1. How Did Reb Shlomo Love Like That? | 20th Yahrzeit Shiur at Simchat Shlomo

Recorded on the 20th Yahrzeit of Reb Shlomo Carlebach zt”l at Simchat Shlomo, this intimate shiur with Rav Shlomo Katz journeys through niggun, story, and heart. Between the melodies of L’Yeshuascha Kivisi Hashem and Mizmor L’David, Rav Shlomo opens the question that has carried generations — how did Reb Shlomo love the way he loved?

Through stories of Reb Shlomo’s parents, his mother’s boundless chesed, and the niggunim that fill and break the heart at once, we glimpse the secret of a neshama that taught the world to believe again, to give beyond what we have, and to sing our way home.

What is Remembering Reb Shlomo Carlebach with Rav Shlomo Katz?

Each year, on the yahrzeit of Reb Shlomo Carlebach zt”l, Rav Shlomo Katz gathers to sing, learn, and remember the light that Reb Shlomo brought into the world.

This collection brings together teachings and stories shared over the years — reflections on the soul of song, the power of love, and the endless invitation to come closer to Hashem through music and heart.

Revisit the melodies, Torah, and spirit of the man who taught us to believe in the holiness of every Jew, and to never stop singing.

This is a ר׳ שלמה ניגון that he once, he was saying when he composed one time. One of my favorite gifts that he ever left, especially 'cause the words that it comes with. We just had the זכות of sharing it with the world this week on the new album. The only way we could do this is together, so everyone in the back, please, please just sing.

I'll do my best, okay?

לישועתך קיויתי השם.

קיויתי השם לישועתך.

השם לישועתך קיויתי.

קיויתי השם.

לישועתך קיויתי השם.

קיויתי השם לישועתך.

השם לישועתך קיויתי.

קיויתי השם.

קיויתי השם, לישועתך השם.

השם לישועתך, קיויתי השם.

קיויתי השם, לישועתך השם.

השם לישועתך, קיויתי השם.

לישועתך קיויתי, השם.

קיויתי, השם.

השם לישועתך קיויתי.

לישועתך קיויתי, השם.

קיויתי, השם.

השם לישועתך קיויתי.

קיויתי, השם.

לישועתך.

השם לישועתך קיויתי.

דאי דאי דאי דאי דאי דאי דאי דאי דאי דאי דאי דאי דאי דאי דאי דאי דאי דאי דאי דאי דאי דאי דאי דאי דאי דאי דאי דאי דאי.

דאי דאי דאי דאי.

איי איי איי איי.

דאי דאי דאי דאי דאי.

או. איי דאי דאי דאי דאי דאי דאי.

או.

איי איי איי איי איי איי איי איי.

למקדשך תוב.

ולקדש קדש קדשים.

וישובו אהבים, ודעת יחדיו רוחי ונפשי.I always feel that every ניגון, every teaching, does what we just, these words we just said right now.

למקדשך תוב ולקדש קודשך.

למקדשך תוב, to your, to your מקדש, come back, return to.

ולקדש קודשך. You know, they asked the ראפשיצער after the חוזה דלובלין died, they said, רבי, רבי נפתלי, how could it be that you guys didn't bring משיח? Because like רב שלמה always said that there was no greater concentration of holiness in one place like there was in the time in לובלין by the חוזה דלובלין.

So if there was such a concentration of holiness in one place, how could it be that you didn't, you guys didn't bring the, you weren't able to bring משיח? And he said, he said, I hate to admit it, but you only really, really want something when you ממש feel like you don't have it. And when the חוזה was around, it felt like the בית המקדש was there. But there's something about every ניגון that as much as it fills you, it absolutely breaks your heart into a million pieces. And I was thinking about it before שבת that everyone knows that to be heartbroken is a very, very high מעלה, it's a very high level to become heartbroken.

But do you know what you have to have in order to be heartbroken? You can only break something that's full, right? So you have to have a complete heart in order to have a broken heart. And I feel like these ניגונים and this, this, this person, this נשמה that came down in 1925 and checked out in 1994 was. like this master of feeling your heart. He's like, it's full? Okay.

I'm gonna I'm gonna dagger you now. So I feel like this roller coaster with every ניגון, every story, every תורה. Such a roller coaster called עולם הזה, and a little bit of עולם הבא too.ויזמר אדון עולם.

שינינו ברזא דשיר.

בראש מילין כרתא.

דהאי שופרא היא.

שופרא היא.

ויזמר אדון עולם.

שינינו ברזא דשיר.

בראש מלין כרתא.

דהאי שופרא היא.

שופרא היא.

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So, I want to give a big הכרת הטוב, big thank you. The biggest thank you in the world to all of our best friend best friends, to רב שלמה and Judy for so much.

For not just not just today, but every day. Every day is like a שלמה יום צייתו memorial. For some people, it's not like, okay, so was it a שלמה? Like what did he do this שבת? This שבת, I've been I I I've been keeping שבת, you know, I've been I have שבת keeping me because there was someone that told me it's not about keeping שבת, it's about how much the שבת keep you. This is all over the world.

I have to share with you a crazy story. I thought about this at the I was listening to the קבר right now and there was some, like always, as like I I always try to go right around the morning, like 10:00 a.m. it's kind of like in the night it's packed and later it'll be packed. And I'm a כהן anyway, so I can't even, you know, go close. So, so it was a, it's always a good time to kind of hang out there for me.

And I saw there some guy, you know, like always, some guy sitting with a flute, playing away. One of the mothers from the מושב with one of her daughters standing there crying, דאווענען out their their eyes out. And then a hippie a hip-style, like a hipster חסיד shows up, pulls out his גאַרטל and goes into his own zone. Two חסידים walked up and then, but the coolest was these two like young ישיבה בחורים who it looked like they were high school, that they ditched school, come up smoking cigarettes, and they ditched school to go to the קבר of רב שלמה on his יום הציון.

So, I want to share with you something that happened a few years back. I might have shared with some of you, but it was an incredible before we sing one more ניגון, and then I hate to say and then learn because I don't know what this was now, if you I don't know if that's learning. Um this is about like sorry, sorry. This is about um uh about like six, seven years ago, no more, more, like seven, eight years ago, I was traveling to London with my friend Laser, some of you know my my friend, our friend אליעזר.

לייזר Lloyd. We went, we had some concerts in in England. And it was right before חנוכה, I remember. And it was dark, like ממש dark, you know, England, ממש dark, 3:00 p.m. like חושך מצרים, you know, can't can't see anything.

And I wasn't used to the weather. I'm an L.A. boy. I'm not used to this kind of this kind of weather.

It was winter in England. And um I got really, really sick. And I never usually doesn't happen to me. I'm usually a good boy and I I know how to take care of myself, especially on the road, but this time I was gone.

Fever, לייזר saved me the whole שבת.

מוצאי שבת is the concert. What am I going to do? It was for this בני עקיבא crowd, but you know, wherever you go and it's like a בני עקיבא crowd or a more like, you know, ציוני crowd, modern crowd, you always have like four פאות, you know, שטריימלעך in the back always, every concert. They hear something has to do with, they're always there in the back, right? And after the show, and I I was already I was really not doing good.

I said, come on, we got to go home. It was really high night. I said to לייזר, we got to get home fast. So, he said, okay, we're we're running to the van that was picked us up, and then we it's like these like four חסידים stop us.

Two ויז'ניצים, two סאַטמערים. It's like, oh boy. Okay. They're like in like a very, very יִידישע English, get them to the car.

Get them to the car and what do you what do you mean? Get in the car right now. So what are you talking about? He said, go into the car, we're waiting.

ממש, I don't know what you're talking about. I was like, listen, I have to we have to be in Manchester tomorrow.

I this is crazy. We're in London, a place called Mill Hill. We we have to this is this is nuts. like you're supposed to be in the car.

It was like there wasn't a שאלה. They knew, they knew this was happening. It wasn't like I was going to say something that would change, you know, they knew what was happening. So, am I telling this story? It's an amazing story, right? So, we go so I go into the car with them.

I'm like, I'm saying to him no one's talking. It's silence. They're mumbling in Yiddish in the front. I turned to לייזר, he keeps on saying, Brody, it's all, don't worry.

You know, אליעזר bro, it's all השגחה פרטית, it's all fine, don't worry, it's all going to work out. We're driving 40 minutes, it's 1:00 in the morning. I'm like, this is okay.

השם, קיוויתי השם לישועתך, you know, I just, whatever, it should be, it should be, it should be for the best.

I don't know what's going on. They say that, okay, out. They open the door, out. Go out.

Nothing, pitch black, freezing, snow, was a very shady, shady, shady scene. And they start saying, down the steps, start walking. Oh my God. Now I'm thinking.

I'm walking, we're walking down these steps. 1:30 in the morning with these Vizhnitzers that I never met, you know, I didn't even know who they were. We're going down the steps. Some guy pulls out a huge keychain.

He cracks open this lock, a few locks, opens the door, and it's the most beautiful Karlin Stolin בית מדרש. Lights are on, candles on table, three long tables filled with מזונות and משקה that they had prepared for us to come and teach them שלמה תורה and new שלמה ניגונים. And there's a big, big זיידי chair in the middle of the… He said, sit. Yeah.

And out of everywhere, out of every two seconds, another חסיד with, with, you know, with the בקהשה, the שטריימל, every, every two minutes, another חסיד came out of the, came out of another hole in the wall. The place was packed with חסידים. And they wanted new ניגון after new ניגון, תורה after תורה. And in between the תורה ניגונים, each one of them came up to me to start explaining to me based on רמב"ם's and ראשונים why רב שלמה had to do what he had to do in the world.

I couldn't believe it. But I'm saying all this because I just want to sing one more ניגון. We sang last night in בנייני האומה. Because I saw someone live a ניגון.

It never happened before in my life, but I saw someone take a ניגון and it moved every limb of his body. You know, the צדיקים talk about this that, that, that you see by the צדיקים, you know, sometimes by the טענץ with the rebbes, you know that if you ever notice really closely by the big צדיקים, they're spelling out י-ק-ו-ק with their, with their steps, with their feet, that they're dancing to in a ניגון. You also know, by the way, this is a classic thing by three-part ניגונים. It's like there's A, then there's B, then there's C, and then you always go back to the B, to the second part.

My friend David told me this years ago. It's because י-ק-ו-ק. It's a deep ענין. So this guy, this חסיד, I'll never forget what he looked like till ממש, I'll never forget it.

He said, no, no, another one. And I was like, I was running out. It was eight years ago. I mean, we must have sang hundreds of that night.

I was like, okay, I got to get a good one. This guy is really... So this is another, no words. This is from ספירת העומר 1975.

This is a beautiful ניגון. You have to just imagine him. Every elbow, every movement was dancing with every ניגון, the ניגון that רב שלמה sang once while it was coming down, never sang it again. It made this person, his limbs come to life.

Every... David, you would love this guy. 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It's pretty crazy that someone that actually, you know, sometimes people don't do so much in life, but they leave a lot for the for the for later on. I've never heard of anyone that was so busy like him in his life, רב שלמה, and times a million busier since he died. Whoever, this is nuts. There's there's enough new ניגונים to be teaching for the next 50 years and it it won't get old.

And when it comes to the תורה, needless to say, you know, אמונה, I just want to say what Ora said before. And I said it last night, אמונה opened the gates for all of us when it comes to the transcriptions. Me, me personally, I was a little kid and came to her once and and the way she shared her this תורה on מים חיים so so like ממש, no no יאוש, nothing to do about her, all about השם. So, being around אמונה was such a, is, continues to be such an amazing inspiration.

The amount of תורה that we have for the next, till משיח comes, it's like משיח's gonna come and then we say תורה חדשה מאתי תצא. There's gonna be a new תורה. So I I have a whole debate. I don't know if we're gonna say, no, no, wait, we still we still have to finish this or, or or I don't want, you know, I don't want to say it, but or השם's gonna say, no, no, no.

This is what you were waiting for. Yeah. This is what you were waiting for. So, I wanted to briefly discuss today something that's very different than what we're what I'm personally used to, what many of us are used to.

One time I was sitting with a big Breslover רב and he said to me, "Uh, tell me something, how did how did רב שלמה get that whole ענין of of, you know, who he was?" And I'm like, "What? You know, the whole, the whole thing." "Like, what are you talking about?" He said, you know, "How how come on, honestly, how can someone love the way he loved? Like what how? Where's that from? Where's that from? Like okay, how did he learn the way he learned? I can't explain that either. How did he write the ניגונים he wrote? You can't explain any of these things. But the question, that that shouldn't bother us like, oh, I want to write as many ניגונים like that, or those shouldn't be the questions that bother us. But the one question that should be a קישקע gut question you ask on the 20th יארצייט, is how did a human being like this love the way that he loved? Where does it come from? Where's that from? And I think that when you really go into that question, then all the תורות and all the ניגונים find a deeper place in your heart, and they have much more meaning in your life after that.

So, usually, if anyone tries to answer that question, how did he love the way he loved? Everyone knows you always go to his אבא. You always go to his father, רב נפתלי. And no one, there's like in all the שלמה stories and books, there's like 0.05% about his mother. My father remembers, he told me.

He sometimes would accompany רב שלמה, he'd pick him up in the שול and go play somewhere in the שול in New York and his mother was looking through the window, the second floor, always dressed in black. You you remember her, right? She ever not wear black? Even to his own wedding. She's a grand lady, but someone came up with a whole חידוש last week explaining why she was like this. I want to share with you something that I came across last week that I think that it'll explain a lot to help us with the question, how does a person love and give the way that he gave, and in essence, keeps on giving us right now? Because, you know, I'm from the younger generation, whatever that means, and we all know this young חברה, we all know just like the older חברה that were with him, if it wasn't for him, there's no way we would have given up on God five million times a second.

We would have given up on the Torah every day. And most of all, we definitely would have given up on the dreams that השם had for us when he created us, if it wasn't for him.Where does, where what are the origins? Where does it come from? So in the תניא, the בעל התניא explains in in his majestic way what the וולד, what, how do you say וולד in, the embryo, the fetus is composed of. Like literally what goes into the fetus in in in the formation, and how a person carries that the rest of his life with him. So, you know the ניגון, מזמור, it's נוסח.

They sing it to נשמת too.

נשמת כל חי תברך את שמך ה' אלוקינו ורוח כל בשר תפאר ותרומם זכרך מלכנו תמיד מן העולם ועד העולם אתה א-ל ומבלעדיך אין לנו מלך גואל ומושיע. So that beautiful piece was originally composed at רב שלמה's mother's funeral. He was standing there and he was singing מזמור לדוד, ה' רועי לא אחסר.

בנאות דשא the whole thing. And I stood this morning, I took a second away from רב שלמה. I went, we always try to go first, say a קפיטל תהילים by רב שלמה's parents, and I went, but on the יארצייט we always start by רב שלמה and then go to his parents. I don't know why it's like that.

That's how we've been doing it for years. So when I went, stopped, went to the mother for a second. There's two rows ahead, three rows ahead, right there on the side, and I read the כוונה of what we're going to be looking at. It's a very fast one-pager, but I really believe it sheds a lot of light on this question of where is that giving from? Where is that love from?

דייקא to learn about רב שלמה's mother today, his מומא, which, which yeah.

In honor of my my mother, in honor of the mother of my daughters, in honor of all the mothers in the room, I feel it very strongly.

חיי שרה. It's a whole, it's where it's at.Alright, חבר'ה in the back, it's gonna get to you in the back. I'm just going to start it because we don't have a lot of time.

I know everyone wants to go to the קבר. So, if there, I mean, ברוך השם, obviously there's not enough, so so share if you can.

רב שלמה says like this. Before my mother died, she was very, very sick.

She would have six hours a. of oxygen every day and she was out of it for hours. And then again she'd wake up and had to be on oxygen. She didn't have כח anymore.

This is 1980.But you know what my mother was all about? My mother was so much into helping people. Listen to this unbelievable story. Two days before she left the world, someone called her up. She had a phone near her bed in the hospital.

רבנית, I need a loan for $2,000. By the way, she was known even dating back to Austria. There's a whole story how she saved the פוניבז׳ ישיבה from going under. It's a lot of stories like that.

She was, whatever, you could say whatever you wanted to say about her, but when it came to חסד, she knew there was no boundaries, there were no limits.רבנית, I need a loan for $2,000. Would you believe my mother was on the phone for four hours? She called up every person she knew, and she got this person a loan of $2,000. Okay, but now listen, now let's learn the תורה behind this חסד, okay? Now we're learning, okay? Now it's really learning the story.Imagine how many people are not in the hospital, and you ask them for a favor and they say, I don't have it. My mother didn't have any money, but she was ממש always making sure that whoever needs something, gets it.

So by her לויה, I said a תורה like this. This is right after he composed that ניגון we just sang.

מזמור לדוד, right? So in מזמור לדוד it says, אך טוב וחסד ירדפוני כל ימי חיי which means, only goodness and love should persecute me.

ירדפוני.

As long as I live.

ושבתי בבית השם, I should dwell in the house of God לארך ימים, forever.So everybody's asking, goodness, טוב וחסד doesn't have to persecute me. I wish it would come my way, but why persecute me? Why is דוד המלך saying it should persecute me? It has millions of meanings. Why persecute? Like a רודף.

This is how he learned it out. This is how רב שלמה's words. I didn't make any of this up. No but you're asking, you're asking.

No, no, no, he's asking. I just, I read his question out of it. Today, I don't say a word of my own on this יארצייט. It's not, I wouldn't dare to say a word of my own.

Every single word we're saying now is in ממש his words right now. Love you.If I go to Baron Rothschild, listen to what he says here. This is so amazing. If I go to Baron Rothschild and ask him, could I have two million dollars? So it might be far out, like meaning, it's a pretty wild thing, but he can handle such a request.

He's Rothschild. It's not, you're not coming to someone that can't handle such a request. But if I ask someone who doesn't have it, then it's crazy. It's just persecution.

Yeah. I mean for someone to call my mother in the hospital and ask her for a loan of $2,000, straight up persecution, right? What do you want? What do you want of me? Okay, now look what he says. But the answer, ושבתי בבית השם. This is a sign that this is a really heavenly person.

People who have so much heaven in them, you can ask them anything in the world.You know what I was thinking today by the קבר? I said for our generation, we just have a קבר to go to. But for all the people that had him in life, they asked him for 2,000, 2 million dollars all the time. They asked him for things that he never really had. The stories that are coming out about how what he did in order to get someone what they needed, what he did to give someone something that they needed when he himself really, really was on zero hours of sleep for a few months.

So where does it come from? When you ask someone from, from some, you ask something from someone that they ממש, they just don't have it. How can you ask them and how can you give it to them?

רב שלמה says, אך טוב וחסד ירדפוני כל ימי חיי. When I'm being persecuted by things that how could I give it to you?

ושבתי בבית ה׳ לאורך ימים. This is a sign of someone who sits and dwells in the house of God forever.

This is a sign that you're dealing with a real heavenly person.I remember when I was a little boy and we came to America the day before our first פסח, we didn't have מצה. By the way, the story is is that there were all these people that רב נפתלי and רבנית פסיה helped back in Vienna and probably still when they were in Germany. Many people who made it out before the war, even before they did, before that fateful night on the boat, when the Carlebach family managed to escape on one of the last boats leaving. And they, this, people from their קהילה had already made it to America.

And רב שלמה says he was so heartbroken, he was a teenage boy, 13, 14 years old, when he saw that his parents came to America, had nothing. And all the people that they were helped by the Carlebach family back in Europe suddenly forgot where all the חסד came from and didn't help them. They already established in America. Broke his heart, million pieces, he said.

So here he says, I remember when I was a little boy and we came to America the night before our first פסח, we didn't even have מצה. We didn't have a penny. Why we didn't have, why didn't we have a penny? A lot of people did eventually come, new people, and brought my father money, but my father gave it all away. I wonder where he got that trait from, right?

ברוך השם, I remember the night before פסח, I couldn't believe it.

I was a little boy, my father called up a rabbi and started telling him, there's a יידעלע here who has nine children and he has nothing to eat. We have got to get him some money for פסח. The next morning, we had some money.You don't think that the רבונו של עולם knows exactly who he gives what to? The רבונו של עולם knows exactly, exactly who he trusts with whatever you have. The רבונו של עולם trusted you with whatever you have.

But when it comes to a heavenly נשמה, השם trusts you even with that which you don't have yet, which is the highest thing in the world, right? He trusts you with even, you don't even have it and השם trusts you with it. What does that even mean? So on שבת we were saying that usually the more, the further you get from a person in their lifetime, so the more legends and exaggerations and myths suddenly start start popping out. It's always like that, you know. The further you are from the person in their life, so the more miracle stories start popping up.

And that's true about most people. That's why it's a very big danger, you know, we're very big on הספדים, eulogies which we should never know. But when you have to give someone a הספד, keep it short and to the point and really maybe don't even say anything at all. Because we have a tendency to start blowing things out of proportion once a person dies.

When a person's alive, nothing, גארנישט. He could save your life 20 times a day, but there's no way in the world you'll start blowing him up and making him, making him great.You know, רב שלמה was once invited, Channel 13 did a whole big thing on about חסידות, about חסידים today. This was in the early, mid 80s I think. And they invited חסידים from באבוב, from סאטמאר, from לובאוויטש, and from some of Zalman's חברה.

And רב שלמה was invited and they come, they get there, רב שלמה said the show started at 8:00. So they get there at 7:00, which is a big, that's the biggest חידוש of the story what I said right now, that the show started at 8:00 and he said he got there at 7:00. That's a huge חידוש. And he said that the producer of the show came to him right before, right before they're about to go up and start, you know, preparing the set, and he says, listen, I'm so sorry, I don't know how to tell you this, but there's this two, this couple, this חסידיש couple, they won't sit with you on the same panel.

They can't sit around this, they were supposed to be a טיש. They said they won't sit with you at the table. So he said, okay. Won't sit with me on the same table, but we'll be on the same panel, be on the same TV show.

So I won't sit at the table, I'll sit on the side.

בזיון. So then when he saw who the couple was, he looked at the חסיד. He's a guy who was a heroin addict in the streets of San Francisco.

Reb Shlomo saved this guy's life. He pulled him off the streets. He was a heroin addict. And Reb Shlomo said, you know, when it comes to those heavy stuff, you don't just pull him out and say you got to stop.

You got to be on top of them every day, morning to night, 'til they're out of it, right? So he said he wasn't in San Francisco all the time. But he made sure when he saw this guy, he remembered, I made sure that all my חברה in the house of love and prayer were taking care of him day and night. I'm sure you remember him, you know. He didn't say his name, so I didn't, but it's not important, but so he says, so Reb Shlomo comes up to the wife and he says, it's amazing.

If someone would have given you a million dollars for me to sit at the table right now, you would have probably said okay. But just because it's just brother humble me, you won't have me sit at the table with your husband who I saved his life? And she said, it was not my idea.In his lifetime, I bet you by the way that that couple probably runs the biggest Shlomo פארברענגען since he died. Or maybe not. But there are plenty of those who do do that.

That's okay, you know why? Because we're dealing with a נשמה that's called מעל המחלוקת. You know what I mean? There are certain נשמות that they're like they're they're still attached to like their own נשמה is still trying to figure out like מחלוקת and stuff. Then you have נשמות that are מעל המחלוקת. That we could in עולם הזה we could keep on going back and forth in terms of what's קדושה, what's not קדושה.

When you let his תורה penetrate your being, that question becomes absolutely irrelevant. It's it's it's it's almost as important as as how fast did you tie your shoes this morning? That question. It's absolutely irrelevant. When you when you're so obsessed with trying to understand how does a person love like this, then everything else dwindles away.And if that's our focus, I was sitting with with I was sitting with Ruti this I had the זכות of sitting with my one of my rebbes this last week.

And we were talking about this 20th יארצייט is you're we're going through something very, very powerful. You know, we're we're really end it's like this whole day, and I'm sure many of you feel it because it's 20, and it's like 20 is a crazy number because even those of us that are young suddenly feel old. What do you mean 20? 20? 20 is like a 20 is a huge chunk, you know? And I think with Reb Zalman taking off this year, it's like this is it. Now it's like now the now the era is really, really, now it's now it's not, you know, now it's really something else.

And the question is, what is it, what is the something else about? Where's your בחירה חפשית? Where's your free will to choose, what are you choosing the next 20 years to be about? Remember that famous interview that that Reb Micky Rosen עליו השלום did with Reb Shlomo the last summer in יקר and this that answer that he gave which we say all the time. When he was asked to talk about himself, so after he would say 20 jokes, the humble man in him would, you know, try to get out of it and Micky would not let him get out of that question no matter what. He finally said, you know what? I can't stand shallow ideas. He said, I can't stand shallow people.

I love them, I forgive them, but I can't stand them, he said.So when we're going into this next this יארצייט, is this cycle, it's this, I מממש feel such a washing machine. You know, such a washing machine. This is like taking us like and it's a chance on a day like today, the day 20 years ago when the מלאכים and the צדיקים, when the Friedeker Rebbe and the Rebbe and and the Mezritcher Rebbe and the Ishbitzer and his father and Moshe Leib good שבת stood there greeting him back to שמים. And the energy of that שמחה that took place in שמים when they greeted back his נשמה is the power and energy which keeps on coming up to the surface on the יארצייט itself.

So it's a day of begging the רבונו של עולם to remove any ounce of shallowness and pettiness from our concepts of God, from our concepts of יידישקייט, from our concepts of תורה, and from our concepts mainly of the relationships between each other. You know, it's crazy. Most things that bug us, if חס ושלום we were stricken with a horrible, horrible tragedy, all those things would stop bothering us. Reb Nosson of Breslov says, "The תכלית of a person in this world is to get to that place where he removes all the things that are bothering him, which would be removed by a tragedy, to remove it without a tragedy taking place in your life."And this, if there was ever a day to tune into that energy, I I believe with a full רמ"ח אברי ושס"ה גידי, with every fiber of my being, that it's this day when this נשמה was greeted back to שמים 20 years ago.It's okay, it's okay.

Probably him. It's probably him calling saying, "Brother, don't take life too seriously," or something. Anyway, we should learn, we should learn that our laughing this year shouldn't be shallow laughing. You know, ממש our shallow laughing.

Rav Kook calls it צחוק הכסיל, the laughter of the fool. You know, you meet some people, you ask them, "How are you?" Laughter is, you ask them, "What'd you do? What'd you have for breakfast?" The whole laughing געשעפט. Like the laughing הלוואי, בעזרת השם, even the laughing shouldn't be shallow. I have a really strong feeling.

We're in a home of such קדושה, surrounded by people that that was that were drinking from the fountain of depth for so many years. You know, just sitting always whenever I'm in the room with Reuven and Yehudit and Zusha and David and Ora and Judy's here and Ilana, who were drinking from that fountain, and so my my glasses aren't on, so forgive me if I didn't recall your name, but like, so many people that were drinking from that fountain as a כלי ראשון and now we're כלי שני. But you know what? That כלי is still burning for fire. It's ממש, it didn't cool off at all, at all.

The כלי is still burning. We should השם should in his חמלה רבה, in his great compassion, teach us how, I believe the only way to keep on having that כלי being poured and keeping the מים רותחים. There's if you know in הלכות, there's a concept called תתאה גבר, which means that when it comes to כשרות, if something on the bottom is boiling, and on top the dish isn't boiling, then the הלכה'ic status of what's on top of it always goes according to whatever is going on on the bottom.

תתאה גבר.

So I always think about that when it comes to like these יארצייט and these days is that like תתאה גבר, you know, those who hold themselves ממש low, תתאה, they're the ones that are ממש burning with the most fire in the world. And הלוואי the secret of real שפלות והכנעה, of real modesty and and and making yourself into absolutely nothing in order to even become something, like our הייליגע רבי made himself, אנו ימינו כצל עובר. Our days are like a passing passing shadow. The זכות of that ענוה, of that humble, humble smile, that humble, that humble man who could have been the greatest ראש ישיבה, the greatest chief rabbi that ever lived, and instead, he chose to make sure that our grandchildren will actually care what the רבונו של עולם is all about.Da da da la la la la la la la, la la la la la la la la la.

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יה לה לה לה לה לה לה, הו הו הו הו הו הו הו, הו הו הו הו הו הו, יה לה לה לה לה לה לה.

יה לה לה לה לה לה לה, הו הו הו הו הו הו הו, ניי לה לה לה לה לה, ניי לה לה לה לה לה, ניי לה לה לה לה לה לה, יה לה לה לה לה לה לה.

הי, לה לה לה לה לה, לה לה לה לה לה לה, לה לה לה לה לה, לה לה לה לה לה לה, לה לה לה לה לה לה, לה לה לה לה לה לה, לה לה לה לה לה.

יה לה לה לה לה לה לה, הו הו הו הו הו הו הו, הו הו הו הו הו הו, יה לה לה לה לה לה לה.

לה לה לה לה לה לה לה, לה לה לה לה לה לה לה.

ניי ניי ניי ניי ניי ניי ניי, ניי ניי ניי ניי ניי ניי ניי.

לה לה לה לה לה לה, לה לה לה לה לה, לה לה לה לה לה לה, לה לה לה.

כל הכבוד.