=sc711221 R. Shlomo Carlebach, December 21, 1971 Heading: T + TR -- Donna [presumably: Taped and Transcribed] 3 Teveth 5732 21 December 1971 House of Love and Prayer Yeshiva Collection 'HH'=Hatzkele & Hadassah Sasson, Moshav Meor Modi'in This input: sa Typescript, 3 pages. Not previously inventoried by me; so I name it #sc711221 (#=typescript/manuscript). This copy on 3-whole paper, maybe xerox; but looks old. Line Length is apparently 72 characters -- that's the old Elite font -- 12 characters to the inch, to a 6-inch line-length, which is standard, is 60 characters pica (10 chars/inch) or 72 characters elite (12 chars/inch) =============================================================== Just a few sayings from R. Shmuel of Shlonamer: If young people would know how much they can do for the world, they would plow the earth with their noses." Then he says: "There are people who do everything right their whole lives, they study, they pray -- then they come up to heaven, and they wonder `How come I'm not in heaven?' So they answer them back and they tell them: 'For the one you prayed and the one for whom you did all your good deeds, let him put you into heaven.'" {Note (sa): I have added quotes and semi-quotes for clarity; but I assume this is RSC's paraphrase, not a literal retelling.} Do you know what that means -- idol worship -- you have to know exactly that when you come up to heaven -- you say that I prayed and I did good deeds, but did you do it for HIM? If you did it for HIM, HE'll put you into heaven. {sc711221-1} {sc711221-2} Then it says, you have to know exactly what is idol worshp and what is Gd worship, it takes a lot of depth, the deepest depths in the world. So he says something like this -- a person has to learn a lot of things, and has to do a lot of things. But then he says that every day a person has to have a little shir, a little learning by himself, and he should concentrate so much -- he should mamish concentrate completely completely on that thing that he's learning -- like there's a mikva where I physically drown myslef in water, so spiritually and mentally I have to learn something every day and immerse myself in that thing I'm leraning completely. There is noting more purifying of the mind, then for a mintues learning something a little bit Torah, but completely, completely immersed in it. Then it says smething like this -- If you're a little bit sad, learn one page of gemora, if more sadlearn two pages, and more sad learn three. His name is Reb Shmuel Shlonamer . His grandfatehr was R. Avram Shlamava he was very very holy and he had a son R. Michael Aaron, and this son R. Michel Aaron passed away when he was eighteen or maybe twenty, be he left a son, his name was R. Shmuel. When his grandfather passed away he became the rebbe. When his father R. Michel Aaron passed away, everybody was walking behind the coffin -- someone said that R. Michel Aaron was greatest genius (he was a way out genius) such a great tzadik and so holy. So his father R. Avram Shlanava heard them talking and he said -- I don't know if he was the greatest genius in the world and I don't know if he was the holiest person in the world, but one thing I do know is, a Jew like this never be again. In Slanava they learned three things all their live -- SiMChaH, joy, ShaBaT, and 'aNavaH humulity. So the old Lechavitech the old Rebbbe of Shlanava says our lives will be burning from those three things until MaShIaCh is coming, joy, humility SheQeT. [START TYPESCRIPT PAGE 2] He writes here how ShaBaT was in Shlanava. Shlanava was really fire. First of all the Hassidum were really great scholars -- but they were watercarriers and they didn't make a TzIM'GsY [sic, Hebrew Script: TzIM'GsY ] out of themselves. You know a big anti- (MiTNaGiD) walked into a Shlanava BeiT MiDRaSH, and people were sitting there with torn shirts and torn pants, really 'poor' beggars. And he starts talking to them and he realizes that they were great giants in learning. So he starts talking to them -- What are dong here? What do you do? -- they answer I'm a tailor and I'm a shoemaker -- what's going on, he says, if you would be one of us, one of the anti's, we'd make make you a great rabbi. I don't know if you kmow the story -- Lechavitch was a little hick town. Whem R. Mortle Lechavitch came there, he was the rebbe of the city -- so a stranger came into the BEiT MiDRaSh and saw four hundred young people learning there ... [3 dots typesript] so he says to R. Mortle Lechavitch, where did you find, in a town like this four hundred rabbis -- he answered, they are not rabbis, this one is a water carrier, this one a shleper, this one is a beggar, this one didn't have a job for ten years, and this one will never have anyting to eat -- Oh -- this is really beautiful -- every holiday, the most important part is in the day, also during the night, but at least it's twenty four hours -- PesaCh I have to eat MaTzOT day and night, suKOT I have to sit in the sUKaH day and night, ShOFaR is at least during the day not at night, MeGILaH is both day and night -- the only holiday where the whole thing is night is ChaNUKaH because ChaNUKaH is that great light that will keep us going through the darkest times -- ChaNuKaH was the last holiday that was initiated before MaShIaCH is coming. PURIM was still in the time before the second temeple -- after that there were no more holidays. So this holiday, ChaNUKaH will carry us until MaShIaCH is coming. The great light will be burning 'till the last day -- so it's only a night and Chanukah is only when the night is the longest. I spoke to you about the light of ChaNUKaH. You know Aaron, you remember when they initiated the MiShKaN. the holy tabernacle, all the holy princes, all the NeSYAYM , every tribe had a prince, so every prince brought sacrifices to initate the holy little tabernacle, and do you know that two people didn't bring anything -- this was Aaron Ha- Cohen and Moshe. Moshe Rabenu was so humble that he knew that he was not worth to give something to the holy tabernacle. He knew that if he were to give something, it would be thrown out -- Aaron didn't bring anything either because he was definite that it would not be accepted from him. {sc711221-3} So then when all the princes brought the sacrifices, who was doing the sacrificing, Aaron Ha-Cohen. He was crying and he said -- those holy princes, they have a part in the holy temple and I have no part. So G_d told him, your light will be burning forever. The Ramban says -- yours will be the light of ChaNUKaH. The light of the holy temple was also from the holy princes, the NeSYAYM. So G_d told them, your light will burn forever. There's a really tremdously holy thing from R. Mendel Volker, the silent rebbe who spoke only about eight times in his lfie -- one of the things he said -- G_d says to Aaron like this -- Aaron was crying and he said that he didn't have any part in the holy tmple -- So G_d told him, ChaYeY_Kha, which actually means, by my life, meaning to say, I swear to you by my life that your light will be burning forever -- so ChaYeY_Kha means, you know if you know Hebrew it sounds strong, ChaYeY_Kha, by my life -- so it means I swear. R. Mendel Aboucher [STARTP TYPESCRIPT PAGE 3] when G_d said to Aaron, ChaIYeCHa -- does it really reach the depeest depths of you life -- meaning to say -- there is a Yiddish saying HS: [YIDDISH SAYING IN SCRIPT] az geht mir leben mamsish, it touches the depth of my life. Certain things, say I offer you an apple or I don't -- certain things don't matter -- then there are certain things that my whole life depends on -- I want to live or I don't want to live. So G_d said to Aaron HaIYeCHa-- If to have part in the holy temple bothers you that much -- that your whole life depdends on it, then I swear that your light will be burning forever. Anything we do as though our whole life depends on it -- if you do something that's not so deep then it doesn't matter so much -- But hear what R. Shmuel Shlanava says -- what does it mean? -- It means that every service in the holy temple stopped, was destroyed -- the only service of the holy temple which was not destoryed was the kindling of the lights. Even if it's only once a year -- it's still there -- it means that once a year we kindle the lights of the holy temple. So he says like this -- The gemora says like this -- that only the outside of the holy temple was destroyed, not the inside, evil can only reach the outside. END TRANSCRIBED TEACHING (Signoff:) Rabbi Shlomo Carlebach 3 Teveth 5732 House of Love and Prayer Yeshiva ======================================================================= sa 23 June '04 -- 4 TaMUZ '04 -- Hebrew transliteration EG Notes are appended, written but unread (the which the reader well might emulate, mate.) ======================================================================= COMMENTS FROM THE PEANUT GALLERY (as_it_is-said: "No comments from the Peanut Gallery") {Comment (sa): The Peanut Gallery is the upper balcony of the movie theatre, entrance to which to see the Saturday Morning Movie (a double- feature with cartoons and newsreel and previews of coming attractions) is less expensive, as_it_is_said: "Oh Romeo, oh Romeo, wherefore art thou?" "Up in the balcony, where the seats are cheaper." Attendees may feast there on peanuts, lofting the shells occasionally down onto the heads of more affulent movie-fans.} {sc711221-1} {Comment (sa): Well, I dunno. I mean, it's time for the Parable of the Good Shinuinik. And the Frumie out of Moliere, with his black frock coat and all his mi rshut hashemaim all his bli neder's; I mean, this has apparently been going on for a while, for Jesus apparently felt he had to say, Just let your yea be yea and your nay be nay. Like I say, the Frumie's are a museum of the bad habits the 18th-century goyim. } {sc711221-2} {Comment (sa): So OK: I used to go to the Hari-Krishna's for a free lunch, as_it_is_said [Kurt Vonnegut, l'havdil the dude] "there is no such thing as a free lunch." So maybe today I pay my 1972 bill a bit. So they say their Blue Dude says: Do what you will, but dedicate the fruits of it to Me. So from one perspective, that's mere idolatry; but from another perspective -- first of all it's all merely metaphors, or 'meta-language' as (Baker, Roshi) called it. As long it's transparent, it's a metaphor, and yotzer'd by the Shma; but if it clouds up, it becomes an idol. (And that's why I find ArtScroll idolatrous; I try to say that, gently, in a few of my poems. Or to put it in obfuscatory terminology as best's I can: ArtScroll treats an indefinite proper pronoun as if it were a proper noun; and that's instant idolatry buddy. Fact is, there is a deep and and quite practical spiritual truth in this 'dedicate the fruits of what you do to ME' But that's a subtle point; if you take it too anthropomorphically, I don't think it will fly.} {sc711221-3} {Comment (sa): No, I don't think that midrash will do. It sounds like 'false humility'. (And as for begging the question by saying the midrash is -- whatever they say: 'canonical' or 'under Divine Inspiration' -- I mean oy, save Papal Infallibilty for Rome. And even the Catholics have enough sense not to come close to it, except maybe in an emergency. It also implies quite a guilt-trip, a depression, that would simply disqualify one from holding a spiritual position -- or at least require one to take a leave of absence from same. "He knew that if he were to give something, it would be thrown out." Well, a truly humble person would have brought what he felt he could and should, with love, and had faith that, if it were thrown out, well, that would be Divine Will, and he had done the best he could.}