...Came, and found me in Teveria [He found you in Teveria] [Good week] [Tomorrow a woman is coming, tomorrow a woman alone is coming..] [Yes] [Eh?] [Tomorrow a woman is coming]... ...And he passed away and he left me alone [He left you alone] Rebbe Yisroel (Kardonner) [Oh, wow] He came from Chevron to Teveria and found me in Teveria, and I do not know at all But this I know, Rebbe Yisroel (Kardonner) was in Chevron, and he came to Teveria, found me in Teveria, this I know [Do you hear? So he does not know anything about what happened with him] [….] [Before this he was in Chevron] [….] [I will call you, okay?] [Ah] [If you, you have.., if you are in a hurry, I will call] [….] [..The woman will come in a little while] Ay.. {and passed away} [….] [At most, take a chance, take this…..]... ...Me in Teveria and he, he passed away, he passed away in Teveria [He passed away in Teveria..] Rebbe Yisroel [Yes] He and his children, nu Nu, shoyn And what I suffered for several years, it is impossible to estimate [….] Nu [….] Ah [….] [And afterward you received a note] Eh? [You received a letter afterward] Eh? [They sent you a letter from Rabbainu afterward] Eh? [After that you received a letter from Rabbainu] {..} [A letter from Rabbainu] Yes ["It was very hard for me to descend to you..”] I had ["..My dear disciple, to tell you that I derived much pleasure from your avodah, and about you I said..”] Yes, yes, did you see it? [Yes, I saw the original, I saw the original, the original letter] Yes? [Yes] At Tzipporah's? [No, at your place] At my place [At your place, it was nine years ago, nine years, yes, I saw the original]

And where is it? [Where is it? Where is it now? Where is it now? Saba] Eh? [Where is it now?] I do not know [At Tzipporah's?] At Tzipporah's? [I do not know] Yo, it is with her, I gave it to her [Yes] It is found with her [With her] {..} [Saba, perhaps we should make a cup of tea?] Eh? [A cup of tea? Half a cup of tea?]… ...{…}... ...[He came from Chevron] He was in Chevron for a year [A year] He was in Chevron, afterward he left Chevron and came to Teveria, and he found me in Teveria […….] And came, he came from Chevron to Teveria and found me in Teveria [...] He was a wondrous man [A wondrous man] Rebbe Yisroel, he had a righteous wife and sons, and sons, he had an only son, Mordechai Mordechai, and he also had a righteous daughter, Esther, Mordechai and Esther He had two sons in Teveria, he had six s.., yes, how many sons did he have, he had in Teveria And the children passed away afterward, passed away I remember he came to me in Teveria and told me: “My daughter Esther passed away” Esther, Est.., Mordechai and Esther, he had two, an only son and an only daughter He had.. Mordechai was the first child, Mordechai, yes And he died before the bar mitzvah, Mordechai, {..}, he also had a daughter, Esther She was a great righteous woman, very holy, Esther He, I remember that he came to Teveria to me, he came to Teveria and told me: “My daughter Esther passed away” And she was a light, light, a great light, a holy light, yes She, she spoke with me as with a brother, as with a brother, yes Nu Rebbe Yisroel, he came to Teveria and found me in Teveria, and he had an only son and daughters And several daughters Among the daughters he had a daughter, a daughter Esther

Mordechai was the first son, he was, his name was Mordechai, and Esther was after Mordechai [...] He came from Chevron to Teveria, Rebbe Yisroel, he came from Chevron to Teveria and found me [...] Perhaps I can {….} [Drink something? Cola? Eat or drink?] Eat [Eat, I will go see] {…} [……]… ...Rebbe Yisroel, he suddenly came to Teveria, {…}, he came to Teveria and told me: [Saba..] “My daughter Esther passed away” [Saba, there is soup, chicken soup, there is fish soup, and there is kugel, what do you want more?] Kugel [Kugel?] What else is there? [Either chicken soup, or fish soup, or kugel] Oy, all of them [All of them, choose] {…}, soup [Fish soup] {…} [Fish soup, fish soup] And fish? [There is fish soup, there is chicken soup, and there is kugel] Chicken soup [Chicken soup] [………...] Eh, eh.. [………...]… ...An only son, his name was Mordechai, Mordechai, he, he studied in Tzfas And he was not, not far from bar mitzvah and passed away And afterward Rebbe Yisroel came to Teveria and sat beside me and told me: “My daughter Esther passed away” As though she had gone to the chuppah, he told me this as though nothing had happened, he told me: “My daughter Esther passed away” [………] [The World to Come, alive in the World to Come, he is in any case not here.. so what difference does it make, here, there] She passed away in Tzfas [In Tzfas] And all the children he had with Gittel passed away, passed away When he passed away, {…}, he, he told me, he told me.. There was a bond between us The Ashkenazim {were} opponents of Breslov [Yisroel, ……….] [I will call you] And I came.. [I will call you..] I was alone, the only Breslover, one, and they said: “This is Breslov”

They said {….}, the Chassidim [Yes] They said: “This is Breslov,” about me […………..] […………..] [Saba, there is a guest, Saba, a guest] A guest? [Maimoni, Maimoni] Eh? [Maimoni] Maimoni? [Yes, here] Where is he? [Shalom aleichem, Saba] Maimoni? [Yes, Saba] [………...] [………...] He had, I had an only son and his name was Mordechai, did you hear from me? No? [Yes] [No, I did not hear] No [.……] [.……] {.…} [..……] [.….…] He passed away, Mordechai, some days before Rebbe Yisroel, before Rebbe Yisroel [How many? Ten days?] Mordechai I was in Teveria like.. "What, Breslov in Teveria?” [Saba, Saba, Saba, I am going to rest] Rest, rest [Perhaps, perhaps I will need to drive perhaps, afterward] Eh? [Perhaps I will need to drive at night, I need to have strength to drive, to drive, to drive] {When are you coming} [Perhaps I need to travel] Perhaps, perhaps [So I want to rest] Good [So that I will have strength] {..} [All right?] No, I do not, do not travel at night [Do not travel at night, good, so I am staying here] Yes [Tell him th.. that they are waiting for him] [Talk to him, talk to him...] [Excuse me, Rebbe Yisroel, Rebbe, Rebbe Yisroel, Rebbe Yisroel] Leave me alone, all of you leave me alone, yes [Rebbe Yisroel..] I have no strength [Yes, yes, no, I am only reminding you that..] Eh? [I am only reminding you that...]… ...Mordechai, and I had {a} daughter, Esther, her name was Esther, Esther He was such a holy, righteous woman, that I had not heard of or seen such a thing, yes And she, Rebbe Yisroel came to Teveria and told me: “Esther passed away” In Tzfas, he came to Teveria and left Esther in Tzfas

Rebbe Yisroel had an only son, Mordechai, and a daughter, Esther Nu, nu I always walked in Yerushalayim with Rav Shlomo Wexler, with Rav Shlomo Wexler, with, with Rav Shlomo He was a holy man, I had not seen such a thing I ate like a human being, and he ate like {a king\an angel} His wife brought him something to eat with milk, like noodles, {…}, brought him a vessel to eat from And I saw how he ate, I told her: “I have no connection at all with Rav Shlomo, he is a holy man, he eats like {a king\an angel}” He lived after his wife, she passed away first, {yes} Afterward he passed away, Rav Shlomo passed away, both his wife passed away and she too passed away Eh, he wanted to give me his apartment, but it was not his, it belonged to “Batei Machseh” So, so I did not, did not know what, what would be with me, where will I be? Where will I be? I do not know, do not know, I did not know and do not know, {…} [Saba]… ...Cannot… ...Rebbe Yisroel… ...Told me in the Karlin synagogue, he sat beside me and told me: “My daughter E..”, She was eleven, twelve, he, and he told me: “My daughter Esther passed away in Tzfas” Such a righteous woman, such a holy woman I had not seen, I had not heard of in my life Rav Shlomo was a holy man, and his wife was also holy And I came, I ate with them, she did not have, no, they did not have, they had food in great scarcity And they gave me, they gave me food, Rav Shlomo and his wife But with Rav Shlomo I could not eat, he, he ate like a bird, and I ate like a man {….}, she gave Rav Shlomo food in some vessel, and me too Two vessels, one vessel for me and one vessel for him

I came every time to.. to Yerushalayim Now I cannot, I want to sleep Only I remember, Rebbe Shlomo told me: “My daughter Esther passed away in Tzfas” {Oy}, he came to Teveria without Esther, and he said, he told me: “My daughter Esther passed away in Tzfas,” as though she had gone to the chuppah… ...I want to sleep and also eat, eat.. ..We will think afterward, now I want to sleep… ...{Without} Rav Shlomo, Rav Shlomo passed away in Teveria, Rebbe Yisroel Rav Shlomo in Yerushalayim, Rebbe Yisroel in Teveria, and I do not know {what, what, what is this, what is this} eh... ...Eh, eh.. give me a little to drink, not a lot [………….] [………….] Eh, Rav Shlomo, he was a very holy man, he ate like a bird, {yes} I could not, no, I could not bear it, he did not eat, he ate like a bird And I need to eat like, like, like every person [Like every person] [……...] Shehakol? [Yes, yes] Blessed are You, Hashem our God, King of the universe, by Whose word everything came to be [Amen] [………] [……...] He, does she have something to eat? Rav Shlomo's wife When I came to Rav Shlomo, no, no, they did not have sons, there was not, they did not have Mordechai was an only son, he was born, and afterward Esther was born, after Mordechai And afterward several, several girls Nu, I do not know He ate with great holiness, like a bird, I could not, I need to eat And Rav Shlomo would eat like a bird, {what?}, like a bird He took some small amount of food into his mouth and held it until he swallowed, afterward another, another few drops, yes, I could not, I, I must eat Rav Shlomo was, I do not know how he lived, he, he ate like a bird, like a bird that eats

I ate together with Rav Shlomo, then, then I was very ashamed, I eat and he does not eat But I had {..}, they gave me food, they gave me to eat, yes Eh.. And his wife already knew what he needed to eat And she cooked {...} for both of us, two dishes, I had a dish and he had a dish {And when I} came to Yerushalayim and went in to Rav Shlomo Wexler, to Rav Shlomo, to Rav Shlomo Then she cooked some thing for me to eat He had, his face was very holy, his face All his limbs were a kind of, kind of, kind of, kind of thing of holiness, not, not of.. [……….] [Rebbe Yisroel, but he did not receive a note, and you received a note] Eh? [Rav Shlomo Wexler, he did not..] {..} [Receive a note, you received a note, and he did not, how is that possible?] I do not remember, I do not know Rav Shlomo did not have the scent of money, he did not know at all, at all, whether there was money in the world Rav Shlomo, Rav Shlomo Wexler, Rav Shlomo He was by his father, his father was a rav in Berlin, a rav in Berlin He came to his father: “I saw, in a sefer, on the street of the Jews, a shop with “Likutei Etzos” Then, then I saw the “Likutei Etzos,” that it speaks about Eretz Yisroel So I want Eretz Yisroel, I want to travel to Eretz Yisroel” Then he said to him: “You want Eretz Yisroel? Take money {and travel to Eretz Yisroel}” He gave him money, he came to Yerushalayim, and in Yerushalayim he was a gaon, a great gaon in Yerushalayim Rav Akiva, Rav, Rav, Rav, Rav Akiva, he.. This I remember, Rav Akiva, yes, the gaon had the name Rav Akiva And I was afraid, I entered the house and was very afraid of Rav Shlomo

Because I cannot {be able}, I ate and Rav Shlomo did not eat, he, he ate like a bird No, I did not see another person in this world who eats like that But I was a human being, I need to eat, to eat and to drink, yes She cooked for me to eat, she cooked, {what, what}, what do you call..? What do you call it? She cooked, what do you call it? Lokshen (noodles) He ate like a bird, and I ate like a fresser (glutton) Rav Shlomo was a holy man, I do not know how he lived, I do not know, I did not know Is it possible to live with, with a few, a few crumbs of, of chicken? She gave me a piece, a piece of chicken meat, yes But Rav Shlomo ate like, like a holy man, and I ate like a fresser (glutton) Like, like I am accustomed Oy, oy, oy, just to see the eating of such a man, enough, sufficient She, his wife gave him food, and he ate in the house, and I and she, the two of us ate in the house He went at night, at midnight he went to the Kotel, there was danger from Arabs, there was danger He went as though there was no {…..}, danger, he went to the Kotel with Yisroel Ber He took me and the two of us went to the Kotel Eh, eh, eh.. We were two, we went to the Kotel at midnight Rav Shlomo, his face was like an angel, full of holiness, only holiness And I was a human being who needs to eat, but Rav Shlomo did not need to eat I do not know how, how he lived, how he used to live His wife already knew his eating I once came to Yerushalayim, and Rav Shlomo was ill, Rav Shlomo Wexler, Rav Shlomo was ill {..}, I do not know what sh.., at any rate, blessed is Hashem, he came out of the illness and ate

But he ate like a bird, I did not, I could not eat {...} When I came to Rav Shlomo, there was great joy in the house, great joy What was the joy? - I do not know, Rav Shlomo was so happy But I, I needed to eat [..].. {..} She sensed that I needed to eat, and Rav Shlomo, he did not need to eat He eats like, like a chicken, like a bird, I do not know how he lived Rav Shlomo had a window, he always sat by the window, there was light and joy And I came, there was great joy What he did not eat, I ate He does not need to eat much, only like a chicken, like a bird… ...{...}… ...{...} knows how he lived, he ate like a bird, with great holiness Such a face, such eating I did not, did not see, I could not, I need to eat… ...{….}… ...I do not know how he lived, his face was light, yes And he received me with love, yes He, he said, when I saw Rav Shlomo Wexler, ho, ho…