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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 V:  Lag b'Omer, Shavuot









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 ...The gemara says it takes 3 years to become ??fine? ...
So when children are born it takes them an extra 3 years to come intothe world.  So when children come into this world -- sadly enoughthey cannot lead a heavenly existence in this world ... sadly enough... we cut their hair -- the Rabennu shel Olam doesn't even cut theirneshama -- let it just be the outside [that we cut].  But for usyidden the outside is also so important.

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R. SHLOMO CARLEBACH ON LAG B'OMER
FROM: 	Lag B'Omer Tav Shin Nun Bet/ Mishkanot Jerusalem,Israel,1992
From lag, Transcribed input & held by R. Joshua Witt (C\BOOK:lag)
All copy-rights reserved, R. Joshua Witt, Jerusalem

Eliyahu HaNavi says, I can't leave the world because there are lot ofYidden I haven't seen yet.  Eliyahu HaNavi wants so much to see everyYid.  Eliyahu HaNavi is so much aware. You know every Yid, everylittle Yiddela has something which nobody else has.  And I cannotleave this world until I see it.

	Do you know why it's so heartbreaking to see those professors ofKabbala, right.  It's the biggest joke in the world.  They don't wantmore because they want to serve G-d with more, because  they want toknow more...
A professor needs a vacation in the worst way. For four weeks hedoesn't want to think of the subjest he's teaching.  Because his lifedoesn't depend on it.  Yes, livelihood, but not his life. A Yid, ifyou are learning Torah, '    V'hagesa yomam v'layla ...
	You know, on what does Torah Sh'Baal Peh depend?  To learnTorah, to add to the Torah only when your very life depends on it, If you can live without it, forget it.  

	 So everybody knows, Aharon HaCohen, is the deepest fixing ofAdam HaRishon. Remember we were learning it, that Pesach is thefixing of the Tree of Knowledge, of the food we ate, because thematsa is from the Tree of Life.

	And one more very, very, very important thing.   Remember wewere learning it a thousand times, the last Torah is   G-d says to Moshe, thank you for breaking the tablets in front of theeyes of all of Israel.  If you remember the Zohar Kodesh says,through the eyes of Reb Shimon Yochai, the Holy Temple was neverdestroyed.  It's only to our eyes....That means there are tsaddikimwhich are so holy, they mamash see the Bais HaMikdash all the time.
	So it says, Moshe Rabbenu broke the tablets, but only "L'aineikal Yisrael", the Yidden saw that it's broken.  What's the fixing? ہ   "B'reishis bara Elokim" You have to start all overagain.  So Aharon HaCohen is the Master....Why is Aharon HaCohensitting in the Bais HaMikdash?  Because the Bais HaMikdash says youalways can come back.

Yosef HaTsaddik, is the King of the world.  Yosef HaTsaddik isfeeding the whole world.  So ?        Remember the Rizhiner says
I made G-d the Master of Mitsrayim, not G-d made me the Master ofMitsrayim, I made G-d the Master of Mitrayim.  

Sure there is Amalek, there are some bad people in the world.  Butthere are also some good people in the world.  You know what the HolySanzer says, this is the acid test that we are the chosen people. Because only the bad people of the world hate us.  The good peoplelove us.  The good people in the world, mamash, they have such deeplonging, to know who the Yidden are.  Such deep longing.  So whoevercan come...
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FROM LGG:
Lag B'Omer Tav Shin Nun Bet/ Mishkanot Jerusalem, Israel,1992
All copy-rights reserved, R. Shlomo Carlebach & R. Joshua Witt

Caveat::  The following are seperated paragraphs taken from a pp30input; the talk was detailed, advanced, and very interwoven:  inshort, not really excerptable. 



Everybody knows that on Shavuous, is Kabbalas HaTorah of Torahsh'b'ksav. (the written Torah)  Lag b'Omer is Torah Sh'Baal Peh. (theOral Torah) Because basically Reb Shimon ben Yochai is the biggestTalmid of Rabbi Akiva.  Rabbi Akiva is the Master of Torah sh'BaalPeh.  And it's the same thing, you know, Hod v'Hadar.  Imagine, I saya gevaldt Torah, and while I'm saying it, that's Tiferet.  And someof my chevre tell it back to me, right.  That's Hod, right.  Hodv'Hadar.  
	So Reb Shimon bar Yochai is not Rabbi Akiva, but he's hisbiggest Talmid.  And he's saying over the Torah.  Remember the Gemorasays Reb Shimon bar Yochai    "Tamtsits min hatamtsits"The deepest,deepest depths of Rabbi Akiva. So this is Lag b'Omer. Everybody knows that Moshe Rabbenu is Torah sh'b'Ksav; Aaron HaKohenis Torah sh'baal Peh.  Because it says,        ۅ   (Because the lips of the Kohen guard knowledge andTorah, you should ask Torah from his mouth) Aharon is the one, Torahsh'baal Peh.  And everybody knows, it's the oral tradition, everybodycan add.  Everybody can add. Endlessly.   Endlessly.  


	Anyway, you see, on one hand, we are coming back to EretsYisrael, but on Lag B'Omer, we celebrate that we never left.  Becauseit's just "L'ainei kal Yisrael" (in front of the eyes of Israel).  Itlooks like we made the Golden Calf, it looks like the Bais HaMikdashis destroyed, it looks like this Yid is not frum. It looks like thisYid, who knows what he did.  Ah, but according  to Reb Shimon barYochai, it never happened.  

Maybe Lag B'Omer was a gevaldt Yom Tov in former good days.  Everyyear it gets stronger.  It gets deeper and deeper and deeper.  I wantyou to know it's not only adding to the Torah; every Yid is oneletter in the Torah.  There's Torah sh'Baal Peh adding to a Yid.  Iwas once on television without sounding commercial.  They asked me,what's the difference between you and the others.  I say, everyone isconcerned with answering a shvera Rambam, a hard Rambam.  I'mconcerned with answering a shvera Yid.
Because I have a kasha (question) on this Yid, why don't you keepShabbos?  It's a gevaldt kasha, right?  So I'm trying to answer it. So the answer is, you have to invite this Yid for Shabbos and he'llkeep Shabbos, right. It's very simple.  Give him mamash a taste ofShabbos.  

	I'm sure most of you know the Torah of the Mea Shiloach,      ۀ   (Im b'chukosy taylaychu, if in My statutes you    walk). And again just in a nutshell, Lag B'Omer always comes outbetween Emor, Behar and B'chukosy.  What's B'chukosy all about?  Thisis an unbelievable Torah from the Mea Shiloach if you remember it.You know the Mitsvos are very deep, very deep, very deep.  But how doyou know that this is really what G-d wanted?  You know I can doeverything 100% right, it's 100% according to Shulchan Aruch, 100%according to everyone, but yet, G-d wanted more of me.  G-d wanted somuch more of me.  So the Heilage Ishbitser said, this is called"Chukosy", is that awesome. This "more." It's not...  you cannotunderstand in your head, it comes from the deepest, deepest, "carvedin" of your soul.  

Lag B'Omer, 1992  
	You know,  I was learning with the chevre, what's   ی (Yoday bina l'eetim) He understands the Moment.  First of all,S'firas HaOmer is the moment.  The day.  26th, 27th.  If you don'tgrab it, it's gone, right.  Leah, that night, right.  Obviously, shesaw an opening.  And also, you know,  Kiddush HaChodesh is onesecond, right.  One second of the moon.  
	And you know, S'firas HaOmer, on one hand it's Aharon HaCohen,he's coming back.  On the other hand, S'firas HaOmer if you lost it,you lost it.  The holiness of us Yidden is we are both.  On one hand,it's clear to me, if I lose it, I lose it, G-d forbid.  And on theother hand it's clear to me, I can always come back.                                           

	Everything in Eretz Yisrael happens in S'firas HaOmer because ۑ  (V'Sfartem lachem- You should count for you) like theSokotchover says.  You know, because on one hand, Erets Yisrael isthe land of all the Yidden... But you know, if I could say somethinglike this, "All the Yidden" were never driven out, only nebech everyYid was driven out.  Because you know what happened?  In ChutsL'arets (outside of Israel) we are fighting all the time.  Because if"all the Yidden" were driven out, we would be together, right.  Andall the Yidden who are fighting, is because they didn't come backyet.  They didn't come back yet. They're sitting here, have anaddress, but they are not here yet.  You know, I said to somebody,that Yom Ha'atsmaut and Yom Yerushalayim is so special, because wedon't know what to do.  Pesach I know what to do.  My father, myZeida, my Buba, a hundred Doros (generations), right.  What do you doYom Ha'atsmaut?  We know only one thing, whatever we do, is notenough.  But we don't know how to do it. Yom Yerushalayim, you say alittle Hallel.  What do we know?  We don't even know what to do.  Soafter Lag B'Omer, is Yom Yerushalayim.  I mamash don't know what todo.  The only thing I know, it's mamash,     ۑ   (V'atah yodaya rah-zay olam v'ta'alumot sitray kal chai-You, G-d, know the secrets of the world and the secrets of all livingthings.) What do we know.  
	OK, we should be privileged to have a little taste in allthose... You know the deepest secret in the world is not that G-dtook us out of Egypt.  The deepest secret in the world is the way G-dis bringing us back to Yerushalayim.  That is the deepest secret inthe world.         (B'shuv Hashem esshivas Tsion ha'yeenu k'cholmim, when Hashem returns Zion as we weredreaming)  Blowing our minds, right, can't take it, right.  
	Let's sing this one more good nigun! 
 
	I just thought of something, gevaldt.  You know after we countthe Omer, we say mamash,        (Hoo yachzirlanu avodas Bais HaMikdash, He will return to us the Serving in theHoly Temple).  We should go back to the Bais HaMikdash.  Why don't Isay it after I put on tefillin?  But the answer is very simple. What's S'firas HaOmer?  That I mamash keep on going.  Every day, I'mhigher, higher, higher.  21, 22, 23... And the Ishbitser says, theMea HaShiloach, that if you make fun of another human being?  If youdon't give kavod to each other, then you can't move on, right?  ہ  (taylaychu, b'chukosy, taylaychu, Walk, in my precepts,walk)  Do you know what B'chukosy is?  It's the deepest depths,right. So after I count the Omer, I realize that unless I give kavodto everyone, unless I shiver for every person, I won't go on.     ۉ      (He'll return to us the Serving in theBais HaMikdash)                            

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I.  INVENTORY OF HARDCOPY ON LAG B'OMER

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From: Connections, Vol III #4 (1988) "Rabbi Carlebach's Pesach           Teachings"

	Why was the Torah given on Shavuos?  Why didn't G-d take usfirst to Mount Sinai -- or G-d could give us a Torah in Egypt andthen take us out -- G-d could do anything.  First He took us out,then He gave us the Torah.  
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   Collection, Moshav Meor Modi'in

	When G-d told us the ten commandments...just One Word was said;but after that, as it came down to the earth, when we went back towhere we came from, suddenly it was ten words...When people talk toeach other you can feel if they tell each other one word or a lot ofwords.
	If people don't have the sensitvity to be quiet it is so bad --it means they are so deaf they don't even hear how silent we are.
	`We will do and we will hear' [Exodus 19:____].  If a personknows who {'he' is} and who G-d is, what have they to ask?  You onlyask questions if you don't know who G-d is and who you are.
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 R. Shlomo on R. Nachman's teachings: Dec. 6, 1981, Greenville, NH 
In Hebrew, one of the the major holidays {hagim, biblical harvestfestivals} is simply called shalosh regalim, the three feet, becausewhen you are happy, it's not the head, or the hands, but the feet. (The fourth foot would be when the Messiach is coming; right now thewagon is still riding on three -- )
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FROM R. Joshua Witt, C:\BOOK:lg
	Teaching by R. Shlomo Carlebach, Lag b'Omer, 1992

	You know, Shavuos night, I'm learning just the beginning and theend of every parsha.  Because I know now already that I don't knowthe middle.  I just know, I know a little bit of the beginning andthe end. What do I know about the inside, the middle.  The inside ofthe inside.  What do I know, what do I know?  

The night of Shavuos, the truth is, where you can reach that night,you don't reach Yom Kippur, you don't reach Simchas Torah... It's thehighest, mamash the highest.  Mamash the Ribbono Shel Olam is talkingto us, not so simple, mamash. Not to be believed.  
	You know what's so special on Shavuos?  When we get a taste 
how it feels when G-d is talking to us. Then we realize He's beentalking to us the whole time.  Not just this one moment.  
	You know we made the Golden Calf, because when Moshe told us Gd's word, it sounded to us like Moshe is talking.  So the fixing ofShavuos is, that I mamash know it's not Moshe.  
	Anyway, you know, I can say      (Moshe,Shechina midaberes metoch grono.  Moshe, the Divine presence wastalking through his throat)  And mamash I can say, mamash, after Ifix my right kidney I realize the Ribbono shel Olam is talking rightout of me.  Even Moshe Rabbenu is too far away.  So you see, thenight of Shavuos is called "Tikun", there's no night in the worldwhich is called "tikun".  That night, being up all night, you can fixeverything there is.  Mamash -everything.  Not to be believed.  
	I don't want to say anything bad, but imagine, G-d forbid, chasv'shalom, there's cancer in the world, right.  A terrible sickness,so doctors try to find a cure.   You have to do this...  Imaginesomeone would say, all you have to do is be up all night.  Not to bebelieved, right.  How sick is the world?  How sick are we?  We arecompletely off, right.  And here the Ribbono shel Olam tells us, justone night. One night.  
	You know what it is, this month the fixing is, we have to trustour right kidney.  We have to trust our kishkes a little bit, mamash.  
	Good Shabbos, Good Yom Tov.                   
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Taken from the Holy Beggars Gazzette [Vol. 1 No. 3 Sivan 5732; aseditted from tapes

		Shavuos, the Revelation on Mount Sinai, is also the day ofthe passing away of King David.  On that day we read the story ofRuth, his grandmother.  Elimelech, a descendent of our father Judah,and a very rich Jew, was the high judge during a famine in Israel. He took his wife Naomi, and his two sons, Mahlon and Chilion, andwent to Moab.  There Mahlon and Chilion married the two daughters ofthe king of Moab, Ruth and Orpah.  Then Elimelech, Mahlon, andChilion all died and the fmaily lost all their money, so Naomidecided to go back to Israel, where the famine had already ended. Her two daughers-in-law walked with her, and both of them said, 'Iwant to go with you', but Ruth meant it, and Orpah just said it.  SoOrpah stayed behind, and Ruth went with Naomi.

	In Israel, in former good days, the four corners of the fieldbelonged to the poor.  The law is very strong.  It's not that you cutoff the corners of the field and give it to the poor, because then itis yours, and you are giving it away.  You can't cut the fourcorners; they don't belong to you.  It is the poor man's field. 
    	Another law is, when you harvest from the field, if you forgetsomething you are not allowed to go back.  If something falls it alsodoesn't belong to you. 

    	So, when Ruth and Naomi came back to Israel, Ruth went to gatherfood.  And by divine providence she went to the field of Boaz, whowas actually a cousin to her husband.  Boaz came to look at hisfield, and he saw a very, very beautiful woman.  Not just beautiful,in every way shining.  He asked who she was, and his workers told himshe was a princess of Moab who come to Israel, poor now.  He said tothe workers,  "Please make sure that a lot is forgotten, and a lotfalls down.  And during lunchtime when you eat, give her some olives,some bread."

    	The Torah says that the Moabite is not to be accepted into thecongregation of Israel.  Only if a Moabite converts, then after threegenerations he can become part of Israel.  Why?  It says, `Because hedid not bring you bread and water when you went into the desert.' 
    	Who was the tribe of Moab?  Moab was the daugher of Lot.  Lotwas the nephew of Abraham.  Abraham rescued Lot from Sodom by hisprayers.  That means Moab owed its whole existence to Abraham.  Moabhad a chance to pay back to the Jews what they owed them, what theyowed Father Abraham, by bringing them bread and water in the desert. 
    
    	In those days who was supposed to bring bread and water?  Onlythe man.  In those days women wouldn't go out of the house to bringbread and water to the desert.  Suddenly on the very day, the veryinstant that Ruth and Naomi crossed the border, the High Court inJerusalem started discussing the law which says a Moabite cannot comeinto the congregation of Israel.  They said this means only the maleMoabite, not the female.  Because she cannot be accused of notbringing bread and water.  
    	In former good days the law was that if someone died, leaving awife without chidren, someone in the family had to marry her.  Theday after the court decision Boaz said, "Someone has do do somethingfor this girl.  Someone has to marry her."  
    	There was one man who was a closer relative than Boaz, but thatman was super-holy, and he said, "No, I couldn't marry a girl who wasconverted.  I know the holy court decided the woman Moabite is Okay,but I am not so sure about the Holy Court."  Boaz said, "Then, I amnext." 
    	Boaz married her, but the very sad thing is that Boaz died thenext morning.  That means he was only married to Ruth for one night. The Zohar says the reason Boaz came into the world was for just thatone night.  Ruth had a son, Oved. Oved had a son Yeshai.  And Yeshaihad a son David, the King of Israel, the ancester of Messiach.

    	And who was Ruth?  Our father Abraham had two star pupils.  Onewas Lot, his nephew.  And the other was Chedorlaomer.  Abraham wasreally giving; that was his message to the world.  Suddenly his starpupil, Chedorlomer, turns around and becomes the king of Sodom, wherethe law was that if you were caught giving something to the poor youwere killed.  If you killed someone, you were rewarded.  If you hitsomone you got paid.  Everything completely perverted. AndCherdorlomer became the king!  
    	A few months later the second star pupil of Abraham, Lot, tookoff also and became the high judge of Sodom.  This was the end forAbraham.  The Zohar says that after Lot left, was the first timeAbraham really prayed for a son, because all the time he had thought,`I have two sons, maybe not physically my sons, but they arespiritually my sons.'  After they left he realized he had to have ason who would really continue.  
    	Listen to this.  Who was the real star pupil of Abraham?  Thereal star pupil of Abraham was a little girl, the daugher of Lot. She really absorbed all of Abraham's teachings.  When her father wentto Sodom she didn't want to go along, but what could she do?  Aftershe came to Sodom the most horrible thing happened.   The poor didn'tdie in the streets anymore.  The Sodomites couldn't find out who wasfeeding them.  This went on for a long time.  
    	If you remember the story, two angels came to Abraham and one ofthem said, `God sends word to you:  Her crying reaches me, and I amgoing to destroy Sodom.'  The other angel told Abraham he would havea son, Issac.  The Zohar asks what's, `Her crying'  Who is this`Her'?  
    	The answer is, that one day in Sodom the little girl was caughtgiving a piece of bread to a poor man.  The Sodomites poured honeyover her and then put her on the roof and she was eaten by the bees. This is the most painful death anyone can be subjected to.
    
    	When the time is right, G-d works fast.  The next day Sodom wasdestroyed, and Abraham needed another star pupil, Issac.  AlthoughIssac was very holy, he was ready to die for G-d, he doesn't compareto that girl.  That girl died for giving a poor man a piece of bread. The Zohar Kodesh says that the soul of that girl came back to theworld, and she was Ruth.  So Messiach is the descendent of those twostar pupils, Issac, who was ready to die for G-d, and Ruth, the soulthat really died for people.  That's the story.

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     Teaching by R. Shlomo, 11 Sivan 5750, Mishkanot, Jerusalem

         	Matan Torah (the giving of the Tora) is not what Isee...it's not what I know.  The Tora is with us always,forever...because the Tora does not depend on how much I know theTorah.  Sure I should learn it, hopefully.  But the Tora is...insideof me.  It's like shtei halechem  (the two Temple shewbreads), it'sOne.
       	
    	Shavuos is Yom Matan Torah (Day of the giving of the Tora) notYom Kabbalas haTorah (Day of the Receiving of the Torah.)  
		
    	When I'm learning Torah, I'm mikabel (receiving) the Torah.  OnShavuos, I just can't believe it, I can't believe that the Ribbonoshel Olam [The master of the World] gave me the Torah.  Shavuosnight, the way we prepare ourselves for the Torah is not learning theTorah.

    	`Zayin' comes from the world `zreezus', fast.  Matzah is fast. "We left with great speed from the land of Egypt"  this is thezreezus of matzah.  mochin d'Gadlus (higher consciousness.)

    	What's Matan Torah all about?  `I have no idea'.  "Na'asehv'nishma" (We will do and we will hear).  

    	Chodesh Sivan always begins after Parshas B'chukosy.
    	The shem (name) of this month [of Sivan] is `V'YisodosovU'l'tselah HaMishkan'.  The Ishbitser says...the `shem' comes fromour putting the nails in the Mishkan.  To put in nails, there has tobe absolutely no empty space.  [Otherwise the nail will fall out.] He says, Receiving the Torah means, There is not one empty space leftin my heart.

    	The `Zayin', the fixing of the `zreezus' of Shavuos is muchdeeper than `fast'.  On Shavuos I bring chamets.  We bring anoffering of new wheat to the Holy Temple.  Chamets basically is slow. I just have Yiddishkeit in my heart.   I better learn, and learningtakes time.  So the karbon (sacrifice) is `shtai halechem'.  The twoloaves.  You have to learn.  But the deepest depths, is not what'shappening down here, it's in heaven.  What's happening inside.  Inthe heaven of my neshama.  It's not Chamets...it's the letter`zayin', fast.

    	The Ishbitser says, What is `teomim', the twins?  The twins aremy conscousness and my... superconsciousness.

    	On Shavuos it's clear to me that even if I'll never know evenone letter of the Tora, gevalt, am I close.

    	Why was the Torah given in the desert?  If I'm all alone in thedesert, and suddenly I meet another friend...  We mamash stood atMount Sinai, Three million people, and we loved each other the most. Imagine if you could have this kind of joy.

    	Reb Leibele Eigar says, `Imagine I'm in the desert, but I havein my hand a map of the desert.  This map will show me how to get outof the desert.  How much am I watching that map?  This is how much Ihave to guard the Torah.  Without the Torah, without Yiddishkeit, I'mlost forever; there's no way for me to put my life together.

    	The `Etz HaHaim' (Tree of Life) is the `YUD  VAV' shining rightinto me.  The way a child knows, `this is my mother, this is myfather'.  And the way parents know their children.
    	You know G-d is asking us, `Who will take the guarantee that youwill keep the Torah?'  Our children will be the guarantee.  Becausemy children remind me, that the way I know my children, this is theway to know the Torah.

    	What is Ruth all about?  The YUD VAV.  The Torah is shining.

    	When I was seven years old I had the privilege of hearing theChavler Rov, one of the biggest Geonim [geniuses] in the world.  Hesaid to my father, imagine that a big Rosh Yeshiva is walking downthe street.  Suddenly on the other side of the street there is a verybeautiful girl standing?  Will he stop and ask, who is this girl?

    	Boaz is coming to his field, with all his chassidim.  Boaz wasthe Rebbe.  And he asks, "Who is she?" [Ruth II:3].  The Midrashsays, he saw the Schechina on her face.  Where would Meshiach be ifBoaz hadn't stopped?

    	The Chavler Rov said to my father, `With all the Rosh Yeshivastogether, we don't have one Boaz.'  He says, "I don't know anybodywho would have the guts to stop and say,  `Who cares what theythink!'"
    
	Do you know what Meshiach is all about?  Azus d'Kdusha.  I don'tcare what you think.  I love you.   If I know this is right, I'mdoing it.  You know where this strength is coming from?  This is YUDVAV, the deepest Torah in the world.

	Every word that Ruth uttered...came from the deepest depths ofher neshama.  Every word is Torah.  David HaMelech is the master ofTefilla (prayer).  It's the same Torah, it's the Torah of the deepestdepths of life.  You now the difference between learning anddavening, praying the Torah?  Someone asked Reb Nachman, `Can youplease tell me the secret of Tsitzis?'  He replied, `If you'll cry asmany tears as there are threads in the Tallis, then I'll reveal toyou the secret of Tsitsis'.

	I heard from the Bobover Rebbe, that a few years before theSecond World War, there was a big convention in Poland of all the bigRebbes.  And they were talking to each other, what are we going to dowhen the Messiach comes?  How are we going to greet him?  Gevalt! Itwould have been interesting to know what every Rebbe said!  TheBobover Rebbe said only what his father said, the Holy Rebbe BenTzion.  He said, `When Meshiach is coming I will not be ashamed towalk with my Yeshiva to greet him.  Everybody will carry hisGemorrah, his Kitsot HaChoshen in his hand, and Meshiach will openthe Gemorrahs, and he will see that every page is wet with tears.' Not tears of pain.  So deep.  A different kind of learning...This isthe learning of David HaMelech.  Meshiach learning.

	When Ruth wanted to convert, Naomi said to her, "You are thedaughter of the King of Moab, if you convert you lose it all."  SoRuth says,  `I'm only going where you're going.'  Then Naomi says,"If you convert you will have to observe the Mitzvas".  Ruth says, "Wherever you sleep, I will sleep."  Then Naomi says, "If you are anon-Jew and do not keep the Mitzvas, nothing will happen to you.  Butif you become a Jew and do not keep the Mitzvas, you will bepunished."   And Ruth says,  `Wherever you die, I will die.  I'mready to die."

	And you know this is not `Chametz knowlege'.  This is not even`Shtai HaLechem'  knowlege.  This is,  `I don't know anything, I justknow I have to be there.'  And everybody knows, this is DavidHaMelech.  King David, the great grandson of Ruth.

	Sadly enough, we are living in a world where we think doing`Tshuva' means, I did something wrong.  You think Ruth did somethingwrong?  Because she was born by the King of Moav?   That's the wayshe was born!  G-d sent her this way.  Tshuva means something else. Tshuva means, that I'm connected to the Torah without knowing it. Tshuva means that I'm connected to every page of the Gemorrah.  Doyou know, even before I know the whole Shas, the whole Talmud, I havealready cried over very page of the Gemorrah. 

	On one hand I have to know, `I know something.'  And on theother hand, I have to know that `I know nothing'  The master of notknowing is Aharon HaCohen.  Moshe Rabbenu is the Master of Knowing.

	What's the koach, the strength, of Aharon HaCohen?  Coming tothe Bais HaMikdash?  Consoling the lowest Yiddele?  He says, "I don'tknow anything.  I did everything wrong my whole life.  Look at me. I'm the same way.  I don't know anything.  I'm just beginning."  

	Why is David HaMelech the one who built the Bais HaMikdash?  Andwhy was it in Yerushalyim?  If you remember, David HaMelech conqueredYerushalyim on Erev Shavuos.  And Shavuos is not only the day ofDavid HaMelech, it's the day of Yerushalyim.  Of the Bais HaMikdash.

	Ah, the fiftieth day comes, David haMelech comes.  Our holymother Ruth.   

	The Teomim, the twins of Sivan, is Rachel and Leah.  Basically,Rachel is Yosef haTzadik...he never did anything wrong.  Leah is themother of Meshiach.  David HaMelech does everything wrong.  

	When Rachel gave over the signs to Leah, you know what Leah gaveover to Rachel?  There is a Torah of Rachel and a Torah of Leah. Basically the Torah of Rachel is, I do everything right.  There's aTorah which is so much deeper.  There's a Torah which is not writtendown, you can't write it down.  `B'chukosy Telechu'.  `Walk in Myways.'     

	You know what's the deepest thing about `Counting The Omer'?  Ifyou miss one day, you can't fix it.  Until Shavuos, until DavidHaMelech... I really don't know there is such a thing as doingTshuva.

	You see, we are so accustomed in doing Tshuva, we don't evenbother thinking about it.  I'll do an average sin, I'll do Tshuva,right?  The first thing a Jew has to learn is that you can't doTshuva!  On Pesach, when G-d makes a Jew out of me, it has to beclear to me, `You better watch out.'

	You know what a Blessing is?  The Gemorah says, Blessing is onlywhere you don't see anything.  You know what this means?  Basicallythe `Bet' and the `Aleph' are very close, because Aleph is, `I don'tanything'.   And the Bet, the Blessing, also begins where I don't seeanything.  I know nothing.

	So this Shabbos after Shavuos, after mamash putting togetherRachel, Leah, Moshe, and David HaMelech, it's now Aharon and Moshe. Moshe Rabbenu is giving over to Aharon the secret of Blessing.

	Chodesh Sivan is `Yisodosov U l'tselah HaMishkan', it's fillingin all the holes.  You know how many holes are between us and theworld?  It's heartbreaking.  Sivan is mamash Ruth, who comes back tous in the name of the whole world, filling in all the holes betweenus and the world.  And what's the Beis HaMikdash all about?  "Myhouse is a house of love and prayer for all peoples."  Do you knowwhat a hole is?  It's there and it isn't there.  It's empty and it'sthere.  Basically my life has to be a hole.  I have to know that Iknow nothing yet.  So G-d has to guard this kind of hole.  I don'tsee anything...I give up, there is nothing.  But there's alsoeverything.  This is so thin, so delicate.

	I heard a Torah from the Ponevicher Rav, that it says by Aharonnext Shabbos,  Aharon was so heartbroken because the Nasiim, therebbes of each tribe, brought korbanot [offerings], and he didn'tbring anything.  So G-d said to him, "Yours lasts forever.  Yourlight will burn forever."

	The whole Tshuva movement has been spoiled.  Because... before,the Tshuva movement was Aharon HaCohen's movement, `Behaaloscha EsHaNeros'.  Looking for the great light.  And then the establishmenttook over.  And the first thing is, they make you feel guilty.  Whatdid you do before?		Imagine that, when Ruth came to Boaz,Boaz had asked, `Who's your father?'  The King of Moab?!  You havespent your previous life as a Moabite?!  Pshu!  According to one ofthe Gemorrahs, Ruth was one of the most beautiful women.  	      The second thing Boaz initiated is that when you see a person yousay, `Hashem Imochem'.  You greet people in the name of the Lord. You don't first ask them what they did yesterday.  `Hashem Imochem'doesn't  mean `G-d should be with you from now on'.  It means, `G-dis with you all the time.' 

	In the Gemorah, Shavuos is called "Atseret".  Keep it inside,don't let go it.  And even if you are B'nei Gershon, even if for onereason or another you are driven out, don't ever think you are drivenout.  `Gam Hem', Mamash, you're always right there.
                    
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I.  HARDCOPY INVENTORY ON SHAVUOT*

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    R. Shlomo on Shavuos, 11 Sivan, 5750, Mishkanot, Jerusalem
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