.h2, R. SHLOMO CARLEBACH:  EXCERPTS ON (Purim &) PESACH, sh_4x594 --

I.  EXCERPTS ON PESACH TAKEN FROM A COLLECTION OF EXCERPTS ONCHILDREN
    (eallkids + eaddkids + eadd2kids)

    Limitation:  Note that these excerpts were in general taken fromnon-input hardcopy (manuscripts & typescripts), from which thecriterion of selection was excerpts on Children, not excerpts onPesach; hence this is a sub-set, not a set:  those excerpts aboutchildren which also are about Pesach.

From EALLKIDS

E47<[47]<W-R&Z:
	It's such a special privilege to get married before Pesach, whenEliyahu Hanavi really walks the streets of this world ... looking atJewish doors, to see if they are open, looking in the windows,looking at the children.

<E82<[82]<From Z-3 p1:
              
	Yiddishkeit begins with Pesach.  On Rosh Hashanna and Yom Kippurwe don't take the children and knock them into ??tikiat sefer??{Hebrew}.  On Pesach, when it comes we take out the children, becauseeduation begins always with summer [[when the rushing winter rainshave ceased, and things go slow]].  I sit them at the table and Ishow them what it is.   ...It's very very important that everythihgyou teach them should be on their level.  They should have vesselsfor it....  

FROM EADD2KID.KAB

[E95] <"Reb Shlomo's Thoughts on the Seder", Connections, Vol. 1 #2,(April-May         1985).
 
	Our children don't talk to us sometimes because they think wereally don't see them.  Pesach has so much to do with seeing.  "Loyeiraeh lecha chametz" . "You shall not see chametz" ... People wholook at chametz all the time don't see their own neshama (soul),don't see their own children, don't see G-d.  Seder night, when thereis no chametz in the house, when the house is clean, then suddenly Gd gives me the vision of seeing my children again, of seeing how theyreally are and how fast they can reach the highest level.
	The saddest day in the life of children is when they aredisappointed in their parents.  When babies are born, it is clear tothem that their parents are the best people in the world.  Theycannot imagine anybody being better than their father and theirmother.  Sadly, they grow up and they realize that their parentsaren't the best.  They don't want to talk to us anymore.  Seder nightthe Ribbono shel Olam gives my children back the vision to see that,even though at this moment, I am not the best I can be, but they seeme for what I really am, and how fast it will take me get there.  Andthen my children are so happy, they love me so much again because itis restoring thier vision, the way they remember me.
	Why do children love their parents so much?  The way childrenknow their parents is in a very deep way.
                             
[E98]<"Reb Shlomo's Thoughts on the Seder", Connections, Vol. 1 #2,(April-May 1985).

	Seder night is when I am giving over Yiddishkeit to my children. I am giving them G-d knowledge.  The Torah was given later, onShavuot.  G-d knowlege is when it is clear to me there is nothing tothink about -- that is Seder night.  So you know what the childrendo?  They take the afikomon and hide it.  And, they tell me, I wantyou to know what I am taking from you.  I am taking from you all thesecrets. ... Holy secrets, when you tell them to somebody you lovevery much, become even deeper secrets.  My children tell me, you aegiving over to me tonight all the hidden things, the deepest depths. Then, I say to my children, please, can you give back a taste of thatbread.   Can you give me back a little taste of all those holymoments, those deep prayers? 	... It is so holy...when my childrengive me back the afikomon, it is not only my afikomon, it is theafikomon of my father, and my mother, and my bubba, and my zaide.  Itis the afkikomon that goes back to Avraham Aveinu. 

[E99]<"Reb Shlomo's Thoughts on the Seder", Connections, Vol. 1 #2,(April-May 1985).

	I remember that from the age of three on, every Seder, my fatherwould say to us, to my sister and my twin brother and me, children,tonight you are sitting at G-d's table.  It is not my table, it is
 G-d's table.  At G-d's table, you must behave in a different way.
	What I remember about my father the most is Seder night.  And,my father made his Seder like my zaide, who made it like his father. Seder night is seriousness, holiness, awareness.

[E100]<"Reb Shlomo's Thoughts on the Seder", Connections, Vol. 1 #2,(April-May 1985).

	Some of us are so worried that our children should be religious. First, make Yidden out of them.  Shavuot, the giving of the Torah,comes later.  First comes Pesach.  Pesach is "v'higadta labincha,""and you shall tell your children".  The way to give Yiddishkeit tochildren has to be with so much simcha, so much love.  Eliyahu HaNaviis the master at bringing parents and children together.  So, at theend of the Seder, any parents who got close to their children,Eliyahu HaNavi knocks at their door and tells them -- before Mashiachis coming, and I will be running all over the world to fix therelationship between parents and children, I won't have to come herebecause here it's already fixed. 
	... "V'heisheiv lev avot al banim," "and the hearts of thefathers shall return to their children."  This is the moment to prayfor your children for whatever they need.
	The deepest holiness of Jews is not only in the way we keepshabbos and eat matza.  The deepest holiness is the way we pray forour children.

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FROM SAMPLER: Selected in honor of the Wedding of Miriam Gal-Or &Shmuel Attias

You know how we begin the Seder?  We yell "Kiddush" mamash, Rabbenushel olam, Master of the World, make our body right this second!
(from SCMM0489<Transcript MM0489)

The holy Chisker says...who is the author of the Hagadah shel Pesach? Eliayahu haNavi. (from W-R&Z)

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FROM SAY:  Sayings Selected by Emunah Witt

67. Every year we go out of exile on Pesach. 

78. On Pesach Eliyahu HaNavi comes to tell us that Mashiach is on theway.

79. Pesach is the deepest account; I have to know exactly where I putthe chamets, and I have to get rid of it.                                
80. G-d is saving our lives with the matsa; matsa is michla d'osvosa,saving our souls!

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

82. G-d wants you to clean as far as your hand can reach, and whereyou cannot reach, G-d will clean for you.

89. On Pesach, why do we buy new plates?  Because the Kedusha that Gd is giving me is beyond the vessels we have!

95. On Pesach when we eat matsa, we are putting holiness into ourbodies.

97. Matsa is from the Tree of Life; on Seder night we wish the mostfor our children that they should live forever.

98. The Holy Lechovitcher says, the way you have Purim is the way youhave Pesach, and the way you have Pesach is the way you have YomKippur.

99. The Hagadah was written by Eliyahu HaNavi who comes at the end ofthe Seder to thank you if you said every word.

100. Matsa doesn't take much time:  If we put the least amount oftime into our food, the rest of the time we have to do great things.
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doc=PESACH (Entire)  ? From F2 p7?

	The bread we eat on Pesach is the most simple thing in theworld, it is just flour and water. 

	What takes more Wholeness -- to believe, or to understand?  RebNachman says it takes more wholeness to believe.  If your mind andemotions are [not whole] [[unclear, clouded, un-whole-thy]] you have10000 doubts. The [people of] the world is ready to do the strangestthings.  But the most simple thing -- to believe in G-d -- they don'twant to do. [[Cf. 'through a glass darkly' 'but to hear some newthing' -- sa]].
	Reb Nachman says that on Yontif [[Pesach?]] this holy sweetnessis flowing down from heaven -- simplicity in [the sense of] onestraight piece.  So if you're not whole you cannot receive it. Therefore he says on Yontif, you have to be in the Bait HaMikdashbecause the Bais Hamikdash is the most whole place in the world.  Inthe Bait HaMikdash there were no doubts, no perversions [of thoughtor emotions], everything was clear, there really is one G-d. Remember that in the Holy Temple there were thousands, millions ofpeople [[souls]] and nobody pushed the other, because everybody knewsomoeone else was also existing.  If I push someone that means I ammore important than he is.  Everyone made place for someone else.[[Cf. the Kedusha.]]  And it was a whole place.  On Yontif you haveto receive this holy sweetness.

	On Pesach G-d is fixing our mouth, everything which has to dowith our mouth.  First of all we talk -- we say the Hagaddah -- thenwe eat.  Because I receive life with my mouth, food.  Andcommunication with the world [[as distinct from the kingdoms ofHeaven --sa]] is also with my mouth. I depends one on the ohter; youcommunicate with the world to the extent, and in the way, you receivelife.  If you receive life like a slave -- [to be a slave is tobelieve that the world is] just you, there is no one else existing --then you can't communicate with another person.  You cannot talk. You cannot talk to G-d, and you can't talk to someone ele.  Youcannot talk to your children.
	A slave cannot talk to his children; a slave doesn't really knowhis children.  He is so completely enslaved to himself, how can heanswer children's qwuestions?  Especially since children are so real. As Reb Nachman says, they are just whole, which is infinite.  ...OnPesach we become free again.  Then we eat, and when we eat we receivethis holy sweetness from heaven, when we eat matza, which is the mostsimple food in the world [and so the most whole, like the wholenessof the Highest].  Everything is simple; simply on a 'holy simplicity'level.  And then we can talk again, like menschen.  We can talk to Gd and we can talk to our children.
	Why doesn't the world believe in G-d any more?  Because theyhave so many questions.  On Pesach night we ask G-d four questions. What is [really] happening at that moment [[in the 'deepest depths'of kavanah]]?  We are lifting up all the questions of the world -- weare bringing them back to G-d.  All year long we are asking quetionsabout G-d, but, so to speak, "behind His back", not in [the]Presence.
	Before we ask the four qeustions, a child is supposed to say,'Father, I want to ask you four questions.'  So the holy Baal ShemTov says everybody has to say, G-d in Heaven, I want to ask you fourquestions.  And the four questions include all the questions we canpossibly ask.
	[If I am really angry at someone --  if I question, havequestions, about what they have done -- but if I tell my anger, raisemy questions, not to that person, but to someone else] what good isit?  It [gets] me even more angry.  But if I ask that person, if 'he'doesn't answer, [simply] asking the questions makes the anger less. strong. Because while I ask the question, I realize, maybe I waswrong.
	The truth is, the answer [to the four questions is not so strongin the Hagaddah.  [The answer is] telling  a story that G-d took usout of Egypt; but I want to ask, what happened after[wards].  Let'ssay someone would ask G-d what happened to the 6 Million, what isgoing on there? ...
	[Yet] when I mamash ask G-d all the questions, somethinghappens, and suddenly my belief becomes so straight.  I reallybelieve again. [[ ].  Because the only answer is that I haveto believe again.
	In this world wine makes you drunk, and makes you forget.  WhenMessiach is coming [[read not 'comes' {future tense} but `is coming'{present imperfect tense} --sa]] there will also be wine, but winetaht will lift us up to the highest levels.  Because wine really hasit to lift us up.  It is only because the world is so low that winedrags us down more.  If the world would be as it should be then everydrop of wine would life us up to the highest level.  But Pesach nightis a little bit like the world to come, so the four cups of wine liftyou up to the highest joy in the world.  Suddenly you reallyunderstand that everything is right.
	Then he [Reb Nachman?} says...that when Messiach is coming therewill be new song, but in oder to hear this song you have to be drunk-- not on a low level, on a high level drunk.  So therefore we reallyonly start singing after the thrid cup of wine.  Hallel we say by thethird cup.  Because by the third cup we are already drunk enough thatwe can hear the song of the world to come.  As much as all the gatesof heaven are open the first part of the night, they are notcompletely open.  After the thrid cup we walk up and we open thedoor.  For Elijah the prophet.  Because rally everything is open,nothing is in my way anymore.
	On Pesach night G-d gives us not only freedom, G-d puts greatunderstanding into our heads.  Moachim l'gadlus.  Great minds.  
	It says in every generation everybody has to believe 'him'selflike 'he' is going out of Egypt.  Meaning Seder night you really haveto come to G-d with our whole life story...Everything which everhappened to you you have to bring with you, because G-d is fixing iton that night...taking you out of it...or maybe putting you straightwith it.
	Reb Nachman says the night before Pesach [the night of searchingfor chametz] a great light is shinging.  Bais Yakov says the greatlight that is shining is that I find my 'place' [[makom, place/job inthe service of Heaven -- sa]].  Reb Nachman says...the great light[is that I stop blaming the world for all that is wrong, and takeresponsibility upon myself, and start by fixing myself.]  So thenight before Pesach the great light is shining -- I know it is myfault, nobody else's fault -- then I begin to look for it -- I get itall together and I throw it out.  Then the next night a great lightis shining and I can really understand what is going on in the world.
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	You see, all the evil we are doing all year is only because weare so petty. ..If we would be on the moachin l'gadlus level, thegreat mind level -- Even getting angry at people is always for pettystupid things.  On Pesach night -- Gevalt! -- we don't have thefaintest idea what we could do on seder night if we would only wantto.  We could just really come free from all evil, from allpettiness, from all stupidity, from all littleness.
	The afkikomen, the last piece of matza, is really not from thisworld.  We put it away, we hide it, and then we eat it.  Because itis coming from a completely hidden world.  When you eat the afikomen,all your prayers are answered in that moment.
	Rav Kook says there is no freedom in the world because everyonelikes to look for evil in someone else's house.  If the world wouldlearn that first they hzve to look for evil in their own house -- OY!
	Ok, thank you holy folks.
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FROM SHAV0 > EJW18.EW8, EXCERPT FROM JW13, R. SHLOMO ON SHAVUOS,5750,        

on Pesach, when G-d makes a Jew out of me, it has to be clear to methat you {ie, I} better watch out.
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From AV

:Reb Shlomo speaking in Yerushalayim, July 29th 1992, before RoshChodesh Av. 

	I want to tell you something.  Why is Pesach... there is no YomTov, mamash... Shavuous, OK, you count 49 days, but Pesach, it'scrazy weeks before.  Because the whole " " Yitsias Mitsrayimis Achishena

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FROM KIS-J.
From transcript=JW48?
Kislev, Tav Shim Mem Vav Mishkanot Jerusalem
Rabbi Shlomo Carlebach speaking:                             
                           transcribed by Yehoshua and Emuna Witt


	OK, friends, everybody knows if there wouldn't have been ShivreiLuchos, there would never be Torah sh'baal peh, right?  You know whatthat means?  The Luchos, without Shivrei Luchos, says, "What do I dowhen a piece of ham falls into my soup?"  
	Remember now without getting involved now in the stories,Shivrei Luchos says, I prepare everything for Pesach.  Like the storyof the Yehoshuas Yaakov.  One Yiddela, nebech cooked for all ofPesach.  Then one of his children threw in  a little piece ofchamets, into the pot of soup.  That's Shivrei Luchos.  You knowwhat's Shivrei Luchos?  I'll tell you what's Shivrei Luchos. Yiddencome from Russia, and let's say the man makes it, and nebech, hiswife doesn't make it.  There's no way for her to get out.  Can Imarry somebody else or not?  Reb Moshe, Heilage Reb Moshe, wrote somany tshuvas. (Halachic decisions)  It's stories of Shivrei Luchos.  
	And I want you to know, what we need the most today, when peoplecome back to Yiddishkeit...  Don't give them the Torah before theShivrei Luchos.  It's not their Torah.  Their Torah is the ShivreiLuchos.
	I want you to know something awesome.  The Kozhnitser Maggidsays, the beginning of the Seder is Yachats , you break the middlematsa.  So the Kozhnitser Maggid says, "Anybody who does not believethat every Jew is broken, has no cheylech  (portion) in Pesach. And right now, I want to say it so much deeper.  You know what it is? Pesach, Mitsrayim (Egypt) was just the Luchos.  Pesach, today, is theShivrei Luchos, right?  Can you imagine a Yiddele sitting inAushowitz and eating matsa?  Shivrei Luchos, right.  Nebech, theMarranos in Spain, sitting there.  It's all Shivrei Luchos.  Andeverybody knows, "Luchos and Shivrei Luchos Menuchem B'Aron".  Youhave to know both Torahs. 
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FROM W-R&Z
		You know, Zehavala, I want to share something with you thatI just learned this week, that the holy Chisker says.  It's reallyunbelievable.  He says, who is the author of the Hagadah Shel Pesach? Eliyahu Hanavi.  It's a gevalt.  And you know friends, now beforePesach, when everybody's thinking of the Hagada, that means we arethinking of the words of Eliyahu Hanavi.  So it's such a specialprivilege to get married before Pesach, when Eliyahu Hanavi reallywalks the streets of this world.  And he is walking, looking atJewish doors, to see if they are open, looking in the windows,looking at the children.  Mazel Tov, Mazel Tov.

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FROM eesh32893; pruned edit of esh32893, exerpts from sh032893 editedexcerpted notes of Seminar given by R. Shlomo Carlebach, 3/24-25/93,Yakar, Jerusalem

Tapes available from Yakar, 10 HaLamed-Hey, Jerusalem; ; Videotapefrom Natanel Shur, Nachliel
The following are derived from notes, not from a transcribed tape.
Hence accuracy cannot be guarantee'ed; caveat lector, buy the tapes.
Direct quotes in quotation marks; uncertain quotes without quotationmarks, or in parentheses.  Editor's interpollations in brackets [   ]

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Erev Pesach is yomtov -- because after bedike hametz [searching outand removing the last hametz (that which is spoiled) from yourhabitation] you're not the same person.

Erev Pesach you daven fast -- fast is -- if I don't know the way, ittakes me a long time to get there.

The way the Bobov Rebbe danced  from the baking to the oven...

(Hassidim asked R. Levi Yitzhak what the most important thing wasbefore Pesach.  He said) Make sure that no one yells at the women whobake the matzva.

Why did G-d take us out of Egypt.  Because we prayed so much.

Purim is `al lo yodeah' -- I don't know what it is, but I know it'strue.... On Pesach I don't get drunk like on Purim, because I broughtit down a little bit.

If my inside is a slave to Pharoh, it is not Pharoh's fault, it's myown stupidity.  

Seder night is:  everything is inside still...when it comes tooutside (vessels, kelim) children don't understand it.

At the Seder -- to yell and be angry is everything the Seder is not.

(If you're out of Egypt, then the Torah has a place for you.)
 
((I'm all of the four sons.))

Ishbitzer says:  You have to look for hametz in all the cracks ofyour soul.

((What is being passed over?  Leaping steps in the spiritualjourney.))

What is matza -- The Torah is getting inside me. (Ishbitzer)

Matza is the greatest light from heaven.  Without tzimtzum, yet thebiggest tzimtzum in the world -- 18 minutes.

Pesach -- the beginning is -- G-d disregards me.

Ishbitzer:  "My own angel of death -- my own mistakes -- I'm hangingon to my yesterday mistakes with all my strength."
(March 24, 1993, 16:09 P.M.)

((So much we want to do for your children, and we only do a little ofit; so much they want to do for us.  When do they give it back to us-- Seder night, when they ask 'ma nishtama'.))

(The destructive force is saying to us -- who needs you.  A child hasthis fear.)
"When do we tell our children that we couldn't do without them --Seder night."

The holiness of Pesach is that G-d jumped over [our] past [sins]

Matza is G-d's light reaching my kishkes.

Why is it hard work [at the Seder] -- because I have to make myselfinto a vessel for hesed sh'b' hesed [the Sefira with which we beginthe counting of the Omer on the evening after the (first) day ofPesach].

To a baby you can talk baby-talk, or you can talk much deeper thanyou can talk to an adult.  (So with the Torah.  ((Seder night we donot talk baby-talk, we talk as babies tallk.)) [rephrased].

Why are we not permitted to eat after the afikommen?  
Because I need the taste of the ... Light forever. 

The hochma [Wise Son] wants to know...what is my place in Jerusaliim.
The hocham feels the Presence of G-d.
The hocham is intellectually the highest, but I tell him, you shouldeat nothing nothing after the afikommen, because the taste shouldstay with you.

What is bugging the Rosaha ["Wicked Son"}

He is a rasha because he tried to do good and he did not feel
G-d's presence.

The Rosha is a person who tried so hard.

The Rasha realizes G-d is still hiding from him.

(The Rasha wants to serve G-d, and he is a Jew, but his vision of G-dis so deep, and he didn't find it.)

In all the Rebbes, the Rasha [Wicked Son] (does better than) theHocham [Wise Son].  The Rasha has a bigger neshama than the Hocham.

Ref., Hagaddah, "you shall set his teeth on edge"

I'm telling him, the way you talk, you don't need teeth. 
You need so much deeper...but for that you have to use your ownteeth; don't use your Rebbe's teeth.
We have to chew it -- to cut it down -- limitation, tzimtzum -- toget it into us -- because we don't otherwise have the vessels.

That was the mistake of Adam haRishon -- so the Snake said, 'if youwant to be like G-d' -- but anything that comes from G-d is complete 

   THE PRAYER FOR DEW:

Dew is Pesach; rain is Shemini Atzeret 
[Rain falls only sometimes; dew falls all days]

Rain begins in this earth, goes up, comes back.  Dew comes directlyfrom above.  Rain may come any time; dew comes when night is thedarkest 
There is a 2-way relationship with Heaven -- sometimes I begin, "andsometimes G-d just gives it to me"

Anything that comes from prayers is `rain'; what comes from a placerain can't reach is `dew'.
There is something inside of me where asking doesn't reach.  So "I'llbe to you like the dew."
Do I really know what I'm praying for?  The inside of my prayers isso deep.
We can ask for rain because it is in preportion to our prayers --like business -- but we con't ask for dew because it is unlimited.
If you do good business with G-d, you receive gifts [as a sort ofbonus] -- but if you don't do business, you can't ask for a gift
"I want to give you gifts for no reason"
Even the gifts are also on the level of business -- you deserved it 
G-d shows us that we deserve it.

It feels so good that I get paid for my work.

G-d gives me -- $2 million -- [an infinite gift] in such a way that Ideserve it.
That headquarters (for those gifts) is so special

A chatan [bridegroom] can give a ring on the level of rain, or ofdew.
What was the mistake of the spies (Exodus, Shelach Lecha:) -- theythought the land of Israel was given on the level of business.
[When the spies said] We are not strong enough [to possess the landof Israel] -- [they meant] we don't yet have enough Torah mitzvas.
The fixing was -- Moshe says, nothing is big enough to deserve theland. 

Pesach:  Can you do enough Torah mitzva's to deserve freedom? Freedom, you can't buy.
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FROM ESX50393
Excerpts from notes, R. Shlomo at Yakar, May (2)-3-4, 1993
Same caveat as preceeding.

*On Pesach G-d takes us up so high, and shows us that ourrelationship (connection)...does not depend on what we are doing.

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R. SHLOMO ON PESACH SHENI {Observed only in biblical times; 1 monthafter Pesach; for persons ritually disqualified from offering thePesach sacrifice.)
FROM LGG:
Lag B'Omer Tav Shin Nun Bet/ Mishkanot Jerusalem, Israel,1992
 	Rabbi Shlomo Carlebach: 

	 Pesach Sheini is the first day of Aharon HaKohen.  What'sPesach Sheini all about?  Everybody knows what all the Rebbes say,that      If you want to do a mitsva, and you can't doit, you get paid in heaven, like you did it. So why were they so sad? Yea, I get paid like all the Yidden.  But what about me?  Let's putit this way.  Seder, everybody has a seder, right.  But then there'smy seder, your seder, every Yid's seder.  Ah, something else.  Thisis the deepest Torah sh'Baal Peh, right.  Gevaldt, were they missingthat.  
	Everybody knows, Pesach Sheini, is (because of) the ones whocarried the coffin of Nadav and Avihu.  What's Nadav and Avihu allabout?  You know what they wanted?  OK, so we made the Golden Calf. We made the Golden Calf.  So it's again all of Israel. So we make aMishkan.  It belongs to all of Israel.  What about just me?  Justme... So Aharon HaKohen goes in for all the Yidden.  What about aYiddele.   (Aish zara, strange fire)  He's far from Yiddishkeit,he's far from everything.  He doesn't know what to do with himself. Mamash, they are running into the Kadosh Kadoshim.  So Nadav andAvihu is basically also Torah sh'Baal Peh.  So the people who carriedthe coffin, they learned the secret of Torah sh'Baal Peh from Nadavand Avihu.  What did Nadav and Avihu want?  They want the most.  Theywant the most. 
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[E91}<"Reb Shlomo's Thoughts on the Seder", 
Connections, Vol. 1 #2, (April-May 1985).
"On Seder night, our children feel so close to us, they are asking usall the questions.  Why don't our kids talk to us during the year? Because, sadly enough, we look at them with exile eyes. ...The truthis, every child has it in him to reach right away from the first, forthe highest, for the deepest.  Anyone who is around children knowsthat there are times when children understand more than adults. Children are on the highest level.  So, Seder night, after we all outKiddush, our kids say, 'O.K., if this is the way you look at life, wecan talk to you again."

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[E92}<"Reb Shlomo's Thoughts on the Seder", 
Connections, Vol. 1 #2, (April-May 1985).
	"We treat our chldren in such a way that it takes so long forthem to mature until we can talk to them.  On Seder night, I knowthat everything can take just one split second."

[E93]<"Reb Shlomo's Thoughts on the Seder", 
Connections, Vol. 1 #2, (April-May 1985).
	The Alexandra [Rebbe] says `Why doesn't the Seder begin rightaway with questions...He says 'there are certain things which are soholy -- don't ask questions.  Just take them the way theyare...because if you ask, you degrade them, you profane them.  So hesays, when it comes to kadesh, don't ask.  Urechatz (washing thehands), don't ask.  Karpas (dipping a vegetable), don't ask.  Maggid-- then, you can ask.  And, he says, the world is analyzingeverything in the world, and they don't know when to stop.  They aredestroying everything holy, by asking questions about things oneshouldn't ask.
	It is so clear to me that we adults analyze everything ourchildren say.  Was it clever, was it good, was it stupid?  Then, thechild is likely to say, I don't want to talk to you.  You destroyeverything I say.  But, Seder night, our children see that we knowwhen to stop.  We don't tear everything apart.  Our children say,O.K., I want to ask you a question.  Don't analyze it.
	The first fixing, when you come out into freedom is, leavethings whole....Psychology, which analyzes everything and pullseverything apart has not fixed the world yet....
	I'm sure it's clear to you that our children ask the deepestquestions, and the truth is that we don't have the answers.  You canread the entire Haggadah, but the queastions are still questions....
	We lose our children because we tell them we have the answers toeverything,  Our children know it's not true.  They don't want totalk to us.  Seder night, I tell my children, so, I'm a few yearsolder than you.  You think that I know more?  Maybe I know the storya little bit longer, but I don't know the answer. ...Then, ourchildren feel so close to us."
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[E94]<"Reb Shlomo's Thoughts on the Seder", 
Connections, Vol. 1 #2, (April-May 1985).
	This is a Torah from Rav Nachman.  Sometimes our children askus, and we can take our time in answering.  Sometimes if we take ourtime, we will lose them.  Rav Nachman says, if our children ask us,is there one G-d and we say, let's talk it over -- we've lostthem....Seder night is when our children ask, is there one G-d?  And,our answer has to be right away.  Don't take any time.
	Seder night is when I am telling my children, there is one 
G-d.  There is one Torah.  There is Eretz Yisroel.  I have no time. [[This is an allusion to the theme that there was no time from thebread to leaven.]]  It has to be fast. ...
	...How did Moshe Rabbenu get us out of Egypt.  Right now is thetime -- "Bachatzot halayla" in the middle of the night -- right now,don't think.  This is 'mochin megadlus', a high mind.  It is not, notthinking.  It is clearer than thinking.  It is clear to me.  It is onsuch a high consciousness level, a deep level.
	So, Seder night, everything is fast, but it's so clear, and it'sso good....I can tell my child this is matza, this maror, I am a Jew,there is one G-d."
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[E95]<"Reb Shlomo's Thoughts on the Seder", 
Connections, Vol. 1 #2, (April-May 1985).
	Our children don't talk to us sometimes because they think wereally don't see them.  Pesach has so much to do with seeing.  "Loyeiraeh lecha chametz" . "You shall not see chametz" ... People wholook at chametz all the time don't see their own neshama (soul),don't see their own children, don't see G-d.  Seder night, when thereis no chametz in the house, when the house is clean, then suddenly Gd gives me the vision of seeing my children again, of seeing how theyreally are and how fast they can reach the highest level.
	The saddest day in the life of children is when they aredisappointed in their parents.  When babies are born, it is clear tothem that their parents are the best people in the world.  Theycannot imagine anybody being better than their father and theirmother.  Sadly, they grow up and they realize that their parentsaren't the best.  They don't want to talk to us anymore.  Seder nightthe Ribbono shel Olam gives my children back the vision to see that,even though at this moment, I am not the best I can be, but they seeme for what I really am, and how fast it will take me get there.  Andthen my children are so happy, they love me so much again because itis restoring thier vision, the way they remember me.
	Why do children love their parents so much?  The way childrenknow their parents is in a very deep way.
                             
[E96]<"Reb Shlomo's Thoughts on the Seder", 
Connections, Vol. 1 #2, (April-May 1985).
	My daughter...remembers those moments when I didn't sayanything.  She remembers those holy moments, those secret moments.

[E97]<"Reb Shlomo's Thoughts on the Seder", 
Connections, Vol. 1 #2, (April-May 1985).
	Do you think children don't know how much we pray for thembefore they were born?  They know everything.

[E98]<"Reb Shlomo's Thoughts on the Seder", 
Connections, Vol. 1 #2, (April-May 1985).
	Seder night is when I am giving over Yiddishkeit to my children. I am giving them G-d knowledge.  The Torah was given later, onShavuot.  G-d knowlege is when it is clear to me there is nothing tothink about -- that is Seder night.  So you know what the childrendo?  They take the afikomon and hide it.  And, they tell me, I wantyou to know what I am taking from you.  I am taking from you all thesecrets. ... Holy secrets, when you tell them to somebody you lovevery much, become even deeper secrets.  My children tell me, you aegiving over to me tonight all the hidden things, the deepest depths. Then, I say to my children, please, can you give back a taste of thatbread.   Can you give me back a little taste of all those holymoments, those deep prayers? 	... It is so holy...when my childrengive me back the afikomon, it is not only my afikomon, it is theafikomon of my father, and my mother, and my bubba, and my zaide.  Itis the afkikomon that goes back to Avraham Aveinu. 
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[E99]<"Reb Shlomo's Thoughts on the Seder", 
Connections, Vol. 1 #2, (April-May 1985).
	I remember that from the age of three on, every Seder, my fatherwould say to us, to my sister and my twin brother and me, children,tonight you are sitting at G-d's table.  It is not my table, it is
 G-d's table.  At G-d's table, you must behave in a different way.
	What I remember about my father the most is Seder night.  And,my father made his Seder like my zaide, who made it like his father. Seder night is seriousness, holiness, awareness.

[E100]<"Reb Shlomo's Thoughts on the Seder", 
Connections, Vol. 1 #2, (April-May 1985).
	Some of us are so worried that our children should be religious. First, make Yidden out of them.  Shavuot, the giving of the Torah,comes later.  First comes Pesach.  Pesach is "v'higadta labincha,""and you shall tell your children".  The way to give Yiddishkeit tochildren has to be with so much simcha, so much love.  Eliyahu HaNaviis the master at bringing parents and children together.  So, at theend of the Seder, any parents who got close to their children,Eliyahu HaNavi knocks at their door and tells them -- before Mashiachis coming, and I will be running all over the world to fix therelationship between parents and children, I won't have to come herebecause here it's already fixed. 
	... "V'heisheiv lev avot al banim," "and the hearts of thefathers shall return to their children."  This is the moment to prayfor your children for whatever they need.
	The deepest holiness of Jews is not only in the way we keepshabbos and eat matza.  The deepest holiness is the way we pray forour children.

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INVENTORY OF R. SHLOMO CARLEBACH TEACHINGS ON PESACH
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I.  HARDCOPY INVENTORY

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B17	24		1972		Pesach
B21	10				On Pesach      = JW19

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	Talk by R. Shlomo, Meor Modi'in, April 10?, 1989, Pesach
	
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TRANSLATIONS INTO FRENCH:

**NSf57	 HBG/II(4)c	(April 76) Elijah's Cup  
				JP Int. French 26 Mar-1 Apr. 1991, "La Coupe                                                                    d'Eliahu", 
                           -- (Source?) ------------ "Du pain pourPesach"

ARTICLES IN HOLY BEGGARS' GAZETTE:

II	1	Nissan 73  (April 1973) "Special Pesach Issue":
			6	On the Seder                         HBG/II(1)a
			1	Seder: on "Pour out Thy Wrath"       HBG/II(1)d

			2	Story: "Elijah's Cup"                HBG/II(4)c


ARTICLES IN CONNECTIONS:


    CONNECTIONS VOL. I #2,  April--May   1985
     pp20 (pp27--46):  "Reb Shlomo's thoughts on the Seder"     CNS/I(2)a
        2	"A Prison Seder" (Holocaust story)                  CNS/I(2)b

     CONNECTIONS July-August 1986 (2nd Fundraising Dinner Issue)
		3/4  'A Prison Seder'                             CNS/II(2)a
     CONNECTIONS Vol. III #4 (1988)
		2  'Rabbi Carlebach's Pesach Teachings'           CNS/III(4)d

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KHN/Feb.--May 1992:  "Reb Shlomo's Purim & Pesach Message"