Tape 36, Side A

...Eh? [I learn in Tzfas] In Tzfas [Yes]… ...{…}… ...{…}, that he lived close to here [Close to here? Yes] No? [Who? Who?] [Who? What is his name? Who, who was the Jew..?] {..}, Yisroel Yosef [..] Yisroel Yosef [He lives in Tel Aviv?] Maybe... ...{Prays} in.. In the synagogue of.. ah.. […..] […..]… ...Maybe you knew someone who lived some time ago, no? [Who lived where?] Eh? [Who lived here in Tel Aviv?] Eh? [Who lived in Tel Aviv?] He lived in Tel Aviv years ago [No, I am young, Saba, I..] Eh? [I am only twenty-six years old, I did not, I was in France also, no, I was not in the Land No, I was not born in the Land, I do not know him] Well, you had a shop with the post office of, of.. there was a post-office shop there [Was he Ashkenazi, Sephardi?] Eh? [What was he? Sephardi or Ashkenazi?] What was he? [Was he Sephardi, Ashkenazi? Was he Ashkenazi, Sephardi?] Not Sephardi, Ashkenazi […..] […..] [The family name was? Yisroel Yosef] {Yisroel Yosef}, I do not remember... ...He had a wife and a son [Yes?]... ...[To Rabbainu?] Yes [Yes] I sold him the book “Likutay Tefillos” [Ah..]… ...Maybe you live in this area, no? [I live in Tzfas, Saba] Ah, in Tzfas, now, but before? [Before, I was in Yerushalayim] Ah.. [In Neve Yaakov] {{. .}}, how many, how many rooms do you have? [I have three rooms, Saba] Three rooms [Yes] You can receive me with ‘hachnasas orchim’ [If only, amen] Eh? [I want to, Saba] {..} [I very much want to, Saba, but the problem is that I work in..]…

...Is there a heater? [There is a heater, yes, blessed be Hashem] Your heater? [It is my heater, yes, I bought it in France, it is small, but it is good, it, for one room it is good And if necessary I will buy another one] {..}… …[……] Eh? [After the prayer, with Hashem's help] Maybe I can travel with you to your place [Yes, please..] {...} [But I am not in a vehicle] Eh? [I am not traveling by car, I am traveling with the car of, with my friend With one friend who is also here, but I do not have a vehicle] {Good}, is it hard for you to fulfill'hospitality'? [The problem is that I work, that I work outside] [Saba, Saba?] Nu [You said that you would come to my place, I have room] Who is this? [This is Dagan, Dagan] Dagan, good, good [At my place there is room, we already spoke] Good, good, good, good [I have room..] Good [Come to my place and that settles it] I forgot [All right?] All right [I have five rooms, one for you, five rooms] Then.. [One room for you] I, do not go down.. the two of us together [All right] And we will go down together, the two of us together [All right, you are staying with me..] How long have you lived in the apartment? [I, this is the apartment four yea.., three or four years] No more [No more, it is.., yes, a large apartment, five rooms] Ah, yes [It is my apartment] Good, good, good, good [A private apartment] I, I will go with you [All right, with Hashem's help, there is a heater, there is a bed] Yes? [And a heater] Blessed be Hashem [With Hashem's help]... ...[Yes, yes]… ...[And I long for you to come to my place, Saba] You long for it? [I pray, I pray] For guests [Yes, a guest like this, "my dear student," who has a Petek from Rabbainu] Yes?

[Yes] How do you know? [I know, I heard, you told me] Yes? [Yes] I told you? [Yes] "My dear student"? [Yes, it is written, I saw it written, you showed me] Yes? [The Petek, and I saw that it is written: "It was very difficult for me to descend to you, my dear student"] "To tell you" [To tell you that I greatly enjoyed your service And of you I said, my fire will burn until Mashiach comes"] Yes ["Be strong and courageous in your service] Yes [Na Naḥ Naḥma Naḥman MeUman And with this I shall reveal to you a secret, and it is full and heaped from line to line: P'tz'p'tz'i'a' And with the strengthening of service you shall understand it, and the sign: on the seventeenth of Tammuz they will say that you are not fasting"] How long have you lived in the apartment? [About three, four years, like that] Ah, ah Dagan? [Yes, yes] Where is Dagan? [Yes, here, here] Ah.. [Yes, what is it?] Hold the money for me.. [The money? How much money is it?] Count… ...Eh? [One hundred shekels] More [There are one hundred shekels here] More, more [Fifty] Nu [Twenty and twenty and ten, that is one hundred altogether] {Nu} [One hundred, one hundred shekels] One hundred shekels [All right, one hundred] Good, hold it for me at your place [All right] You, where do you live? [In Tzfas] In Tzfas? [Yes] {…..} You used to live in.. in.. [Emmanuel] Emmanuel [Correct, a few years ago] Ah, ah [Five, four, five years ago I was in Emmanuel] Ah, ah [Yes] Are you Sephardi, Ashkenazi? [I am Ashkenazi] Ah, ah [I am Breslov, not Ashkenazi, not Sephardi, Breslov, Breslov] Breslov, Breslov [I want to be Breslov] If only we merit it [If only] Who is this? [This is Dagan, Yisroel, Dagan]

Dagan, and the second one? [This is.. what is your name?] [David, David son of Aviva] [David son of..] [Aviva] [Aviva, this is David] Is he also, also Breslov? [He is also Breslov, yes, he lives in Tzfas] Then we will go down together [Yes, all right, with Hashem's help, together] [We will go down, he said] I have a suitcase [A suitcase?] Clothes [We will carry it, we have strength, blessed be Hashem] Eh? [We have strength, we will carry the suitcase] Ask, ask the people, I do not recognize my suitcase [All right, it will be all right, with Hashem's help] Yes [We will manage, there is Shimon, Shimon is here] Shimon? [Shimon, he knows where the suitcase is, he..] Ah [Everything is all right]… ...{...} [Yes, yes, Saba]… ...Thirty years ago, no? [No, it is an apartment, it is an apartment that.. it.., this apartment once belonged to someone else] Ah, ah [Rabbi Gabbai lived there, Rabbi Gabbai lived in the apartment] {..} [And he left Tzfas, he went away from Tzfas, so I bought the apa..]… ...In Tzfas? [In Tzfas, Saba, yes] Tzfas? [Yes] [….] Not in Meron? [No, in Tzfas] You used to live in Meron, no? [I used to be in Meron, but..] Eh? [I used to be in Meron once, I used to be there, but I did not live there] {..} [I used to go to the grave of Rabbi Shimon] Yes [But I live in Tzfas]… ...[Rosh Hashanah, and Rosh Hashanah, and Rosh Hashanah, and Rosh Hashanah] Yes? [Yes]... …[What am I doing]… ...{….} [{Holy}] {..}… ...You saw me on Rosh Hashanah [Eh?] You did not see me {..}.. in.. in Uman for Rosh Hashanah [I did see]

Eh? [I saw] {Blessed be Hashem}… ...You, you told me about the Petek [Yes] It was an act of miracles, miracles from Heaven [Yes]… ...How the holy Rabbainu signed himself "Na Naḥam Naḥman MeUman"... ...{...} And.. in Tel Aviv I had someone who knew me An Ashkenazi, an Ashkenazi, he had a shop next to, next to.. At the post office in Tel Aviv [A shop] A shop.. he had a stamp shop [Stamps] Stamps, stamps [Stamps, stamps, stamps, yes] You do not know [No, that was many years ago, Saba] Eh? [I had not yet been born, I was not born then] No [That was many years ago] Eh? [That was many years ago] Ah, ah [I am only thirty-six years old] {..} [I am still little, Saba] Eh? [I am still little, I am li..] Eh? [I am still little, little, little, I am only thirty-six years old I am thirty-six years old, that was many years ago] Yes, yes [And I am only thirty-six years old] Do you have brothers? [One brother] Eh? [One, only one, I have one brother] You had [Eh?] Did you have sons? [Sons, I have, blessed be Hashem, sons and daughters, three sons.., three sons, three daughters] Blessed be Hashem [Blessed be Hashem] Can I stay at your place? [Yes] {The suitcase}, the suitcase [We will take the suitcase, take it, put it on the car and travel] A car, eh? [We will take the suitcase, take it, take the suitcase We will put the suitcase on the car] Yes? [And travel] Eh? [Put the suitcase on the car] Do not tell a lie [What?] You did [No, we will take it afterward, not now, afterward, when we travel, we will also take the suitcase] Yes...

...[Saba and the friends sing and Yisroel Dagan plays: "In You our fathers trusted, in You they trusted and You delivered them, to You they cried out and escaped, in You they trusted and were not ashamed.."]… ...[Saba and the friends sing and Yisroel Dagan plays: "In You our fathers trusted, in You they trusted and You delivered them, to You they cried out and escaped, in You they trusted and were not ashamed.." (Saba emphasizes: "Trusted, trusted, trusted, trusted") Afterward they sing: "Na Naḥ Naḥma Naḥman MeUman.." to the melody of "In You they trusted.."] {...}, when one undergoes great blows and great humiliations If they had known, they would not have given us the Land of Israel Ah [The friends continue singing: "In You our fathers trusted, in You they trusted and You delivered them, to You they cried out and escaped, in You they trusted and were not ashamed.." (Saba emphasizes: "Trusted, trusted, trusted, trusted")] {…}, the gentiles, all the gentiles will ask: "What bombs do you have? We also want bombs like those, where does one buy this?" […..….] [……...] [The friends sing: "The harvest has passed, the summer has ended, and we have not been saved.."] Ah.. ah.. ah.. ah.. [Saba and the friends shout: Ah.. ah.. ah.. ah.. ah..] [The friends continue singing: "The harvest has passed, the summer has ended, and we have not been saved.."] "We want bombs like, like, like yours, not just ordinary bombs" [Yes] "We want your bombs" [……..] [……..] [Saba and the friends shout: Ah.. ah.. ah.. ah.. ah..] [The friends continue singing: "To You they cried out and escaped, in You they trusted and were not ashamed.."] We.. [The friends continue singing: "To You they cried out and escaped, in You they trusted and were not ashamed.."] "As we want, we will become Jewish

Give us only your bombs"…