DATE: Almost definitely 8 Av, but I'm not sure of the year. PLACE: California, probably Santa Rosa, possibly San Francisco QUALITY: Side A is ok; Side B starts ok, but seems to deteriorteat a steady rate. STRUCTURE: Exegesis of teachings by Reb Nachman VENUE: One of a series of lectures to a chevre study group in theUSA. CONTEXT: Before Tesha b'Av.
EDITORIAL NOTES:
Date is apparently 8 of Av [except see below, a reference to "48more hourse to go", suggesting that it might have been the 7 ofAv Not sure of year. Most likely 1981.
TAPE SIDE B STARTS
You know I was in the middle of telling you: When they're asking the VISHNITZER Rebbe, is it really true, that[if] you suffer because you're a Jew, you don't feel the pain. Sohe just closed his eyes, and he was silent for an hour.
I have to tell you something. You know in Auchwitz on Purim they wanted to give shelach manes; you have to give gifts to eachother. You have to give some food to each other. Two kinds offood. 
[The halacha of shelach manos, is , send at least one thingto drink and two things to eat to 2 persons, by the hand ofsomeone else. ] 
So where do you get in Auchwitz two kinds of food. You know what it is, you need a certain amount of oil, of fat, in your body, to exist. If you're depleted right out, you don't exist. So one way or another the Germans, gave out really stale bread. And once a week you would get a little piece of butter, of margerine. Just -- {very softly} a little. So, a few weeks before Purim, Nebuch, gvalt, the yidden began saving little pieces of bread. ________ . That they should have, on Purim --not to be believed -- two kinds of food to give out to each other. I mean it's beyond _______ . And they were so much b'simcha that -- that even in Auchwitz they could give each other shelachmanos.{nb1} 
This is what happened. I say something bad about Switzerland. The Red Cross in Switzerland always loved the Jews very much. So -- they sent sandwiches for the Jews in Auchwitz. What kind ofsandwich? Ham and cheese. Ham and cheese sandwiches.
{R. Shlomo says this in the tone of someone politely holding a rather large slimy something by the tail at arm's lenght,before dropping it neatly into a bucket. } 
Now listen to this. It arrived on Purim. Now listen to this: You can only give shelach manes of the food a person is permitted to eat [ie, kosher food]. And you know according to halacha, when you're in Auchwitz,you're 100% permitted to eat ham and cheese to to keep yourself alive. It's not that they themselves didn't eat it, but they were going to shelach manes, right. So they gave each other the sandwiches -- it was bread -- and and and and -- and meat. {nb4}
So you know, it's so crazy, it's like -- so you think, ah,the Red Cross in Switzerland are big anti-Semites. {nb5}
But when you look at it from a higher plane, G_d put it in theirheart to send ham & cheese, right. Unbelievable. {nb6}
Ok, now let's learn -- _____ from Reb Nachman himself.{Apparently looking through his text for a teaching.} {I CANNOT YET FIND THIS TEACHING IN "ADVICE" (Breslov Inst. 1983)]
This is an awesome torah: You know why people are not b'simcha: because really, let's face it, they have never done in their lives one thing, which gave them joy. So Reb Nachman says,what do you do? You should do one mitzva with so much joy, that you think to yourself, even if I never ever do anything else, it's worth it to live 100 years, just for this alone. You know Reb Nachman says, that the Baal Shem Tov makes_____. When you do somebody else a favor, the joy should be sogevalt, you know. When you do somebody else a favor, it should be clear to you, it's worth it, to suffer 100 years of this world just for the privilege of doing somebody else a favor.
But then Reb Nachman says -- if you do one mitzva, one good deed, with so much heart , then you mamash reach the level ofprophecy. Remember I told you before -- prophecy -- the spirit of prophecy is only on you when you're filled with joy. I'm sure you remember that, The Gemora says, outside Israelthat there is no prophecy. It's only because, after thedestruction of the Temple, we never reached the level of enoughjoy, to have real prophecy. __________. {nb7}
Sometimes you can feel it in heaven, there's something going on. But it's not decreed yet. And sometimes (G_d forbid) it's?written in? a decree, I want you to know something -- also the BELZER Rebbe. You know, after the Germans came into Poland, they ____ Rebbecan't you do something -- can't you pray -- he says: It's ? allover?. The decree is closed. Can't do anything any more. You know, even in heaven, you know -- G_d so-to-speak -- InHeaven they're -- dealing with it. There you can still change it.But that's something else. But it's also not true. Because, everybody knows, there'spraying, you can can change everything in the world. The only thing is, the way you pray before the decree comes out, and the way you pray after the decree comes out -- I mean, you better pray about 2 million million times stronger, right. {nb8} So he says, because G_d forbid when the decree is out in heaven,then you cannot even pray any more, because the gates are closed. You have to go through the back door. And the back door is -- that you tell stories. {nb9}
TEXT NOTE: Rabbi Nachman, Advice, free translation ofLikutey Etzot, tr. by Abraham Greenbaum, published by TheBreslov Resarch Institute, c/o R. Kramer, POB 5370, Jerusalem91053: from p249 #2, referenced as (5:2). I gather that allreferences are to Likuthey Maharan:
"Someone who attains this degreee of joy will be able to knowwhat decress have been passed against the world, whether thedecree has been sealed yet or not, and against whom judgementhas been passed. And through this he will know how to prayfor the world, because after the decree has been sealed theTzaddikim have to clothe their prayers in story form (5:2)." 
And the stories -- and the stories open the gates. You know there's one of the deep toras.
You know, imagine this girl loves somebody very much, now shegave them the door to her house. And she gets very angry, shetakes the key away. The only thing is, she never takes away thekey to the back door. {nb10}
Reb Nachman says, the key to the back door is always open. Imean, it's never closed. But there, if you pray _______ Ok, I'll tell you
{Something falls down, and apprently breaks some crockery. } What happened?
But how does the wind know it's close to Tesha b'Av 
{At this point, and increasingly to the end of Side B,failing batteries (in BZ's opinion) or maybe degradation oftape surface (my guess) make the Rabbi sound rather like BugsBunny. -- sa} 
Let me tell you, it's a little bit funny, just ______ .
A woman came to Reb Motele CHERNOBLER, and she says, you mydaughter, is in labour for 3 days, and is ____nebuch _____ inthose days, nebuch -- what women had to go through. _______. The Baal Shem Tov says, before Meshiach is coming, Chava willhave fixed, what she has to fix, and the sign will be, thatchildbirth is not dangerous any more. But anyway -- so she comes to Reb Motele Chernobler, and shesays, my daughter's at the end. So Reb Motele says, let me tell you a good story. I'm sure my brother -- what's the name -- brother [IssacBashevis?] Singer took the story of Yentl from this story. Butbut this is a different story
THE STORY REB MOTELE CHERNOBLER TOLD THE WOMAN
There was a Catholic girl. And she wanted to become abishop. So how do you become a bishop -- you get dressed up likea man, you go the seminary, then she becomes a priest-ele, and ahigher priest, finally she becomes a bishop. And the bishop, onEaster, it's a very important day, right -- So -- ______ she was a bishop. In the meantime she had alittle affair with a another priest. And she became pregnant. And -- and she had like, a very wide robe, and here comesEaster, and she has to lead the services, and the whole time she'ssaying, please G_d, don't make me have the baby on stage -- whileI'm the Bishop. Because ___ ?let's? see, that I'm a woman.
And anyway, then Reb Motele started yelling, 'And gevalt,she had the baby!' Mazeltov.
You see what it was, he wanted to tell the story, that thewoman should have the baby, right. So ____ told the greateststory. About the girl who wanted to be a bishop, and she waspraying to G_d, don't let me have the baby on stage, but it didcome, he said Mazeltov. You see what it is. While he was telling this funny story,right, the mother was praying for this woman, but he saw already -- ______ was closed. ________ . Awesome.
And Reb Motele mamash left word, that whenever somebody is inlabor, you tell the story. _______ You see -- you have to be a Rebbe, right. I'll tell you something. I tell the story like this. Canyou imagine Reb Motele, when he told the story -- was probably --the deepest Yehudim, and combinations of G_d's NAME, what he putthere.
So Reb Nachman says -- this is is so important -- imagine I'mso sad -- and I can't get out of it. So I say to myself, isthere one mitzva, is there one thing that I can do. So I decidedone mitzva -- I wanted to be -- to mamash do this -- one good deed-- with all your heart.
And you see how deep this is. Reb Nachman says, what iscalled 'with all your heart'. `With all your heart' means, thateven if I never ever do anything else, I bless G_d I was aliveto do this. ?I remember why?, I'm thinking to myself, when was I everprivileged --
I'll tell you -- I don't know why, it just came to my head.
THE STORY OF HOW R. SHLOMO ONCE DID A MITZVA, (& ALSO ATE CRACKERS& CHEESE FOR SUPPER WITH EVITA PERON )
I was in Brazil -- and -- it's a whole crazy story -- InBrazil, I had the best manager ever -- with respect to Sam[Intrator] -- in Buenos Aires, in Argentina, I had a gevaltmanager. And when I arrived, he says to me, I want you to know,may name is Moshe the Gonif. He says, I grew up on the streets ofBuenos Aires, and I'm basically __________?into every pocket?. Hesays, I won't steal from you, Has v'shalom, he says. But you know what it is, the crazy thing is, I never got a penny, he has thousands, thousands, -- And I'm not even broiges,because it was so good -- I never had any publicity like this -- I'm arriving at Buenos Aires, I'm on the front page of everynewspaper. I'm every day on the radio. Every day on televison. You know what he organized -- that the first meal I eat in BuenosAires, I'm eating with the wife of the President -- was Peron atthat time -- Mrs. Peron. And you know how he got it together --because there's -- _____ we have kosher cheese in Buenos Aires,and they sponsored it. Because what can I eat by Mrs. Peron -- Ican eat crackers and cheese, right. So -- it was crazy. The whole focus was not on me, and noton Mrs. Peron, ?they saw cheese all the time.?
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But in the meantime, I was on television, the whole countryknew that I'm there. And in all the movies, the news was, mecoming to Buenos Aires. _______ . And -- who knows -- and _____ and you know, _____ there'scrazy, right, but Moshe is also crazy. He put -- in order to get special attention -- he said thatthe Rabbi came from America, he's singing, and Shabbos, he fasts.He puts on black garments, and he's not permitted to use theelevator _____ the elevator ______ he made a hole, and he threwthe dishes down. And it was in all the newspapers, that I'm crazy, So a rich non-Jewish Brazilian, called up the newspaper, andhe said, this doesn't sound normal, what's this person doing onShabbos. So they called up -- the knew I'm in Old Town -- so Isaid, I'm so sorry, they're telling you some stupid stories,please send me the editor and I'll tell him what I'm really doingon Shabbos.
THE STREET-CHILDREN OF BRAZIL AND GUATEMALA
Anyhow to make it very short, I had a gevalt article about Shabbos, about simcha, gevalt, and this rich Brazilian said Icould -- if they -- Every Sunday for one hour, in a show,television, to have those sick homeless kids -- they're mamashsick, you know -- he said if I come, and I sing on that show, thenhe's giving two million dollars for the poor kids. Unbelieveable, right. And you know, the Jewish community's alittle bit stupid, so they ended up saying, No I can't come,because I have to give a concert for them. Hillul ha-SHEM, G_dforbid you know, [if] the poor people hear that [the millionairewould say] I'm not giving [2 million dollars to the poor] ,because I [R. Shlomo] have to play in the Jewish Center -- I said,folks, I don't care, I'm going to do this show, get yourself ahazzan to ?warm up? until I come, you know. Anyway, to make it very very short. I was on television, andthere were hundreds, mamash sick homeless kids, from the street. And I wanted them to sing with me. At that time my big thing was,Am Yisrael Chai, right. And you cannot tell them long words,but Chai you can say, right. So I said, in Brazilian, wastranslated in Portuguese, that we're all here to give those kidslife -- Chai. And -- every few minutes I would sing Am YisraelChai. And the kids would yell Chai, you know -- Chai, chai.
Ok, I got a little bit thanks on the streets, and wherever Iwent, you know, all the poor people who live on the street, right. Then I'm giving a concert somewhere north, in Brazil. And_____ . And there they have a law that those poor kids are notpermitted to be on the ?hotel?- grounds. And I'm sitting there, Iwas mamash learning _______ it was mamash a gvalt -- and I see alittle boy and a girl, the boy looks 10, the girl is 12 maybe, andthey were standing there, and they're afraid to come in, and theyare standing by the ______?water. So -- and Moshe said, come in,sit down. It was crazy. They don't speak English, and we? don'tspeak Portuguese. But we were communicating so much. First ofall the girl _______ And to make it very short. I want you to know that themanager of the hotel came out and he was supposed to throw themout. I says, do me a favour, I'm paying all this heavy money,do me a favour, give me 10 minutes of your time [as aninterpreter], I want to talk to them. So the girl told us, thather father went out from her mother before she was born. Then hecame back, ?had her brother. And her mother works day and night.Day and night. She cleans houses. Cleans house day and night. And you know, she and her brother, they are so sweet with eachother. You know something, I told them to bring us cake, andsandwiches, you know the way those kids ate, they were putting theEnglish Queen to shame. How noble they ate. I have never seen - besides the ?Vishnitzer? [or: ? big Rebbes? ] anybody eat sonoble. So they're -- starving to death. I'm sure they haven't had that kind of cake in the life. And they were eating just -- neat. I couldn't believe it. And then the manager's ?insisting I hasto throw them out. I says no, I want. _____ I'm leaving [and ] I[will] put in all the newspapers -- because I'm giving a concertthat night -- and I was thrown out because I wanted to take cakesto poor kids. You know, he began crying. He says, do you knowsomething. He says, do you know something, do you know, I was oneof those homeless kids. And I said_____ you won't throw me out. I tell you something. I wanted so much to adopt those twokids. I mean you cannot imagine _______ - mamash a prince and aprincess. And you know, I was begging them, please come tomorrowwith your mother, and -- they never showed up again.
And -- listen, it's so many years later. And I thought to myself, if I'd only had the privilege of feeding those kids, wouldbe the greatest thing in the world. You know how much abuse thosekids have to go through in their life. And maybe they'llremember they once met somebody, who treated them like a humanbeing. Unbelieveable.
I have to tell you something else.
I gave a concert in Guatemala. After the concert, theyinvited us for a party, _____ administrator in the Jewish community. ?eventually? a multi-millionaire. And as you walk tohis house, I see 8 kids, maybe, 7 , 8, 9, 10. And they sit undertheir tree. And you know, all those poor people, everybody hadtheir tree, where they sleep. And I say, who are those kids. And he says, that's where they live. And I says, then these areyour neighbors -- Are you taking care of them? You should seethe way he looked at us. 'They're kids from the street.' {R.Shlomo makes an exclamatatory sound.} The cutest kids in theworld. And someone was ask , do you suppose _______ to talk tothose kids for me. Those kids have no ______, they don't evenknow where there parents are. They grew up on the street, can'tread, can't write. How should they make a living when they'reolder? They have to steal. The have no chance, right.
So I told those kids, I want you to come this morning forbreakfast -- my hotel. And do you know something -- how noblethose kids are -- I don't know how they did it, but mamash theycame the next morning washed and combed. I don't know where they did it. Mamash, shabisdik. And you know what it was -- I got through to the wife of thePresident. Because she says, you don't need to invite them forbreakfast, I'll give them some bread. I say no, I want them tosit with me, I want to give them the kovod. Anyway, the wife ofthe President came, she ate breakfast with us. ____ the kids.
Five years later I'm back in Guatemala. The President picksme up. I'm say listen brother, how are your neighbors. He says,you know something -- They were so ashamed that they left. You know, he adopted some _____ kids. And some of them arefinishing high-school now. _________ of them go to college. ____.
HOW THE RABBI DID ANOTHER MITZVA: A TYPICAL STORY OF MODERN ISRAEL
So you know something -- If I would have had only one timetzedakah -- one time outside the big ?sphere? -- giving tzedakah - I walk down Mea She'arim -- and I see one of the Rebbes -- he'san einkel of REB MENDELE VOLKER -- I speak to him time to time --he says to me, Shlomo, what you ______ -- my daughter's gettingmarried tonight, and nobody knows that I don't have a single pennyfor the wedding. I don't have a single penny. And since I'm_____ ??the Rebbes's ?? -- I can't ask him. Since I know thatyou're a big hossid of the ______ Reb Mendele Volker -- I want you to know something. I really didn't have this kindof money. But if the heilig Reb Mendele who's sitting Up Theremakes me the messenger -- I gave him gvalt checks, you know, forthousands of dollars. And the crazy thing is, the checks nevercame back. {nb11}
I was mamash a little messenger, you know. I mean, Reb MendeleVolker performed the miracle; took a little shmendrik like me, who walks out with ?bad? checks -- _______ . I said to myself,obviously, even if the checks don't go through, it's not my money,because I know I don't have it, right. I _______ a check, fivethousand in October, five thousand in December, and five thousand-- I don't have it. {nb12} But I gave it to him.
It's a gevalt, you know. {Nb13}
So Reb Nachman says, whenever you're sad, is there one thingin the world you did, or you want to do, mamash keep you aliveforever. But then Reb Nachman says, if you do something b'simcha, thenmamash you're so full of prophecy, that you know how much you haveto pray for something. If the Decree is out already -- if theDecree is not out, you ____ pray. If the Decree is out, it meansyou're not praying. You have to go through the back door. Want you to know something real strong. B'ruch '' I knowthis torah from Reb Nachman. I ________ to a person -- Nebuch -- I'm not a doctor but shehad -- cancer -- and couldn't see anymore. ________ . So I go inthere, I say, I bless you with a refua shlema [complete recovery]. 
[It is not clear, from context and intonation, if thissentence is to be understood as a statement or as arhetorical question. Apparently the person was in anapparent coma. -sa] 
It's over. So what I did, any hasidische story I knew about ---about hearing - I told ?it?. And you know what this -- I don'tknow if _____ can hear or not -- so I put my guitar on the ?steps??stand? -- and his wife was a gevalt. She was saying to him,Nachman, if you hear the story, can you just, tap your finger onthe guitar. So he tapped his finger. Awesome. {nb14}
ONe mor thing. {Hebrew quote}.
You know friends, I just told you stories of myself because__ I'v shared _____ story. Mamash it should be clear to you thatever in your life, you did something, it's enough to give yourlife _____ . Keep your life running.
Then it says {Hebrew}:
This is one more very important thing.
If you want to know how happy you are -- how much you areb'simcha -- ______?very important? -- If you can mamash davenwith all your heart -- that means you're mamash b'simcha. Becausewhen you're half sad, you cannot put your whole heart intopraying. Because you know -- when you're sad, you give up,right. The minute you don't believe in prayer any more. Sadnessis: I don't believe in prayer. And if you believe half in it --_______. You know, what is the whole torah of the Baal Shem Tov. The helige Baal Shem Tov says: I was only privileged to reachsuch a high level because I daven with all my heart. Rememeber Reb Nachman says that -- You know what means, 'withall our heart ' [from the first bracha after the Sh'ma] -- withevery ounce of energy I have. Has to be mamash -- Praying is not an act, it's a state. Mamash, I AM mamashpraying. I have seen Rebbes, you know.
I'll tell you something:
The heilige, REB MANESCHE(?), THE SON OF THE HEILIGEVISHNITZER in Romania, came to the city, and he wanted to godaven. And with him came thousands of thousands of people . 
[N.B.: Look to me that, at least sometimes, an inaudible fewwords is due to some sort of slack on the tape, so that in asubsequent pass, it may be perfectly clear. ] 
So they told him that the big shul is too cold. They don't gothere in the winter because the can't heat it, it's too cold. And the new shul is too small for all the people. What should wedo. He says, go to the big shul. And you know in Romania -- really cold, right. The Rebbedavened 4 hours. I'm sure the people died a thousand times ofcold. And? again -- Reb Manensche. And you know what he said? ________ Vishzer, you don't shukl so much. You don't shukl atall. He said like this. And you know something? His wholevicinity, was a river of water, right. A river. His tallis waswet, his kappote was wet, and the whole chair under him on thefloor. Gevalt. Can you imagine how much strength he davenedwith -- But he says, to reach that level of davening, you have to-- {softly} be b'simcha. You have to be mamash b'simcha. {R. Shlomo answers a question from one of the chevre: That thetext says, to reach that level of simcha, you have to daven likethat.} R. Shlomo: It's also true. _____ so what. It's like -- ______Eyn Sof, you know. {1070} The moment you begin ______ say mamash,today _______ } {nb15} 
The moment you begin, you begin to say mamash {nb16} today I have to daven _______ .
Have to tell you something awesome.
You know, today [ie, 8 of Av] is really the time to go to ____ Vishin? , because vishin is malkus ?mistoiden? {Hebrew}.
Remember I told you two days ago the story of the heilige Reb Tzadik Ger -- how he spoke to his brother, the Dayana? And in Vishin, you don't daven together with the hassidim, theRebbe is in the room, and the door is not locked, but who wouldhave the chutzpa to walk in -- The Rebbe comes out for Kriyas haTorah, and the people knew,you're not permitted to walk in. And there was a guard [ie, ashomer] by the door, and he -- didn't let anybody in. One time on Isru Hag, the day after Yomtov, the guard wasn'tthere, so one Yid thought, I'll go in. He heard Reb Yisroelsaying, B'ruch At== '' ... and he was in a coma for 3 months. Can you imagine?
That means you've said it(?). But the heilige Tzade Ger said-- G_d's NAME -- It was so awesome. And he was in a coma forthree months.
Want to tell you something else.
You know the biggest question is -- the 6 Million -- whydidn't G_d let the Tzadikim know -- you know, before G_d destroysa ?dog? ________ , and why didn't G_d tell the Rebbes.
I want you to know something. When the priordike?Lubavitcher Rebbe, when he passed away -- I mean, I'm sure thatwas one of the greatest funerals in the world, ever -- thousandsand thousands and thousands -- I tell you something, I was very much into Lubavitch, I waswalking around there, _____ Vishnizer? _____ I was walking. Mentioned it before, but -- ______ . ______ with a toothbrush,cleaning the streets of Vienna. So the Vishnitzer said, I wantyou know, G_d did not tell the Rebbes, when he takes away the______ . If he would known, he wouldn't have let HIM. He wouldn'thave let him.
You see what it is: If -- any of the Rebbes would have known---- {nb17} 
But again, it's not true.
Let me tell you an unbelieveable story.
You know, at the end of the First World War -- sometimes weforget, you think that the whole Gesheft began in the secondworld war. But the end of the First World War, in Poland andRussia when they lost the war, right, and the peasants were --complaining, why did you lose the war -- the Jews. Everybodyknows. {Next two sentences unclear. ?They didn't speak German? } And every Jew was a secret German agent. So they _____ Jews ____. {Lots of honkies honking horns outside the lecture hall.} In a certain part of Poland, every Friday they hung 10 Jews, andthey said, these are the spies who made us lose the war. {nb18} And here ____ the heilige ?Viziner?
One time they didn't kill 10, they hung up 25. So they cameto the heilige Viziner?, told him? things are getting out of hand,they hung 25 yidden. {nb19} 
_______ open your heart.
The Vishnizer says, close the door, lock the door. He begansmoking. A pipe. And the whole room was full of smoke, and theycouldn't see each other. And he says, you talk to me about 25yidden. In a time, not so distant from now, this will be a joke. The time is coming, he says, when millions of Jews will walk -- inblood -- over their nose. {R. Shlomo whispers the next line --maybe with the word 'smoking'}. Finished smoking; he saidgoodbye. Listen to this ______ .
The people walked out. And 'what did the Rebbe say'. Nobody remembered what he said.
End of the War [World War II] -- maybe 20 years end of theWar -- two yidden meet by the holy Wall. I said, you look sofamiliar, where are you from. Ah , he says, yoiu know t he lasttime I saw you was by the heilige Vishiner. When we complainedabout the 25 people. And he says, do you remember what he said? He says, yoiu know something -- even I remembered it -- when I wasin Auchwitz. I remember the Rebbe saying, that millions of Jewswould go --- {rest of sentence unclear}. I only begined toremember it when I was in Auchwitz. Crazy.
{Sentence unclear, maybe an exclamation in Yiddish.}
But you know, this was -- like all the Rebbes -- it wasbefore. But now what we have to do -- we have to be so much b'simchathat the yidden _______ . The ??Rizhonover?? says that after the 6 million, every Jewis a mitzva. Every little Jew is a mitzva.
Ai, mamash, G_d should give you strength _____ . On one hand, G_d should give us strength, beginning to feel alittle bit, { pause}
I have to tell you something else.
Obviously the children today are all the children ofAuchwitz came back. No question of it. Have to tell you an unbelievable story. ONe of ?my favorite?stories. Was teaching his children to say, 'v ahavata-'' elokecha ' --you should love G_d wit h all your heart, with all your soul, withall your might. [lst bracha after the shema]. And the Gemorah says {quotes}, because when it says with yourheart, [it means] with all your heart. With your soul, doesn'tmean with all your soul, because even if ____ takes away yoursoul, ?and you die for G_d?? -- still, it's enought. {nb20} 
{	Which reminds me me of a story R. Zalman, if memoryserves, told of the Habad train engineer in '48 who's comingdown from Jeruslaem toward Shar Hagai, and the Arabs attackand the brake lever is red hot, and if he lets go the trainwill go off the track, and he keeps holding on because heremembers the Lubavitcher Rebbe taught, mind can always prevail over the other faculties. --sa} 
So -- has? a little girl. She's 3 years old. He begins to make_____ with her. And the first time they say, {R. Shlomo recitesportions of that bracha} -- kol haLav-decha {with our your hear}[the little girl repeats it] kol nafesha -- she refused to say it.She says, I did it -- {rest of this sentence difficult to makeout} And until she was 6, she couldn't ______ . {Very soft,difficult to make out. }
You know sometimes you're angry at -- so called 'nonreligious' and say, what do you know. You think all the soldierstoday they listen to --- high school graduates and -- _____shabbos, right. {Short sentence, hard to make out.} {at this stage, becoming difficult to transcribe}
[I] remember once I asked -- I was in a school, a nonreligious school -- and I went up to some kids who are really --really not into religion, right. So was this girl, maybe 14 of15, said to her, do you have a friend? I would expect the answerto be _____ -- in a secular school you have friends. [ I thinkhere 'friend' is used as a translation of mod. Heb. 'chaver',boy-friends.
You know what she says to me -- 'do you know I pray with all myheart' [or maybe, but I don't think so: : ?my friend is all Ihave?] -- {Next sense almost whispered, hard to make out.}
You see today, the relationship between all of us, betweenevery Jew and G_d, between the world and G_d, is so hidden, sodeep. What do we know.
I hate to tell you bad things [but]: you know the [name of aRabbi: "Holichover"?? You now _____ ? in the world? you're notsupposed to, right -- on tesha b'Av. He learned right through. Hesays , _______ . He says ?I build a? _____ house. You think Istop learning because I go to [hell, I presume]. I wish I wouldbe on that level, right. {nb21} 
{By this point the tape sounds almost like fastdub, whichwould be double-time, eg Bugs Bunny on the wrong side of WileE. Coyote. -sa} 
So basically -- right now -- ___________ -- heart -- you'renot supposed to learn. Why aren't we learning -- because we say,Master of the World, all the Tora's you give us, went to nothing. You know, I come to a doctor, I say, all the medication yougave me, I'm still sick -- better come up with something better. ** So the unbelieveable thing is -- that [according tohalacha, on Tesha b'Av] you can learn. We can learn certainthings about -- ?humers? in English, [rest of sentence, audio onmy rp+2gen copy of %sh8YAV08-rp is too poor for me to transcribe -sa]** about everythibg ______ really learning.
Ok, and again, I want you to know. Please don't feel badabout the fighting [that is, the verbal dispute at the lectureprovoked when one participant objected to another's mentioning aLebanese-based attack on northern Israel ] I didn't expectanything else, you know. 
[One should know that, although R. Shlomo demonstrated aconstant commitment to land of Israel, its citizens, and thedeepest respect for its armed forces and settlers, heconsisently tried to keep his lectures scrupulously nonpolitical. -- sa] 
And __________ the ?morning? of Tesha b'Av, you know,
I remember at the House of Love & Prayer, we were also like,learning the whole week. And the whole time it was good. . Themorning of Tesha b'Av, it was mamash violent. {nb22} And two mamash -- good kids -- I never got it _____ -- they jumpedon each other, and one of them wanted to call the police and _____. Shshh, kopish?? ,be quiet. ' So let's just hope , that with you -- _____ 48 hours morehours to go to the fast.
*If someone insults you, it's not that person's fault, it was the air.* Cool it -- because -- Tesha b'Av. 
[Cf. `The [2nd] Temple was destroyed because of causelesshatred',] {nb23} 
And just remember, the heilige ?Vishnitzer? says -- test --another test. And everybody says, ________ . Everything good ishidden _____ . {Next sentence difficult to make out.} Mamashhidden. {Following sentence, ditto.}
[Well, again -- take care of your tapes; 9 times out of 10all you'll lose is a few mamash's, and the 10th time you'lllose the key words of a one-time teaching, maybe hithertounrecorded, of one of the Old Rabbis. R. Shlomo seems to have undertaken several mainprojects, both part of the basic Lubavitch program: to bringback to Yiddishkeit those Jews who were on its farthest edgesand about to fall off; and to transmit as much as possibleand as widely as possible the teachings of the pre-ShoahRabbis and Rebbes. -sa} {nb24}
Have you ever seen, I'm calling up the police, and I say listen, I have here ____ for 2 million dollars, you know, on 47thStreet, ______ walking from one street to the other. I needpolice protection. {Next half-dozen sentences of this New YorkParable unclear, except for phrase, 'police protection'. Sounds like a typical request by a typical New Yorker to thetypical New York civil servants,} I say listen, I have a heavygarbage bag, I need police protection. What do they tell me? You can go and ________ -- Nobody's going to steal your garbagebag. But now imagine -- imagine imagine -- if I were a diamonddealer, and I know by professional experience that the police isnot that good, right. You know what's happening? Listen to me. I put all the diamonds into the garbage bag. I walk down thestreet with the garbage bag, oy gevalt, nobody wants to stealit, if you only knew what I'm carrying, gevalt, you would followme. {nb25} 
He says, you know what the letter Tet [R. Shlomo pronouncesthis Ashkenazi, Tes] is? The letter Tet is diamonds in thegarbage bag.
You know what it is -- we need the Destruction of the Temple{nb26} We need Auchwitz, {nb27} we need everything, and it better?begin?_ right. It's the deepest deepest _______ {nb28}
And we should be privileged -- we should finish the ?shiur? with?tehillim? L'chaim, l'chaim.
{question from a lady in the audience who, at this speed, soundsrather like Tweety-Bird}
R. Shlomo: Ok, I'll tell you an unbelievable tora. I'll tell you something. {Next few sentence too fast tocatch.} I had the privilege ________ . And the heilige BIALER(?)talked so soft, according to logic you ?shouldn't hear him?. {Nextsentence hard to make out.} He says, {Hebrew: ?anenun _____ }.?Answer to G_d? {Next sentence hard to make out.} You know what it its. He says, anenu, ?elo{k}ei elo{s}echa? {Can't hear this sentence.}
Answer me, G_d and G_d of our fathers. (?) Awesome
And imagine if only once in your life ?you hear theVishnitzer say {repeates preceeding Hebrew phrase.}? You don'tneed anything else, right. YOu don't need _________ . And also -- every Shabbos -- {can't hear rest of sentence.}
And let me tell you something else. By the [Rebbe's] Tisch you could even ______ and never know it. -
I'll tell you another thing, honestly _____ you know there'snobody in the world -- ________ right -- nobody in the world has apowerful word like the Vishiner?? I tell you, I can only indicateto the best of my ability. [Text, sic, and clear enough.]
Let me bentsh, I say, 'B'ruch {Hebrew}' Blessed is the onewho threw the egg, _______ beginning? ?of the Beis Midrash?. And{can't hear rest of sentence}. {nb30}
{Can't make out next sentence.} And the heilige BIANER, youdon't say ok, without mention(?). Everything, for a long time.And I want you to know that the heilige Bianer would say, exactly in the melody of his father, the heilige Reb Yitzak, andthe heilige (?) would say, again like the heilige Reb Yakov, theheilige Reb Yakov would say it exactly like the heiligeVishinizer. He would do it like this. __________ {singing, in avery soft, non-strong voice} "Rabosei" [First word of theintroduction to the to birkat haMazon] Then this one -- you can'thear it again (??) . He would say {really just spoken -- ??shnee? -- olam }. Then he would say it like this -- just this oneword -- {again in a very small voice} {I don't recognize theHebrew word} ken shalsani michelo [The response to the calltorecite birkat haMazon} 
[MY GENERATION 2 COPY OF THE TAPE CUTS OFF HERE. It's a TDK 90, and those are pretty reliable in length -- notlike some of those discount brands, where they enhance theprofit margin by dropping a few minutes off the end of eachsupposedly 90-minute tape -- so it's unlikely that there wasmore on Reuven Praeger's Generation 1. But I don't know whattape was used for his generation 1, so maybe there was moreon the preceeding generation.
It may be there there were both factors here -- lowbatteries at recording, and deterioration of surface of thetape on which it was recorded. Also, I'm not sure that it wasn't recorded over apreviously used tape. There's just a touch of a musical chord at the end, maybe from the end of the full-orchestracoda to the Beattles' "I heard the news today, oh boy.".{nb31}
Anyhow, the preceeding par. was written after voting l3
As-it-was-said in my home town:
*** "VOTE EARLY AND OFTEN FOR MICHAEL J. CURLEY" *** 
and while evading listening to the election returns. Which reminds me of another story I heard nth hand -- (Ithink from a pharmacy student from New Jersey who Ivolunteered with at Shadmot Mechola in 1986) -- and I retoldelsewhere:
In 1948 the besieged defenders of Zfat said: Well, certainlywe will be saved; the only question is: will it be in thenatural course of events, or by a miracle. The naturalcourse of events would be if we are saved by a miracle; themiracle would be if the Palmach breaks through.