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R.. Shlomo Carlebach Jokes and other remarks::
Excerpted from R. David Herzberg collection, as posted on Website.

[[ I excerpt those jokes and remarks that seem to have spiritualÛand/or religious (halachic) depth.]]

RSC:
`My sweetest friends, I know that I'm constantly late,  but I justÛdon't want to put the Messiah to shame.'

`I swear to you, it's never too late.'

DH: `In the Talmud it is written that one should always knock onÛthe door to his own house so as not to startle the residents evenÛthough they are his own family.'

DH:  A Jewish pen is one that won't write on the Sabbath.
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[[sa:  But some pens are so dumb, they don't always know whenÛit's not Shabat ]]
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Parable from Reba Simcha Bunim of Pshyscha, retold by RSC, esp.ÛHLP early 70's:

`In the early 70's in the House of Love and Prayer in SanÛFrancisco, Shlomo loved to tell the following story.  He prefacedÛit by telling us that the great Chassidic Rebbe, Reba Simcha BunimÛof Pshyscha was accustomed to say that this is one of the deepestÛparables.'

The town drunk is taken, in a stupor, to the Bishop's house andÛdressed in the Bishop's clothes.  Awakening, he does not know ifÛhe is really the Bishop and just thinks that he's the Drunk; orÛreally the Drunk and just thinks that he's the Bishop.
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[[Cf. parable of Lao Tzu who fell asleep, and dreamt he was aÛbutterfly, and awakened, and wondered:  am I a man dreamingÛof being a butterfly, or a  butterfly dreaming of being aÛman. ]]
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[[but many, eg Reb Nachman, would say:  which is better: Ûto be Jewish and the town drunk -- impoverished, at theÛmercy of all passersby, an object of ridicule -- ; orÛnot to be Jewish but be the rich and powerful andÛhonored Bishop of the entire region.] ]
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So anyhow:  (DH):  `While contemplating these feelings the prayerÛbook is presented to him and placed on the huge prayer stand.  HeÛopens it up and turns it in every; direction but to his greatÛdistress, he cannot make out one word.  He stands in front of theÛmirror dressed as the Bishop and cries bitterly in the realizationÛthat indeed he is the disgusting town drunk.  Then, as if hit by aÛlightning bolt, he lifts his hands heavenward and with greatÛunderstanding says, `Ah, but who says the Bishop knows how toÛread.'
THIS IS SAUSALITO
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[[sa:  Cf. Wordsworth, `trailing clouds of glory'.   
Cf. PVK on the Elusian mysteries:  the tore off the wings andÛwhite robes of the initiates, and hurled them to the earth.Û[my partial recollection:]
Or Cf. esp. Reb Nachman, parables of  the lost Prince, 
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[Cf. PVK, intro to ;The Way of the Dervish' `or use itÛ[your heart, if you give it to him] to ransom the King'sÛdaughter'
That is:  Cf. Psalms:  `yet THOU has made him but littleÛlower than the Angels '
Cf. Heraklitus:  We are like drunks, like those asleep. Û
Cf. New Testamaent, St. Paul:  `through a glass, darkly'
Cf. PVK, notion of `Awakening'
In short:  `Everyone knows' 
that everyone knows, 
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however darkly, dimly, or `like dreamers' – that weÛare both of Heavenly descent, and of earthlyÛevolution.  
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And so [Cf. PVK] the question, or challenge 
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[Cf. HIK: `the Message is a lullaby toÛthose whose time is is to sleep [ie,Ûremain asleep] and a call to those whoseÛtime is is to Awaken.] 
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is:  with which do you choose to identify. ÛOr:  on which will be your focus.
So this parable focuses on that bafflement,Ûthat challenge. 
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[[sa:  from `In Search of  the Ox withÛthe Gilded Horn:  selected poems with atÛleast some Jewish content.':
      Lao-Tzu again
      and/or that baffled butterfly, 
      each the other's dream  …]]
      SOUTH SAUSALITO
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[[But Cf. Pascal:  It is a terrible thing toÛfall into the hands of the living G_d.  
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And Cf. Hopkins (struggling with) -- `myÛGod -- my G_d' (poem:  `oh, the mind hasÛmountains'
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That is:  to Awaken 
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[and RSC would sometime chant, within aÛsong, `wake up, wake up' (he would sayÛthe phrase only two times)]

[GO TO INDENT 2}
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I mean to say 
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(Cf. TSE,  Prufrock, `It is difficult to say just what IÛmean'; 
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and Carl Shrager parodied it, 
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that false piety and instant 
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(`like a silk hat on a BradfordÛmillionaire' (TSE)) 
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easily assumed humility -- 
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for TSE, for all that he wrote withÛstriking precision of what it is to beÛbroken 
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(which, brokenness, is one of RSC'sÛthemes ) 
GO TO INDENT 3
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-- so Shrager said 
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(we were joking in a pad in Cambridge, 
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(over Taj Mahal -- the folksinger Taj Mahal thatÛis); 
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(and now anyhow where's Ezra Pound now that weÛreally need him; he'd dig Talmud 
GO TO INDENT 4
ÕL6

 Sa:  `& Meir said to t'Other:
       Wanna go to hell?
       Can't get theah from heah.
       This here's the pits;
       And thataways' just Bet She'an.
       
               Slide over Dante;
               Let an old man rest.'

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So Shrager parodies TSE's pose:  `It is difficult to say justÛwhat I mean' [emphasize `what']
BACK TO INDENT 1

ÒL2

I mean to say:  to Awaken, 
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or anyhow to Awaken without having simultaneouslyÛachieved Enlightenment -- 
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and I guess that's the forbidden left-hand path, notÛwon, but stolen, through deprivation and despair,Ûthrough destruction of one's own options, as if plowingÛup the earth of one's own personality 
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-- a most ill-advised strategy -- 
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maybe the early Christian ascetics did thus;Ûthey did lots of goofy things, like sitting onÛa pillar in the desert -- like Hindu fakirs --Û
ÕL2

So anyhow, to Awaken without Enlightenment is terrible -- oneÛsees everything -- how beautiful things could and should be 
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[But Cf. PVK:  `one should never say `should''] -- 
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but can't do anything about it; can't act to make thingsÛbetter; for when one acts, things only become worse , forÛone's character has shrunk while one's Vision has expanded. ÛOne gains Vision, if not Wisdom, at the cost of Motivation -- Û
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But I digress.
ÓL2
SOUTH SAUSALITO 
And all that was just a gloss on the drunk/BishopÛ(butterfly/man) parable of man's earthly/Heaven's dualism 

BACK TO SAUSALITO
I still ain't got to the punch line, `but who says the BishopÛknows how to read'

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Cf. Paul Wienpahl, UCSB ca. '68, in class:  we haveÛthese exalted images of holy men, but what do we know ofÛthe real flesh-and- blood ones -- 
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`no man is a hero to his valet' -- not beause theÛthe man is not a hero; but because the valet isÛ(merely) a valet' -- 
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and this is why I keep saying, to begin toÛcomprehend, to encompass, even to truly learnÛfrom, RSC , stop thinking of him a teddy-bear,Ûstop idolizing, begin by acknowledging that heÛwas a broken man, who not merely carried on,Ûbut gained a great triumph over his brokennessÛ
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(Cf. PVK on the Crucifixtion
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You see:  the drunk is a honest man -- 
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being Jewish, how could he not be -- 
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and longs to be the Bishop; 
and when he realizes that he really cannot even read (theÛLatin Breviary), as he assumes a great man, a Bishop -- 
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to a poor in a shtetl, what might seem greater -- 
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as he assumes a great man must do, he is broken.  
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For nobody really wants to go back to being a drunk, 
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(with or without alcohol; Cf. HIK, each man selectsÛhis own intoxicant)   
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But then he takes heart -- but who says the Bishop knows howÛto read -- 
Òl3
so one can carry on, yearning for 
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(Yedid Nefesh), 
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aspiring to, greatness, despite having Awakened to anÛawareness of one's limitations 
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(Cf. HIK:  `meeting my shortcomings with the sword ofÛself-respect.' (Collected Sayings
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So:  back to DH:
`Our mother Srah gavae to all her children as anÛinheritanceÛthe laughtaer from within.  The laughter of understanding,Ûnot the laughter ofÛstupidity.
[This document is by no means all jokes (most ofÛwhich fall flat).  DH includes reminiscences thatÛare quite moving.]

`Reba Shlomo once taught us in the name of theÛKotzker Rebbe, that the wholest thing in the worldÛis a broken heart.  Reb Shlomo added to this [orÛbetter: ‘clarified'; since that was the sense ofÛwhat the Kotzker Rebbe said] and told us this isÛtrue only if our own heart is broken,  but notÛ[obviously] if a ;person breaks someone else'sÛheart.  I humbly added tht if two brokenhearts comeÛtogether andlaguht then the broken ;pieces becomeÛone.'
DH had a great sense of humour; but it doesn't seemÛto have extended to choosing jokes.
`Smehow, desite his marathon schedule, he foundÛtime to take a swim [in hotel swimming pools]Û[[N.B.:  Someone said of RSC, that he usuallyÛstayed at good hotels.  (Which seems incongruous,Ûbecause in all other respects that I noticed, heÛseemed to live a life of poverty -- shlepping hisÛown suitcases, taken rides from whoever would takeÛhim; simply dressed; living in a small simple houseÛat Moshav Meor Modi'in ; eating Shalom Shwartz'sÛShabat chicken dinners ==
So from this remark by DH, I reckon that he stayedÛat good hotels because he needed the swimming pool.
When Dafna was flipped out, she would go toÛShlomo's hotel and swim laps in the swimming pool,Ûon his bill of course.  Dafna said:  Shlomo takesÛvery good care of his hevre.  ]]
DH continues:  `It [his swim] was usually for onlyÛabout twenty minutes but, as the Rebbe oftenÛrelated, the Holy Sanzer Rebbe would only sleep aÛtotal on one and three quarter hours in a 24 hourÛperiod.  When he was asked how he doul durvive onÛso little sleep, he answered: ‘Sages are able toÛlearn in a few moments what the layman can takesÛyears to understand.  A sage is aboel to doÛeveryghing at blidng speed.  So, thanks G_d, I'mÛable to sleep very fast.'  [[Similarly, PVK hintedÛthat one can ‘sleep fast' if need be -- that is,Ûget in relatively few hours all the rest andÛrefreshment that most people need 7 or 8 hours ofÛsleep to get.  And I guess the night-time prayer inÛJudaism can facilitate that.]].  
DH continues:  `On this occasion the Rebbe wasÛswimming very fast …'
After a very nice introduction, describing his 6thÛfloor walkup on Rehov Ben Yehuda ca. 1984,  DHÛnotes that RSC first sang ‘VeYitechu Bicha ‘ ,Ûwhich was first recorded on his last album,Û(released posthumously) ‘Sweetest Friends', inÛ1959:  RSC said to to a group in DH's apartment: Û`This was the third song I wever wrote  in theÛblessed year of 1959.  I never recorded it but IÛhope to one day soon, G_d willing…this is the lastÛrecording he madel to commemorate themissingÛIsreali soliders.
An enigmatic joke about a humble holy liar:
DH:  `… he left us with these words:
`Holy borsthers and sisters, there was once thisÛJew that jproudly announced to everyone that he isÛthe grandoson of the great and revered TzaddikÛ(righteous man) the holy jDavair Shekarin, ‘the oneÛwho speaks lies.' ` We are already laughtng butÛthen Shlomo hit us with the punchline:  ‘There wereÛtwo Yidden (Jews) standing close by.  One turned toÛthe other and said ‘The truth is he's so humbleÛthat he just says that it's his grandfather, butÛreally he himself is the holy liar.''
DH:  `It was Friday night at the Moshav, and theÛRebbe was going strong .  We were all in theÛsynagogue that was exquisitlely painted by theÛfamed artist Reba Yitschak ben Yehuda.  He and hisÛwife Rivka had been on the Moshav for some twentyÛyears ever since the school bus they were living inÛborke down.  Sitting in this beautiful ShulÛ(synagogue) with Reba Shlomo was trusly a taste ofÛthe Garden of Eden. …'
`The holy Kiddush wine was flowing freelhy but ourÛRebbe gently taubvght us that the whole world drunkÛin order to forget, but we Yidden drink wine toÛremember.  The main thing, he said, was that,  …Û[heaven forfend] a person should never get drunkÛjon Shabbos; but then he reminded us that we haveÛto be drunk from Shabbos.  So too, we drink wineÛunder the wedding anopy to remind ourselves that weÛshould be druk with love for eachotehr. `
DH quoting RSC:  `My holy grandmother was theÛduaghteer of a Cohen ) (priest) and also theÛduagher of a ;priest's [ie Cohen's  daughter.  

[[N.B.:  `;priest' is in some respects a misleadingÛtranslation of  ‘Cohen'; the Roman Catholic ChurchÛpresumably chose it with tendentious, triumphalist,Ûintent; claiming that Christian (Catholic, afterÛthe schisms) priests are the legitimate successorsÛof the Cohenim of  pre-destruction-of-the-TempleÛtimes. ]]
`So it was for many generatins in here familhy. ÛBoth sides wer Cohanim.  My holy grandfather wasÛthe first one in many generations that broke thatÛtratdition.  They bot married but it was a bit ofÛan embarrassment for my grandmother.  The firstÛtime myil grandfather, also named Reba ShlomoÛCarleback, giave a speech in the jSynagogue inÛAustria my holy grandmother sat in the balconyÛlistening closely to every word.  Afterward my;Ûgrandfather asked my grandmother, Nus, how was theÛspeech.  My grandmother, unable to hide her trueÛfeelings simply said, ‘To tell the truth for anÛordinary Yisrael (non-Cohen) it was OK.''
A very engaging story, 
with a sub-story about a fisherman, `a follower ofÛthe holy Rebbe, Reba Tsvi Yehuda of Stsretten, Z'L' Ûwho spitefully cuts off the tail of a little fish Þ- the Rebbe tells him,  `… You must realize thatÛthe `honor of anyone of G_d's creatures muset neverÛbe taken lightly.'
    Of how R. Shlomo put off a nudnick caller, butÛfelt guilty for having done so.l
DH:  `I kept thjnking of my holy mother, may sheÛrest in peace.  JShe didn't speak abadly aboutÛanother person -- not because she controlledÛherself but rther because she simply never sawÛanything bad in another person …'
DH recalls going with RSC to Ramle prison prior toÛRosh HaShana.  `One lprsoner was qite evidentlyÛunder the infrluemce of drugs and put his hand onÛReba Shlomo's head.  W9th a big smakiel he said: Û`JRe bShlomo I bless you with a Shjana Tova Umi-uÞshenet a good and smokey year.'  Insead of theÛteradition belessing of Shana Tova Umivorachat AÛGood Blessed Year.  What a joke>?!  The whole rideÛbaci Reba Shlomo kept repeating is words and saidÛthat truly was a blessing from the hearat.!'
DH recalls RSC doing a wedding when the britÛfollowed about 10 days later.  [[At the Abode theyÛcalled this, in the 80s , a Sufi wedding.  In thoseÛdays we didn't much hold with state-authorizedÛweddings. 
`…But as as always, R'eb Shlomo with his holyhÛlight pyut it all in the proper prospective [sic: 
[that is:  that proper perspective was that theÛchatan was a prospective pappa.]
So anyhow, Channa-Leah Bogost, z'l, said R. ShlomoÛposed the question:  how can lyou tell if theÛwedding you are attending is orthodox, ultraÞorthodox, conservative, or reconstsructionist.
He reminded us of the time that Adam and Eve gaveÛbirth in the Garden of Eden on the same day thatÛthey met.  And that when the Mashiach wiell beÛrevealed the pain of pregnancy and labor will beÛbamosjed fprever/  `My sweetest friends, maybe weÛare returing to the Garden of Eden as more womenÛare giving birth on the same day they get married. ÛMazel Tov, Mazel Tov.'

[N.B.:   It looks  like DH is quoting from tapes;Ûthough he does not note sources.]
[at a restaurant] `he praised G_d for giving theÛcook so miuch wisdom to cook the food with suchÛlove.  I thought it was a joke but realized thatÛthe Rebbe meant it.'
`He simply said ‘Brother Dovid'l:  How could I sitÛdown and eat before I said hello to everyone?'
I thought og the teaching of the graet Rav ofÛSlobotka, ZT'L on the passage:  ‘Thou sahlt loveÛthely neighbor as you love yourself. ‘' He askesÛthe question:  How is it lpossible to love someoneÛelse the same wayi I love myself?  He answers asÛfollows:  ‘The love on e has for himselfr orÛherself is a verl;y natural love.  It is notÛnecessary to be commanded to feel such a love.  SoÛtoo the jTorah command sus to love evehyrone elseÛin a natural way not necessarily because of aÛcommandment to do so.'
[[Well, they are truly fortunate, wno naturallyÛlove themselves; and they are  fortunate whoÛnaturally love others, ]]
Stosry of Reba Shmelke and Reba Pinchas; theirÛmother goes to the Maggid of Mezritch, Reba DovÛBer.  
DH retells stories fro Rabbi Shmuel Krauss, ztz''l. ÛThis material has not ;previsouly been published.
`I asked him how it was ossible to ot give up inÛsuch awesomely terrible stimes.  He just smiled andÛsaid,k ‘I never gave up on G_d, and as you can seeÛin front of you, G_d never gave up on me. …'
[His father wrote him a letter, and threw it outÛthe window of the train.  He received it.  It saidÛ`… Be a Jew everhy ;precious moment of your life. ÛNever give up the faith of oru forefathers,ÛAbraham, Issac and Jacob.  Not only live as a Jew,Ûbut if necessary give up your life as a Jew.  NeverÛtry to save your life at the expense of someoneÛelse's life. … Remember, my son, G_d's salvationÛcomes in but the blink of an eye.'
`I owned a very small j;pair of Tefillin which hadÛbeen written by a truly G_d--fearing scribe.  OneÛdsy a thought came to my head.  Where could I hideÛthe Tefilling and not get caught?  I realized thatÛthere was only one place.  I had heard from aÛdiamond smuggler that his armpit srved as a goodÛplace ot hide diamonsds. ÛSo I took my most precious possession more valuable than anyÛdiamond and put it in my armpit. …Not only did I merit to fulfillÛthis great Mitzvfah but eery morning as we marched to work in theÛthe dark before dawn, I ;passed the Tefilin around to at leastÛseventy othe trJews who desir5ed not to abadndon this greatÛoppo4rtunity;  Every single day for four yearass I merited to prayÛeach mornig with jTefillin and always,l whatever I did , whereverÛI went, they wre part of me.  I knew that the pure desire of a JewÛto fufill the will of G_d would break down every baqrrier that theÛenemy could construct to restricdt our souls
Yes, they wanted to kill us, but first and foremost thy wanted toÛtake away our pride of Yiddishkeit, the ;pride of being a Jew.  IÛwoldn't sta d for it. …'
`I was so hungry and so thirsty all the time, and I knew that thisÛlittle bit of olive oil wold be able to nourish me for a longÛtime.  Late at night when everyone was fast asleep from theÛtortuous days, I wold stealthily take out the vial ofr olive oilÛfrom under my armlpit.  I would smell the secnt of the o89l andÛremember how good it taste.d  Hundred and hundred of times inÛthilse gfive months I jput the little vial to my lips and almostÛgulped it down to save my satrtving soul.  Each time I did this,kÛsoemteimes even ten times in one day, I would whisper to mayself,Û‘Wait for Chanukah.'  Hering mly own voice, Oi wold close the vialÛsecurely and lput it away safely.
DH states:  `If I hadn't heard the story [of  how he managed toÛobserve Hanukah] from the ljips of this great Tsaddi,k  with myÛown ears, I wold not have been able to imagein e that a personÛcould have such fortitude and courage in the absolutely worstÛconditions.  …

Whre did this great figt of living each moment to the fullest fcoeÛfrom? `  Rabbi Krauss! I cried out,l what mad eyou ant to livaeÛwhen it seemed there was nght left to live for?'

`I ne3ver stoppe4d dreaming for one memeont, ‘ he answerd.  `IÛwnevisoned clearly in from tof tme the most beautiful ShabbosÛtable ever seeen.  I was starving to death, so it helped to keepÛimaging that there were twelve challash in front of me each aÛdifferent size and shape that I had jpersonally baked for theÛhonor of the Sabbath Quieeen.  I iamagined the table filled withÛfamily and guests, each with their own Kiddush cup and twoÛChallahs and as much food as we could eat that I had jpreparedÛwith my own hand s. `

DH goes with his wife [Alifa Sadya, who lives at Moshav MeorÛModi'in] to visit Rabbi Krauss.  `To my utter astonishment thereÛwere tw3elve Challahs (according to the KIabbalisti c tradition ofÛthe Holy Air Rabbi Yitzchak Luria) each a different size andÛshape. … this scenario repated itself for each othe there three ÛSabbath meansl …Rabbi Krauss s;pent all of the S?ahabbos sivningÛat the table, ;praying fervently, teaching Torah to the gatgheredÛrfroup and never mentionng one word of the ;pain he endured.
` I had read in the Code of Jewish Law that aerson shold alwaysÛset his table4 immeidately fter the Sabbath so as to begin theÛweek well with a ‘fourth meal' of the the Sabbath.  … jRabbiÛKrauss took this to mean that the fourth meal of Shabbos was notlyÛnot anly less that the three melas of Shabbos, but might even beÛgreater. … there were two huge challahs … Rabbi Krauss sang withÛis gueset s lutnil the middle of the night and told us that thÛeforuth meal of Shabbos brings blessings to all the meals we woldÛeat in the coming weei.  

`;… so sthat each oen will havae too good strong cups of coffee onÛShabbos mronging as was the custom of the Holy Baal Shem Tov, theÛfounder of the Chassidic movment. `
`'Rabbi KIrauss, you speak of yoru guesets quiate often. J Did youÛevery havae a meal tiwthout guests?' I asked jokingly.  HeÛanswered various seriously ‘G+d forbid I wold neer thinik such aÛthing.'

Story of Reba Zusia and Reba Elimelech, discplies of the Maggid ofÛMezrich Reba Dov Ber who tried making Shabbat on Wednesday.  …Û`Worried aboaut their discovawery they went to the master, theÛGreat Maggid to seek his adice.  ‘We borught Sha bos down on anÛoridarnyl Wednesyday,' they said, `so it's boviosuly not ShabbosÛthat's so highw but wheat we do to make us feel good.'  The MaggidÛof Mezrich pondered the hooliy borhters' quesitnl.  ‘Tell me,' heÛsaid, did you have guests at your talb efor the Wednesday feast' Û‘Of course,' they said.  ‘Aah, the Great Maggid replied, ‘that'sÛthe reaon youi frelt tohte ;presenceo fShabbos on an ordinaryÛJWednesday.  JFor during any meal that you sith with a gueset itÛreally is Shabbos.

Rabbi Krauss anaswed wmy queasetion with theis great sotryl, whichÛtruly defined him.  Why eat alone when every day bcan be Shabbos.Û…'
DH:  If we let go of oruds dremas or cease to laught, G+d forbidÛwe become extremely vulmerable to our enemies' desires.  IF weÛtrulyi want to live to see our dr4ams fulfilled we cannot onlyÛcome back from the grave beut we can even experience the words ofÛthe Holy Kotzker Rebbe (Reba Menachme Mendel, the Angel):  RevivalÛof the dead is no big thing; to me the revival of the living isÛthe real Chidush (new pheonena.) …
[[ Somebody asked, at a mystic camp in Switzerland, can youÛcommunicate with the dead.  Stefan said something aboutÛ‘commuicaste with the livign' ]]

`His door was always open to receive the beggars, the huingry, andÛespecially to the lone3ly peple wo simply needed someonte toÛlisted to them.. `

`The impeneterable faith and unq2uenchable desdire to fulfill ÛG_d'[s words, especially the abyss fo the fieryi furnaces ofÛGehennom, Hell, turned the absolutely miraculous insdto theÛcommplace trivialities we barely pay hee3d ot.  Only in retrospectÛcan swe see BG_d's grat hand through it all.'  So Rabbi KraussÛmused as he often reminded ofme of the dicdtum of the sages, ‘TheÛperson a miracle happens to does ot greacognize the greatness ofÛthe miracle.'

So nu I asked hij, ‘did you really get to eat Matza ofn Peach' ?

`Not only did I reac the required amount of an olive-siaed portionÛbut (you probably wont' believe it!) I distributed portions to 400ÛYidden in the samp from the one little Matza that as left'.  IÛsaidl, ‘Your'sre right, I don't' believe it'.  But with a veryÛserious ex;pression he said, ‘I am telling you the truth.  FourÛhundred Yidden received a crumb of Matza that last Peach were inÛthe camps.'
` … I had opened up mily little bag of flour many hundred of tiemsÛand came so close to stuffing it all in my face.   I keptÛbaettlign whith the questin:  Which took jprecdence, my life ormyÛstubbotrn dream of baking Matza.  The Matza always came out onÛtop, for mo matter how weak with hunger I was the thought ofÛeating Matza at the Passoverf Seder gave just enoguht strength toÛlive. `

`'Accordign to our holy tradition the best time to bake Matza forÛPassover is the day begfore Passover afster twelve noon. …
`'I thnen took out the three little Matzas I had baked and showedÛto everyone.  Notone lperson tried to grab them, but thatetrÛeveryone was slparked with a glimmer of hope. …'

`I concluded the Seder with the words frolm the Zohar that areÛpr9inted in most Haggadas.  It speaks of the angels and theÛheavaenly host descending from heavaento experience the Seder ofÛthe Jews.  In the year that the mricale of jLPurim took place, aÛfast day weas declared by Queeen Esther; the fast came out on theÛnight of the Seder.  Th heavenly host complained to G_d that theyÛwould miss the annoual event of the heavenly Seder on eath G_dÛanswered tham and said by that this year  [sic; ‘biy that thisÛyaer'] the Seder wasw cancelled in order that the Jews truliyÛrepenet.  jBut next year I promise to make up for it .  Pease beÛpatient until next yaer. 
`I was well awre that the jGremans could not last much longer. ÛTheyi had wasted all the money theyi needed to githt the war inÛorder to exptermiate the Jews.'

`Ra bi Krauss lived for almost fify years after he was liberatedÛand saw the blessing of his father fulfilled.  He saw much nachesÛfromj his six cildren and his many, many grandchildren.  May theÛmemory of the righteous protect us all.'

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