Tape 16, Side A

...[“Puts on tefillin in the morning?” Saba, if he puts on tefillin in the morning, then he will not be president]… ...[Here, here, here] President Sharett, is he, is he here? [That is his name] [...] [His name pursues you] [To this day] [He wants rectification; how could it not pursue him?] [Do you understand? This place is named after him..] He said to him: “You are not my friend, and neither is Ben Gurion; Yisroel Ber Odesser is my friend.” […...]… ...The opponents said this Shabbos that he, that he was {in Yeru..}.., that he walked to Yerushalayim on foot. {. .} Rav Tzvi Rosenthal [Yes] They said that they sent {me} to Uman. [Spies, spies] “You do not know the, the Breslov [people]. They sent him to Uman; he, he is not in the Land.”… ...He said: “Ben Gurion and Moshe Sharett are not my friends. My friend is only Yisroel Ber, Yisroel Ber Odesser.” [Saba, take some paper]… ...[Saba and the friends sing: “Na Na Nach Nachma Nachman MeUman..”]… ...[Saba and the friends sing: “Na Na Nach Nachma Nachman MeUman..”] [….]… ...There is a little tomato soup here. [What did he say?] Yes. [Soup made from what, Saba?] From tomatoes. [We have brought peace..] Ah.. ah.. ah.. ah.. ah.. ah.. ah.. [……..…..] Ah. [Saba, you are not tired; we are tired] To make known, to make known, to make known, to make known, to make known, to make known, to make known. [Sh..] (Saba laughs) [Yes] [Saba and the friends sing: “May none who hope in You be ashamed, nor ever be humiliated, all who take refuge in You; to make known, to make known, to make known..”] It is not over yet. [Saba continues singing: “Nor ever be humiliated, all who take refuge in You..”] Breslov, Breslov.

[Only Rabbainu] [……...] [Saba and the friends sing: “Na Na Nach Nachma Nachman MeUman..”] Where are the stones? [“Na Na Nach Nachma Nachman MeUman..”] [To do that melody from the television..]… ...[Saba and the friends sing: “Na Na Nach Nachma Nachman MeUman..” to the melody of HaTikvah]… ...[Saba and the friends sing: “Na Na Nach Nachma Nachman MeUman..” to the melody of “You Revealed Yourself”]… ...[The friend sings: “Na Na Nach Nachma Nachman MeUman..” to the melody of “You Revealed Yourself”]... [Saba]… ...To make known. [Sh..] [Saba and the friends sing: “May none who hope in You be ashamed, nor ever be humiliated, all who take refuge in You; to make known, to make known, to make known..”]… ...[Saba and the friends sing: “May none who hope in You be ashamed, nor ever be humiliated, all who take refuge in You; to make known, to make known, to make known..”] Nu, is it over? [No, no] [It is not over, Saba] […………..] Ah… ...[Saba and the friends continue singing: “To make known, to make known, to make known; may none who hope in You be ashamed, nor ever be humiliated, all who take refuge in You..”] [Why are you sleeping?]... ...[Saba and the friends continue singing: “To make known, to make known, to make known; may none who hope in You be ashamed, nor ever be humiliated, all who take refuge in You..”] That is it, is it over? [It is not over] [Saba and the friends continue singing: “To make known, to make known, to make known; may none who hope in You be ashamed, nor ever be humiliated, all who take refuge in You..”] [Saba, Saba]… ...To make known—this is a good story. To make known, to make known, to make known, to make known, to make known, to make known, to make known, to make known, to make known. [What? Make what known?] Ah, ah, is this not a good story?

[A very good story] [...] [Saba and the friends continue singing: “May none who hope in You be ashamed, nor ever be humiliated, all who take refuge in You..”]… ...[Saba and the friends continue singing: “May none who hope in You be ashamed, nor ever be humiliated, all who take refuge in You; to make known, to make known, to make known..”] [“Na Na Nach Nachma Nachman MeUman..”]... ...[I have, I have a brother, Rafael; I want him to be like me] [..] [He should sing “Na Nach,” yes, and be Breslov; so he needs a song like this for him, a blessing for him] Ah? [He will be a great tzaddik, with Hashem’s help] May Hashem bless him with all salvations. [Amen] [Rafael ben..] [...] In Torah and fear of Heaven, and in emunah and teshuvah. [….. Amen] [Rafael ben..] [Rafael ben Shoshana] [Rafael..] Ephraim ben Shoshana. [No] Ah? [Rafael] [Rafael] Rafael ben Shoshana. [Amen] [Amen, amen, that he should draw close to Rabbainu Nachman] [Also Gad, Gad ben Rina, Gad ben Rina] May he merit salvation in the merit of Rabbainu. Rabbainu, “Na Nach Nachma Nachman MeUman.” [MeUman..] [Now I have another brother; I have a brother who is all right] [Shealtiel] [Shealtiel, Shealtiel ben Shoshana] Shealtiel ben Shoshana. [……..] [They will be good soldiers] [For Rabbainu, to distribute “Na Nach”] [...]… ...[Saba and the friends chant a melody: “You Revealed Yourself”..] [………] [Rebbe Yisroel, Rebbe Yisroel..] [Rebbe Yisroel..]… ...[Saba and the friends chant a melody: “You Revealed Yourself”..] [Rebbe Yisroel, Rebbe Yisroel, water, “Water for King David”]… ...Ah.. ah.. ah.. ah.. ah.. ah.. ah.. ah… ...Ah.. ah.. ah.. ah.. ah.. ah… [To make known..]…

...[To make known..] To make known, to make known, to make known, to make known, to make known, to make known, to make known, to make known. [That all who hope in You..] […. King David]… ...Nor be humiliated. [Saba and the friends sing: May none who hope in You be ashamed, nor ever be humiliated, all who take refuge in You..”] It is not over yet. [Saba and the friends continue singing: “Nor ever be humiliated, all who take refuge in You..”] [To make known..]… ...To make known, to make known, to make known, to make known, to make known, to make known, to make known… [Sh..] [Saba and the friends continue singing: “May none who hope in You be ashamed, nor ever be humiliated, all who take refuge in You..”] Ah.. ah.. ah.. […………………………..]... ...I want. […..] [Are you warm, Saba?]… ...[Ah, you did not say Tikkun HaKlali] No, I already forgot. [Then say it] [Then say, “Michtam LeDavid, guard me, O God, for I have taken refuge in You..”] [Say, “Behold, I bind myself”] [It is not much]… ...Ah.. ah.. ah.. ah.. ah.. ah.. ah.. [The friends sing: “Na Na Nach Nachma Nachman MeUman..”] Ah.. ah.. ah… [The friends sing: “Na Na Nach Nachma Nachman MeUman..”]... ...[Saba and the friends sing: “Na Na Nach Nachma Nachman MeUman…”] […...]… ...[……]... ...And they also have children; consequently, they also have sons. But the main thing for them is lust, the.. And these tzaddikim—the tzaddikim, they, because they want children, for this reason they marry.” {They thought this}; it was hard for them. They did not, did not know how to answer this. And he gave them a sufficient answer, and they, they, they were startled. And they nullified themselves before Rebbe Yisroel and loved him for everything they discussed with him. And he answered them everything, and they nullified themselves.

And they drew close, and they drew close to Rabbainu, yes. And they supported him and.. yes, oy. They did not—the first time in their lives, the three, these are the three wise men— They, they saw such a commotion for the first time in their lives. So when they heard, they asked: “What is this commotion? What? What is there?” “Ho, have you not heard that Yisroel Ber became Breslov?” “We heard. Nu, what is there? Nu.” “Nu, what is there? They took him, Rav Tzvi.” And they told him. They saw such a commotion: “Yisroel Ber became Breslov, and Rav Tzvi went to pray..” On Sunday I was afraid: perhaps the mukhtar wants money? He will come again and take me to prison—money. “Where is Rav Tzvi?” Money, only money, money. So, so, so I saw a place near the Karlin synagogue. A place, a closed place, a place where one cannot be seen. I was there all day near the synagogue, yes. Perhaps Mordechai will come with the policemen; I.. and they.. No one knew who, where, where I was, so he could search. In any case I, I was there until Minchah. At Minchah I went up to the synagogue from the place where I was, to the synagogue, to pray Minchah, to hear Kedushah and.. there came, there came the elder Rav Kehas. Rav Kehas, he, he was a Karliner, and also, and also the father of the woman of, the wife of Rav Tzvi Rosenthal was also a Karliner, and they were friends. So Rav Kehas went to pray Minchah and heard that the police had taken Mordechai, the mukhtar, to Istanbul, and that there was a serious complaint against him that he was a spy, that he.. yes. So Rav Kehas said: “This is Rebbe Yisroel, Rebbe Yisroel; this is the doing of Rebbe Yisroel. Rebbe Yisroel punished him; he, he gave him a punishment. Hashem gave him a punishment for this, for this Shabbos.” He—they took him, and from then on he vanished. I did not see him, {...}. Teveria did not see him anymore. Perhaps he.. I think they put him to death. A spy—there was a complaint that he was a spy.

Then the English, they, they, they, they were at war with Turkey. And here it was Turkey; Syria too was Turkey and Lebanon was Turkey—everything was Turkey, yes. {...} Nu, Turkey, and the complaint was that Rav Mordechai was a spy; he, he, he was a spy. Everything that there was here in Turkey, he passed on to the enemy, to their enemy, so that was already espionage. So he did not return alive; from the day, from that Sunday, he did not return to Teveria, nor to the Land of Yisroel. No, they do not know where, where he is, where he is, yes. Whether they put him to death and.. in any case, they do not know. Teveria remained without the mukhtar, without Mordechai, yes. He made such a Shabbos, so he had such a Sunday: they took him to Istanbul and he did not return alive. It was like such a spectacle; the whole city was in an uproar. The Sephardim, they, they are a people unto themselves; they do not know what there is among the Ashkenazim. And the Ashkenazim do not know what there is among the Sephardim. Two, two, two separate faiths: these are Sephardim and these are Ashkenazim, yes. One of them does not resemble the other. But the affair of Rav Tzvi—the entire Sephardic community, the whole city, all the Sephardim— knew that it happened, that such a thing happened: that Rav Tzvi went to pray, to pray on Friday, and did not, did not return. Nu, the whole city, both the Ashkenazim and the Sephardim, everyone was, was in such an uproar: How does one take..? How does one do such a thing? On Friday one goes to pray and does not..? This, this is not, this, this is such a wondrous affair as we have not yet heard. The affair—how is it possible...? How does one do such a thing?” He walked to Yerushalayim on foot on Friday; he had no money to travel. He walked on Friday, went to pray, and from the synagogue walked to Yerushalayim, yes.

Has such an affair ever been heard? The uproar that there was throughout Teveria, among the Ashkenazim and the Sephardim, was.. Everyone spoke about Breslov: “What..”…