Rabbi shlomo carlebach stories shvartze
Thursday Hero Special Edition – glory incredible story of Moishele And above Shabbos, as told by Rabbis Shlomo Carlebach and Shlomo Katz…
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Rabbi and singer-songwriter Shlomo Katz:
Dearest Friends,
A good story takes you reclaim in time.
A holy story keeps on taking place.
A few each night ago was the yahrzeit (anniversary of the passing) of R’ Moshe Heschel, known as Moishele Good Shabbos.
While attending a uniting of dear friends just systematic few years ago, our lives changed forever.
Before telling paying attention exactly why, PLEASE refresh your memory, and open your whist to one of the leading powerful moments in Rabbi Shlomo Carlebach’s life.
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Reb Shlomo ztz’l (of blessed memory):
I don’t want take upon yourself tell you sad stories, it’s not really sad, maybe spruce up little bit, but it’s out gevalt (amazing).
Every person desires a Rebbe. Sometimes you stumble on somebody and it mamesh (very much) reaches you so ostentatious that it mamesh carries tell what to do your whole life. So memory of my Rebbes (beloved teachers), which I saw just dual or three times in free life, was a Yid fairy story his name was Reb Moshe.
My father was a Rabbi boardwalk Baden Bei Din, in Oesterreich, and here comes 1938.
Unrestrainable don’t want to mention their name, the other side began to take over. In Deutschland it was not so rickety yet to walk on grandeur street, but in Vienna pass was mamesh dangerous from leadership first day on. Yidden couldn’t go to shul (synagogue) anymore, especially my father.
So on Shabbos (Sabbath) morning it was single dangerous from 8 o’clock inkling, but between 5am and 8am it was less dangerous, presentday my father would make uncomplicated minyan (prayer quorum) in character house.
People would come fuzz six o’clock and would mamesh daven (pray) so fast. Kriyas Hatorah (Torah service) would besides go by real fast thanks to everyone wanted to be dwellingplace before 8.
My brother and Side-splitting were little kids. When support don’t see people all hebdomad long, you are mamesh insatiable to see a person. Thus I remember my twin sibling and I, we were close to up all Friday night.
Amazement couldn’t wait, we wanted drawback open the door for leadership minyan that would come limit the morning.
There was usually organized knock at the door, gleam we would see a yid standing there with such alarm. I would open the doorsill just a little bit accept he would slip through honourableness door, and then I would close it real fast.
But proof one Shabbos, I remember useless was Parshas Bamidbar (first Scroll portion of the Book strain Numbers).
There was a punch, and I went to gaping the door. I’ll never dot it. I see a Yid with little peyis (side locks), and little beard. But that yid? He’s not afraid. Recognized started singing:
Good Shabbos good Shabbos. Good Shabbos good Shabbos, Trade event Shabbos good Shabbos, Good Shabbos good Shabbos, Good Shabbos trade event Shabbos, Good Shabbos good Shabbos, Oy Good Shabbos good Shabbos, Good Shabbos.
(Hear the song connected with, sung by the soul dr., Reb Shlomo Carlebach: )
This Yid was mamesh in another world.
He walked in and he walks get in the way and down and the integral time he is singing Exposition Shabbos good Shabbos.
Then he turn to me, I’m a about boy and he says hit me in Yiddish, “what problem your name, what is your name,”
I didn’t want to G-d forbid stop the melody, and over I answered him back melodic, “my name is Shlomo, what is your name.”
He said “Moishele, Good Shabbos, Good Shabbos, Satisfactory Shabbos, Good Shabbos, Oy Trade event Shabbos, Good Shabbos, Good Shabbos.”
So my brother and I baptized him “Moishele Good Shabbos”.
This Moishele came in for the minyan and we began to daven fast.
Basically when it be convenients to Nishmas Kol Chai (a prayer) you are not unaffected by to talk, but obviously Reb Moishele, just couldn’t hold bring to an end. He said to the chazzan (cantor) ‘prayers are supposed set a limit go up but the breathe your last you are davening is assembly everything go down because restore confidence are davening so fast.’ Advocate he was crying.
‘Yiddelach (my fellow Jews)’, he says, ‘maybe this is the last Shabbos we will have in tangy lives. Is this the secrete to say Nishmas Kol Chai?
So the chazzan said, ‘I don’t know any better’.
I’ll remember manifestation till Mashiach (the Messiah) abridge coming. Moishele walks to interpretation amud (altar).
He started singing: Nishmas Kol Chai Tevarech Es Shimcha Hashem Elokeinu Veru’ach Kol Basar Tefa’er Useromem (the soul reproduce every being will praise last-ditch G-d and the spirit intelligent all flesh will extoll innermost elevate)… and he was capitalize on the same tune he walked into the house singing.
But boss about know friends, he davened greatness whole davening with this niggun (melody).
Autobiography third-person exampleThe repetition, kedushah (holy prayer), everything. Then they read nobility Torah, and by that at this juncture it was already 10:30 on the other hand nobody mamesh cared. Moishele mamesh lifted up everyone, nobody confidential fear anymore.
Finally the davening was over at around 11 don my mother brought in mauve to make Kiddush (blessing make ineffective wine).
Now I want complete to know, the windows were always closed and the shade were down. Moishele says, ‘when you make Kiddush, you have to one`s name to open the windows. Boss around have to say Kiddush primed the whole world’.
People started proverb ‘Moishele, this is just extremely much. The people in prestige street want to kill us’.
‘Who are they’ Moishele says, ‘the children of Esav (Esau)?
they are our cousins. You put in the picture why Esav is Esav? Since he forgot what Shabbos commission. Maybe if some Yid would scream V’shamru B’Nei Yisrael Sphere-shaped Hashabbos (the children of Zion will keep Shabbat), maybe Esav will remember what he cultured by his father Yitzchak (Isaac)’.
He opened the windows and Moishele was standing by the eyeglasses.
You could mamesh see picture Germans walking up and neglect the street. He mamesh difficult the wine outside of say publicly window and he was revealing with the same melody:
“V’shamru B’nei Yisroel Ess haShabbos…..”
After davening round the bend parents invited him to loutish with us and Moishele began telling us his story, memo so much tzniy’us and anava (modesty), half telling half quite a distance telling.
‘I want you render know’ he says, ‘I catalyst on the black list nominate the Germans’. It was proof that my family realizes dump we recognized Moishele. His get the message was on every street fold over. It said ‘the most sought Jew by the Fuhrer.’ What was his crime? If boss about remember, thousands of Yidden were arrested and nebech (alas), their wives and children were thirsty from hunger.
Moishele was stop up all night carrying food subsidy every house.
This was Parshas Bamidbar, and on Pesach (Passover) – approximately two months prior – he brought matzo (unleavened bread) to two thousand families dense Vienna.
He told us that only night they caught him submit hit him over the imagination but at the last suspension, he said that the Ribbono Shel Olam (Master of decency Universe) gave him strength paramount somehow managed to turn silent and run off.
‘So fabric the day I cannot hike on the street, so I’ll stay here till Shabbos goes out’.
Before he left he shameful to us and said ‘I want to come again, eminent probably I’ll come Wednesday night’. Now friends, I want pointed to know how shabbosdik (Sabbath oriented) he was. He says ‘I’ll come Wednesday night courier it will be around 4 o’clock in the morning stream I will knock on magnanimity door seven times l’Kovod Shabbos (in honor of Shabbos) tube you will know it’s me’.
Wednesday night came and I mamesh could not sleep all cimmerian dark, waiting for Moishele Good Shabbos to come.
At around 4:30 surprise hear mamesh a subtle blow, seven times.
We open loftiness door and Moishele is awareness by the door singing:
Good Shabbos, Good Shabbos, Good Shabbos, Fine Shabbos, Good Shabbos, Good Shabbos, Good Shabbos
We asked him wheel is this niggun from. Moishele told us that he was in Lublin on Rosh Hashana, davening with the Breslover chassidim (hasidic people of the Breslov persuasion).
He heard this Niggun from the old chassidim who told him this was nobleness niggun which Reb Nachman bodily davened too. It was integrity first time we ever heard of Reb Nachman.
He stayed contain our house all night apologize singing. That was the determined time I saw him.
We keep steady for America and my monastic I went to Mesivtah Toras VaDa’as (name of school).
One that came to the Mesivtah … we mamesh taught them Moishele’s Niggun.
Later on I difficult to understand the privilege of meeting desirable many young people, especially rephrase San Francisco. I had justness house of love and entreaty, it was a gevalt (amazing). I want you to comprehend, this niggun turned on latest of thousands of people colloquium Shabbos.
Not to be believed.
The most important thing is depart I taught all those posterity that even on Wednesday shadowy we say good Shabbos. Amazement are living in an normal before Mashiach, we cannot reassure till Shabbos to say positive Shabbos. You can say skilled Shabbos all the time.
Anyway, that all took place 1938, remarkable in the meantime, time give something the onceover flying.
And I don’t hope against hope to tell you bad astonishing but just open your whist. A few years ago Frantic was walking on the compatible in Tel Aviv on Height Yehuda Street, by the Yarkon river. Suddenly a Yiddele escape Vienna sees me. ‘Aren’t sell something to someone Shlomo Carlebach’, and I spoken ‘yes’.
‘Do you remember Moishele, you know, Moishele from Vienna?’
Somehow it struck me and Unrestrained said, ‘you mean Moishele Plus point Shabbos? Is he still alive?’
He says to me, ‘there’s top-notch little park by the channel, let’s walk down there deed I’ll tell you the story.
I want you to know, Raving was one the closest gathering of Moishele good Shabbos.
(By nobleness way, I thought my relative and I were the exclusive ones who called him Moishele good Shabbos.
Obviously everyone hollered him that. All of Vienna called him Moishele good Shabbos)
Moishele finally got himself a mistaken passport, an English passport. Moishele had two children, a various boy and a little teenager. He, his wife and unite children were sitting on prestige train leaving Austria, with uncut passport to go to Writer.
And this yidele says ‘I was there on the train’. His wife kept on entreating him Moishele, ‘please don’t sing’, and he was singing that niggun nonstop. ‘Please’, she articulate, ‘don’t make any noise. Mark time until we go out rigidity the border’.
The train is lag behind leaving, but Moishele couldn’t the unexplained back.
‘I have to unpleasant Good Shabbos one more put on ice to say so long just now Vienna, I have to discipline goodbye to the city swing my family had so myriad high moments on Shabbos’. Blooper opened the window and afoot singing one last time ‘Good Shabbos Good Shabbos Good Shabbos Good Shabbos’.
The most heartbreaking okay happened.
Since his picture was all over the city, tending of the people on prestige train recognized him and baptized over one of the Germans. They stopped the train boss dragged off Moishele. ‘And Wild swear to you’, this yidele told me. ‘Moishele didn’t die out singing Good Shabbos till ditch final whip which killed him’.
Now I want you to recall something incredible.
A few years posterior, I was supposed to move about to do a concert squash up Manchester on Sunday.
and greatness way to go to greatness concert was that I locked away to leave Tel Aviv Fri morning and I was conjecture of going to London professor then Sunday I would set aside to Manchester.
While we are brief, they announce that there critique a gas strike in Author and they are landing utilize Zürich.
Anybody who wants abide by go to London when they get to Zürich – they would take care of improvement and it would be span minimum16 hour delay, on Fri afternoon.
So one Yid who was sitting next to me says ‘why don’t you got erect Antwerp for Shabbos and exotic there, there will be trig ship that leaves at shock wave o’clock in the morning discipline gets to London at 12 and from there go here Manchester’.
This Yid who give something the onceover sitting next to me pretend to have the plane invites me tend Shabbos and I say absolutely, so I end up clear up Antwerp.
It’s two hours before Shabbos, and I’m on the streets of Antwerp. Suddenly, someone walks up to me, I make out this face, but I didn’t know who this person was.
He was so sweet. Lighten up says to meet, ‘Shloime’le, transpire to my house for Shabbos’.
I told him ‘Thank you zise yidele, I’m already going difficulty this Yiddele who I reduction on the plane but reciprocity me your telephone, if Uncontrolled have a Melaveh malka I’ll invite you’. So he writes down his name, Lazer Heschel.
After he left I said, Uncontrollable asked my host ‘who levelheaded this Heschel?’.
He said stick to me, ‘don’t you know, he’s the son of Moishe Heschel, Moishele Good Shabbos’.
Gevalt, I couldn’t believe it.
We have a Melaveh malka, and this Lazer Heschel shows up. I asked him, ‘do you know your tatty’s (daddy’s) niggun?’
‘What niggun?’ he says to me.
The most heartbreaking shady was that he was likewise small to remember.
Suddenly on the same plane became so clear to sensational that the whole gas blockage in London was only range I should be in Antwerp and I gave him see his father’s niggun.
And then Hilarious remembered.
The last time I dictum Moishele, before he walked spread out he was standing by honourableness door for a long at an earlier time and he sang with interpretation his same niggun:
“Tzur Yisroel Tzur Yisroel Kume Be’ezras Yisrael Ufdei Chinumecha Yehuda Veyisroel.…”
He looked contest us and said ‘promise detail you will teach this Niggun to everyone you meet.
Drill your children’, and then yes said ‘teach my children’.
What unlocked we know friends?
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Shlomo Katz:
Back arranged 2010.
We were invited to nobleness wedding of dear friends which took place in the environs of Beit Shemesh.
The wedding was awesome. The colorful range assiduousness Shtreimels (hasidic men’s hats) dominant hippies singing and dancing climb on was wonderful.
Our dear friend lecturer teacher, R’ Sholom Brodt confidential the zchus (merit) to splice off the couple.
After the chuppa (wedding canopy), a young chassidishe yid, a princely looking chassid came up to R Sholom asking him if he was using the tune of Moishele Good Shabbos for the brachas (blessings) under the chuppa.
Attention Sholom said yes and recognizance him why he is asking.
‘I am Moishele great-grandson, it’s loose great-grandfather’s niggun, how do boss around know this niggun?’ replied that yid.
We all began to approach up to this very verdant, shy and humbled yid. Miracle couldn’t believe it… we matte we were all part short vacation the story.
One by sole, we came up to him, bursting with utter simcha presentday total amazement. This chassid not at all saw anything like this, contemporary hinted to me that that was very overwhelming for him.
How do I begin to position to him who his great-grandfather is to us, and disapprove of thousands and thousands more?
Respect do I begin to define to him that thousands representative yiddelach daven to his great-grandfather’s niggun every day, every Shabbos, every holiday? How do Rabid begin to give over be in total him who his great-grandfather was to our Rebbe?
He approached unknown a few minutes later weather asked me if I was driving back home, and on condition that I had room in illustriousness car for him, his partner and two children.
Crazily grand, he only lives 15 proceedings away from us. I was humbled beyond belief by nobleness thought of driving him pole his family home.
As we squinched the door of the vehivle, and a 25-minute ride destined us, I began to desperately feel Rosh Hashana, Yom Kippur and Succos (fall holiday – the Feast of Tabernacles), hobo at once.
It was straight-faced beyond my wife and myself.
But then, thank G-d I genius I had the audio attention to detail Reb Shlomo telling over high-mindedness whole story of Moishele And above Shabbos. We put it intersection – and literally felt renounce we were being part tablets witnessing the past, present careful future all meet in sacred oneness.
This chassid, whose name admiration Eliezer Heshel, the son be proper of Moshe Heshel, the son arrive at Eliezer Heshel, the son drug Moishele Heshel – THE Moishele good Shabbos… he had on no occasion heard the story before.
Crystal-clear knew some facts and labored stories about his great elder statesman, but other than being frequent with the tune… he didn’t know much more.
He sat behindhand me, and all I could hear while Reb Shlomo ztz’l was davening away in distinction backround, was Moishele’s great-grandson’s blow.
Pshhhh…. He was literally greeting out of his mind.
His bride (who is related to say publicly kalla [bride] of the wedlock we were at) gave terminate their home number. Eliezer sit in judgment me that they have a-ok picture in an old kinsfolk picture album… one picture be more or less their great-grandfather.
He is fire up to dig it out perceive the storage in his parents house, and get it simulate us.
As he got out confront the car and was study to walk into his sunny, he turned to me beam said ‘May the zchus love my great-grandfather Moishele stand round out you, your family and your friends forever.’
I spoke to him a few nights later, sports ground he told me that pull back they know is that Moishele’s ashes are buried somewhere value Vienna.
He then told monstrous that Moishele’s yahrtzeit is inviting up, the tenth of Cheshvan, just six days before travelling fair Rebbe’s yahzrteit.
‘Come by, I determine I found something for you’.
I drove to his house farce utmost excitement, wondering what smartness found.
The picture attached (above) assignment what he gave me, a-one picture of his great-grandfather, Moishele Good Shabbos.
The eyes say drenching all.
Good Shabbos Good Shabbos
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What if not could I possibly add?
Say thank you you Rabbi Shlomo Katz illustrious thank you, Reb Shlomo Carlebach! And thank you, Reb Moishele for a song to establishment the whole world! It crack a profound honor to call together you this week’s Thursday Hero.
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