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R. SHLOMO CARLEBACH

    EXCERPTED TEACHINGS ON THE HOLIDAYS

      Collected in honor of the Congregation and Yeshiva

            of Shalom al Yisrael Synagogue, Jericho




      Part II: Sukkot 













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The Zidichover had a commentary:
Yakov said to Esau, "l'regel haMlava v'l'regel haYeladim"  ("Bythe pace of the cattle and the pace of the children." )  'RegelhaMlaba' can mean "the holidays when you are not permitted towork", which are Pesach, Shavuos, and Succos.  'Regel haYiladim'can mean "the holidays of the children", which are Channukah andPurim.

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	You know Succot comes from the word 'too look' --  .
{? ms. unclear}  [On Succot I say] I want to sit for 8 days and Iwant YOU to look at me the whole time.  
	When do we stop being close to our parents?  Same thing. When we don't want them to know what we're doing.  You know whathappens to us in the Succah?  Abraham, Issac and Jacob and ourFour Mothers all come back to us to visit with the Succah --because mamash we want to look at one another the whole time. Imagine if we could keep our relationship with our parents -- thatyou could mamash want to look at each other all the time -- howdeep!  And after that [Succoth] we take out the Torah [on SimhatTorah].  You know how deep it is?  You know when somebody looks atyou and you look at them you don't have to talk so much.  You cansit and look at each other for a hundred years. 
      You know why I have to learn all the words of the Torah --only because from time to time I don't want G-d to look at me.  OnSimhat Torah -- after sitting with Succot for 7 days -- I'm noteven _______ opening the Torah.  I'm, just davening with theTorah.  Beause I [only] have to look at the Torah and the Torahlooks at me.  

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(Transcribed & input by Hadassah H. Sasson, Moshav Meor Modi'in)

On Sukkos the    are from the incense of Aaron HaCohen inthe Holy of Holiest, and that incense was the clouds of glory,ے  and  this is the sukkah.  
	There's nothing more degrading than excuses.  When AaronHaCohen says to come back, you don't need any excuses.  So on YomKippur Aaron gives us back the   that become our Sukkah.  	You know on Pesach, Avraham, Yitzhak, Yacov, my parents, myforefathers don't come back to sit with me for the seder.  Why doI need my parents after Yom Kippur?  I want to say a gevalt Torahwithout getting into the depths of psychology. Parents who forcetheir children to make two million excuses always cripple them.Then there are parents who have the holiness to say,"You didwrong. I'm sorry. I know you won't do that anymore. Let's talkabout something else." These are the parents who surround theirchildren with clouds of glory.

I want to say a gevalt Torah on Sukkos.  .*  The ZoharKodesh says these are the seven guests.  You know what it is.They're doing tshuva that they didn't help us enough to make lessexcuses.
You know what it's like when I didn't feel at home enough to comeback without excuses.  I didn't want to make excuses so how couldI go home?  Who makes a child feel at home?  The parents. And hereeven Aaron HaCohen is coming into the sukkah, and Aaron says,"Gevalt.  Maybe the door to the Holy of Holiest wasn't bigenough."  

Sukkos is  , giving  to each other.   You know on YomKippur I'm standing before G-d and saying, "G-d I won't do itanymore."  Which is all cute.  On Sukkos I realize it isn't true.I cannot promise G-d I won't do it anymore. Why do I feel the needto promise even if I know it's not true?  Because otherwise I'llbe thrown out of the house, right. I can only cry my eyes out,"Please help me not to do it anymore." That's when I begin sayinghoshanna.  But on Sukkos I realize that whatever I do, the ۙ  wants me.  It's a completely different thing. 

Our generation is mamash the generation of Meshiach.  ۑ  .  In our  generation  I don't think we reallyregret what we did. Not like the Rebbe of Maharash says when yougo swimming and something goes wrong.  Our tshuva is on the levelof Sukkos.   .  Mamash, I cannot promise G-d.  On YomKippur I have to promise G-d; Rambam says it mamash has to be soclear to G-d that I won't do it again.  That tshuva we can'ttouch. The only thing we can touch is    .  Wesay,"    I won't stop praying.  I'm begging you to helpme." When do I feel closer to my parents. When they make mepromise that I'll never do something again.  Or when they are soclose to me that I can ask them to please help me not to do itagain. When people get married, they establish their relationshipto their children.  The man talks because the father is on thelevel of the tshuva of Yom Kippur, of Moshe Rabenu. The mother islike Aaron HaCohen, the house, the Bet Hamikdash. The womandoesn't say anything. So what she is doing is mamash establishingthat her children come back. Rachel doesn't say anything, she'sjust crying and she also wants her children just to cry ی  . This is the crying of Rachel,   .

The highest tshuva is mamash on Simchat Torah. I dance with theTorah without reading it.  It's mamash   .  G-d'sTorah has no words. It's deeper than anything.  And gevalt I'll becloser to the Torah.  Now Simchat Torah is basically a children'sholiday.  They don't know our Torah, they only know G-d's Torah. The Holy Temple was destroyed because we didn't love each other somuch.  We told bad things about each other. In our Torah, it says,I keep Shabbos; you don't keep Shabbos.  In G-d's Torah,  ,in the Gemara, it says we all sit in one sukkah, the third BetHamikdash. The third Bet Hamikdash will be built because of YaacovAvenu   . Yaacov is Sukkos. This is the sukkah I'msitting in. It's a different learning, a different davening.  Andalso obviously on Simchat Torah when I realize  ی, I don't sit and I don't confess.

And here I want to say the deepest Torah in the world.  When MosheRabenu went back to Mount Sinai, if you remember in the , inthe holy ark, there is the  with which Moshe came back andthere are the broken . When Moshe Rabenu broke the tablets,the letters flew away, and there was only G-d's Torah and no morewords. You know what Moshe Rebenu did, he connected those letters.

The big fixing of Moshe Rabenu is on Simchat Torah.  Why do weread on Simchat Torah that Moshe Rebenu took off.  Obviously onthe last day of his life he gave us the real Torah.  G-d says tohim,"Thank you for breaking the tablets."  Because he broke thetablets, Moshe Rabenu gave us the Torah where we have to makeexcuses, and then on Simchat Torah, Moshe gives us the Torah ۄ.  You know there is a Torah when I am just blessing you. AndI just want to bless all the parents here. Everybody knows thatthe blessing of children on Kol Nidre night is the highest ofblessings. It's the blessing of Moshe and Aaron together.  And weshould always be so close to the Torah, running back withoutmaking excuses.

And there are people in our generation who want to force others tocome back, to say I regret what I did and to give a long list oftheir sins.  People who want to take away the last ounce of pridefrom you, the non-  people.  When did Amalek come, whenAmalek heard that Aaron HaCohen had left the world.  When do theycome and attack you, when you don't have   around you. What's Amalek?  Amalek takes away your last strength.  He doesn'tsay anything bad; he just tells you the fact that you are a sinnerand you have to do tshuva and this mamash makes it so hard on you.But you don't have strength left to do tshuva.  What tshuva canyou do? But Aaron HaCohen doesn't let Amalek come near to you.Aaron HaCohen  surrounds you with pride.

To do Moshe Rabenu's tshuva, I don't need a good friend.  To doAaron HaCohen's tshuva, I need a good friend who surrounds me withے  who gives me back my pride.  You know sometimes peopledo something wrong, and they're so downhearted.  They need onegood friend to give them strength again.  I want you to knowsomething very deep.  Moshe Rabenu was up on Mount Sinai; AaronHaCohen stayed down below.  Why didn't Aaron HaCohen go up?  Andalso Moshe Rabenu says   . Send Aaron HaCohen up. MosheRabenu goes up alone, because what Moshe Rabenu brings down we cando alone.  Aaron HaCohen cannot be without Yidden, because ofthese  . You can't grab clouds of glory;  someone has togive it to you.  

With the blessings on  Yom Kippur and Sukkos when you give yourchildren back their clouds of glory, may the clouds of gloryencompass you and your family, your children and all of Israel. 
                               HaRav Shlomo Carlebach
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*There are a few words missing here which I could not pick up fromthe tape, and which Shlomo did not add in the editing processright before he left, but the idea was too good to leave it out. -HH

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FROM HANUKA81

	We have to make things which are from this world, You have to
 make a succah... You have to make Tefilin.  You can't make fire. You cannot create fire.  It is not in the world.  You strike amatch, and it is there.  Or you put one fire next to a candle andthe candle will have a fire.  All you have to do is get the candleand the fire close together.  When you get them close together,then the fire is right there. 

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FROM LGG

	 If you remember, there's a lot of Torahs of the Rebbes,what's happening to us after Yom Kippur?  The first day, mamash Ipromise G-d two thousand things and then the first day, I don't doit. So I gave up. That's the Golden Calf again.  What's thefixing?  Four days later, I make Succos, right.  What a chutspa. You are supposed to be Holy from Yom Kippur to Succos, right.  SoI say I'm not going into the Succah, right.  Hey, but it's AharonHaCohen, right. It's true, I did a little Tshuvala on Yom Kippur, and I mamash didn't keep anything, but who cares.    ۉ  (Kal ha-ezrach b'Yisrael yashvu b'Succot) Succah is myhome, my deepest home.  

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FROM AV

	I want to tell you something.  Why is Pesach... there is noYom Tov, mamash... Shavuous, OK, you count 49 days, but Pesach,it's crazy weeks before.  Because the whole " " YitsiasMitsrayim is Achishena.  I want you to know there is no other YomTov, mamash after Yom Kippur comes, Succos...One second after YomKippur you already run to     the Succah, right. 
	Remember Reb Levi Yitschak Berdichever, Yom Kippur night,mamash I'm dying from hunger, so they thought he wants to eat, RebLevi Yitschak.  He says,"No, I'm dying from Mesechtas Succah", youknow.  Because right after Yom Kippur, when my heart is purified,I can't wait these four days, I can't wait these four days.
	You know it's so strange, you know, there are some Yidden whocan wait until all the Yidden are Yidden.  Then there's the"Achishena" Yid, can't wait, can't wait.      

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FROM: ELUL

On Yom Kippur I ask G-d for forgiveness, and I ask every Jew forforgiveness.  On Succos, I go one step further.  On Succos, Ibuild my house on the street
I'm going out on the street, and do you know what I realize?  Howbeautiful isthe world and I bring 70 sacrifices, asking the wholeworld for forgiveness.  Because if my insides had been fixed, Icould have fixed you also.  
	And then I want you to know, comes Simchas Torah.  [SimchaBais Hashoava, (on Succos) I'm still in the Bais HaMikdash] Andthen comes Simchas Torah.  Do you know what happens to me SimchasTorah?  On Simchas Torah, for the first time, it becomes clear tome...  You know, if you want to tell me something, you know whatI'm telling you?  Tell me first what you want, and I'll see whatit says.  You know, on Simchas Torah, I'm not even learning theTorah.  I learn it later.  First I'm dancing.  And here I want toshare something with you.  Awesome.  Imagine I'm dealing with CocaCola, I'm selling Coca Cola, and I get a business letter.  I haveto read the letter first to know what they are telling me.  HereI'm in love with this girl, most in love with her.  I get a letterfrom her.  You know when I dance?  Before I read the letter.  Idance gevaldt, I got a letter from her.  Gevaldt.  

Remember the Slonimer Torah.  "Yedid", a friend, is a combinationof two times hand, "Yad Yad".  So you know what they are doing? On Yom Kippur, G-d gives us one hand, and we are holding out ourhand to the world.  Do you know what we are doing on Succos?  Iwant you to know something very deep.  Sometimes I meet a person,and they give me one hand, right.  Sometimes they love me verymuch and I love him very much.  I take their hand between my twohands, also two hands, a different two hands.  Do you know what wedo on Succos?  I take the four species.  Mamash, I take all theYidden, and I take them between my two hands.  

	Friends, I wnat to bless you, I want you to know, "HaKol KolYaakov" (the voice is the voice of Jacob).  On Rosh Hoshanah, youare fixing the voice  of Jacob, but the hands of Esav, we arefixing on Succos.  Mamash we take all the Yidden, mamash when weare taking all the Yidden between both hands.  On Simchas Torah,when we carry the Torah in both hands, and even more so, G-dshould bless us with children.  When we carry our children in bothhands.  I want you to know something, I'm sure you feel the sameway, Baruch Hashem, you know, I grew up in a frum home, I carriedthe Torah on Simchas Torah,  all my life, what did I know about Simchas Torah, until Neshamala was two years old, I carried hermamash, and I danced with her all night, right.  Somethingcompletely different with two hands.  

	Do you know how I'm learning Simchas Torah?  I'm holding theTorah in my hands.  You know why I didn't hold out my hand to thewhole world before?  I was learning with my head.  I want you toknow something.  Obviously on Succos we conquer Eretz Yisrael.Because on Yom Kippur when I fix everything and the Kohen Gadolcalls out the Shem HaMiforash, G-d's Name is whole again.  Thenmamash we go out in the world, and I build the Succah outside andthe Succah has to be so beautiful, the esrog has to be beautiful. Because then suddenly I realize how beautiful the world is.  Andthen like the Ishbitser says, there are two Aishes Yafas Tohars,Rachav the wife of Yehoshua, and Ruth the mother of Mashiach. Mamash, those two holy women, 
        
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FROM KIS-J

	Everybody knows that basically Succos is Aharon HaCohen. "Ananey HaKavod",  , (the Clouds of Glory) is the smokecoming out of the Kodesh Kadoshim.  And everybody knows thatbasically in the deepest depths, Chanukah is the end of Succos. And I want you to know friends, soemthing so deep.  The Ushpizin,(The Holy guests, Avraham, Yitschak, Yaakov....)  come on Succos. You know what it is?  Why don't they come on Pesach?  And here Iwant to say the deepest, deepest depths.  You know friends,parents and children are living together, hopefully, for a longtime.  But why aren't they so close?  They missed out on thosemoments.  They didn't take care of those moments.  
	And everybody knows, Nadav and Avihu...  Aharon HaKohen andEliyahu HaNavi have to do with the Kodshei Kadoshim.  Becauseeverybody knows, Nadav and Avihu walked into the Kodshei Kadoshimand Aharon HaKohen is "Zos Yavo Aharon el HaKodesh"   ۀ  (And Aharon comes into the Holy).  And I don't want to gointo it too much right now; I just want to say it fast.  You knowwhat it is?  The Ushpizin come in the Succah and they are mamashfixing those moments, and out of Succos comes Chanukah, becauseChanukah is mamash the light of Succos.  You know Succos is veryholy, but it's not even clear to me yet.  On Chanukah I'm tastingwhatever I learned on Succos, on Simchas Torah and it's shiningbefore me.  

	And here I want to say something awesome.  Friends, I wantyou to know, learning Torah is "V'Hisgisa bo Yomam v'Layla",ۅ   (To be involved in Torah day and night) Learning Torah is on the level of Always.  Dancing with the Torahis like the Kadosh Kadoshim, on Simchas Torah.  It's the Torah ofthe Moments. 

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FROM RHKISLEV

	You know, the Succah is on the level of the Samech, ۚ. {G-d's right hand is embracing me}    Rosh HaShana isۙ  . {G-d's left hand is under my head} G-d gave us alittle push. And then G-d says, I'm embracing you. And also, thefirst letter of Succos is Samech, . 
     You know what it is. I always thought, when I do somethingwrong, when I'm falling, I'm falling in the air, because G-ddoesn't love me anymore. On Yom Kippur, I'm standing in front ofthe Ribono Shel Olam, and I say, "I'm so sorry. I'm sure you areangry at me. You won't have anmything to do with me." And afterYom Kippur I realize, You know what happened to me when I wasfalling? The Ribono Shel Olam was holding me up.  ' ۄ. 
     I'm not sitting in the Succah and confessing my sins. Becausethats not what it's all about. On the contrary. On Succos Icelebrate that while I did everything wrong, G-d was holding meup.

	So on Succos, the Gemara says, the Torah talks about oneSuccah. By Matza, the Torah says,  . Matzas. Eat Matzas.Because we'll eat alot of Matza, hopefully. It doesn't say, youshould sit in Succahs. {Plural} Meaning every Jew has his ownSuccah. It says by Succos, . Sukkat. The Gemara says, OneSuccah. The Torah says that we should all sit in one Succah.Because basically, G-d wants us to sit in one Succah.
	Imagine I'll tell you about somebody here, and I'll say, "Youknow, they are terrible people." How would it strike you? You'dthink I'm disgusting. Because everybody knows, that when you saysomething bad about another person, you make yourself dirty. Idon't know how much you make somebody else dirty, but youdefinitely make yourself dirty. 
	Now listen to this. Adam was driven out from Paradise, notbeccause he ate the wrong apple. You eat a lot of wrong apples inyour life. Adam and Eve were driven out of Paradise because theysaid bad things about each other. G-d says to Adam, "What did youdo?" He said, "Eve did it." Is that how much you love your wife?G-d says, "What? You're saying bad things about your wife!" 
	So Eve should have just said, "It's all my fault." She didn'tsay anything. She thought, if G-d knocks off Adam, so what can Ido. So then G-d says to Eve, "What did you do?" So she says, "Oh.The snake."
	"Gevalt," says G-d, "I can't deal with either of you."   

	What's the greatest fixing?  The Succah is the fixing of thehouse. I want you to open your hearts in the deepest way. This isso deep. We were learning it a thousand times. Reb Leibele Eigersays, "Why is the whole marriage, the ring? Because the ring islike the Samech, ." What is the deepest connection betweenhusband and wife? That they say, If G-d forbid you are falling,I'll hold you up. You can always fall on me. [Exposition turns toHanuka]

		And here I want to tell you an unbelievable story Iheard in Bobov. The Bobover Rebbe tells this story every firstnight of Succos.  And he said he heard from his father that thisis the greatest Hassidishe story in the world.  I'm sure you knowthe story anyway but it's good to retell.  The story is, that theHeilage Reb Nachum Chernobler was poor, like some of us.  The onlything he had was the Tefillin of the Holy Baal Shem Tov.  Andthere was a rich man in the city that was ready to give him athousand rubles.  But how could he part with the Baal Shem'sTefillin?  Reb Nachum's children had nothing to eat, nothing towear.  His wife was telling him...you know in those days athousand rubles, you can mamash live ten years.  Mamashcomfortably.  In those days, a thousand rubles was maybe liketoday a hundred thousand dollars.  Because people lived onpennies.  So she was begging him, "Please sell the tefillin.  It'snot fair to your children."  He said, "I can't."
		So one year, there was absolutely no Esrog and Lulavavailable.  Nothing was available to Russia.  Mamash nothingavailable.  Suddenly, Reb Nachum Chernobler heard that on ErevSuccos...You know that Reb Nachum, nebech, made a little brokensuccah somewhere, but there was no food or anything.    So on ErevYom Tov, there was a rich man in town, who had an Esrog for athousand rubles.  Reb Nachum blew his mind.  He  took the Tefillinfast, sold the Tefillin, bought the Esrog, and came home.  Drunkwith joy he says to his wife, "Feigale, can you imagine, nobody inRussia has an Esrog, and me, shlepper Nachum, has an Esrog!" 
	She says, "How did you get the Esrog?"  He says, "Verysimple.  I sold the Tefillin and I got myself an  Esrog."  Thatwas too much for her.  She said, "What?  An Esrog which you needeight days, you gave up a thousand rubles that your children couldlive for ten years!"  She got so angry, she took the Esrog and shesmashed it. 
	This is where the story begins.  You know what Reb Nachumdid?  The Bobover Rebbe said this is the greatest Hassidischestory in the world.  Reb Nachum.  Can you imagine how he felt onesecond after she smashed it...nothing left.  He said to her,"Feigale, listen to me.  Feigale, there was a time that we hadTefillin, we don't have them anymore.  There was a time when wehad an Esrog.  We don't have the Esrog anymore."  He says, "Butyou know what we have?"  He says, "We have each other."  Gevaldt,it's too awesome.  He says, "Feigale, let there be peace betweenus.  We'll have a real Simchas Yom Tov."
		And the old Bobover Rebbe says every year the samething.  He says, "It's not to be fathomed."  It was not, `first hewas angry, then he remembered the Torah says you shouldn't beangry.  He went from the house to the room, slammed the door, thenhe came back.' He didn't have to shift.  I mean, how can you be onsuch a level?  So he said, Reb Nachum, every second, he was onlyserving G-d.  There was nothing else in his heart.  So, when heheard there was an Esrog available for a thousand rubles, it wasclear to him that he has to sell the Tefillin and buy the Esrog. When Feigale smashed the Esrog, it was clear to him what he has todo now, to make her feel good.  That's the highest thing he can doright now.
		It's clear to me, it's the deepest depths.  Can youimagine how much Reb Nachum fixed Adam and Eve?  Adam says, "Mywife did it."  Can you imagine the fixing?
		So I want you to know the Heilage Rizhiner would tellthe story also Succos night.  And he told that, that night for the first time, Avraham and Sarah were sitting with Reb Nachum and hiswife in the Succah.  Because the first couple in the world whofixed everything between each other was Avraham and Sarah.  Whoknows, maybe since Avraham and Sarah, there was nobody like RebNachum and his wife.  We have no idea.  We don't know....
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FROM ALEX

At the end of the day [of the wedding], when the chuppa begins,when Yom Kippur is over right?  Because the chuppa is alreadySuccas, right.  The chuppa is like the Succah.  The dancing islike Simchat Torah.
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FROM: EXPO  New Age Expo Lecture/
{N.B.:  Note that this is a more popular re-telling of the storytold above, from RHKISLEV}
                         
	 You know, let me tell you friends, I want to tell you alittle succah story.  Next week begins our holiday, Succos.  Wemove out from our house.  You know why after Yom Kippur I realize,I don't want to go back to the same house.  I don't want to goback to the same house where I make all the mistakes. Can you makeme a new little house?  You know according to our Kabbalistictradition, Succos is G-d's summer house.  Like a little spa.  Myneshama, my soul, needs a little different environment, adifferent house.  And you know, I mentioned to you I have thispalace on Fifth Avenue, seven thousand servants, five indoorswimming pools, and seven saunas.  I need something else.  I needsomething else.  What I really need... You know in the succah,God's light is shining.   So deep, so awesome.  
	So everybody knows on Succos, it would take too long to gointo it, but just inhale it.  We have those four species that weneed for the services.  One of them is an esrog, it's like alemon.  It doesn't grow in Russia; it's grown in Morocco, inItaly, or in Israel.  This story took place two hundred years ago. If all those little villages had one esrog, they'd blow theirmind, because it was so expensive.  So one of the greatest pupilsof the Holy Baal Shem, and again the Holy Baal Shem lived twohundred fifty years ago.  He was one of the greatest, greatest,greatest beacon of lights in our tradition.  And one of hisgreatest pupils was Reb Nachum.  Reb Nachum was poor like I don'tknow what.  He had five children, they had nothing to eat. Butwhen the Holy Baal Shem Tov passed away, he left for him histefillin. Phylacteries, used when we pray in the morning.  Andsomeone offered him a thousand rubles for it.  In those years, athousand rubles when people live on fifty kopekas a week, it'salot of money.  Anyway this rich man says to Reb Nachum, give methe tefillin, I'll give you a thousand rubles.  And his wife isbegging him, we have nothing to eat.  Have compassion with yourchildren.  How can I sell the tefillin?  Here comes Succos andthere's absolutely no esrog available in Russia.  The morning ofSuccos suddenly, this esrog dealer comes.  He says I have an esrogfor a thousand rubles.  Hey, Reb Nachum jumps, gevaldt!  He goesand sells his tefillin, gets the thousand rubles and buys theesrog.  He comes home and he's so happy, gevaldt.  He walks in andhe says, "Can you imagine, nobody has an esrog, and me, Nachum,the greatest shlepper in the world, I have an esrog.  His wifesays, "How did you get the esrog? (It's a fruit which looks like alemon and it smells very good.)  He says very simply. "I sold thetefillin, got myself a thousand rubles, and I bought the esrog."
	Here you have to open your hearts.  She got so angry.  Andyou know something, she was right.  She says, "What's going onthere?  I'm begging you for years to sell the tefillin so we canfeed our children.  An esrog, that you need for one week... Shegot so angry, she took the esrog and she smashed it.  
	Now you have to open your hearts even more.  You see, if shewouldn't have smashed the esrog, he could have given the esrogback, get the thousand rubles.  Smashing the esrog.  Open yourhearts.  Can you imagine how she felt, after she did it.  Really. Open your hearts, friends.  You know what Reb Nachum did?  He saidto his wife, "Faigala, let me tell you our life story.  Once wehad tefillin, we don't have them anymore.  One time we had anesrog, we don't have that anymore.  But you know what we have?  Wejust have each other.  We just have each other.  Let there bepeace between us, and we'll have such a good Yom Tov, such agevaldt holiday. 
	 I want you to know, I heard the story from the BoboverRebbe.  And he added.  Do you think Reb Nachum got angry at hiswife?  And he said, no I'm not permitted to get angry, suppresshis anger.  No!  For him, every split second, he was thinking,what am I supposed to do now?  And when she smashed the esrog, itwas clear to him, this is not the time to yell at her.  She'sbroken enough.  Now is the time to give her strength. 
	 I want you to know, this is the end of the story that someof you maybe know.  Forgive me for putting so much of my traditionon you. According to our tradition, our father Abraham and ourmother Sarah come to the Succah.  Reb Nachum and his wife neverhad the privilege of seeing them before.  That night, Abraham andSarah come to vist them.  You know Abraham and Sarah?  The firstcouple that got it together.  Adam and Eve somehow never got theiract together.  Beyond laughter, it's the deepest.  So you knowfriends, do you know what it means to be in touch with the moment. And I don't mean you have a paperback book, what to do right now. This is not what I mean.  I mean so much deeper, so much deeper. You know what it is?  I have my principles!  Do you know what thegreatest principle in the world is?  Not to have principles!  Doyou know why there is no justice in the world?  Because of all the principles!  All the principles don't mean an onion.  Do you knowsomething?  A poor man will come and I'll tell him, right now Icannot help you because it's the weekend and we are closed untilMonday.  Because we have a principle.  Stupid!

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FROM: ABE

And you know, until this second [of your wedding ceremony], it wasjust Yom Kippur.  But mamash now [that you stand under the chuupa]begins Succos for you.  You're building a little house.  Andeverybody knows, the Sukkah is B'Tzeela D'Meihemnusa.  Sitting inthe shade of the Only One.  So she gives you a Tallis and you makea private little Sukkahla.  

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FROM SHIF  	Avraham and Eleanor Shifrin's Wedding

    Dear friends, there are so many miracles in the world, buttonight is on one of the greatest miracles, the greatest, greatestmiracles. You know ten years ago someone would say to RebAvremala, ten years from now, you will be on the beach in TelAviv, you wouldn't believe it.  But the truth is, we have onefather in heaven,   .  I want to tell you a story, RebAvemala and Eleanor.
	  Listen to this.  You know there were a lot of ChassidisheRebbes.  Some were straight and some were way out.  Rebbe Yebe wasa very holy Rebbe, but he was very straight.  You know, he dideverything right.  Reb Zusia was Reb Zusia, was way out, Reb Zusiawas a different kind of Rebbe.  So Reb Zusia came to vist Reb Yebeon Succos.  You know if you are a very holy Yiddele, you have tosleep in the Succah.  So Reb Yebe had a very beautiful bed in theSuccah.  It was cold in Russia, Succos, I don't have to tell you. He had five blankets, a beautiful bed, he wanted to go to sleep. Reb Zusia says to him, I don't want a bed in the Succah, I justwant to sleep on the holy floor.  You'll freeze to death, it's socold!  Reb Zusia says, don't worry.  OK, Reb Yebe is lying in thebed and even with the five blankets, he's still  shivering and RebZusia is lying on the floor.  Suddenly Reb Zusia says, "RibbonoShel Olam, Ribbono Shel Olam, Zusia is freezing."
	Mazel Tov, Mazel Tov, Mazel Tov!
	So suddenly it became warm in the Succah.  The first thing,Reb Yebe throws off one blanket and then the other blanket.  Andthen Reb Zusia says, "Ribbono Shel Olam, Zusia is still freezing." It is more warm, he's throwing off another blanket.  By this time,he has no more blankets on him, it's so hot already.  Then RebZusia says, "Ribbono Shel Olam, Zusia wants a warm succah."  RebYebe is getting out of the succah, he's lying on his bed and sweatis coming down.  So finally he says, "Reb Zusia, please stop.  Therate you're going, you'll burn the whole succah!" 
	I want you to know Reb Avremala, the truth is, the truth is,Reb Avremala was nebech in Siberia, Reb Avremala said, "Ribbonoshel Olam, Avremala is freezing."  It became a little bit warmer. More warm and more warm and more warm and then he said, "Avremalawants to go to Erets Yisrael, to the Holy Land", and then hedidn't stop.  "Avremala wants to get married."  So I'm asking youAvremala, don't stop.  "Ribbono shel Olam, Avremala wantschildren, Ribbono Shel Olam, Avremala wants peace all over theworld."  Don't listen to Reb Yebe if he tells you to stop.  Listento the Holy Rabbis, keep on doing what you are doing all the time. Your wife is right, you better tell the Ribbono Shel Olam, she isthe Kallah.  Don't ever stop!!
	Mazel Tov, Mazel Tov, Mazel Tov, Mazel Tov.  

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FROM: W-J&O (Wedding, Josh & Orly)

	And now, Chatan, we are so happy,  just like the happiness ofthe Water Drawing Ceremony 
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[Simchat Beit HaSho'eva, the drawing of water during Sukkotfrom the pool of Siloan or Shiloach in the City of David forthe water libation,  Nisuch HaMayim, in the Temple -- (fromKitov)] "he who has not seen this joy has not seen joy allhis days"[Ref: Talmud?_____].
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FROM: W-Y&B, Wedding of R. Yankele Shames and B'racha

I'm sure Yankele you remember, that mamash Hatan and Kallah[=Bride & Groom] goes Rosh Hashana, Yom Kippur, Succos, andSimachat Torah, and everybody knows Rosh Hashana is like whenthere there is no moon, minon li___ geval, when everything ishidden.  It is so deep, there is so much closeness, that so tospeak even G-d doesn't want any light on it.  You know when you'revery close to somebody,...anybody can see it.  So the first thingis at the beginning of the wedding that the Chatan covers the faceof the callah, right now I'm taking you to the place where even G-d's light doesn't shine, because even G-d's light is disturbing{'disturbing' Colloquial Hebrew, m'friach}, just G-d Himself. And then comes the Huppah which is like Yom Kippur, mamash you'rewalking into the Holy of Holiest, praying for your children,praying for all generations to come till Mashiach comes.  And thencomes all the dancing, all the dancing, and you walk into yourhouse and it's like a little Succah, and we bless you your houseshould be a Succot Shalom, and we bless you that your house shouldalways ___________ the holy guests, Avraham, Yitzak and Yakov,Moshe, Aaron, Yoself and David, should always hang loose in yourlittle succah-le ... 

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FROM MOSHE.AK	-- Moshe & Esther's Wedding

And right now Moishe and Esther, mamash you are on your way, youare standing by the gates of Paradise.  That means you have twomore inches of Gehenim.  So what do you do, the last two inches. The last two inches are Yom Kippur.  Because everybody know,Succos is Gan Eden.  After Yom Kippur, you go into the Succah.  

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EXCERPTS FROM NOTES OF YAKAR TEACHINGS     

Caveat:  These are derived from notes, not tape nor transcript, ofYakar teachings; tapes may be obtained from Yakar, 10 RehovHaLamed-He, Katamon, Jerusalem.

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My Rebbe for Sukkos is Bobov -- I don't mean to knock Lubavitch[[from which R. Shlomo received ordination]] -- every Rebbe hastheir speciality.  The Bobov Rebbe never takes his eyes off theSukka. 
      
                  
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FROM BRIT
Brit Milah of Micha-El Elchanan July 7th, 1992 Jerusalem 
                                  7th of Tamuz Tav Shin Nun Bet

	I remember. I don't know if some of you remember in the goodold days in the House of Love and Prayer..  One night, it was RebNachman's yortseit, we were sitting in the succah... a littlehippala walks in, and I was talking to the chevre.  I told them Iwant you to know, every second, we have choice.  You can be asholy as Father Jacob, or you can be as bad as Uncle Esau.  Blewhis mind, I mean he was blowing his mind a little bit from before,which I don't want to talk about.  He was like "blown out". "Wow",he says, "I'm going to be like Jacob."  Do you know that he mamashdidn't leave the succah all Succos.  Mamash he ate there, he sleptthere... He went to Yeshiva, I don't know where he went, I haven'theard from him again, it doesn't matter.  But the thing is, Ibless mamash Micha-El Elchanan to give Yidden strength to knowthat every second I can be like Yaakov, and even if yesterday Iwas like Esav...

Have you ever seen the way a coarse person.... in my father'sshul, I remember the first Succos, a Yid, a big millionnaire, wasmamash, he should live long.  He came to our Succah.  I've neverseen a person looking at gefilte fish with so much love the way hedid.  He's a multi-millionnaire, he has so much food at home, butthe gefilte fish, he couldn't take his eyes off it.   ??   The waythey look at the world, with different eyes, not like us, not likeus.  I taught especially all the children, a Yid looks at challahdifferent, everything different.
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{Which clearly proves that the multi-millionaire, who is, bydefinition, the man who knows the true value of all things onearth, realized that one piece of gefillte fish in the sukkaof Rav Carlebach was worth more than all his multi-millions.--Stephen Benjamin Amdur, 5/14/94, HaOn}               
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I.  DOCUMENTS ON DISC PRIMARILY ON SUKKOT

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II.  DOCUMENTS IN HARD-COPY IDENTIFIED AS PRIMARILY ON SUCCOS

JW36	Baal Shem Tov's Succos Story

M2 -- Output but not on my discs; printed in newsletter  "
	 (Topics include:Sukkot, Simchat Torah, MarChesvan, LearningTorah, Natural Judaism.)

H1 - "A World from Shlomo about Tchuva".  Output pp8--11 fromsomething.  Apparently from newsletter. Tshuva, Sukkos, breakingof the tablets, children.  Cf. SHLO-ORI.EIN

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