Saturday, November 28, 2015
Video: A Chabad shliach learned Tanya in Lakewood
When the Rebbe sent Rabbi Nissan Mangel to Lakewood, New Jersey to spread the teachings of Chassidus, he didn’t fully know what to expect. After spending a full week around the Yeshiva and assuming his job was more or less complete without incident, he was in for a most moving surprise. Upon his return to Crown Heights, he was greeted with a welcome from the Rebbe and a cryptic, yet touching, acknowledgement of his work.
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Chabad was different back in the 50's not so shver that the oilam learned a shtikle tanyeh.
ReplyDeleteIn Telshe They say the Alte Telshe Rov gave a Shiur in Tanya before Shachris to some Bochurim. The Tanya of The Bal Hatanya is a Sublime Estoeric work of a Great Lamdan Talmid Chochom Yirei Shomayim it does not have to do with some of the Questionable Behavior or Hashkofos that go on today by certain people or groups who use his name
ReplyDeleteI remember the Tanya Shiur in Rav Blechs shul in the basement, Packed to the rafters, with Kollel students. It was Sublime
ReplyDeletewho was that talmid was it shlomo Carlebach
ReplyDeleteThe Mishnas Rav Ahron quotes from Tanya (And Shulcan Orech Harav)
ReplyDeleteTanya is the only Sefer Chasidis MRA ever quotes
It should be taught in every Yeshiva in Lakewood. It's all Penimius,no superficiality
ReplyDeleteThis is so silly
ReplyDeleteThe behaviour of that Bachur who got engaged is very strange!
ReplyDeleteHe didn't tell anyone in the yeshiva that he was engaged.
He invites Rabbi Mangel to his apartment, interrupts his tehillim, but doesn't explain why he wants him to come to his apartment - he could have been a crazy serial killer.
Then he cryptically asks Rabbi Mangel to learn Tanya with him but doesn't explain why, nor does he tell him that the learning of the Tanya is anything to do with having met the Rebbe, received instructions to learn 1 chapter per day or that there is any connection with him having become engaged.
Rabbi Mangel is being pressured to learn Tanya when he can hardly stay awake without any attempt by the Bachur to make his challenge less difficult and share his simcha with Rabbi Mangel. It's also not the minhag of Chabad to stay awake the entire night of Hoshana Rabba.
What about the Bachur's family - did he not tell any of them and did nobody call him during the evening or night to wish Mazel Tov?
Furthermore, with regards to Rav Aharon Kotler, why would he allow a Chassid to teach Chasidus to his talmidim if he was opposed to chasidus? I bet they wouldn't let a Mizrachi Religious Zionist teach their Bochrim, so we can only conclude that Rav Kotler wasn't really opposed to Chassidus.
And by the way, how very convenient that Rav Kotler's alleged "disapproval" of Tanya was refuted by the fact that a miracle was performed through the learning of Tanya.