Shlomo Carlebach - Two You Never Know Stories / Never Judge Another Human Being

[Music] you know the holy temple was destroyed because we didn't love each other [Music] you know this is the as the test if you really love god you can't hate and if you can hate somebody i'm sure you don't love god either if you don't want human being with all your heart you can't hate anymore if you hate that means there's really nobody in the world you love you know all those people who hate i could swear they don't love their wives they don't love that children if you really love one person in the world there is no space for hatred anymore [Music] but then you know people hate each other and they put it all on god have you ever noticed and we saw i know you're not good you're this you're this you're this so here's where the story begins what's the essence of the teaching of the holy mashem the holy water taught us join me you'll never know oh you'll never know you'll never know [Music] you know what it means we are created in god's image what do we know about god [Music] you know nothing about another human being maybe on the outside they look a little bit maybe not so good not so holy but inside do you know what they're doing you never know this is one of my favorite stories i hope it'll be used to about 20 200 years ago in comets in russia one of the greatest pupils of the holy balshem of pinellas culture [Music] and in courts everybody was everybody kept shabbos everybody wants to shoot three times a day and so on with the exception of one person the tailor the schneider he never came to the synagogue he never bought kosher meat he was never seen anywhere where jewish people congregate the only place he was seen as late at night in the bar so he was an outcast who wants to talk to him unless your parents are torn you don't know him so one day one day one day one day one day the helicopter and he sees there is a commotion and he asks the people what's going on and this is what they say somebody died [Music] and nobody wants to go to the funeral the princess says why didn't they want to go to the funeral because there was a low rotten jew the most the princess says be done with anybody like this in our city and say yes tell me you forgot tailor and open your hearts up in the hose [Applause] begin crying i'm so sorry i'm so sorry [Music] the sweetest sweetest honest jew in the world he was such a good friend to me what time is the funeral [Music] i'll be there so when the people in the city heard the princess is going it was clear to them that he was one of them both siddique him one of the holy hidden people the whole city came to the funeral and everybody walked behind the coffin and he was yelling and she was yelling schneider schneiderl forgive me for saying such bad things about you but neither i'm begging you pray for my children remember me in heaven and so on [Music] he walked behind the coffin [Music] on that same day the behavior and other people the holy watch came to this city to visit his friend kapindras after the funeral he took a pinch aside and he says pinchas you can fool the whole city they really think he was one of the 36 hidden people but you and i know that he wasn't you and i know that he was not much of a jew but again why were you crying so much why was the whole city crying join me you'll never know you'll never know [Music] you'll never know [Music] you'll never know [Music] the orphan girl whose side was taking it thank you to the orphan girl she grew up in my house when she is 14 years old it's time for her to get married so my holy wife engaged her to another orphan boy from a neighboring little village a few weeks ago the wedding took place i borrowed money from every person in court they wanted the wedding to be so beautiful i wanted the wedding to be so so holy so special one minute before the ceremony [Music] the groom the chosen comes to me and he says heaven you forgot to buy me a new tallest a new pressure all right give out praise all these ten rubles i say to the person my sweetest my sweetest cousin please forgive me i just don't have it i borrowed money from every person in court there is nobody i can still borrow 10 rubles can't you wait a few weeks he looks at me he has tears in his eyes he has no father he has no mother i am the only one he says to me rabbit if next shabbos i come to shul with an old talis everybody will laugh at me so i said okay wait i decided to go down the street in the first house where i see light unknock on the door i see a candle burning in a window i knock on the door and you know open the schneider the tailor he opens the door [Music] with so much love [Music] there's so much sweetness like nobody ever in the world opens the door for me my whole life my whole life my whole life i am dreaming [Applause] that one day one day you'll knock on my door baby i want you to know there's nothing in the world i wouldn't do for you [Music] [Applause] as they schneidel my sweetest tale in the world i need ten robots to buy a prayer show for the groom of feigler so the taylor says rabbi god knows i'm poor but one ruble i can give you are one ruble nine more to go my heart was suddenly so light i said schneiderlin bless you with every blessing ever uttered and i walked away and i just walked a few houses somebody's running after me the schneiderlin the tailor [Music] waited for him he came very close he was crying so much he was summing he was besides himself put my arms around him and said schneiderlin my sweetest friend tell me what's in your heart he says i'm ashamed to tell you i really can't say it says neither you can tell me anything in the world abby said if i give you the whole terrible do you think i will share in the coming world [Music] i said to the tailor i put my hands on his little head on this capillary and i said schneider i swear to you i know of who you are i swear to you by the living god by the god of our fathers and our mothers if you give me the whole temple [Music] [Applause] [Music] i walked behind this coffin and i saw his soul as the showers wrapped in the tallest he bought for fingerling join me one more time you'll never know [Music] you'll never know you'll never know never know you'll never know you know friends i'll make it fast but it's so beautiful to be with you this story took place 200 years ago all right let me just tell the story of yesterday i came to a city and one way the other i found myself late at night in the house of a lady as children and i see she has something around her neck and she told me she had a terrible car accident two days before that the truck came against her and two cars were behind her and she was between those between the truck and the two cars her car is completely smashed when the police opened her car they were sure she's not alive but she just her neck was out a little bit she came out from the car the policeman says to her i can't believe you're alive you know friends this lady you look at her you will say most probably she is interested in money and pleasure but [Music] you again know [Music] she told me this story [Music] she's not a rich woman she said i want you to know whenever anybody comes from israel to collect money i give them 36 dollars [Music] two days ago early in the morning somebody knocked on my door he doesn't speak english my hebrew isn't so good he's collecting money for israel i had 36 dollars it was my last money and i really did need it so my first reaction was i'm sorry but then i thought master of the world i'll give it to him i gave him my last 36 dollars and then i told them i have to go fast to my office they were standing like this blessing me i want you to know at that moment when i saw the truck coming against me and i feel the push from the two of the cars so i'm blessing me maybe it was elijah the prophet who knows who it was but you'll never know you'll never know [Music] you'll never know [Music] you'll never know [Music] you'll never know [Music] you know what the fixing for you and me is right now it's just three weeks beginning next shabbos let's absolutely stop judging people what do we know we don't know anything and i bless you and i bless you and i we should find friends like apprentice carter friends like the taylor [Music] sing loud [Music] [Applause] [Music] ah [Music] [Applause] i [Music] [Applause] [Music] me [Music] foreign [Music] foreign oh