Tape 100, Side A

...{…} [“Who is the King of Glory,” this, this.. It is written in the Zohar, yes, and all the sleep and.. and all the exile, and..] Ah.. [It is a great thing; if one does not know what one is saying, it is impossible to pray, the entire prayer is worth nothing, yes] {Yes, right}, oy.. [“Who is the King of Glory”] Oy [Oy, oy, do you want help?] [Do you want to go to the bathroom…?] No, no, but here {we will sit together} [Okay, good, good, good, good] Oy vey, oy vey.. [……..…] Oy, oy, oy… [………….] [.…]… ...[……….] Good [………]… ...[Ah, {….}, Sharon, come over to Father for a moment..] Do you hear? You, do you hear? [This could be.., excuse me, just a moment, Tzipora wants a moment] Good, nu, shoyn [I, am I allowed to listen?] Yes, yes [Oh, good, perhaps, perhaps we will pick it up] This is for all of us [Oy, good, good, {….}, perhaps to read..] [Yes, yes, yes, yes, this..] [Perhaps he will want to read this] [This..]… ...the legal adviser […] She is the legal adviser [Yes.. yes, yes, yes] Yes, in Shazar's days and also today [Yes] So I do not know, perhaps she is already retired, no? [What? I do not think, I do not think] No? [Two years ago we were with her] Eh? [Two years ago we were with her together] Yes, yes, yes, yes [So presumably she is still..] So you wrote her name too [Yes, both of them] So both of them are good [I said, ask, ask about, ask about the personal relations that there were between Rebbe Yisroel (Kardonner) and President Shazar In private he told him that he was worthy of the president's chair] {..} [I wrote it] Eh? [I wrote that the president told you in private:

"That you are worthy of the chair of the presidency," I wrote..] Oy, good, good, both of them are good She, Aviva, she knows such things, that there was the connection between me and the president There was.. Porush, Porush from Agudat Yisrael [Yes, yes] Menachem Porush wanted to throw me out of the apartment, and the president fought with him He is brazen, he did not want.. yes And she knows everything, it was through her, through Aviva was all, all.. yes The power of the president, what he did for this [Yes, yes] He wanted to give me an "old-age home," an institution [In Yerushalayim?] In Yerushalayim, in Talbiya, it is American [American] It is like a hotel, it is not.. [….] Ordinary, yes He wanted to give me "Why should you, why should you..?," Menachem, Menachem Porush, "Why should you? I am giving you.." yes [All good] Yes, and I did not want, I did not want to go to an institution [Everything was because of Aharon, because Aharon was in Kfar Saba] Yes, but she knows what the president.. [Yes, what, what..] What he did for this, what self-sacrifice he had, yes And he was brazen, he did not want to listen to him But in the end, he gave him the address of this man, of the apartment And the president prevailed upon him to leave me in the apartment all the days of my life {Yes} Nu, so in any case she knows what he did for this, yes That is good, Shulamit, she knows more than Shulamit, yes She saw the self-sacrifice he had for me, so she, to this day [And she also knows my name, that I wrote: "Sharon"] Huh? [I wrote, I wrote my name, my address, so that they should send the letter to me] Yes [So she remembers the episode when we all came to her together]

Ah [A year and a half, two years ago] Yes, yes [We all came together] Yes [And she remembers the matter, that she tried to help me] Yes [To get out of the trials] Th.. you wrote that? [No, but she remembers th..] You, you remember [She, she remembers] She remembers? [She certainly remembers th..] Nu, did you speak with her? [That he ca.., no, but she certainly remembers that we all came to her] Yes, yes [And she, she called the airport] Yes [….] Yes, yes, yes, yes ,yes, yes, yes [To help with the trial] That was all.. [Everything was for now] All the sweetening was for this [For now] {They} are speaking from the president's office [Yes, yes] This, this is not, this is not a simple thing {You came out} great, yes, this confused them [Yes] {You return} and that is all, with everyone, yes In any case, do you know about this? Tzipora informed.. [Yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, blessed is Hashem] So, so.. [This..] So it can happen at any moment [Yes, yes, yes, Hashem will help] Today or tomorrow, so we need to be.. [The main thing is that the whole matter must be kept a great secret] Huh? [The whole matter must be kept a great secret] Yes, yes, yes [The whole matter of the Petek is a great secret from the world] Yes, {...} [Please] [I, bli neder..] Ah, is this for Mordechai, Mordechai? [Yo] [No, this is for the..] [Do you also want?] [The rabbi, the rabbi, the rabbi] No, no, no [No, no, no] I do not, not [For you, Rebbe, nu, for you] [No, no, no, he drank] No, no, no, no, no, no [Abba, this is {…..}, I can give him a little more] I, I already drank

[….] [I, bli neder, when you travel to Russia, I, bli neder, bli neder] Can you travel there? [Yo, bli neder I am traveling with you] Do you have an {American} passport? [Yes, yes] Yes [I, I do not want to say a vow, bli neder] I, you need to do it immediately, the earliest, the very first [Yes?] Yes! [Oh] To be, to be alive [Here on Rosh Hashanah, on Rosh Hashanah here] To be alive in Russia [Oh.. good, good that you told me] Yes, yes, certainly [Yo, that I need to get organized] Such rectifications that we have no conception [No, I want to be with you] To be at, at Rabbainu's tziyun [No, I..] In Uman and to say the ten chapters of Psalms, the "Tikkun HaKlali" at the tziyun [But I want to travel together with you] Ah, if only [Bli neder] Nu, but I have no passport, only.. [Nu, good, but..] Only an Israeli one [If they do this, I think they will do this, that they will give you] Yes? [This is what is needed now] No, they will not give me [No, but he said th..] Who said? [He needs to write to the Foreign Ministry] Huh? [Yo, that is what they are talking about] That's it? [Yo, hey.., he did not understand this] [What?] [He did not understand this, that this.. that he would receive a place to travel to..] [This will enable the Foreign Ministry..] Nu [To help.., with Hashem's help..] Yes [To do with the.., to make an agreement with the Russians] Yo [That we should come with Israeli passports] For me? [Yo, yo] [I asked for a minyan..] [That is what..] [I asked for a minyan of people, a minyan] [A minyan] [Together with you, so that you will have a minyan at the tziyun on the eve of Rosh Hashanah] On the eve of Rosh Hashanah? [Yes, yes]

[A minyan] Nu, and where? There is, there is, there is.. [The Foreign Ministry] Nu [He will approach the Russians regarding a minyan for the eve of Rosh Hashanah, for two days, three, to be in Russia] Yes [In honor of Rosh Hashanah in Russia] Yes [So..] [But they will not approve a minyan, {…}, ask for fewer] [A minyan, a minyan, it is possible to have a shofar and it is possible to do everything, to pray evening, evening..] [I say bli neder, {I will do this}, I have an American passport] [Ah, ….] I did not know, I did not know, this is the.. this is it [Yo, this] [That is the request, that is the request] Ah, I thought perhaps it was for the printing press {...} [No, no, for..] But these are Shulamit Kahana, Shulamit [Yes] [Yo] And Aviva [Yes] Sarah, she works for her [Yes] And they, they, she, Aviva, she knows such things—that I had a connection with the president, such secrets that no person knew of, and she knows, yes [Which Aviva?] And he.. Aviva is the legal adviser {{of}}, of the president [Ah, yes] [I do not know what happened..] [Yes] [I think Aharon traveled..] {…} [To Yerushalayim, I called..]… ...I had a dream, that a wealthy man from Yerushalayim came to me [Yes] Who is a great miser [Yes] 'Ma'ayan Shtov' [Yes] 'Ma'ayan Shtov,' did you hear? Did you hear? [Yes, yes, yes] You heard, yes His father is, his father, I think he is already no longer in the world But I saw his father, and he came, and we spoke about the matter of the printing press And the servant said that it costs such and such [Yes] So he, so he took out a checkbook [Yes] And he gave a check [..] A gift, five thousand dollars, he t… [..] Yo, and he said to me, he made a check..

[Whatever you want] {…… to go up}, yes He is a miser and not.. yes And he said to me: “Do not worry, money, and there will be a printing press and there will be money and everything,” yes, yes Afterward he took out more money, more dollars, another, another ten thousand He, he, he took out the checkbook, {…} [….] He gave a check [.…] More.. I was astonished, I know him, that he is not so.. [Does not do so much] It is because he.. [Yes, yes] A great miser, yes Yes, and each time he gave a check “Ten thousand? Fine, one moment” He gave a check and says to me each time, and says to me: “Do not worry, there will be a printing press and there will be, and there will be, and there will be dollars” […..] [Do you hear, this..] There were, there were more, more, more wealthy people, and he, and he did not let them give checks; he immediately, {he .. gave ………} And they did not, and they also wanted to give, to make out checks But he preceded them, he, he preceded them and gave a check, so there was {….} [He is a spring, a spring, a spring] A spring [A spring of dollars] Yes, ‘Ma'ayan Shtov’ [‘Ma'ayan Shtov,’ a good spring, a good spring, ‘shtov’ is good] Nu.. [‘Shtov is..] But we.. [Shtov, shtov, ‘tov’] No, we do not know what is with Aharon [..] [Aharon was, this morning he called, and he told me that he feels there is news] Why not..? He arranged a meeting at the Agency, why did you not hold the meeting? [His father was sick, and I do not remember exactly, it was already three weeks ago] Ah.. ah.. [A month ago, three weeks] Ah.. [Maybe because of the father, maybe.., the father passed away, I do not know] [The father passed away exactly, I think on Thursday..]

Ah.. ah.. [I do not remember what the reason was] There, there was a reason, there was a reason [Not just like that, in the air] Ah, ah [No, I remember that he said to me: "You..”] But, but there were tz.. [“If I do not come, you go to.."] They had to.. [….. told me] Notify them that today we cannot meet [To set, yes] Ah.. [Another time] That they should make another time [Rebbe, you only need to pray that my wife] [.. this is what..] Nu [Pray that my wife and her family] Nu [That they should give money] Yes? [Their father was a tzaddik, the greatest baal chesed] Yes? [And they do not, do not know to whom to give the money?] {..} Look, Rebbe.. [Ah..] Rebbe.. Rebbe, you need to pray, to pray that my wife.. Her father was the baal chesed.., he gave all his money..] Yes, do they have money? [Yo] Yes? [They have millions] Yes? [Yo, you only need to pray..] Why, why do they not give..] [Ah] Until now? [No, they became disillusioned] Eh? [No, I have no influence over them, they became disillusioned because..] Why? [Because they got married, there were rabbis, there were people who were not decent] Not decent [Yo, but her father, all the money he gave before his death and..] Ah [Yo, so you can pray that they should give in her name, of the..]… ...{Here} [Yes] Nu, they wanted to, and he also knows them [Yes] At any rate… ...[Saba and the friends sing: “In You our fathers trusted, they trusted and You delivered them To You they cried and escaped, in You they trusted and were not ashamed..” “Na Naḥ Naḥma Naḥman MeUman..”] Oy, oy, Master of the World [Saba sings:

“For Hashem has comforted Zion, comforted all her ruins, and made her wilderness like Eden, and her desert like the garden of Hashem; joy and gladness shall be found in her, thanksgiving and the sound of song..” and afterward the friends also join in]… ...[Saba and the friends sing: “A foretaste of the World to Come is the Sabbath day of rest All who delight in it shall merit abundant joy From the birth pangs of Mashiach they shall be delivered into relief Cause our redemption to sprout, and sorrow and sighing shall flee To delight in delights, fattened fowl and quail and fish, to the good Temple and to the Holy of Holies A place in which spirits and souls rejoice together {{Singing}} songs and whisperings In Yerushalayim, city of beauty” To the melody of “Na Naḥ”] [We also want you also to come there..] [Nu] Ah Saba sings: “Harvest has passed, summer has ended, and we have not been saved..”] This melody is, this is hitbodedut [Yes …] Of the month of Elul [Yes] Our people went, went at night.. [Yes] To the forest [Yes, after midnight] At midnight, after midnight [Yes] And cr.., it was a time to cry out [Yes] This is in the month of Elul [Yes, yes] Then, then ‘harvest has passed’ [Yes] The month of Elul is already the end, the end, all the summer has already passed [All the summer, yes] ‘And we have not been saved’ So this was hitbodedut, a kind of hitbodedut [Saba and the friends continue to sing: “Harvest has passed, summer has ended, and we have not been saved..”] There were such sounds in the forest, from the depths of the heart [Yes] Where are we? Harvest has passed, already ‘harvest has passed, summer has ended, and we have not been saved’—what will be m.. [..] When will we merit repentance? When? Elul [Yes] Oy [They are speaking about repentance, this, this..] [Yes, yes, yes] [The wording is th..] [Time has passed..] ‘Harvest has passed, summer has ended,’ all {our prayer}, it is not only the.. {...}

[Yes, yes] [All our years] Already everything, has passed, everything has passed and we have not been saved In a little while we are going to the World of Truth, what will become of us, what will be..” [Yes, yes, yes] ‘Harvest has passed, summer has ended,’ all, all our lives have passed, all, all, all our strength Everything has passed and we have not been saved [You see, this..] This is a great awakening […...] It is not only this harvest, “harvest has passed..,” it is all, it is.. [It is every summer] “Harvest has passed” [All of life] And we have not been saved, {...} [Yes] [Who wrote these songs? No, who..?] I do not know [Oh] I only know that there is such a song [Yo, yo] […………]… ...[Hitbodedut] like this? [But I do not know what..] With whom? [The..] {….} [No, in the forest, we went in the forest, he cried out..] Oy, oy.. [He] Oy.. Were you never there? {… you heard} from the words of Rebbe Nassan..] [No, no, he speaks only Hebrew] Words of Rebbe Nassan.. [….] {….} To this day, how it came out of his mouth There was not, then there was not [……..] [Yes..] He.., I was a baker, then there was in Teveria.. [Hebrew, Hebrew, Saba] Someone opened, a big, a millionaire, the.. [You..] [Speak Hebrew] [Speak Hebrew..] {..} [He does not understand Hebrew, Rebbe, he does not understand Yiddish] Before, before many years ago [Yes] A hotel opened in Teveria [Yes] A hotel with all the indulgences [Yes] A special hotel [Yo] And the owner, and the owner of the hotel, his name was Feingold [Yes] [Feingold] [Yes] [All the indulgences] And he.. [And I remember him] I was a baker [Yes] And he wanted the most, most expert baker and the best and the most..

[Yes] An expert [This, this is Saba] [Yes] So they said to him: “Odesser, the Odesser bakery,” yes So he sent for me [That was his wife..] I came, and he bought from me.. [Bread] Bread [Yes] Challah, and bread, yes [This is a great rabbi, Rabbi Yisroel] [Rolls] And he.. eh? What? [Was this Rabbi Yisroel?] [No, no] No.. [No, this was someone who opened a hotel] [….] [He did not understand Yiddish] Slowly, slowly [Yes, yes, yes] Yes, I had a bakery [Yes, yes, yes, yes] [They needed someone who would be a baker] [Ah, ah] [A good baker, you know, so they chose him] I was a baker, I was a baker, and all the {counsels\foundation} of the bakery [Ah..] Nu, and everyone was, was jealous of me: “Yisroel Ber the Breslover, he made it, he rose on high, to.., higher and higher.. We are all poor, we have no money, and Yisroel Ber the Breslover has a bakery—a bakery? A bakery is, is, is a factory for money.. [Yo] A bakery? What is that?” [It is a factory for making money] And I, everyone was jealous, jealous [Yes] And it is a miracle that I did not become blind The tears came down by themselves, I do not need to think, {to prepare} To.. that it should come down, that there should be tears [Yes] The tears came out by themselves I did not want to, I, I was afraid that I would be, would be blind [Yes] What? These are tears, this, this, this, for the eyes this, this is very terrible [Yes] Yes, it takes the light, the light of the eyes [Yes] But I did not want to cry [Yes] But it came out by itself.. [Why did you cry?] {Where I was} did not want to, they came down [Why?] From the magnitude of the sorrow that I had

[Ah, ah] [Eh?] What? What is the money for? What.. [Oh, he cried, that he..] {What is this?} [Is making money, yo] Yes [Yo, yo, yo] Yes [So when did you leave?] So ah.. [He cried..] [He began to cry because he began to make money, he began to cry] Feingold.. [He was afraid of becoming blind] [Feingold?] Yes [The owner of the hotel?] The owner, the owner of the hotel, yes He was learned in the holy books and he, and he loved to hear words of Torah and.. I spoke with him about Rabbainu, and he was impressed and he.. And I was unique in the world to him, yes [Yes] Yes, so he had such a machine, he, many years ago It was, he had.., a very wealthy man, and he had such a thing So he said to me: “I want to hear, I heard that you sing on Shabbos “Aishes Chayil” and.. [Yo] And zemiros, I want to hear” So he took this [Yo] I, I, and I did not know, I sang After all, he wanted to hear, so I sang “Aishes Chayil,” yes Afterward, the following week, he called me and he opened it, and I hear that I.. [Your voice …...] [That was perhaps..] This, how can such a thing be? [Now there is..] What is this? Yes [That was..] [..much more, sixty years..] [It could be that such a thing before..] [There was, there was, there was, yo, yo..] Yes, yes [Forty years] Yes [Yes] Yes, yes, it was not so {cheap}, but it existed [There was, there was] [Yes, yes, yes] [I told anyway, the way Father told]…