Shlomo, 'A celebration of Life & Peace"2/5/94
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	Finally, the beginning of the now Modim L Simcha generated transcription 
of the original handwrittten transcription taken directly off the video on 3 
Jan01 in an inspirational frenzy.  I wanted to at least begin this phase of 
this project while it was still Gevurah shebe Chesed b/c I feel like that 
somehow perfectly captures the energy that our Rebbe infused his words with. 
  Im also anxious to still hop a little of my birthday zechus/juice which 
was a day ago on chesed shebe chesed and infuse that  along with the 
(holy--I hope) chutzpah to take our Rebbes living words delivered by him in 
passion and kedusha and put them into a writtten format.
	Following is a transcript of the short video piece that was reintroduced 
from the editing floor, so to speak, by the Ruach B Midbarer Rebbe, Sarah 
Leah/Alya Grafstein, who has followed deeply in the grooves of innovation 
and outreach  first carved by our Rebbe, and has taken the level of being an 
emergency Yid to a  profound height with the release of this video which has 
to be understood in the spirit of mesiras nefesh in a line from R Shlomo, 
then Sarah Leah, then Reuvan Goldfarb--the Essex St. Maggid--my friend and 
teacher now raising himself, his holy wife Yehudit (described by Rav Shlomo 
as, my main west coast Rebbes) and the general environs of Sefat around 
him to nu heights, who first gave me the video, then nudged me to contact 
Sarah Leah for permission to put this out, and finally myself, with G!DS 
help delivering it to you.  So Sarah Leah, since instantly and 
enthusiatically granting that permission, then wondering what on earth 
happenened, but hopefully never giving up hope, here at last is the 
transcription of R Shlomos words sung and spoken from the Spirit of the 
Desert production, A Celebration of Life and Peace a concert given in 
Phoenix, AZ in the last year of our Rebbes brief time in this world, 1994.
	As did Ayla in the video, I dedicate this transcript to Aish Kodesh Gilmore 
whose memory should be for a blessing, who gave his life for our only home 
in this world.

			A CELEBRATION OF LIFE AND PEACE
					Phoenix, AZ
					5 Feb 1994

	You know, were living in a time when people have no right to get together 
without praying for peace.  You have to.  The first thing and the last 
thing.  This is a passage from the psalms...it says, (singing)
	Because of my brothers and friends
	Because of my sisters and friends
	Please let me ask please let me sing
	Peace to you.
			Join me, with all of your hearts
	This is the house, the house of the Lord, I wish the best for you...(more 
singing, fade out)

	You know my beautiful friends Rebbe Nachman says, how do you know who is 
the owner of the house?  You know Im walking into a house and Im sitting 
there by the table and you come to the door and you think maybe Im the 
owner of the house because Im sitting at the table.  No.  Sitting at the 
table does not show that I am the owner.  You know who the owner is?  The 
one who is inviting you in.  He is the owner.  I want you to know friends, 
until Yerushalyim was in our hands there was not this big invitation to the 
world to come to Yerushalyim.  Nobody came.  Ahhh, we are back in 
Yerushalyim.  We are sending out messages to the whole world, please come to 
Yerushalyim.  And I want to, you know my beautiful friends, one of the 
paramount prayers on Rosh Hashonnah/Yom Kippur it says, let them all come 
to Yerushalyim.  Master of the World...if any of you ever doubted...we want 
the whole world to be in Yerushalyim.  You think were stingy?  Were 
not...we want the whole world to be in Yerushalyim.  The whole world.
	Let it be clear to you, without getting into politics.  Every Jew in Israel 
needs our prayers.  And above all--the whole world needs our prayers.  You 
know why?  How would the world look like in one hundred years from now if us 
Yidden after Aushwitz and after Madayanek we built a little land and then 
the world has the chutzpah to take half of it away again.  What a chutzpah.  
What a chutzpah.  (Yelling) WHAT A CHUTZPAH!  OUTRAGEOUS!  Our cousins have 
millions of miles.  Nothing.  Empty.  We have a little land--we built it 
with tears.  With blood.  With prayers.  Want to take it away from us?  What 
are you gonna do with it?  And I want you to know--our cousins--really, I 
dont hate them.  I love them with all my heart.  theres only one place 
that they live like mentchen--and thats in Israel.  (And since my concert 
is over and I can say what I want to...)
	You know friends, I was one of the first people who walked into the Old 
City-67- and there was so much love in the air if the politicians wouldnt 
have mingled in we could have mamesh made peace on that very day.  But I 
want you to know I kissed every Arab--every boy every girl--it was a gevalt. 
  One little Arab cousin ran after me and said, you forgot to kiss one of my 
babies.  Anyway, I see a girl of 16 standing in a corner and I asked her, 
how are you feeling?  She spoke English.  I said tell me the truth.  Are you 
glad Israel took over the Old City or are you sad?  She looked around and 
she said, you know something?  Israel saved my life because my father sold 
me to an old man of 80 for one hundred dollars.  Do you know whats going on 
in the world? Do you know whats really going on?  We dont need to learn 
civilization from the rest of the world.  And I want you to know.  We are 
not doing any favors when were giving back half of our land.  We want them 
to live with us.  Happily.  Peacefully.  When Israel moved into the Old City 
only 9% of those kids went to school.  The rest were roaming the streets.  
And now every child goes to school, every child learns a trade.
	I dont mind them living next door.  If it would make peace they could live 
in my--dining room--I dont mind.  But let it be peaceful with love, with 
sweetness.  Friends, you know the world thinks peace means that you dont 
kill officially--only from your back--thats called peace.
Peace is that you love each other.  And that kind of peace and love doesnt 
come from Washington...not from anywhere.  It comes only from Heaven. Yiu 
know what we say, Oseh Shalom Bimromov,  Master of the world.  Peace is 
only in Heaven because the most heavenly feeling is--Peace.  Really--you 
walk into a house and the husband and wife are fighting--how does it feel?  
Heavenly?  The lowest hell.  You walk into a house, people love each other 
for real--its paradise.  We want the whole world to be paradise, the whole 
world--really the whole world.  (singing) Borchenu Avinu kulano ki echad 
kulano ki echad v orpanecha...
	Theres still a little bit...the smoke of Aushwitz sometimes...especially 
in the Holy Land friends.  There are some people who like to blow the smoke 
of Aushwitz toward the Holy Land.  Dont kid yourself.  We have to be 
STRONG.  Strong on our feet.  Friends I want you to yell Avi Kol Chai!  
Israel is Living!  The land is living!  The land is our land.  Jerusalem is 
our city! (cheers, whistles, applause breaking out)
I want you to know my beautiful friends.  And Im not talking now political 
peace.  Im talking about a Jew should know where its at.  I want you to 
know when G!d gave the land to Avraham, when G!d says to Avraham walk around 
in the land, this is the land Im giving you.  Its our land.  It is our 
land.  Gevalt!  It is our land.  Do you know every inch of the land is full 
of blood of our holy soldiers.  Think they gave their lives that we should 
spit at them and say well trade it in for a few million rubles that Brother 
Clinton will give us?  No. 100% not.
	Friends I want us to stand on our feet and say Am Yisroel Chai! (Shouting) 
Israel is living forever! The land is ours forever! And its the land of our 
children.  Of our grandchildren.  And nobody can take it away from us.
