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The Gaon Hinoka in a special story about Baba Sali with the Rebbe Rabbi Shlomo Buso

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The Yanuka — Rav Shlomo Yehuda

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0:00 He told that once, when the Rav (Busso) was a little boy, the Baba Sali wanted him to bring him water, to bring him something to drink. So there was a jug, and you had to pour with the jug and everything... It is a room where he sits - the Baba Sali, inside a room, and you have to go through a corridor and everything to get to his room, and you go to the kitchen and bring it. It is not like today, when the kitchen is all connected. You had to walk to a room. So when he went, he asked for the water several times, so the Rav went back to the kitchen once more, and the mother - he told her: prepare the water and everything...

0:30 and she prepared the water, and he went back to bring the water to the Baba Sali. So when he reached the Baba Sali - the Baba Sali was not supposed to know who had prepared the water for him. So the Baba Sali said to him: I asked you, not her. That is what he said to him, when he was a little boy. Know this: all the desecration of Hashem's name there is now with the army and all that, it is all because of us - it is not the secular ones, it is us. It is written in Sefer Chassidim: the non-Jews will never do harm to Israel unless they do harm to one another, and Torah scholars will never be disgraced unless they disgrace one another.

1:01 It is us, among ourselves. One of the first things I saw with our master and teacher, the crown of our head (the Yanuka): When I saw him for the first time... I came from behind. And then he took out his famous album for me, and I saw how he... This is something that is an open, bleeding wound - all the disputes are like that. When I saw that our master and teacher (the Yanuka) has all of them, honors all of them, values all of them and knows all of them - values all of them - this is a crown for our head. This is the secret, the foundation of the redemption.

1:42 Baseless love... Gentlemen, know that you have come to the right place - and cleave to holiness... 'Here I will dwell, for I have desired it' - to be attached to our master and teacher. With Hashem's help, may we merit the redemption with mercy, amen.

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