R' Shlomo Carlebach ztz'l - Shachris in Leningrad - September 21, 1989

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In Leningrad, on this Thursday morning, Shlomo arranged for people to be called up to the Torah. People came up with their Russian names, and on the spot, Shlomo would suggest a Jewish name. For some, this was the first time in their lives that they ever heard a Torah reading, and tears rolled down from their eyes. Joel Segal, a San Francisco attorney who joined the tour, exclaimed: “It was amazing… I’ve never seen such joy and enthusiasm in my entire life.”

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Rav shlomos love shines through he really cares!

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In a report written February 22, 1990 to Abraham Kalikow of the Rich Foundation, David Waksberg summed up the success of Carlebach’s Music Tour: We reached approximately 60,000 Jews in the Soviet Union. We produced a major Jewish cultural event in each city visited by our tour. In Leningrad and in Kiev, Shlomo led services at the synagogue… The tour succeeded not only in content, in bringing Yiddishkeit to Soviet Jews, but in promoting self-help cultural renewal efforts by Soviet Jewry groups.

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A taste of Heaven on earth...a mechayeh!!

[@albertgoldberg6004]

Shloime, you're the sweetest 9f the sweet! May your neshome light up on the upper world for us!

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In a video interview with Zachary Goldman, Shlomo exclaimed: The concerts were “fire, fire,” there was so much holiness. Stuart Wax recalls Shlomo exhorting his entourage before embarking on the trip, “many of our Russian brothers have never smiled before; so few of them have known real joy. It is our mission to make them smile; it is our mission to bring them joy!”

[@cesarmunoz7813]

Todos los videos del Rab son motivaciónales, siempre con gente mayor, jóvenes, niños(a) bendita memoria Rab

[@jessmaven72]

In the great spirit of the Baal Shem Tov traveling thru Podolia and Volhynia raising Jewish sparks!

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As the women’s section in the upstairs balcony was crowded, Shlomo asked for the women to come downstairs and sit behind a makeshift mechitza of chairs. Thus you can see the women here at the end of this video coming to kiss the Torah.

[@nstargina]

Hi CarlebachBook! Please, can you tell me how are the lyrics of the songs Rav Shlomo Carlebach is singing at the beginning of the video? Are there on the Sidur??

[@anedbailo161]

CarlebachBook marinated green bean

[@dakruise1]

That trumpet and accordion is gevalt

[@aristone7]

מדהים ומרגש.

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At the concert in Leningrad, Reb Shlomo asked the crowd, whom do you think is on this stage? It is not only the band you see here, but all our ancestors, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. He exhorted his listeners to go out and proudly say hello to everyone on the street. Let all know that we are Jewish. On Motzei Shabbat, September 23, 1989, Shlomo and the band organized an after-midnight Selichot program at the Leningrad Railroad Station.

[@annaelkind]

ראיתי את עצמי :-)

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גם אני

[@danielleblanc3569]

@@user-uv1rr1rx5u what was this event

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💕☺️

[@JustMe-ir8dl]

Why gut Yom Tov at the end? למה אמר גוט יום טוב בסוף?

[@Geo98719]

Maybe for the upcoming yomtov of ykmim norain and sukkos

[@ZnajHistory]

Do you know if Rav Carlebach visited Kiev on his Soviet trip?

[@evahonig4143]

Yes, he did

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[@retiloveyouisraelbo8988]

WE CALL THE SHALL, GAVAN, IN MEXICO, BECAUSE IS FORM THIS PLACE, CALL GAVAHON, UP IN THE LAND OF OUR GOD. THIS RABBI, HAS SOME VERY POWERFUL, AND BEAUTIFUL SONS, TO COME BEFORE THE PRESENCE, OF THE ALMIGHTY.

[@amc2525]

Was this before the fall of the iron certain?

[@ZnajHistory]

Before. this is 1989, USSR fell in 91

[@bennyisrael2967]

just before but the writing was on the wall, poland & hungary had started to open there borders, the berlin wall opend under two months after this but it was two years before ussr final fell.

[@kresselhousman743]

Yes. I was just beginning to hang out at the Carlebach shul in NYC then, and everyone said that Reb Shlomo's holy presence amongst the spiritually starving Soviet Jews was what finally brought the walls tumbling down.

[@dovbarleib3256]

The Fall of the Berlin Wall was on Rachel Immeinu's (Matriarch Rachel's) Jahrzeit (11th of MarCheshvan) that very year in 1989 (11 MarCheshvan 5750, 9th November 1989)....... as predicted by the Gaon of Vilna 200 years prior that 3/4 of the way through the 6th Millennium a great shofar blast in Heaven would bring in the Exiles from the furthestmost part of the North (Russian Jewry).

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The Berlin Wall disintegrated into dust less than 2 months later on Nov 9th, 1989 (11th of MarCheshvan 5750, the Jahrzeit of our Mother Rachel) allowing more than 1 million Eastern European Jews to make Aliyah. This event was predicted by the Vilna Gaon 200 years prior as the Great Shofar blast to ingather the exiles 3/4 of the way through the 6th Millenium to prepare for the Day which is all Shabbat (as was the case in ancient times at High Noon on Friday). It would start in the merit of Rachel Immeinu and would start with the Jews due north of Israel in Eastern Europe, predicted by the Gaon onto the exact day that that Shofar blast occurred!

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THERE ARE THE STORIES OF OUR GOD, WRITTEN IN THESE BOOKS, WHICH HE HADC WITH OUR FATHERS. WHEN THE KING FOUND THE BOOK, WHICH, IT WAS LOST FOR A LONG TIME, HE CRIED BEFORE GOD, AND CALL ASSEMBLY, IN ISRAEL, FROM THE NEWBORN, TO THE ELDEST. THESE WORDS ARE ETERNAL, AND THE MOST POWERFUL.

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Теперь понятно что есть хлеб один дом а вино другой дом (дом или заветы)первый по плоти второй по духу

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Blue tallis, like korach

[@ttee6990]

with all do respect according to halacha in the mishne berura. the women dont kiss the torah. and i know many wont like it. its like the torah is excluding women. but no. its not what women do. its in halacha. not that we understand. but carlebach must not have known this.

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Women do kiss the Torah, however not in Radin 100 years ago. We do not pasken like that M.B. Ask any posek who lives out of Mea Shearim. Rav Carlebach who sat 5 years in Lakewood and never removed himself from learning even to read a newspaper..knew . It is wrong of you to say that he did not know.