...The "Kitzur," he was, he was a genius and a tzaddik [Yes] a great one, {….}, the author of the "Kitzur," because every Is… ...And if he has no time, he should at least learn some, some section [Yes] Even if he is not, is not up to it, just some, some thing because the "Shulchan Aruch" is the soul's good, the foundation of Judaism And there is genius in it as well; he was very proficient in all, all the sacred books and the halachic authorities, the tzaddikim, yes We see in his commentary that he was very proficient in all the books in all the books of, of the holy tzaddikim, the geniuses But he did not merit; there was some deficiency in him, that he was not Ashkenazi Ashkenazim have more intellect and heart, and a warmer heart, yes for Torah, for.. [But he was Ashkenazi] Huh? [He was from Ashkenaz, no? He was..] Ashkenazi? No [From Hungary] The 'Beis Yosef'? [No, the 'Beis Yosef,' I am talking about Rabbi Shlomo Ganzfried?] Huh? [Rabbi Shlomo Ganzfried, the author of the "Kitzur Shulchan Aruch"] Ah [He was Ashkenazi] The author of the "Shulchan Aruch"—we see, we see that all, all the Jewish people [Yes] accepted him [The Sephardim as well?] The Sephardim as well [Yes, I understood; was he Ashkenazi?] Huh? He was Sephardi [No, the author of the "Kitzur," the "Kitzur Shulchan Aruch"?] Ah, the "Kitzur Shulchan Aruch" was Ashkenazi.. [Yes] Ganzfried, Ganzfried [Ganzfried, but everyone also accepted the..] Huh? [Everyone accepted the "Kitzur"] Yes, everyone accepted his "Kitzur" [The Sephardim too?] Everyone [..] Everyone, all Israel [And is it worthwhile to conduct oneself according to the "Kitzur"?] Huh? [Is it worthwhile to conduct oneself according to the "Kitzur"?] Yes, if only we would be proficient in it

[Yes, yes] Certainly, it is the foundation of the entire Torah, of the Gemara and of the.. laws, to fulfill [Yes, no, I mean the "Kitzur"] Huh? [I mean the "Kitzur"] Ah, the "Kitzur," the "Kitzur"—he was, he was a genius and a tzaddik [Yes] a great one, {….}, the author of the "Kitzur," because all Israel accepted him [Ah] All the geniuses, all the great ones, and all.. accepted him [So we see from this, he was not connected to Rabbainu, but he was also a tzaddik, even so] He was a tzaddik [..] Certainly, he lacked, he lacked [Yes] some essential thing [I understand] in Judaism [But, but he..] If he h.., if he had drawn close, the world would have been closer to Hashem, blessed be He [..] and more, and more wisdom and more heart and more warmth, yes The Seph.. this is the holy Baal Shem, the holy Baal Shem is.. All.. we merited the holy Baal Shem, that he should be, uh.. He had a genius and a tzaddik [The Baal Shem?] The Baal Shem and..{…} his disciples [Who? The Baal Shem Tov?] Yes, yes [Yes] All his disciples had ruach hakodesh; they were, they were very holy tzaddikim The Baal Shem Tov and his disciples Rabbainu spoke of this; when Rabbainu came from Eretz Yisroel, Rabbainu said: "That he needs sixty mighty men, like the holy Baal Shem" The holy Baal Shem had sixty mighty disciples who were.. yes But the matter of Rabbainu, of blessed memory, it rises above everything above all the geniuses, above all, above the whole Torah, above, above, above everything because this was already.. the light of Mashiach, the holy Baal Shem [...] Only in comparison with Rabbainu, of blessed memory, everything, everything.. [Nullified] Nullified, yes This was the final, complete Redemption, after which there is no exile

Now we feel a little how necessary the Baal Shem Tov was And his holy disciples—his disciples too were not, were not all the same; there were differences, this.. [Was the Maggid of Mezritch one of the disciples of the Baal Shem Tov?] Huh? [The Maggid, the Maggid of Mezritch, the Maggid of Mezritch] The Maggid of Mezritch [He was one of the Baal Shem Tov's disciples] Yes, certainly, certainly The Maggid of Mezritch was very great, a great tzaddik He was a disciple of, of.. his principal disciple, of the Baal Shem Tov [And did he write books?] Huh? [Did he author books?] I do not know; apparently, certainly Apparently [Rebbe Yisroel, but, excuse me, regarding the matter of the "Shulchan Aruch," you said that the 'Beis Yosef' was not Ashkenazi, the 'Beis Yosef'] The Baal Shem Tov? [No, the 'Beis Yosef,' Rabbi Yosef Karo] Rabbi Yosef Karo, nu [Yes, he was not Ashkenazi] He was Sephardi [Yes, so is that a deficiency?] Certainly [Yes? So Rebbe Yisroel, we Sephardim of this generation need to conduct ourselves according to the "Shulchan Aruch" of the Ashkenazim as well? According to, according to the 'Beis Yosef' or according to the Rema?] Yes, yes, so that he should have a connection with the light of the Baal Shem Tov That, that is a great essential [But the Baal Shem Tov did not write, he did not write a "Shulchan Aruch"?]… ...He, also his holy disciples, yes That, that, that is the "Shulchan Aruch"—the disciples of the Baal Shem Tov [Yes?] Certainly, they were geniuses, great {very, and.. yes} [But the disciples of the Baal Shem Tov, they, they made books, books of..] Huh? [Halachah? The Rema?] {. .}, There is between the Rema and.. and.. {...} the 'Beis Yosef' a dispute

[Yes] There are things.. [Yes] That are not according to either of them [Yes, yes, I know, so how do we..] But we merited [Yes] We Ashkenazim merited more than the Sephardim [Good, I understand, yes] Because they did not have.. the lights of the Torah, this is.. [..] This is in several aspects; there are several aspects [Good, good, and among the Ashkenazim there was a higher aspect?] Yes [Good] Yes, higher, certainly [Yes, so, Rebbe Yisroel..] There were tzaddikim, the “Ohr HaChaim” [Yes] The “Ohr HaChaim” was... nu, but he was Sephardic [Yes, yes] The Sephardim, this is a matter of.. two things [Yes] We are one people [Yes] {But we fulfilled it\but nevertheless}, there are matters {..} that we do not know [But, Rebbe Yisroel] Yo [What I want to know, I, I was born Sephardic in.. in..] No, no, no, no [But I need to conduct myself..] Ashkenazic [Yes, good] Yes [According to the Rema?] Yes, yes [Good, thank you] Like Rebbe Yisroel, like.. [Good, good] Our holy Rabbainu [Good, good, thank you] Yes, yes, yes.. [Thank you] Yes, {certainly}, no, no, the time had not yet come for it to be revealed.. [Good, I understand] Only through.. {. .} But the light of the Baal Shem Tov already, already.. Before the light of our holy Rabbainu, it is a matter of Mashiach [Ah] A matter [Yes] Already.. [I understand] Yes, that all the Sephardim and the Ashkenazim, all of them will nullify themselves, all of them.. [Yes, yes] Need to receive [Yes, certainly] The light [Rebbe Yisroel, according to the prayer rite, the siddur] Eh? [According to the prayer rite] Ah [Do the Sephardim also need to pray..] No, there is the “Shulchan Aruch” for how to conduct oneself

[No, I am ask..] With, with, with the versions [Yes] Yes, but the main thing is that we know that the main thing is the Baal Shem Tov and his students and our holy Rabbainu [Because the Baal Shem Tov and his students and our holy Rabbainu prayed according to Nusach Sefard?] Eh? [There is the prayer rite of the Chassidim] Ah.. [It is not, not so important?] The main thing was Rabbainu, our holy Rabbainu He was the soul, {{…}} all the vitality of the Torah, of all the tzaddikim But our holy Rabbainu, he, he rose above him [Above everything] The holy Baal Shem had the merit that he brought Rabbainu into the world [Ah, the Baal Shem Tov?] Yes [He was among his descendants] He, he was, he was of his seed [Yes, yes, yes, the daughter of..] Feiga, Feiga, Feiga was a granddaughter of the Baal Shem Tov [.…] Yes [And Feiga’s mother was, Adel] The mother of? [Of Feiga] The mother of, of our holy Rabbainu [Yes] Was Feiga, eh? [Yes, and Feiga’s mother, that was Adel] Adel, yes [The daughter of the Baal Shem Tov] Yes, yes [Rebbe Yisroel, but I want to know, the earlier generations of the Ashkenazim, like the Rema—the Rema was before the Baal Shem Tov, the Rema?] The Rema [He was, he was before the Baal Shem Tov] Apparently, yes [But he also received from his light, ….., because the..] Only when something greater is revealed, then certainly.. There are matters in this that we.. [Yes] Do not, do not know [No, because among the tzaddikim, among the tzaddikim] Yo, the tzaddikim.. [No..] The tzaddikim [No, what I want to know, among the tzaddikim there is no time] But the main thing today is Rabbainu, it is the Baal Shem Tov and our holy Rabbainu If this were revealed in the world, it would have been, the whole world would have been tzaddikim

[No, what I wanted to know, among the tzaddikim..] They, the Sephardim had a deficiency: they did not have the light of the Baal Shem Tov [Yes] Nu, this is a matter.. [Yes] This.. [But now do they need to receive this light?] Eh? [The Sephardim of today, they need to receive this light, it is worthwhile] The Sephardim certainly need, need {….} to fulfill the “Shulchan Aruch” according to the ‘Beis Yosef’ [And not according to the Rema?] Eh? They, the Sephardim accepted the ‘Beis..’, the ‘Beis Yosef’ [Yes] The ‘Beis Yosef’ had a little dispute with the.. in several matters [But today, today when there is Rabbainu?] Eh? [..] Today already, Rabbainu is already, he is already.. [Yes] Yes [He is the root of everything] He encompasses everything [Yes, but regarding halachah?] This is {…..} [What?] This is the main thing and the foundation and the rule and the main thing, and the main thing of the Torah and Judaism and the.. this is our holy Rabbainu [Yes, there is no.., yes] Our holy Rabbainu and his students and his seed, his seed {...}, it is only our holy Rabbainu who is, he is the seed of the Baal Shem Tov And he encompasses all.. everything [But, Rebbe Yisroel, our holy Rabbainu, he did not write a “Shulchan Aruch” He wanted to, but in the end he did not write a “Shulchan Aruch”?] He warned.. [Yes] To study “Shulchan Aruch” every day and to fulfill, what is written in it to fulfill, yes [Yes] Our holy Rabbainu revealed the matter of hisbodedus To speak with Hashem Yisbarach just as we are speaking To speak, to cry, and to speak with Hashem Yisbarach as He is alive That is what our holy Rabbainu said [Correct] {…} ‘Hisbodedus,’ one word, ‘hisbodedus,’ it encompasses everything Every person who… ...needs to pra… ...y to Hashem Yisbarach about every matter of the Torah

That we should merit to fulfill and to know and to know and.. yes [Excuse me, but, Rebbe Yisroel, when there is a dispute between the ‘Beis Yosef’ and the Rema] Eh? [How today, should the Sephardim of today conduct themselves according to the Rema or according to the ‘Beis Yosef’? According to the opinion of our holy Rabbainu, I am asking, according to our holy Rabbainu?] We follow the Rema [Good] According to the Rema [Yes, even someone who was born Sephardic, is it worthwhile for him to conduct himself according to the Rema?] Eh? [Even someone who was born Sephardic, is it worthwhile for him to conduct himself according to the Rema, today?] Yes [Good, thank you Rebbe Yisroel, at first Rabbainu wanted, he said that he wanted to make a book of, of a posek] Yes [Of a posek] Yes, a posek [And he said: “Now that the book ‘Likutey Moharan’ is in the world, it is not needed”] {…}, because he, he teaches us everything [But this encompasses..] He encompasses everything [Halachah too?] Halachah too, every matter too, yes The matter of our holy Rabbainu is a matter that rises above everything And our holy Rabbainu, more and more, and more That the entire Torah, it is only like a small point compared to the Torah The main thing of the Torah is the Baal Shem Tov and his students and our holy Rabbainu This is the main thing of Judaism, the main thing, the main thing of everything We need to strengthen ourselves in emunah and study their books and fulfill Oy, ah.. [Rebbe Yisroel, among the tzaddikim, even one who was earlier can receive from one who came after him As Rabbainu said: “Even Rebbe Shimon bar Yochai receives from me”] Yes, {certainly} [He said: “He was ‘I’r V’Kaddish M’in Sh’maya N’achis’ And now there is ‘N’achal N’ovea M’akor Ch’ochmah,’ from whom even Rebbe Shimon receives”] Eh? [He said: “And now there is ‘N’achal N’ovea M’akor Ch’ochmah’]

Yo [That even Rebbe Shimon receives from him"] Yo, yo, yo, yo [That means that there is no time among the tzaddikim] Ah, ah [Time—there is no later and earlier] Everything that he says.. [Yes] It is true and established and correct And we need to give our lives to fulfill every utterance that they revealed They derived from the Torah, from the Torah, from the tzaddikim "The Shulchan Aruch," to fulfill every matter, every law with money {..}, and in all matters The Torah teaches us how.. [How to conduct ourselves] How to conduct ourselves in every matter, yes, the Torah.. [Yes, but Rabbainu says in "Sichos HaRan," that one needs to study "the large Shulchan Aruch," with all the commentaries?] Yes, yo, yo, with all.. [But are we able to do that, to study "the large Shulchan Aruch"?] Ah.. [Because we..] But today.. [I am not a lamdan] Already, already there is.. ["The Kitzur"] There is already "the Kitzur" and there is {{…..}}, and there is already.. All the tzaddikim, the light of all the tzaddikim, the entire Gemara, the Gemara, the tzaddikim who were geonim But afterward more and more, and more, was revealed, until Rabbainu Hakadosh came and.. And he already encompasses the entire Torah and ev.. everything, everything, everything "The halakha follows Rav Nachman in monetary laws,” the Gemara says that [Ah, yes] "Hilchesa k’Rav Nachman, and hilchesa k’Rav Nachman.." ['Hilchesa k’Nachmani,' yes] And Rabbainu Hakadosh is in laws and disputes—this is "Hilchesa k’Rav Nachman" [Yes, correct, "Hilchesa k’Nachmani,” everything is written] "Hilchesa k’Rav Nachman” [Yes] Such utterances and expressions—there is a place where it is written three times: [...] "Hilchesa k’Rav Nachman and hilchesa k’Rav Nachman..” That is how it is written in the Gemara [Yes]… .."And hilchesa..” ["K’Nachmani”]

"K’Nachmani,” yes [So this is a sign that they had ruach hakodesh, the Tannaim..] {..} [Yes, they had ruach hakodesh about Rabbainu, beforehand] Certainly, it was in the world, already, it already was.. [In concealment] Rebbe Shimon, Rebbe Shimon, "the Zohar and "the Tikkunim"—this is the light of the entire Torah Of {...}, of all the tzaddikim, and of all the geonim, the holy "Zohar" The author of the "Reishis Chochma"—he is entirely "Zohar”; from "the Zohar" he brought it out for us [Correct] We, the generation today, need Rabbainu Hakadosh and the Baal Shem The Baal Shem Tov and Rabbainu Hakadosh, this is… ...Nu, this is the principle and the main thing and the abridgment Rabbainu Hakadosh is the essence of the Torah, the essence of everything Rebbe Shimon—this is included in every utterance of Rabbainu Hakadosh, such lofty matters that.. yes Until it was revealed that he is Rabbainu Hakadosh, and he already, already, already.. {…} There is much to speak about this, what we know Rabbainu Hakadosh is the all-inclusiveness of all, all the Torah and all the tzaddikim and all.. everything Even Rebbe Shimon is included in him, in him {and in his utterance}, and the revelation of Rabbainu And Rabbainu Hakadosh {encompasses the entire book, and.. and.. and the "holy Zohar"} [And the "Tikkunim,” and the "Tikkunei Zohar”] Ah? [And the "Tikkunim”] The "Tikkunei Zohar" and.. yes Oy [They say that Rabbainu studied the "Reishis Chochma" four hundred times] Yes [That is correct, yes] Yes, yo, yo, yo, yo [That was..] The "Reishis Chochma" was.. the "Reishis Chochma" is "Zohar” [The "Reishis Chochma" was a student of the Ramak?] It was the Ramak [Yes]... ...There are many sefarim {…..}, but the foundation and the essence is Rabbainu and the holy Arizal, Rabbainu Haka.., the.. the.. the.. the.. But Rebbe Shimon bar Yochai, the "holy Zohar" and the "Tikkunim," ho, ho, what there is there, but the essence in whom everything is included is Rabbainu Hakadosh...

...The holy Arizal and Rebbe Shimon bar Yochai, and the holy Arizal warned him very much to be bound to and believe in Rebbe Shimon bar Yochai, he is.. And the "Tikkunim,” what, what this is, {many thanks} for what we merited, yes, and with Rabbainu Hakadosh there was still, still more than the "Tikkunim" and than all, all.. and Rabbainu Hakadosh is the all-inclusiveness and the root of everything... ...Today, when we have the "Likutay Moharan" and all, and the entire matter of, of Rabbainu Hakadosh, we need to give our lives, to educate our sons and our generations with the sefarim of Rabbainu, with the words of Rabbainu, yes, nu, we see that the world is drawing near Even Ashkena.. the Sephardim accepted, accept Rabbainu Hakadosh as Rebbe, yes Those who are close and the great ones Nu, thank God, fortunate are we that we merited, that already now the matter of the redemption, and the redemption will be revealed, there will be revealed in the world a light, a light, a light, a light such that there is no speaking here… ...[…..….] [……...] He will be afraid lest I put him into a Breslov school "Breslov? He.. and how will you have a livelihood? Get away from me!" [………] [……...] Yo, yo […….] […] We need to speak with Tzipporah, maybe she knows the address I think he has an address, so I will go to him [……...…..] [……...…..] Through Breslov he will find a good match […...….] [……] [Rebbe Yisroel, I am going, I am going home] Yes? [Yes] Nu.. […….] You, you do not know, my son asks me what to do, I want to come to you [Shalom, Rebbe Yisroel, goodbye] {Shoyn} [Goodbye] Ah? [Goodbye, Rebbe Yisroel] {..}.. Oy, oy, I remember when I had ten small children and they asked for bread, {a little} bread and I had none to give them, only bread, I did not have

Nu Oy, oy vey, I want to get up, ah, yes, good, yes, good Who, who will go with me to my grandson? Maybe Daniel Zafran? [……..] [..……] Maybe someone will call my daughter Tzipporah, do you have the number of my daughter Tzipporah? [Of whom?] Here in Yerushalayim [Of Tzipporah?] [Yes, yes, we have it] And ask her, my grandson wants to see me, how {will they take him?} So I want to go to him [….…..] [……...] [There is, there is no answer at Tzipporah’s] No? [No, she is not at home, apparently] Ah [And.. good, so I..] Ah, it was an hour, another hour, two hours [Yes, maybe] Maybe she will be at home [With Hashem’s help, so I am going in the meantime, all right?] Yes, good [If you need me, then ask them to call me, all right?] What? [If you need me] Ah [I am Daniel, Daniel Zafran, so they can, ask them to call me on the telephone] Good [Good, okay, so, goodbye, all the best to you] All the best [….….] […] Nu, {..}.. [Shalom aleichem, this is Shimon] “'Mifter, pifter,' but does he have a livelihood?” [………] […..….]… ...[Rabin, he approached the Deputy Minister of Religious Affairs] Rabin? [Rabin approached the Deputy Minister of Religious Affairs] Yes [So that he will deal with it, Rabin approached his deputy, a religious one, to deal with it His name is Rafael Pinchasi, Rafael Pinchasi] Ah? [His name is Rafael Pinchasi, he is the Deputy Minister of Religious Affairs] What is his name? [Rafael Pinchasi] Rafael [Pinchasi] Pinchasi? [Yes, he is the Deputy Minister of Religious Affairs, and he is making efforts, he.. Rabin asked him to deal with Rabbainu’s matter] Yes? [Yes, they wrote me a letter, and Rabin informed me in a letter from his office, I received a letter from his office that he approached the deputy, his deputy, the Deputy Minister of Religious Affairs, Rafael Pinchasi, to do something on the subject, to make efforts regarding the matter, that is it, and th..]

Why not {ask him}, all the time, to arrange and speak about this [I don't know..] [………] [Yes] [Avigdor] [Yes, yes, Avigdor] [They told me that he..] We.., what is his name, {uh, uh, you, …}.. uh, uh, Sharon […..] Do you know if I {{..}}.., if we are traveling to Uman? [I don't know anything, anything, because it is impossible to know, it could be Rabbainu will perform a miracle, a miracle I believe Rabbainu will perform a miracle and come here by way of a miracle.. There will be some miracle, I feel a miracle, what.. there could be a miracle, no? That the government, or Weizman, or someone will suddenly awaken and take an airplane and..] […….,he will bring the note] [No, the greatness of Rabbainu is that he will take completely secular people, like the heretics in Uman And they will bring him, and they will bring him, as he did in Uman, before he passed away] [……..] Uh, if we travel to Uman, one needs to {{..}}, uh, to.. to.. take care of a shofar, to blow the shofar […...] And also a Torah reader who will read from the Torah [There are many, many Jews traveling to Uman this year..]... ...[..many Breslov Chassidim traveling to Uman this year] Yes? [Certainly] [They kiss the Rebbe on the way and return] [There are those, I..] [Sharon] [I still don't, I still don't know how I will travel I still need to make an effort, I haven't done so yet, I am praying] {..}.. You still haven't.. [Not yet, not yet, I haven't bought a ticket, not anything yet] Why? [My heart.. is not all right, I need to pray that.. I will merit to.. I feel great anguish, great anguish from Uman, I want it terribly very much, very much..]… ...[..to believe that Rabbainu will perform a miracle for his precious student]

[“My precious student"] [In the merit, in the merit of his precious student, he needs to perform a miracle for us, the holy Rabbainu, a man of w.., he is a wonder, a wonder] What wonder? [He.. Rabbainu is a wonder.. I want, want, in one moment he can be here, finished] [...] [Saba] Nu [Can you give a blessing to this soldier before he goes back to the base, to the army He, he came especially by bus here, in order to receive a blessing from you] Hashem…