Tape 11G, Side Bais

This is not expensive. (not understood) You can look in the book. [I read in the book.] Ah — {fine — excellent.} Do you have a book? [Yoy.] Is your stove on wood or on gas? [No — it is a radiator.] Ah? [It has oil in it.]

(not understood — Saba speaks with someone in Yiddish.) He will fall like — like all the rabbis — like all the rabbis. (Saba laughs.) Yes. [(a friend speaks in Yiddish)] A fool — wicked — and coarse. [(a friend speaks in Yiddish)] He will fall like all those who have honor — like all {those of…} — he will fall and fall — the liars — all — like all — all the liars will fall — and there will be only — only truth — truth and emunah. [(a friend speaks in Yiddish)] They will fall — they will fall — all of them will fall. (Saba laughs.)

He has stomach pains. (Saba laughs.) [Who? Rav Lizer?] Yoy. Have you not heard? [I have not heard.] Yes — I heard this. (Saba laughs.)

…That there will be yeshivos that will study the books of Rabbainu — there will be — there will be many yeshivos — and they will study the books of Rabbainu. Like this — like this I heard. [Yes.] (Saba laughs.)

…[Hoping — hoping that he will not.] Hoping that he will buy. [That he will not buy.] Ah? [That he will not buy.] That he will not buy. [They want — everyone together wants to buy — but not that he buys alone. (not understood — he speaks in Yiddish.)] Yes? No — no — no — not one. [Not one. He has become the rabbi over Breslov? What is this?] He has become an Admor — Admor {like this} — Admor. [Admor Berland.] Yoy. He will fall like all the liars. [(not understood — he speaks in Yiddish)] No — no — no — all of them will fall. [Ashkenazim and Sephardim.] (Saba laughs.) [All of them?] Yes.

…[(not understood — a friend speaks with Saba in Yiddish)]

…"Sheyomtaku kol hadinim me'al" — [Yitzchak ben Simchah.] Yitzchak ben Simchah. [Barak.] Ah? [Barak — Barak ben Malka.] Barak ben Malka. [Eliyahu ben Simchah.] Eliyahu ben Simchah. [Asher ben Simchah.] Ah? Asher ben Simchah. [The whole family.] "And the whole family — and all of Yisroel — through a supernal wonder in which there is no admixture of judgment whatsoever — Amen." [Amen.] [May you merit mitzvos — Saba.] [Saba — can you make for me a pidyon?] Ah? [Can you make for me a pidyon?] Who is this? [Gideon.] Gideon — Gideon ben — [Sandra.] Ah? [Sandra.] Sandra. [And Esther bas Chanah.] Ah? [And Esther bas Chanah.] Esther bas Chanah. [And the whole family.] The whole family — "through a supernal wonder…" [Amen.] [Thank you greatly — may you merit mitzvos.]

…Five years. [Every day? Every day were you together?] Yes — two — two. (Saba laughs.) In Teveria there was I and Rebbe Yisroel (Kardonner) — two Breslov Chassidim. (Saba laughs.) Nu — you — you are not {open-mouthed}…

…[I can take from what is there.] Yes — yes. [You will eat this.] There is time. [Good — so put here — put here.] I do not need so much. [Were you chavrusah?] I do not — not need so much. I do not have a large stomach — my stomach is small. Immediately it becomes full. (Saba laughs.) [Saba — you said: "There will be a time — whoever does not bless with kavanah — he will have no stomach."] Oy voy — oy voy — what a — what a world — what a — what a world is this — that there is Rabbainu already in the world. This is the world — the world of Mashiach — a new world. (Saba laughs.) [Can I eat from this? Saba — can I eat from this?] What kind… For what purpose do you need to know? For what purpose did I give it to you?

The story of 'the Wise Man and the Simple Man.' (Saba laughs.) This story — the whole world can live from this story. (Saba laughs.) And rejoice. The Simple Man asked the Wise Man: "Why is it that every time I come — you are in sadness? Why am I in joy?" (Saba laughs.) So the Wise Man was always in sadness — this is not fine — and this is not good — and this is not good — and this is not good. And the Simple Man made everything good. He wanted meat — to eat meat. So he said to his wife: "Give me meat." (Saba laughs.) She gave him bread: "Here is meat." So he said: "Ho — the meat is so good — so pleasant — the meat!" [He felt meat.] He needed a garment to go to a friend's wedding. Yes. So he said to her: "Give me the beautiful garment — I need to go to a wedding." (Saba laughs.) She gave him the peltz. (Saba laughs.) [This is the same garment every time.] A story — this is such a story — it can make the whole world rejoice. (Saba laughs.) Why am I to rejoice — {says the Simple Man} — always — every time I come — I — you are in sadness. (Saba laughs.) So he said to him: "How should I not be in sadness? A rich man brought me a diamond — a diamond. And he brought me another diamond — to make it just like this diamond. He made it — he — he was [an expert] — a great expert. He made it well and very beautifully. He came — the rich man came: 'Ho — this is so beautiful — this — this…' But he — he made some — some defect — some — some small thing not right. [Small.] But the whole world did not — not know of this — because — because there was none — none who would understand — this defect — only he himself." So he said to the Simple Man: "How can I rejoice? A wise man like me — will have — will have a mistake? Will have such an error — that he did not do it properly? Nu — how can I be in joy?" (Saba laughs.) [The Simple Man was making a shoe — the Simple Man was making a shoe with three tips — and was in great joy.] He was always in joy. And the Wise Man was always in sadness — this is not fine — and this is not fine — this is not fine. [The story of the Petek — the story of the Petek — it is always new.] Ah? [The story of the Petek of "Na Nach Nachma Nachman MayUman" — this is always new.] New — new — yes. (Saba laughs.) [With simplicity.] He speaks to me and to you — and to all the world: "Me'od hayah kasheh li laredess elecha" — to you — and to you — and to you — and to you — and to all the world. (Saba laughs.) What — what does he need to descend so much — to say — to say to me that "nehenaytis me'od me'avodascha." (Saba laughs.) I did not enjoy at all — and he enjoyed: "Nehenaytis me'od me'avodascha." This is not — this is not — this is not finished — not yet finished: "V'alecha amarti mein Feiyerel vet tlien biz Mashiach vet kumen." Nu — this — this — would you be in sadness when I say this to you? (Saba laughs.)