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0:00 - Rav, [unclear] a paytan, and Rav, he [unclear], but he has the whole world. - Wow. [unclear] watch over you, strong health. [unclear] what is your honor's name? - May Hashem bless you. Chaim Jarbi. - May Hashem watch over you, your honor. - Amen, and the same to you. May Hashem watch over you, Rav. We love you. - So do we. - Do you listen to my niggunim? - Of course. You have special niggunim. - You have merited, your honor, baruch Hashem. Fortunate are you, that you do not touch this world. Fortunate are you.
0:25 You know, you don't understand the greatness of your soul, and how precious and [unclear] and dear you are to the Holy One, blessed be He, and how holy and very awesome your soul is. If you do not touch this world and you do not see it, you are not swallowed up in it, and you don't understand — you don't know — you are not losing anything, know that. - I only gain, Rav. - You only gain. [unclear] there is nothing to see in [unclear] world. The Chozeh of Lublin, who saw from one end of the world to the other, put a band over his eyes. He said: I have nothing to look at in this world at all.
0:51 - Let me tell the Rav. I was — I was invited as a chazzan, more than 20 years ago, in the United States, and someone comes and says to me: Stay here. He gave me his credit card — a very wealthy man. He says to me: I am taking you to the best doctors, and with Hashem's help you will see. I am not letting you leave here. I ran away. I told him — Rav — I don't want to. After Hashem gave me a gift, you want it taken away from me? We didn't want it. We didn't want that. What would I do with it? I only want to be holy before Hashem, blessed be He. That is my prayer all the time.
1:18 - I bless you, your honor, in the merit of Rabbi Chaim Kapusi, "Hashem is my miracle," that you should have those miracles. May the Holy One, blessed be He, watch over you, so that with Hashem's help you will be happy. May your honor rejoice in your level. - Amen, may it be so. - How precious and [unclear] and dear you are. - Thank you, Rav, for everything. - May the Holy One, blessed be He, watch over you. Since when have you been like this? Since when are you — sagi nahor from birth? - Yes.
1:45 - You have never seen a form? [unclear] - Baruch Hashem, I have merited. I don't know what created beings look like. I see them from the inside. - [unclear] - [unclear], yes. - Wait, and you know the prayers? This chazzanus — do you know the prayers by heart? - I have — does the Rav know what Braille is? - Yes, those little dots. - So I have siddurim like that, and machzorim for Rosh Hashanah too. - And Gemaras and Mishnayos. - And Gemaras, Mishnayos, Rav. Baruch Hashem, we learn and we teach, baruch Hashem.
2:16 I'm not saying this, Heaven forbid, from a place of pride. I only want to tell the Rav so that the Rav will bless me for more, but we merited to make a siyum of Shas twice, and a siyum of the Zohar too, baruch Hashem. - You learned the whole Shas [unclear]? - Baruch Hashem, yes. And we also teach Torah here in the city, in Rishon LeZion. My parents live here in Rishon, and we teach Torah here too, baruch Hashem. - Listen, you are holy and pure. You really — I am amazed by you, your honor. - No, the Rav has nothing to be amazed at. This is our duty in the world. I don't do it for the sake of — I'm only telling the Rav so that the Rav will bless it, that I should [unclear] even more — not to boast before the Rav, Heaven forbid. - You are truly our joy, you are.
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2:52 I am happy that I met you and got to know you. - Then the privilege is ours. - Today you came to bring me joy. You came for me. - If I had known I would have such a long time with the Rav, I would have brought some instrument to bring the Rav joy. A pity I didn't. - You play, too? - I play, baruch Hashem, "upon a ten-stringed instrument" — on ten musical instruments, yes, baruch Hashem. - Really? Wow, wow. What do you play? - I play — if the Rav knows what a qanun is, it's an instrument with 90 strings. I play the violin, on flutes that I build with the help of friends, I also play the organ, like the Rav. I play percussion. I play the oud, if the Rav knows what that is. Yes, baruch Hashem.
3:25 - "And it was, as the musician played, that the hand of Hashem came upon him." - Amen, amen, and the same to you. May Hashem bless the Rav. - May the Holy One, blessed be He, watch over you. We will yet merit to hear some instrument from you one day, something. - Amen. If I had known it would be like this... - The violin, the violin — I'm interested to hear how you play. - If only I merit to come one day and bring the Rav joy. That would be such a joy. - Today you brought me a joy you don't know of, by coming to me. - Oh my, thank you very much, Rav, for everything. - May the Holy One, blessed be He, watch over you. - Amen, and the same to you. - Health and a good life. - May Hashem give us a complete recovery for the parents,
3:59 - Thank you.
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