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EXCERPTS FROM sh110793, Notes (by sa) from talk by R. Shlomo atYakar, 11/07-08/93.  All copy-rights reserved by R. Shlomo andYakar; confirm accuracy by reference to original tapes, Yakar, 10HaLamed-He, Katamon, Jerusalem; Tel: 972-2-612310; FAX 632917

*(On the Holocaust):  Since the creation of the world, humanbeings have not been so cruel.

*Jewish-German relationship:  "Can you imagine what G-d did in 50years [to reconcile the peoples]...there is one G-d"

*"The mikveh is a bath for your soul."

*"If you are happy for no reason, then suddenly you have 2 millionreasons to be happy.

*"The lonely people are the people nobody asks for a favor."
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Cf. Beattles, "All the lonely people"
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*The 6 million were not just a number...know who their teacherswere...
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[R. Shlomo is here making the point, that to properly honorthe memory of those who died in the Holocaust, we must recall-- relearn, and re-publish, and teach, and live  --  whatthey learned and achieved in their lives]
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*Some people have no feeling for anything that is not coarse --

*[Alluding to marriage]
"People are so small -- they can eat each other up alive overstupid things"

**If Miss America falls in the mud, she doesn't stop being MissAmerica -- she takes a bath

*Eretz Israel is so small, it's infinite
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[[Like a 'white hole' -- sa, after PVK]]
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*The morning when I wake up -- the first movement when my soul reenters my body -- it's, mamash, infinite -- what I do with it isup to me                                 

*Everything comes down through the letters
Which letters are the vessels for the infinite coming-down to me - the letters of my name (That is the importance of a Jewish name)
Children given non-Jewish names -- so they run off to India to geta real name -- and it's still not right 

*It's not that G-d didn't want to give it to us -- we just didn'tpick it up -- we have everything in the Heavenly Bank

*Most people when they give money -- money makes them so finite
The way we give charity -- I go in a dark corner, take out athousand dollars, give one

**New Age people who know so little and they think they have tochange the Torah

*Why doesn't the woman speak in the marriage ceremony -- thehusband connects with words on the finite (tzimtzum) level; thewife connects wjithout words, on the infinite level

*To give someone a name is on the level of prophecy.
Children get angry at their parents -- when I was born you weregiven a prophecy of who I am -- and what did you do with it

*On Yom Kippur the healing is all the way down -- but I blow theShofar one last time -- so I don't forget my connection with theInfinite

*R. Nachman said, I never dream a theory, only a story.

*Why is the world [persons alienated from religion, from theirreligious heritage -- sa] so sad -- they're running aftersomething, and when they get it, they see it's empty
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[Cf. R. Nachaman: the devil comes rushing up, and he says, Ihave what you most want in my fist, and if you'll just stopby to see me I'll be glad to give it to you, but I've got torun just now -- so everybody runs after him, and when theyfinally catch up, they find the fist was empty]
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**"The Holy Samser says:  'You don't have to believe the storyhappened, but you have to believe it could have happened.'"
[Hassidic stories as parable]

*Are you the kind of friend I can only call on in an emergency, orcan I call you when nothing is happening.  So with davening
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[As distinct from the only "petitionary" prayer of popularreligion, esp. non-Jewish religion --sa]

