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R. SHLOMO CARLEBACH, NOTES, YAKAR, 11/07/93--11/08/93
.h2, R. SHLOMO CARLEBACH, NOTES, YAKAR, 11/07/93--11/08/93  --

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has a videotape of the 3rd evening (English), and says it (thetalk, not necessarily the tape) is excellent.

Note that all R. Shlomo's talks at Yakar are structured, as aremost of his talks, as commentary on traditional texts.  I do notrecall nor know those texts; ask Yakar.  R. Shlomo often speaksfrom the Ishbitzer Rebbe, and Mea Sheloach.

These talks included a very vivid account by R. Shlomo of hisexperience addressing a very large gathering of young Germans inHanover.

Quotation marks are used when I think I recorded R. Shlomo's exactwords; unquoted material is an approximate quotation; materialenclosed in parentheses or brackets are my interpolations orparaphrase.

All rights to reproduction of this material, except forcirculation within R. Shlomo's chevre, are retained by R. ShlomoCarlebach; Cf. also Yakar.
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Start notes 11/07/93 21:36 (I arrived late?; seminar began 21:00?)
Why were we kicked out of Paradise -- because Adam said to G-d,'You can't trust me any more'.
 ...David haMelech says 'teach me to keep my vows'. [Psalm:    ]
 Just keep on promising, and one day you'll do it. 

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

We were all there [at the Holocaust].  The 6 million were therefor all of us.

R. Shlomo's whole family comes from Cracow (Poland).  His greatgreat-great grandfather was a chief rabbi in cracow.

The 6 million are dancing in front of us toward the Holy City ofJerusalem, facing us.

"Can you imagine how precious we are to the 6 million." 

*Jewish-German relationship:  "Can you imagine what G-d did in 50years [to reconcile the peoples]...there is one G-d"
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There was a concentration camp in Lubeck...they worked people todeath...300 of 6000 survived.
The assistant to General McArthur [??-sa] (General? Klein?) waspresent at the liberation of Lubeck.  [He recalled that] the firstthing the survivors asked for was a mikvah.
[R. Shlomo says that one was then built within the tidal river atLubeck.]

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

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

PARASHAT CHAYE SARAH:  Eliezar at the well:
Ishbitzer:  Why did Eliezer not ask that a girl offer him water --why need he ask [that she all offer water to his camels, if shewas destined to be the wife of Issac]

The depest connection in the world is...someone asks you, and yougive it to them [and even more]

If G-d just gave us things without our praying, to would not be sodeep.

"The Ishbitzer says:  Rivka is the true mother of the Jewishpeople, because our speciality is praying.

"If my children never ask me for anything..."

*"The lonely people are the people nobody asks for a favor."  

When G-d told Noah HE was to destroy the the world "Noah didn'tpray...
How did Avraham discover the holiness of praying [when thedestruction of Sodom was announced to him by the Angels]
Why can't I ask Baron Rothchild for money
Noah believed in G-d, was a servant of G-d, but he wasn't thatclose 

Some people think peace is not shooting each other.  According tothe Bible, you're not even supposed to shoot people when there's aa war [that is, you must first send an Emissary to treat forpeace] [[Elsewhere, in Yakar lectures, R. Shlomo goes into thedepth of the concept of peace]]

Akedah:  G-d never wanted Avraham to sacrifice his son -- HE onlywant Issac to lie on the altar -- he wanted to test Avraham --
Are you so close that I can ask you something impossible.
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Anyone who is not on the level to ask G-d the most impossible, isa pagan.
A pagan is not close to his g-d -- he brings a few sacrifices...
[[In Yakar lectures 92-93, R. Shlomo has advanced the point that aproperly Jewish relationship to G-d is one of closeness; that arelationship of fear, propitiation, and guilt is "pagan"--sa]]

The whole world [goyim, lit. 'nations'] knows the Bible -- theyhave not written a single book that adds to the Bible -- [Judaism]has written thousands [ie Mishna, Talmud, commentaries] that addto the Bible

 ...We add to Shabbos...

Adding _____ [if you invite someone you say] it's your house

Avraham [in showing hospitality] was always adding [to what wasneeded] -- So the woman brought into Avraham's house [as a wifefor Issac] must always be adding [as Rivka did at the well, whenEliezer asked only for water for himself, and she drew water alsofor his camels] [[And has R. Shlomo has noted on another occasion,a train of thirsty camels can drink a lot of water.]]

If it's only information, we don't need to [add?] to it.
*The 6 million were not just a number...know who their teacherswere...
[R. Shlomo is here making the point, that to properly honor thememory of those who died in the Holocaust, we must recall whatthey learned and achieved in their lives]

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START R . SHLOMO 11/08/93, NOTES, YAKAR
Start 11/08/93 11:17 (Seminar started late)

[Tells a hassidic story]
"In heaven it was decided that he should be a water carrier allyear, but how he should feel about it is judged every day."

From the Baal Shem Tov:
On Rosh HaShana the world is judged...but also judged every day

Whatever comes from Heaven is infinite, but in our vessles, itbecomes coarse
-- like pouring fine wine into a cup that held herring

Whatever G-d gives me doesn't have a name yet.

*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 you're infinite and i'm infinite we're never in each other'sway.                  

"When we stood on Mt. Sinai it was infinite -- but the way it camedown to them after 30 days -- they were worshipping idols --
[Ie, after the revelation at Sinai, Moses ascended for 30 days,and when he returned, the people were worshipping the golden calf]

Shuvuos is a big holiday, but it's not infinite -- it's still dayand night [in contemporary orthodox custom in Israel, we stay upall night to commemorate the giving of the Torah at daybreak--sa]
Simhas Torah is infinite
(Imagine a yekke confronting Simhat Torah)
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[[R. Shlomo, of yekke (German-Jewish) background, frequentlymakes reminiscining jokes about yekkes, not without affection-- yekkes always do everything properly -- they arescrupulous to do no less and no more than religous lawrequires -- and invincibly provincial -- the opposite polefrom hassidim]]
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With all the tzim-tzum -- if it's infinite I can bring down more.

Torah sh' b' peh [the oral tradition of Torah] is vessels to bringdown the Infinite --

The infinite-ness of Shabbos really comes down at Shal' Shudes.
(the 3rd meal of Shabbat, in late afternoon)

Why was the Holy Temple destroyed because we hated each other[Talmud:  The (2nd) Temple was destroyed because of 'causelesshatred'] -- because what I hate is not the infinite in you, it isthe way you take the infiniteness and bring it down [intofinitude]

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


By the Holy Wall, you're mamash, infinite

*Eretz Israel is so small, it's infinite
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[Like a 'white hole' -- sa, after PVK]

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The moment Avraham Avinu entered the Covenant with G-d -- thecovenant is...I'm infinite all the time.  {Eg, with the Guests(the 3 Angles Avraham invites into his tent]
Midrash:  He slaughtered 3 oxes to give them the gongue
(And that is why we can restrain our tounge (in speaking ill ofhters) -- this was the first Fixing

G-d destroyed Sodom by turnig the whole thing upside down -- itwasn't a volcano

Sodom -- Avraham says -- if they are inside the city -- that means10 rebbes -- (inside, connected to everyone in the city)
[Avraham pleading that Sdom be spared if there are 10 righteousmen within the city -- interpreted as 10 Rebbes, where a Rebbe,unlike a rabbi, is someone connected to everyone in his "city"]

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SECOND TORAH:  p3 (??)
Vayera
Source:

*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 vesslss for the infinite coming-down to me - the letters of my name (That is the importancae of a Jewishname)
Children given non-Jewish names -- so they run off to India to geta real name -- and it's still not right 

Why did G-d give a name to the first Jew -- it's possible to havea name, but it's still not big enough

*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
            
Avrahm was the richest man in his time -- because had vessels foreverything [Cf. the parable in (Prophets) of the Prophet who givesthe poor widow all the oil she can hold in vessels.]
(And Issac was the richest man in his era, and Jacob in his...)

*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

(Until A(v)br(a)(h)am entered the Covenant, G-d spoke to him onthe particular level -- do this, do this

**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

You serve G-d beyond the vessels of the word, G-d gives you a newtype of infiniteness

If you don't enter the Covenant, your connection is only on thevessel level -- Hans, Fritz -- Avraham Avinus -- his vessles areon the infinte level.

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

 The angels asked Avraham 'Where is you wife' -- 'What is yourconnection to your wife'  'Where does she stand' -- He answered'She is inside' -- she is hidden, infinte

When you convert, you have to get re-married -- so that is whenAvraham married Sarah -- she is inside, she is standing under thechuppah

On Rosh HaShanna I'm fixing my infinite -- on Yom Kippur

When you come to a doctor, yhou'd btter tell him right --p you'dbetter tell him where it hurts 

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

Why was Issac blind -- nothing of this world interested hinm
Why did Issac want to beless Essau -- what he was was R. Akiva andR. Meir (descendents of gentiles, converts, who codified? the oralTorah

Issac had to be blind, because Issac is the master of blessing,and blessing comes from a place that you can't see

R. SHLOMO, YAKAR, 11/08/93, 12:50  NOTES:

From Yakov on, one can't stop being a Jew

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

Avraham Avinu saws the whole world is burning -- everyone isrunning  after something  --

*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

"He was disgusted with money, but he wasn't ready to spend it."
(R. Shlomo recounts his meeting, as a yeshiva student in the USA,with a wealthy playboy.  The playboy said, each morning I wake upand wish things would be different; R. Shlomo said, I'm glad youtold me that, it makes it easier for me, because each morning Iwake up and wish things would be the same -- the same prayers,etc. etc.)

A Jew is supposed to behave so that if a non-Jew sees him he says,oh, if G-d is something like you, I would like to serve Him also.

**"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]

You cannot sleep unless there is a mezuzah because your connectionto G-d ids higher than the mezuzah)
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*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
[As distinct from the only "petitionary" prayer of popularreligion, esp. non-Jewish religion.

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COMMENTARY ON R. SHLOMO'S 'TORAH OF MISS AMERICA'

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

[[Judaism, unlike Xianity, does not make a cosmic melodrama,sturm und drang, about sin 
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((Cf. A Massachusetts? 1600's Pilgrim Children'salphabet book -- "In Adam's Fall/ We Sinned All"), 
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it regards it as something everyday, to be Fixed (tikkun) isa relatively matter-of-fact way.  
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Indeed, the powerful emotive appeal of Xianity -- whichone may experience in extremis; 
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and that is the source of the appeal of Xianproselytzers -- 
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starts from a conviction of irredeemable guilt, followedby the feeling of unearned forgiveness, grace,redemption 
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("Amazing grace, how sweet the sound, to save awretch like me:  I once was lost, but now I'mfound; was bound, but now I'm free." -- US whiteChristian fundamentalist spiritual, 19th? century)
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Similarly, Little Joe Gomez (Taos Pueblo) would pray "Wemistake, forgive us."  Implying, that "to err is human", thatsin, "mistakes" are an everyday aspect of being human.
The Talmud makes the same point with its parable about theAngels asking that they, not humankind, be given the Torah,because it is too holy for humankind; and being told, youdon't need it, they do.
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I have often suggested that religions may be dividedinto two classes -- transcendental (in-the-world) andtranscendent (release-from-the-world); that the Jewishand native American paths are of the former type, andthat the Buddhist, Christian, and sanyasin paths are ofthe latter
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"Oh pious ones" (Rumi):
Xian proselyzers in Israel are like a man who comesuninvited into your house, eats your best bread,and then invites you to change wives.
But until you acknowlege the truth of what he says,you cannot delineate its limitations, and itunsuitability for your given situation
(Baudelaire:  "Life is a hospital where everyonewants to change beds.")




