=escaa4a et seq (=escsa6b... ) Final docname to be : sc_e_aa4 'Flying Edit' of =sc_aa4 HEADER. SAN FRANCISCO, SUNDAY JULY 3, 1973 ---------------------- APPLIED SHUYOT, VIZ. EDITORIAL NOTES, FOLLOWS: "A Flying Edit is to a professional edit as is to lunar cartography the Memoirs of the Cow Who Jumped Over the Moon." "To edit Shlomo, take out every third mamash." R. Joshua Witt N.B.: It is my intention in this Flying Edit to preserve all the conceptual material presented by RSC, and to neither delete from nor add to that conceptual structure, although I will try to bring it out more clearly. I will not necessarily preserve style, for that you go back to the verbatim -- or input tapes if/when they have been preserved, found, and input. I do not intent to prune style nor conceptual structure for the comfort of the average reader, as it is said, "Don't let Yael over_edit my teachings" (heard, best's I recollect, said of RSC at Modi'in (sa). I am greatful to Miriam Gal-Or for xeroxing and responsibly mailing me (Airmail Registered) this an other RSC xerox manuscripts. All packages sent SeaMail from Israel may be claimed on the beach of the Gallapogos Islands, if the turtle stays chaste till it gets there. This set of xerox ms.'s is a xerox my xerox of the BZ Collection with is a xerox of the HH collection which is a xerox I made of a small part of the Witt Collection, which Witt maybe got from Hatzkela who maybe got it from HLP, to put the point simply, Whimply. The numbering of manuscripts is mine, and don't correpond to any realworld order, nor any order on any planet which you would like to visit. I just pulled mss. out of a Witt filedrawer one day in maybe '86 and numbered them as I did so. This cluster of transcripts includes Ms. AA7, AA6, AA5 , AA4, AA3, AA2 At some point the party moves to Jerusalem, and that's Ms. AA1 Also AA2 Ms. AA7 is December 1974. All the rest of this cluster is Summer 1973. Here is my listing of these mss.: From =inv0494a INVENTORY OF R. SHLOMO MATERIALS, Rev. 4/25/94 SET AA: Original handwritten Ms. in 3-Ring binder, consecutive 6/90: Returned from ZF to HS, both Meor Modi'in. AA1 47-- Orig -- Arthurs Tape 1 Side 1 & 2 Israel Summer 1973 AA2 36 Orig Tape 2 Side 1 Jerusalem Summer 1972 (?-qv ms.) AA3 38 Orig Tape 9 San Francisco Summer 1973 Thursday AA4 23 Orig San Francisco Sunday July 3, 1973 AA5 42 Orig Another Tape, San Franciso Summer 1973, perhaps Sunday AA6 18 Orig San Franciso Summer 1973 Sunday Tape 2 pp18 AA7 23 Orig Miami Dec. 26, 1974 Tape 6a -------------------------- Notes to sc_aa4 have been Deep6'd to =scsaaa4.txt; Caveat Lector Reference to thos notes are in general deleted from this Flying Edit. some notes will be added to this Flying Edit as madness dicatates, those notes will then in general be Deep6'd to =scsaeaa4 , --------------------------------------------------------------- I am practically illiterate in Jewish studies. I can barely read Hebew script, so somoene must correct my transliterations. I find now that I understand very little of what RSC says. Somewhat as with Wittgenstein's Philosophical Investigations, the problem is less one of understanding what he says, than of understanding why he says it. In my opinion, the next step in working with this material is for somoene familiar with the texts which RSC is teaching , to insert the appropriate passages from those texts in these transcriptions. With appropriate notes as well. This applies especially to the recorded writings and sayings of Reb Nachman. Again: I make no claims upon this nor any other RSC material that I have worked on, but acknowlege that others may assert such claims. I do ask that anyone using it, and anyone modifying it, indicate my filename in Source information, primarily for a sort of 'audit trail' to serve as check on errors. ---------------------------------------------------------- sa, Campra, 9 Jun '05 -- netzach sh'b' MALKUT -- 2 siVaN ------------------------------------------------------------- ----------------------------------------------------------------- HEADER. SAN FRANCISCO, SUNDAY JULY 3, 1973 START FLYING EDIT OF PAGE 1 OF RSC MS. AA4 It's possible to do everything right and with great fire but you forgot the most important thing, you know. !There's a very strong saying that this world is like a wedding.! Imagine: They did everything at the wedding, the dancing, the eating. The only thing is, he forgot to put a ring on her finger, right. It's a small thing, right. Tskes only one second, you know. Timewise, since we did everything else, so he didn't put the ring on her finger. What difference is there. People, a lot of people, do everything right but this one sweet little thing they forgot to do. And everybody has this one sweet little tihng which is the most important thing, which they forgot. G_d forbid. So whenever a person is doing anything he always has to think, you know, penetrate: Even while I'm doing right, with this doing right, am I doing this most importand thing. Very strong, you know. Those two contradicitons are the strongest which a person has to know all the time. START FLYING EDIT OF PAGE 2 OF RSC MS AA4 On the one hand I have to know I'm like everybOdy else. On the other hand, I have to know I'm so special there's only one like me in the world. On one hand I have to know I haven't begun yet to serve G_d. On the other hand I have to know I'm doing so much. Only thing is, we have to know exactly when to think and what to think at that paricular moment. There are moments I have to know I didn't do anything yet. If at that moment I think 'Oy I did so much!' -- bad scene, right. There are moments I have to know I'm exactly like everyone else. If at that momentI think I'm better than somebody -- so this is the hardest thing in the world. (aa4-5) (aa4-5) { This sounds like the Sufi slogan, from HIK I assume: "Democracy of the ego and aristocracy of the soul."} Now listen, something very strong: When G_d told us: I am the LORD your G_d [ lst of the 10 Commandments ] it was in singular not plural. Cause really, no one can teach me about G_d. Others can teach me everything in the realm of knowlege. But this is something I can only learn by myself, just as only he groom can put the ring on the finger of the bride to make a wedding halachically legal. Imagine that a groom were to say: Listen, he says, I hired musicians, I'll hire someone to put the ring on you know. When it comes the most most important thing, you better do it yourself. START FLYING EDIT OF PAGE 3 OF RSC MS. AA4 And the same way, when it comes to knowing G_d. I can read books about everything in the world, someone can teach me. When it comes to the one thing, knowing there is one G_d, it is just G_d and me. The strongest thing is that nobody can teach me. that's the saddest thing in the world: Nobody can teach me. You know, before Meshiach is coming, before the last day, you know the strongest thing in the world will be, it will not be so much between good and evil. Good and evil everybody knows what is going on. The great thing --- We talk about judgement day, you know. Judgement day means not -- Ok, G_d will judge the world, but the most important thing before the great day: Everybody will really judge themself. That's the most important thing. Everybody will be strong enough to look at himself, with great honesty. And the judging is not between good [ and bad ] -- Ok, [if] the question is, should I kill somebody, should I love somebody, ok. This is not so much the free choice, I don't have to stand in judgement --'you shouldn't kill, oh I better not kill. START FLYING EDIT OF PAGE 4 OF RSC MS. AA4 On the highest level, the holiest level, I have to think this isn't holy enough yet. This isn't pure enough yet. This isn't it yet. This is what it is, you now. Because when the Meshiach is coming, it will be the utmost of G_d revelation. And if a person can be just a little bit better and he isn't, in a certain way , you know, he blocks out the coming of the Meshiach. The Meshiach can only come for people who want them utmost. The utmost utmost. If I'm happy with a little utmost, you know, a little bit holiness -- He says something very strong.: [ So OK, I guess RSC is teaching Reb Nachman texts, as usual, but someone else must identify those texts from these contexts. ] You know, people have about ten thousand worries. He says: The best thing is: from all the ten thousand worries, make one worry, you know. Put it all together, and it won't be so heavy, you know. Make it together. Remember the great Rabbi, momish he hadn't eaten in three days and he momish had nothing. But he was momish so happy you know, he was studying, going strong. His wife came in and she said to him, you know I can't understand you, you know I'm blowing my mind, I have so many worries on my head and you --- START FLYING EDIT OF PAGE 5 OF RSC MS. AA4 He says, I'll tell you: There are all kinds of geniuses, you know. There are geniuses in learning. I'm a genius in worrying. He says: !What you worry in two weeks I worry off in five minutes. Its a good thing to be a genius in worrying sometimes, Because it won't help anyway, so you might as well knock it off fast.! That's true, you know. The strongest thing a person has to know, always strong, in a very strange way: I have to annihilate myself before everybody in the world. I'm sitting with ten people, I have to be on the level of complete annihilation, right. Cause otherwise I'm not becoming one with them. On the other hand, strongest thing in the world is not to give up one ounce of yourself, right. Don't annihilate yourself, don't. Don't annihilate yourself before the world. Again, takes a lot of judging, you know. You've got to be the highest judge in the world to know exactly, you know. I'll tell you something very strong: START FLYING EDIT OF PAGE 6 OF RSC MS. AA4 The people who don't annihilate themselves before the world, on the highest level they really annihilate themselves before every little creature. Because they know exactly the secret, when to annihilate when not. Before what, and before who. Before yes and before no. But the people who don't annihilate -- Hey, brother! QUESTION, QUESTIONER NOT IDENTIFIED. But Cf. =sc_aa5, where R. Leibowitz repeatedly challenges RSC's use of the term 'annihilate': "Shlomo, you said you have to annihilate yourself before the whole world --- " RSC: You now, let's say for instance anybody I meet, I have to annihilate myself a little bit before them, you know. But yet you see what it is, we know how to annihilate, maybe, sometimes we annihilate ourselves but doesn't mean I have to do what they think is right, you know. [ And in a Yakar lecture which I (sa, Cf. www.geocities.com/sa73122a )) have input, ca. 1990, RSC says, to be humble does not mean to be a Schmendrik. ] You see, for instance I can annihilate myself before somebody else as a person, you know, but it doesn't mean I have to annihilate myself before their ideas. And we don't know exactly the difference, you know. When I want to make peace beetween me and someone doesn't mean whatever they say is right. Maybe 100% wrong, I just love them you know. Is also annihilation, right. But it's another kind of annihilation. So delicate, you know. I'll tell you something very strong: Most people think when I make peace means I have to give in, right. Not true. That's a low kind of peace. High kind of peace is that no one gives in one inch and there is still peace. START FLYING EDIT OF PAGE 7 OF RSC MS. AA4 Because if the whole idea of peace would be based on lying to each other, you know, on cutting each other short, you know then peace wouldn't be the highest thing in the world. It's the holiest thinH in the world. because it's so holy and so deep you don't have to give in anything. We were learning: AHaRON Ha_KoCheN was the greatest peace_maker in the world between people and he never said one lie. Because how do we bring peace between people. We lie here a little bit, and we get them together. Then they lie to each other, you know. The whole idea of peace is not to lie. Listen to this: Shabos is called ShaBaT ShaLOM Shabos is a day of peace. ShaBaT also everybody knows is a day of truth. Becaue the Gemorah says even the lowest creature can not lie on Shabos. That means there is a peace during the week, a lie_ing peace. The peace of ShaBaT is, I'm not lying at all. Oy. Then something very beautiful: Listen, I like to live in a clean house, in a beautiful house, right. You have to realize something very strong that the Gemorah says: START FLYING EDIT OF PAGE 8 OF RSC MS. AA4 If you live in a beautiful house it really opens the gates of your soul, you know. Because you can live in a narrow way and you can live in a wide way. Beauty comes form that world of widenss. You can eat an apple. If it doesn't look so clean and so good you can eat it also, but it doesn't give light to that wideness in your soul. When you eat something that looks momish good, it just opens the wideness of your soul also. Very special thing. !So he says: It's the same thing when you do a good deed. Besides doing good, try and make it beautiful also. Becasue if you do a good deed in a beautiful way, it opens this wideness in your soul.! You know, I can walk up to a poor man, give him a nickel. And I can do then thousand things and make it bautiul, in the most beautiful way, you know. We can walk up to a poor man ans day here, I'm giving you charity. Can walk up to a poor man and say listen hrother, giving you a gift. It's a differnet thing, you know. START FLYING EDIT OF PAGE 9 OF RSC MS. AA4 I want you to know something very strong: You know [ there seems to be a gap in the discussion here, but this is how the pages were numbered, apparently by the transcriber, in addition to my numbering.] It really blows my bind because you can see on what level the holy VORKER was to even think of it. It says therfore: G_d says: I command you to say NOTN LITN give and give. So the simple translation is: G_d says to us 'I command you tell Moshe he should tell the Yidala you should give and give.' [ So ok, that identifies the parsha of he week - but I don't have a full chumash at hand -- TRUMA I guess -- the Shabat following July 3, 1973 ] So the Gemora says: Why does it say give and give. Even giving a hundred times. That means if a poor man comes to me in the morning nine o'clock give him something. Ten after nine he's back. So I tell him listen, I gave you ten minutes ago. No. He comes ten o'clock --- I told you about those two creepalach in Williamsburg. (eaa4-8a) [ The Rabbi is here referring to an hasidic community in Brooklyn, and not (Cows Defend Us!) to the Royal Family of the Netherlands.] They're twins, they look alike you know. Listen the way they operate: Lets call them Moishe and Yonkala. Moshe comes Monday morning knocks on the door. OK you know, give him something. Tuesday morning he's back so you say, listen, you were here yesterday. Aha, that's my twin brother. We look alike. So you think OK, it's possible. Wednesday he's there again. So you say listen to me-- For the third time , one of you two is coming back. He says, I'll tell you something. My twin brother has so much chutzpa he comes back twice, but I haven't been here yet. They're the famous twins of Williamsburg, you know. START FLYING EDIT OF PAGE 10 OF RSC MS. AA4 But anyway, the thing is like this: The holy VORKER says something very very strong you know. That he translated which is really very strong. Not that G_d says to Moishe tell the children of Israel they should give and give. He says, G_d told us when you give you have to tell the poor man, soon you will be so rich you will give and give. Means: while you're giving him you have to tell him, don't be downhearted. Someday you'll give and give and give. You have to tell it to him. Can you imagine on what level that kind of giving is. To give the poor man so much strength, to tell him, Listen brother, maybe today you are poor. I'm sure tomorrow you'll be so wealthy. So this is also on a spiritual level. Very very important you know. When someone lets say pours out their heart to you, or tells you something. And you've got to momish make it clear to them, listen, tomorrow you'll be very high also. Very high. START FLYING EDIT OF PAGE 11 OF RSC MS. AA4 You'll be higher and higher and higher. Cause then something happens to this holy wideness. There's a passage that says, 'I was thinking of my ways.' [ Psalms I assume, but don't know which ] So he says: Tht means I gave heaviness, you know. Heaviness. Every act I'm doing is very heavy, whatever I do, very heavy. Lets say, you know, if I have to carry a handkerchief I don't think about it. If I have to carry 2000 pounds from here to the door I think three times. So heavy. I don't want to carry it for nothihg, right. If I would know how heavy everything I'm doing is, I'd think four times before I'm doing it. But also while I'm doing it, its heavy on me. I feel it. It's so heavy you know. It's strong. Then he says something very strong: You know what it is, he says: Whatever a person does has to be valueable to me also. If I say, you know, I'm doing this because of G_d, because of religion, because of -- it's nothing. The question is, it it important to YOU. Does it mean a lot to you. You do it. You know what it is. If I do something out of habit, then its not heavy, and its meaningless, everything. You know what it is. In Hasidus its very strong. You have to be important to yourself. START FLYING EDIT OF PAGE 12 OF RSC MS. AA4 !Its holy, its very very holy to be humble, but it has nothing to do with being negated.! Oy. (The Transcriber records that 32 years ago on a Sunday in San Fracisco somebody did sneeze, to which the Rabbi made reply, G_d bless you.) Somebody says: I'm glad it wasn't 3000 pounds. RSC: Yeah brother. Yeah brother. Yeah, that's true. A little handkerchief and 3000 lbs. Somebody says: Shlomo, isn't there a saying , 'You sneeze on the truth.' RSC: No, no. When you doven you pray and you sneeze, that means G_d listened to your prayers. According to Reb LAIBLA AIGER , when you sneeze Saturday night its also because the whole Saturday night is on the level of prayer, because its the Feast of King David. So whenever I sneeze Saturday night that means _G_d heard my prayer. Very strong thing. A LOCAL WIT QUIPS; "So the best prsyer is when you have a cold." RSC: Yeah, you mean you're closer to G_d when you have a cold. Pretty good you know. So we should sell pills to get a cold. Get religious and have a cold. It's a new thing. Go like wildfire brother. SOMEBODY SNEEZETH AGAIN. THE RABBI RESPONDS, SAYING: G_d bless you. It works, brother. START FLYING EDIT OF PAGE 13 OF RSC MS. AA4 I'll tell you something very strong: [ Elmer's Glue_All ] You know there are days when so many good things are happening to us you know. A lot of good deeds. So many sweet things happening. There are days nothing happens. Very simple. Its not the ultimate but there is some truth to it, you know. He says: On the day when I walk around with really holy thoughts in my head, when Im really on a holy path and everything holy happens to me. If I walk areound depressed and angry and disgusted, can't reach me you know. The BAAL SHEM TOV says something very strong: Where am I. Ok my feet are on Judah and Ninth. Where am I you know. I am where I am thinking I am, right. [ No doubt, but please don't tell her husband. ] I am where my thoughts are. So if my thoughts are not with it, then even the best things which G_d wants to reach me can't Get to me. You're not here. They knock on the door, mailman bringing me packages, I don't even hear him knock because I wasn't there. So got to be there. Now listen to this. This is strong: Imagine this is a tape recorder and I say, I'm not really moving it, I'm just moving this part here. Moving around a little bit. No, its stupid, right. Any part I touch, I move the whole thing. START FLYING EDIT OF PAGE 14 OF RSC MS. AA4 One one hand, do I believe I'm really part of G_d. But if I'm really part of G_d that means the way I'm moving I'm really moving around G_d, so_to_spealk. Its in a heartbreaking way you know. When you ask, we always think we're part of G_d, we're cut off. [transcription sic, but maybe mis_speak or mis_transcribe for 'we're not part'] We're not cut off. If I'm part of G_d it means I'm momish part of G_d. That means whatever I move, that the way I move G_d, I move the whole world. Its heartbreaking to think of it you know, heartbreaking even to know about it. Then it says: 'and the spirit of G_d was upon the waters', beginning of Berashit. Now listen to this: First of all, G_d's word, the Torah, is always like water. Remember, I told you. Because water has taste only when you are thirsty. (eaa1-14a) If you're not thirsty then water has no taste. Like kvais ice cream always tastes. G_d only tastes good if you're really thirsty for G_d. If you're yearning for 'HIM'. But it says, and the spirit of G_d was upon the water. You know what it is. When you are learning you got to be on such a high level that momish you have to feel that G_d's spirit is upon you. START FLYING EDIT OF PAGE 15 OF RSC MS. AA4 That means you have to know something is really happening at that momement. Whatever you did before, whatever you do after, at that moment, really, a very holy spirit surrounds you. A Ruach Elo(k)im, spirit of G_d. You know, lets put it this way: Imagine if if physicaly there would be a ver very evil smell here. Could you concentrate. No, right. Becuase evil smell really. But then imagine there's a good smell. Higher higher higher. The truth is, you really can only learn, your soul is only open for real learning, if you're just surrounded by this holy spirit. If, while you're learning, you have this tremendous holy spirit around you. Listen, you only feel cold when its cold. That means while you're learning there has to be a certain amount of heat around you. Holy heat. And this holy heat, this holy warmth, the spirit of G_d has to be. Now listen very very important. We always think we know it but its goodto remember: START FLYING EDIT OF PAGE 16 OF RSC MS. AA4 !Every morning we say thank YOU G_d for giving me the Torah. We don't say thank you that you gave it to me -- YOU're giving it to me.! (aa4-34) (aa4-34) [That is: Receiving the Torah is an ongoing process, not a fait accomopli.] You know, one thing you know. Mt. Sinai is still there. G_d is still talking. And its happening right this minute. And you know the whole thing is, if you want to be a Mt. Sinai person, you momish have to be here and you know G_d is teaching you. If you open a book and you think Oy, it was printed kvais three years ago, its already bad. It has to be now you know. Has to be real like the utmost of newness. The he says something very strong: When you do somethng wrong its very easy to repent. Becauase G_d created the world in such a way, there's such a flow of repentance you know. I'll tell you something very strong: [ That Grapa I got in Morcote. 45% . If you drink it on the tailgate, don't spill it on the paint.] While you're doing wrong, what are you thinking. I'll never do it again, right. You momish have utomost repentance, you know. Like its inbuilt machinery that while you're doing wrong you're momish looking for repentance. So why don't you really do it after that. Because one seconf after you're doing it you are filled with sadness. Sadness is the most deadening thing in the world. Like paralyzes you, you can't do anything. START FLYING EDIT OF PAGE 17 OF RSC MS. AA4 So the real evil is not the evil deed but the sadness afterward. So I dont want to burden you with Hebrew but there's a passage in the Psalms: 'G_d cures those with broken hearts and tears out their sadness.' How does G_d cure you. All the evil. Cause the evil itself, you could cure all the evil deeds you did. The only thing you need G_d to tear out the sadness out of you. Cause the moment you're not sad you're joyous, you can move. He says something very beautiful: Imagine I haVe a little light here. Im not looking for more light. But I have a little light, keeps me going enough to read and enough to live. But when I am, G_d forbid, living in complete darkness and then Im asking for light, I might as well ask for the greatest light, right. So he says: Who are the people who will bring about the Meshiach, the great light. Not the people who have a little light. Cause they are happy with the little they have. Its the people who momish know we are living in utmost darkness. And if I'm asking already for light, it might as well be the greatest, right. START FLYING EDIT OF PAGE 18 OF RSC MS. AA4 There's a very holy saying by the OLD LUBAVITCHER REBBE: [ By 'the Old Lubavitcher Rebbe' is meant, the predecesser of 'The Lubavitcher Rebbe', by which is meant R. Menanchem Mendel Schneeresohn. ] He said: In former good days in Eruope there was fourth class on a train, third class, second class, and first class. Second class was pretty good. Third class was for kvais the middle class. Fourth class was only standing room. Real poor beggars. So the Former [ Lubavitcher ] Rebbe said something very strong: The real schlepper goes first class. Why. He has no money, anyway he borrowed it. So if he borrowed it why not borrow first class you know. So he said its us schleppers who will eventually travel first class because we have to borrow anyway, why not borrow the real thing. Then something also. Oy. Its heartbreaking. He says: Just remember one thing. That there will be a time, there will be a day, where every action, every thought of you, will come before you again. And you'll be so ashamed. Every prayer you ever uttered will stand before you aagain. How will it look. Then he said something very strong: Those who think I'm serving G_d when I pray but not when I eat and sleep and do my busisness, do my own thing; they're completely cut off from G_d. [ Nonsense, says I. ] START FLYING EDIT OF PAGE 19 OF RSC MS. AA4 They're not only cut off when they do their physical thing, they're cut off from G_d even when they pray. Because one of the two, are you with it are you not with it. I can not say, you know for lunch I'm in New York and for dinner I'm in Honolulu. Doesn't go, because its too far away you know. Make up your mind where do you live. Ah, something vers strong: You know paganism, pagan worship is called Avodah Zorah. That means actually if you translate it, strange worship. So he says: Don't worship G_d in a thing which is strange to you. It has to be close to you. Very very important. I'm sitting all day praying but if the praying is strange to me, its not real. Not completely real. If its not ten billion percent real its paganism. I tell you something very beautiful: You know that cruelty is a combination of two word. AKh ZOR But, strange. That means cruelty doesn't belong in there, you know. It's a strange element. Imagine I'll eat soup, suddenly I'll see a dollar swimming arouind in the soup. How does a dollar bill come into the soup. Its a strange element in here you know. [ "Waiter, what is that fly doing in my soup?" "I believe it is the backstroke, sir." ] START FLYING EDIT OF PAGE 20 OF RSC MS. AA4 So cruelty -- I mean, doesn't belong. Its called AKh ZOR But, strange. But the thing is -- Did you hear hear this. Its just a stupid joke, just to release our tension for a second. Did I tell you that the great Rabis of the Talmud would stop every little while and tell a joke. Make people laugh. Because if you study you get so concentrated it'll below you, you know. You got to loosen up a little bit. [ So only eat white-flour bread on Shabat, only eat white_flour pasta in Napoli, and only eat white rice in Chung Fung Fu. R. Shlomo was a great man, and it was a privilege to be in his presence, and his songs and tunes have carried me through many a solitary Shabat, but what, if anything, did he have to say. I mean, if the philosophy department asks me to teach, what do I say he said. Subtracting all the bombast and sugar_syrup. I mean, what can I give to Shinui. ] Anyway, its a stupid joke but anyway: The thing is this kvais Marcy Cohen walks into this gorcery story [sic, story, not store], and she buys ten pounds of , you know, they have cake for dogs whatever its called, Bisquits. He says to her you have a little dog_ala, why do you buy so much. She says last night my husbandate it and he liked it so much he wants to eat now dog food. So he says to her, you know its really dangerous, I don't know whats in it but I don't think its for human consumption. She says I don't care. He wants to eat it, let him eat it. A week later she comes bak all dressed in black. So he says, wha happened. He says, I told you your husband will die. She says your're wrong. He didn't die from the biscuits. So he says what happened. She says he ran after a car barking and he was run over. [ Yes, this was a stupid joke. It has no depth at all. It is a parable for nothing. ] START FLYING EDIT OF PAGE 21 OF RSC MS. AA4 "Don't make for me an altar of silver, and don't make for me an altar of gold, but make an altar out of earth." (This is from Bemidbar, I guess. I mean, it sure ain't from Times Square. And you wonder why that pseudo-Crecian Temple of Herod the Great Fornicator was destroyed?) So the thing is like this. I want you to know this is one of the top passages to remember. "Make me an altar out of earth." And even if nobody translates it its beautiufl, just what it says you know. Make me an altar out of earth. Fromthe earth. The menorah was made out of gold, but the altar was made out of earth. The real sacrifices were made on earth. Now listen to this: He says like this: That the person has two things. The person has a lot of yearning for very holy things. Very very holy. Then I have a few things which I have already acquired. And then is something even deeper than that, even deeper than yearning, and even deeper from what I have is what is what I am . Not what Im yerning for, not what I have. But what I really am. START FLYING EDIT OF PAGE 22 OF RSC MS. AA4 He says: When you build an alter before G_d, don't build it just out of yearning -- its very holy, but this isn't it yet. Don't build it out of the things you really did, holy things. I'm not talking about unholy things. Really holy things I did. That's gold. That's not good enough. Out of the earth. That's real, the simple you, you know. The most down to earth like they say, down to earth. That part of you which is really the earth of you. Which is deeper than everything in the world. The deepest depths of you. Which is the most simple thing in the world. I mean simple on a high level. This is where you build your altar. This is where you serve G_d. He says, complete complete simplicity. He says something like this. Then he says something verx beautiful: This is really the level of Yakov, because Avraham Avinu was on the level of love, which is yearning. This is silver. Yitzak was on the level of gold, you know, momish he as dying for G_d a thousand times a day. Gold, he really had it. But Yakov he says even that is not good enough, obviously I can do more than that . If you serve G_d like somebody else then you wouldnt have been born. They did it already. So Yakov Avinu began serbving G_d on the level of this altar of earth. ADaMaH , earth, comes from the word AdaM , man. ADaM is earth. Man is the altar. START FLYING EDIT OF PAGE 23 OF RSC MS. A44 Yeah that's also very holy. But I don't know. Mamish I'm really turned onto this deep deep deep. Your own simplicity. Your real self you know. Deeper than anything anyone can teach you. You see, someone can teach me how to yearm. Someone can teach me how to gain holy deeds. But nobody can, this holy thing which is not taught, between me and G_d, this is where its at. ----------------------------------------------------------------- TRANSCRIBER NOTES: END OF SIDE 1. THIS IS A 90 MINUTE TAPE. I don't know what happened to Side 2 of this Tape. ================================================================= APPENDIX: REB NACHMAN'S NIGGUN: 2/4 Time -- about MM=60 (ie, 60 bps) This niggun is in 3 parts. My alphabetic notation should be reasonably clear. Captital letters are 1 beat -- eg G D Lower-case letters bracked in parentheses are 1 beat, eg (gc) A note is the flat if followed by a - eg b- is B-flat A capital letter followed by a 2 is 2 beats Bar lines are indicated by / A letter followed by an an_sign (ampersand, & ) add half of its value So (g&) is a dotted eighth note (in 2/4 or 4/4 time, where a quarter_note gets 1 beat n means natural -- eg dn is a d_natural eighth note A plus prefix means either: this note is higher than the one that precedes it or in this tune, this note is an octave higher than the same letter without a plus sign There are no words to this niggun. The mood is calm but optimistic. It is in no sense a lament. ----------------------------------------- Theme 1: / G D / (b'd) C / (gc) (b-a) / (gaga) (b-a) / / G D / (b'd) C / (gc) (b-a) / G2 / (Repeat previous two lines) Theme 2: / (gb-) (b-b-) / (b-(ab-)) (cb-) / / (gb-) (b-b-) / (b-(ab-)) (cb-) / / g B- a / g C- e- / (d& (c)) (b-c) / D2 / / g B- a / g C- e- / (d& (c)) (b-c) / G2 / Theme 3: / +G2 / +G2 / +G +G / +G +G / / (+gf) (+b-a) / +G2 / (+gf) (+b-a) / +G2 / / (+gf) (+b-a) / (gf) (e-d)/ (dc) (fe-)) / (dc) (b-a) / / G D / (b'd) C / (gc) (b-a) / G2 / (Repeat entire niggun ) ============================================================== ================================================================ This ends doc =sc_e_aa4 , the Flying Edit of my verbatim retype, =sc_aa4 . NOTES TO =sc_aa4.txt Deep6'd to =scsaaa4.txt =============================================================== *** ZOWIE FOR HOWIE %%% ===============================================================ù NOTES TO =escaa4a ------------------------------------------------------------------ There are moments I have to know I'm exactly like everyone else. If at that momentI think I'm better than somebody -- so this is the hardest thing in the world. (aa4-5) (aa4-5) { This sounds like the Sufi slogan, from HIK I assume: "Democracy of the ego and aristocracy of the soul."} I told you about those two creepalach in Williamsburg. (eaa4-8a) [ The Rabbi is here referring to an hasidic community in Brooklyn, and not (Cows Defend Us!) to the Royal Family of the Netherlands.] [ William of Orange and all that. Having been destined to make their fortune in Telecommunications, they were able in the 17th Century to borrow enough to live royally, and all the Dutch sort of just went along with it. There's not much to do for amusement in Holland, except eat raw herring in new ways. ] First of all, G_d's word, the Torah, is always like water. Remember, I told you. Because water has taste only when you are thirsty. (eaa1-14a) I was flipping out at New Buffalo in 1970, and Susie Harrison, zl'b, said, I will teach you to be like water. I would still like to learn that. I don't know what it means, but it is something about the Tao te Ching, and about the flowingness of water, how it adapts to every situation. Leary would have seen it in his 'Psychedelic Prayers'. RSC does not begin to apprehend it here. And if water has no taste, sell my Perrier stock quick, Mac. I'll tell you something very strong: [ That Grapa I got in Morcote. 45% . If you drink it on the tailgate, don't spill it on the paint.]