean of tears of G_d's holy
people, of all of Israel.  I had sworn I will not leave the shore
of this ocean until G_d has dried all the tears."    

    My friends, many times we come to houses where children are
crying.  Their parents tell them to act grown up and to stop
crying, or perhaps they
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are not even paying attention to the children's tears.  I bless
you to stay there and not leave until the One, the Only One, dries
their tears.  When children are crying, their tears reach Heaven. 
Don't ever walk away."
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{Comment (sa):  When RSC was in the Modi'in Bet Knesset, he'd stop
whatever he was doing, if halachically possible, if he heard a
child outside crying.  I noticed him do it once, and he would not
resume until several of the mothers had assured him it was ok.}

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HAGADAH TEXT:  Hallel   HaLeL  "The stone despised by the
builders"
AeveN M_AsI Ha_BONIM
{N.B.:  what's with this 'despised' rather than 'set aside'}

RELEVANCE TO TEXT:  A perfect fit.  If RSC didn't say it, my
compliments to the forger.  
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edited:)
PLACE IN THE CARLEBACH CANNON:  Somewhere after The Tale of
Ferdinand the Bull.
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SOURCE:  Never heard it before.
    
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    In the Beis Hamikdash, the Holy Temple, one stone was big, one
stone was small, one was round, and one was square, but
miraculously all the stones fit together.  There was one stone,
though, even ma'asu habonim, that the builders rejected.  This
stone was the greatest misfit in the world; it didn't fit
anywhere, so it was despised by the holy builders.  But when the
Beis Hamikdash was just about finished, the Kodesh Kodashim, the
Holy of Holies, needed one stone to complete the building, and
none of the stones available fit.
    Finally, somebody remember that castaway stone.  All of a
sudden, hayash l'rosh pinah, it became the cornerstone; because
the castaway stone was the only stone that fit.  It was now the
crown of the building.  The Midrash says, "Amar David Hamelech,
King David said before G_d, 'We
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Yidden are the most despised people of all, even ma'asu habonim.
We are despised by the whole world. But one day hayash l'rosh
pinah, we will be the crown of the world.
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HAGADAH TEXT:  Hallel   HaLeL  -- "The sun to rule by day"
AeT Ha_SheMeSh L_MeMSheLeT B_YOM

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     We Jewish people have a calendar that depends on the moon. 
The whole world thinks the sun is more important, but we say the
moon is more important.                                          

{Note T52}

The holy Zohar says, "The sun reflects the outside light of G_d,
but the moon is the inside."  The Jewish nation are the moon
people.  All the nations count by the sun:  they are all of them
the surface of the world.  But the Jewish nation, the moon nation,
is the inside, the soul.

{Note T52a}

    Let's say, I love someone.  So you know what we do?  We go out
at exactly twelve o'clock and look at the sun.  How does that
sound?  It sound [sic cat; 'it sound'] crazy, you say.  But tell
me, why not?  Because the sun doesn't show you anything which is
deep; it only shows you the skin.  Why do business meetings take
place during the day?  When people are doing business they can't
stand the moon; it shows too much.  When you love somebody very
much, you want to meet them when the moon is shining at night. 
During the day I can meet with people I can't stand, but at night,
never.

{Note T52b}

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     According to our tradition, even among the Jewish people
there are sun people and moon people.  

{Note T52c}

Sun people sleep all night, or go out and have a shallow "good
time".  The moon people among us are up all night doing deeper
things.  Perhaps they're getting in touch with G_d, or enriching
their souls.  The moon people know the light of the night is so
much deeper.

{Note T52d}

    The moon came before G_d and said, "There are two kings here
that have the same power.  It won't work."  So G_d said to the
moon, "Okay, then you make yourself smaller."  The way the world,
the sun people, understand it, G_d punished the moon for having
the chutzpah to question 'HIS' will.  G_d created you this way, so
stick to it.  But the real people say, "The moon was right; there
can't be two cooks in the kitchen.  

{Comment (sa):  Yael came to Mevo Modi'in, and said, in Hungary
they have a saying:  When the soup is salty, the cook is in love.}

Even less can there be two
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lights in the world."
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Open your hearts -- here is a Torah from Rebbe Nachman:  The moon
was saying to G_d, 'Is this all the light YOU can give the world? 
The light of the sun, which shows only the outside?  Isn't there a
deeper light available?  G_d said, "You're the one who will
receive this light."

     The outside people are always the same:  like the sun, they
either shine or they're dark. Either they love you or they hate
you -- so stupid and meaningless.  The moon people change all the
time: one time I'm full, another time I am a crescent, and
sometimes I don't shine at all.   Because the more real something
is, the more I have to make a separate decision about it every
second.

     I had a great Rabbi, my teacher, who said to me, "If you ever
want to be anything in the world, it has to be clear to you that
whatever you know yesterday is meaningless today."  I'm sure it's
clear to you that G_d is not a yenta, a chatterbox who says the
same things all day long.  G_d can't stand the same thing twice. 
The sun is always the same; the moon is different every day.  Each
day a new light comes down from heaven, every day G_d wants
different things from us.

{Note T52e}
 
{Note T52e}
{Comment (sa):  I suppose this is the Merkeva, the throne-chariot. 
I mean, who knows what kind of mushrooms Ezekiel had picked that
afternoon, out by the Tigris.  Wouldn't have happened if he'd
stayed by the Jordan, they just grow alfalfa there; don't give you
weird dreams.
And I suppose Ezekiel is that enigmatic line in Exodus.  PVK has
frequently like commentated on it, but the like commentation is
nearly, in my perspective, as maze-terious as the original.}

     When the Strelisker Rebbe passed away, his children came
before the Rhiziner Rebbe.  He asked them, "What was the most
important thing to your father.  They said to him, "To him, what
to do right now was most important."  
     Most people have the general idea:  life is all planned out
[of them] for them forever. But when it comes to the moment they
have no idea what to do.  

     We have to be in tune with the moment.  You can be the
greatest scholar in the world and not know what to do now.  

{Comment (sa):  There are 2 versions of the 4th bracha in the
Shemoneh Esre:  In Nusach Sfard is hochma, binah, dat; in Nusach
Ashkenazai it's some more useful intellectual tools.}

{Note T52f}

Sometimes a person asks you a question, but what he asks isn't
what he really wants.  What he needs right now you'll never know. 
He doesn't know himself.  It's so deep to know what you're
supposed to do at this moment, to be in touch with the moment.  
And I don't mean that you have a paperback book titled, What to Do
Right Now.
[PARAGRAPH BREAK]

     You know what it is:  people say, "I have my principles.' 
But do you know what the greatest principle in the world is?  Not
to have principles.  

{Comment (sa):  Cf. HIK:  "Shatter your 'Ideals' [ok ok, the text
is simply  ideals, no scare-quotes, no cap] on the rock of truth.}

There's no justice in the world because of all the principles.  A
poor starving man comes to the office, and I tell him, "Sorry, we
can't help you.  It's the weekend and we're closed until Monday.

[PARAGRAPH BREAK]

     The sun's light is so big.  For us, though, the month begins
with just a little ray of moonlight.  You know what's going on
here?  From themselves people expect nothing.  But when it comes
to others -- if they don't shine like the sun they don't count. 
It has to be other way around:  from myself I have to ask
everything; from somebody else, one little ray of light and I'm so
proud of him.

   Imagine if, in the schools , instead of giving marks when
you're bad they 
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gave marks for every ray of light.  Suppose moon teacher has a boy
or girl 
[N.B.:  The preceeding is 1 line of text in the BOOK]

that's really having a hard time in school; it takes so much out
of them just to do the little they're doing.  I'd say to them,
"Every little ray of light means more to me than the light of the
sun:  You never know:  some people can run ten thousand miles, and
other have trouble taking even one step.

    One more thing which is very important;  sun people are full
of themselves -- so proud, so arrogant.  The moment the moon is
full he says to G_d, "I can't stand myself anymore.  I'm full of
me.  Master of the world, give me a deeper light."

   According to our tradition, the moon of this month is not the
same as last month's moon.  It's a custom that we do it together
with our friends, and then we greet each other with Shalom
aliechem.  What's the first sign that a person is new?  When
everybody else looks new to him.  You're so beautiful, he thinks: 
how come I never noticed?  The moon doesn't take away the
darkness;  it's still dark, bur there's also light.

    I want to share something deep with you.  You have friends,
sun friends, and when they start asking you questions, they
squeeze out every bit of information that you'd like to keep
private.  The sun people kill each other.  The moon people, for
every ray of light, every bit of information, say, "Thank you so
much."

    A secret, according to Kabalistic tradition, is not something
you don't know and I do know, something I can tell you.  That's
not a secret, just a thing you didn't know and now you do know.  A
secret is something that, even after I know, I still don't know.

    Why do we say every day that G_d is One?  '' should tell us,
"you're getting on my nerves."  Let's put it this way:  I love my
wife very much.  At two-thirty I tell here, "I love you so much." 
At two-forty, "I love you so much."  Them at three o'clock I tell
here the same thing again. There are two reactions: if my wife is
a sun woman, she thinks, "he told me at two-thirty, right, then he
told me again at two-forty."  She say, "Enough.  You just told me
that."  How does it sound to you?

    The other side: if my wife is a moon woman, when I tell her at
two-forty she asks, "Why did you wait ten minutes to tell me
again?"  Because she knows that every time I say it, it gets
deeper and deeper.  There's no such thing as having told her
before.                          

{Comment (sa):  Hatzkele said:  Neila Carlebach was a very good
cook.  When she was married to R. Shlomo, she fed him very well. 
A bit expensive, but very good.}

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    It's such a great privilege to love somebody very much.  If I
love you, it's clear to me that I don't know all about you,  but
even the little that I know is enough.  Who dares say, "I know
you"?  At a wedding, when you cover the bride's face you're
telling her, "The beginning of all relationships is that it's
clear to me that I don't know you.  I hope that every day G_d will
reveal to 
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me how little I know you."  
     When I see a father and mother say, "I know my child," I'm
ready to adopt the poor kid.  Sun people can't bring peace to the
world.  They say, "I know everything about you.  Even though
you're bad, we'll make peace."  It doesn't go this way.  You have
to say, "The little I know about you, maybe it's bad, but who
knows how much you have there which I don't know yet."  That's why
after we bless the moon we walk around saying , "Greetings to you,
peace to you."  Thank You for the inside light.

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     There are two book in Heaven, the Book of Life and the Book
of Death{??}, and every person is inscribed in one of them.{?} 
When G_d inscribes someone in the Book of Death, G_d forbid,
that's when you are shallow{?}, involved only in the exterior --
it means you're being nothing .  The Book of Life is inside, way
inside.

    Every new friendship can be written in the Book of Life or the
Book of Death.  Sometimes we see single people:  they meet each
other, ask each other, "What do you do?  Where do you live?  How
much money do you make?" -- all those sun questions.  Sometimes
moon people are privileged to meet each other, and then it's so
deep.

     The Torah is written on parchment. The letters occupy very
little space; the empty parchment is so deep.

    There were two great Kabbalists who corresponded for years. 
One would write, "To my holy friend Avraham" and left the rest of
the letter blank, and put at the bottom, "signed, Baruch."  The
other would write the same way:  "To my holy friend Baruch," and
then blank paper and at the bottom, "signed, Avraham."  They
corresponded for ten years.  Someone said to one of them, "What
kind of correspondence is this?"  He said, "When you write with
your hands, you have to put in a lot of words.  When you write
with our soul, you can just send empty space."  
    May G_d bless us all to have different eyes:  not to see what
is, but to see that which we cannot see.

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TEACHING #53
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Publications (NYC / Jerusalem ) Editted Chaim Stefansky,
http://www.UrimPublications.com , ISBN 965-7108-31-4 ]
HAGADAH TEXT:  Hallel   HaLeL, "'HE' gives bread to all flesh"
NoTeN LeCheM L_KaL BaShaR

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     The heilige Rebbe Elimelech one time was very sick; for days
he couldn't eat.  His son Rebbe Eliezer came to his father and was
pleading with him to eat.  
    This is what Rebbe Elimelech said to him:   

        "Believe me, there is only one thing I'd like to teat: 
the soup made by Chanele the wife of Avremele the water carrier."  
    So Rebbe Elezer went to the broken-down house of Avremele the
water carrier, knocked on the door, and said, "Chanele, tell me,
what kind of soup did you give my holy father?"
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    Her eyes filled with tears and she said, "I'm ashamed to say
it wasn't real soup; it was just ordinary hot water.  The heilige
Rebbe Elimelech came to visit my husband, and it was so beautiful,
so heavenly; it was mamash Gan Eden.  But suddenly my husband
said, 'Chanele, bring something to eat for the great guest.'.  I
went into the kitchen, and only then I realized that my husband
and I hadn't eaten for three days.  Because of Rebbe Elimelech, I
completely forgot that we were so hungry.
     "I had nothing in the house to give the Rebbe to eat.  The
only thing I saw was a little water boiling on the stove.  I took
a spoon, stirred, the water, and his what I said:  'Ribbono shel
Olam, Tatte zisse, my sweet Father, I'm Chanele, the wife of
Avremele.  I have nothing in the house to give the holy Rebbe. 
But Tatte zisse, YOU have Gan Eden, YOU have everything.  I'm
crying before You, put a little bit of Gan Eden in this hot water
so Rebbe Elimelech can taste something good."


     Rebbe Eleizer went back to his father and said, "Regards from
Chanele."  The heilige Rebbe Elimelech was smiling, and he said,
"Eliezer, don't you understand, there's soup that you can feed the
hungry people of the world, but Chanele's soup can be mechayeh
meisim; it has the power to bring people back to life."


    So this is what I, Shlomo ben Pisia, wish to all of the
mothers and fathers in the world. Sometimes our children come home
and all they need is some ordinary soup. But sometimes their
neshamos are hungry for the soup of Chanele, the wife of the
heilige Avremele, the water carrier.

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