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The Yanuka Rav Shlomo Yehuda-הגאון הינוקא על בעל הילולא הגה"ק רבי שלמה מקרלין זצוק"ל הי"ד @TheYanukaRavShlomoYehuda #הינוקא

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The Yanuka — Rav Shlomo Yehuda

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0:00 Rabbi Shlomo of Karlin was the Mashiach ben Yosef of his generation. He loved the Holy One, blessed be He, in a way that no one could imagine - his love for the Holy One, blessed be He. We see in him the love with which he loved the Holy One, blessed be He, that he cleaved to the Holy One, blessed be He. He said: I want to tell you about his passing, and with that we will finish. He said that at the time a person learns Torah for its own sake, he says that his heart burns [unclear] to give over his soul for - When he would [unclear] for prayer, Rabbi Shlomo of Karlin would learn Torah, all the time he would learn Torah with self-sacrifice.

0:35 He wants a person to learn [unclear]. He said, 'I heard from his holy mouth,' he said: that the way of the Gemara - when a person learns the holy Torah, he burns away all the klipos, the husks, between himself and Hashem, blessed be He. That is why he was learning all the time; every day he would learn 200 pages. He had a straight mind, and he was something, Once he said that there was a decree on the Jewish people that they do not pray the prayer with proper intent, as it should be.

1:03 So he moved all the benches. They came to the beis midrash and saw all the benches outside; they did not understand what this was. All the benches were outside, and he was sitting inside alone. He learned. He said, 'But I am prayer.' I took upon myself to annul the decree, and I know how to pray. I know, from the greatness of the Holy One, blessed be He, how to pray. For example, he said that only a tzaddik can go up for shishi, the sixth aliyah. He was strict about this: that a person who is holy and a tzaddik - only he would go up for shishi, and whoever is not on a sufficient level of holiness would not go up for shishi. That was something beautiful. If he has no new insight here, there will be something -

1:43 Here, let's say this: Rabbi Shlomo of Karlin - so that you understand - he was the greatest of the disciples of the holy Maggid - the Maggid of the holy Baal Shem Tov - but he was something very, very, very, very, very holy, in elevation and in speech. And then here he says: 'And you shall return to Hashem your G-d.' That is what he said: 'And you shall return to Hashem your G-d.'

2:08 Now he says about his Rebbe, 'And you shall return to Hashem your G-d,' in the name of the holy Rabbi [unclear] of Karlin, that the essence of teshuvah is the thought: one should purify his thoughts from all matters of the forbidden and of physical desire, and bind his thought only to the good. That is the essence of teshuvah. Rabbi Shlomo of Karlin says: do you know what teshuvah is? Only your thought will testify to it. If in your thought you have holiness and purity, and you have returned in your thought, you have merited teshuvah. As long as in your thought you are not holding on to matters of holiness, you have not yet truly done teshuvah.

2:36 So says Rabbi Shlomo of Karlin. For the thought is what rules - whether in deed, whether in speech, whether in thought - over everything, and through it the deed and the speech in which he blemished are also repaired. Indeed, Rabbi Shlomo of Karlin says: if you want to be careful about holiness, be careful about the thought. And he is also the one who said - Rabbi Shlomo of Karlin - that 'b'simchah', in joy, has the letters of 'machshavah', thought. When a person is in joy, it will help him purify all his thoughts.

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3:03 How does he put it? And at the hilula meal of Rabbi Aharon of Karlin, the one who received [unclear], he came and said: why do we make a hilula and rejoice on this day? Why: one must root the faith of the tzaddikim, of Mashiach, in our hearts. Why the tzaddikim? It was said of them that they were tzaddikim in the aspect of Mashiach. As they would call one 'the Moshe of his generation,' he said, everyone who is in the aspect of Moshe Rabbeinu. So this is his hilula - the hilula of Rabbi Aharon of Karlin; that was how the joy was on this day.

3:29 But the hilula of Rabbi Shimon bar Yochai - come and see what the Av Beis Din of [unclear] writes, in the name of the holy Gaon Rabbi Shlomo of Karlin - what Rabbi Noach of Lechovitch said. Rabbi Noach of Lechovitch made a calculation that the day of the hilula of Rabbi Shimon bar Yochai, on Lag BaOmer - that very day will be the day of the 22nd of Tammuz. The 22nd of Tammuz. The 22nd of Tammuz - the hilula of Rabbi Shimon will be - always - the hilula of Rabbi Shlomo of Karlin.

4:04 This year, when is Lag BaOmer? On the same day of the week, so to speak. Yes. When is Lag BaOmer this week? This year? Here, now: Rabbi Shimon - of Karlin. How did Rabbi Noach of Lechovitch put it? Come - the day of the hilula of Rabbi Shimon bar Yochai, on Lag BaOmer - what day did it fall on? Did it fall on Sunday? Did it fall on Thursday? Did it fall on Wednesday? That is the day that will be the 22nd of Tammuz - that is the hilula of Shlomo of Karlin.

4:29 The 22nd of Tammuz - when does it fall for us now? Sunday. Lag BaOmer - when was it? Sunday. The connection between them, he says. There is a connection with the 22nd of Tammuz. And he concluded: on Lag BaOmer we draw bows, and the holy Gaon Rabbi Shlomo of Karlin was killed, [unclear] a bow. How? Now I will tell you. Keshet, a bow: Toras Shlomo Karlin. Yes, yes, yes. Keshet - an acronym: Toras Shlomo Karlin. Did you see what a mind, [unclear] between them?

4:58 They cannot [unclear] the lights, he already... Shalom. They tell about him that once, there was a non-Jew who was pursuing him; they called him Armilus [unclear]. Like Armilus - there's the name. This non-Jew - they called him Armilus. He was a non-Jew, a Cossack, a soldier, [unclear] Almost as if he were Nasrallah. Armilus is Nasrallah? Yes.

5:23 With another lamed? Two lameds or one lamed? Wow, I'm [unclear]. Really? [unclear]. What Nasrallah is this? Every time they have someone with a [unclear] and robes, but we think so. [unclear], we are afraid of him. He has some [unclear] and a jalabiya, and people are afraid of him. A [unclear] on his head. We need to know: it is not really them. The Holy One, blessed be He, is showing us signs.

5:53 What is He showing us? [unclear] our deeds - they will kill Nasrallah, [unclear] will rise up for you, this one will rise up for you, all kinds. 'And the Children of Israel did evil in the eyes of Hashem, and He gave them into the hand of [unclear].' That is how the Book of Shoftim, chapter 3, begins, Really. The first verse: 'The Children of Israel did evil in the eyes of [unclear]'? Yes, really, yes. And they do evil in the eyes of Hashem. No matter what, it came back. Always a new king arises. One must bring the Holy One, blessed be He, satisfaction, and learn the Torah of Hashem, blessed be He, truly, so that the Holy One, blessed be He, will save us from the hands of these rioters and wicked ones.

6:26 Once there was a story - Rabbi Shlomo of Karlin, may his merit protect us - for this is the merit: that we spoke about him and said from his Torah and mentioned him - you will have [unclear] for all of life, with Hashem's help. These are blessings. To mention him, it is not... Now we spoke of him, so may his merit protect us. They say that he would bless a rock - that is to say, he would pray for a rock, that it be remembered with children; he would bring children to a rock. A rock.

6:51 That is what they used to say about him. That is what they said: a rock. To such an extent - as if there were no such thing - that he would remember barren women with children, doing miracles in this matter of children, and we do not know of people who had such power as he had. There were two like this: the Rebbe of Vilednik, Rabbi Yisrael Dov Ber son of Rabbi Yosef, Rabbi Yisrael of Vilednik, the author of [unclear], and Rabbi Shlomo of Karlin.

7:20 Now, on Tuesday, it seems, I am sandek for someone who for forty-seven years had no children. The doctors told him: if you have hair on your hand, you will have children. Here, I am reading to you. Once Rabbi Shlomo of Karlin was praying in the synagogue, he prayed, and someone came, this Armilus, the wicked Armilus - this wicked Armilus came. They really called him that, Armilus; he had a similar name - Armalai, Armalais they called him, something like that.

7:54 That is his name; it is like Armilus, it is the same thing. Rabbi Shlomo of Karlin was praying in the synagogue, at 'Echad'; he began the 'Echad', and his wife the Rebbetzin saw from above, from the women's section, that someone was standing at the window with a bow and arrow. He had an arrow like this, and a bow, because it is like a rifle. Once they had rifles that were like a bow and arrow - it was a rifle, and on top there is an arrow like this, and it is like a bullet. You see it like [unclear], but it is with a bow and arrow.

8:27 You have seen these once - rifles. She saw him aiming it, and then she shouted, 'Watch out, watch out, watch out!' As if she shouted to the Rebbe, Rabbi Shlomo of Karlin. He did not manage to notice - boom, he shot this thing at him. Rabbi Shlomo of Karlin collapsed on the floor, and the Heichal, the Holy Ark, was open. These are the words he said before he passed away - do you know what he said? This is what he said: 'Mashiach ben Yosef I have already been - but where are you, Mashiach ben David?' And he passed away.

8:56 These are the words he said; he testified about himself. These are the words he said: 'Already Mashiach ben Yosef I have been, but where are you, Mashiach ben David?' And he passed away. [unclear] These are his words. And everyone escorted him, and wept, and there was a very great commotion. Something happened with Shlomo of Karlin. Have you heard? In Ludmir. They say that tzaddikim were afraid to approach his grave. Have you heard of Rabbi Shlomo of Zvhil?

9:22 the father of Rabbi Gedaliah Moshe; he was a grandson of the Rebbetzin [unclear], and Rabbi Yisrael [unclear] Ludmir, the son of Rabbi Shlomo [unclear]. He was his great-grandson. And he was called Shlomo, may their merit protect us, amen, that all of us should have [unclear] and abundance, salvations in their merit, blessing and a good life. Everyone should ask for this, [unclear] requests, in the merit of Rabbi Shlomo of Karlin, that we should have his name, that we should have the salvations, [unclear] Shlomo.

9:50 Rabbi Shlomo - what Rabbi Shlomo? Rabbi Shlomo of Karlin, [unclear] and Rabbi Meir.

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רבי שלמה מכלין היה משיח בן יוסף בדורו הוא היה אוהב את הקדוש ברוך הוא בצורה שאף אחד לא יכל לשאר את האהבה שלו לקדוש ברוך הוא הם רואים עליו את האהבה שהוא אוהב את הקדוש ברוך הוא שהוא דבק בקדוש ברוך הוא הוא אמר כן הוא היה אמר ספר לכם את הפטירה שלו ובזה נסיים הוא אמר אומר שבשעה שאדם לומד את התורה לשמע הוא אומר שהוא בוער ליבו להשם יתברך למסור נפשו בשביל שהוא ר לתפילה רבי שלומה קני נפשו בשביל שהוא ר לתפילה רבי שלומה קני היה לומד את התורה כל הזמן היה לומד את התורה במסירות נפש ה רוצה שבן אדם ילמד ככה ואז הוא אמר שמעתי מפיו הקדוש אמר שהמעי של הגמרא שאדם לומד גמרא הגמרא לשונ גומרה זה גחלת שבן אדם לומד את התורה הקדושה הוא שורף את כל הקליפות בינו לבין השם יתברך לכן הוא כל הזמן היה לומד כל יום הוא היה לומד 200 דפים היה עושה היה לו שכל ישר והיה משהו פעם אחת אומר שהיה גזרה על עם ישראל שלא מתפללים את את התפילה וכוונה כמו שצריך אז הוא הזיז את התפילה וכוונה כמו שצריך אז הוא הזיז את כל הספסלים באו לבית המדרש ראו את כל הספסלים בחוץ לא הבינו מה זה כל הספסלים היו בחוץ ה יושב בפנים לבד אמר לו מה אמר ואני תפילה אני קיבלתי עעל עצמי לבטל את הגזירה כי אני יודע להתפלל אני יודע גדולתו של הקדוש ברוך הוא להתפלל כ הוא היה הוא למשל אמר שצריך שרק צדיק יכול לעלות לליד שישי הוא הקפיד על זה שאדם שהוא קדוש וצדיק יעלה רק לליד שישי ומישהו לא בדרגה של קדושה מספיק לא יעלה לליד

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