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Relaying shiurim sourced in highly controversial scholars
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Reb Mendel Schneerson is not a 'highly controversial source'. We disagree with him on certain matters, but his Torah on nigleh is fine and uncontroversial. It is more Rogatchover style than we are used to, but is on a higher level than any RY in BMG.
ReplyDeletePuuleeeasee. It's mediocre at best, there a reason kehos doesn't publish much of what he said on 'nigleh'
DeleteAnd to compare his stuff to the Ragatchover goan, you've completely lost your mind.
How can you judge the quality of what he wrote if kehos hasn't published it?
DeleteChabad built up excitement for his torah on rambam hilchos bais habechira which they claimed was his magnum opus in nigleh and would "show the world what a gaon he is." When it was finally published the velt had a good laugh. That was the end of chabad publishing his nigleh.
DeleteChabad, whatever their other faults, obsessively documents and publishes every single aspect of his life, teachings, and interactions with people. Do you really think they wouldn't publish his chiddushim because "the velt" (whoever that is) claims to not be impressed by them? You think the people running Kehos care what your opinion is?
Delete8:17 - 4:53 didn't say that it's not mediocre. He merely compared it to other, more mediocre, seforim.
DeleteChabad is very savvy in what they print and what they censor.
DeleteInteresting when uneducated people love to say highly controversial when moreinu Rav Moshe , Rav Yaakov, Rav Hersprung, Rav Nachum, Rav Hutner, Rav Avigdor Miller zatzal held him in high regard. Yes, there were chilukei dayos, but guess what so were there throughout history.
ReplyDeleteCalm down Rav Moshe Rav Yaakov Rav Yoel Rav Hutner all ripped him repeatedly. Rav Miller bit tongue, but was never a fan.
DeleteSome may have criticized him, even strongly, but they didn't "rip him".
DeleteI learned in Chaim Berlin. We knew there were much separating them , but Rav Hutner never "ripped him ", nor even spoke against him publicly.
Unlike many today, Gedolim of last generation were not "rippers".
Those who know Rav Hunter know his opposition to the 7th Rebbe. He had a chavrusashaft with RMMS in tanya and stopped it due to what he saw as kruma hashkafos
DeleteHe is known to have said that chabad is the closest religion to Yiddishkeit
He stopped R Elya Weintraub from drifting to chabad
REW eventually was Rav Shach primary scource in his anti Chabad campaign
The Chabad Rebbe we know, was not the Chabad Rebbe they knew. Most of the things he's "famous" for, he didn't dare try them when the aforementioned gedolim were around and active, it was only after the Rebbe Reb Yoel R Hunter R Shnayor were nifter, and Reb Yakov and Reb Moshe were in their twilight, that Rabbi Schneerson let lose with his "ideas"
DeleteRav Hutner had a strange on and off relationship with the Lubavitcher Rebbe throughout his lifetime. There is published correspondence between the two dating from the early 1950’s until shortly before Rav Hutners passing.
DeleteBig difference between friends and associates. Rav Hutner was friends with Reb Mendel back from when they crossed paths in Berlin. The other rabbonim were all associate rabbonim in USA. Most rabbonim did not have much interaction with Reb Mendel, they considered him a respectable community leader, but that's about it. They did not meet at chasunos, asifos, levayos, on community topics etc because Reb Mendel kept himself in a bubble. He never went to Rav Ahron or Rav Moshe or Satmar Rebbe. His attitude was if you want to talk to me make an appointment with my secretary, send a messenger or write a letter. By the way, this was not a chabad thing because the earlier generations of chabad all had regular interactions with chasidic and misnagdic leaders.
DeleteThis is where Rav Hutner was different. He treated Rav Mendel as a friend not an associate. As a friend he kept up the friendship, did Reb Mendel ever reach out to Rav Hutner or was Rav Hutner always the initiator, not clear, although he would send him his pamphlets and and seforim that he published. There were many times Rav Hutner criticized Reb Mendel both in private, to chabad chasidim and to his talmidim. Rav Hutner's on-off relationship with Reb Mendel was his effort to keep Reb Mendel in check and to keep a friend on the right path.
Not merely chilukei adios . His entire outlook on Judaism was unheard of. To quote rav shach, not only will the gra be makir tov to him for condemning many of his stances but the baal hatanya himself will. And r moshe didn't get involved, but r yaakov always spoke against him
DeleteR yaakov r hutner and satmar rebbe and others had nothing good to say about him
DeleteRav Moshe Brown testified that he had around ten unresolved kashyos which he presented to various Gedolim. Rabbi Schneerson answered them all.
ReplyDeleteLet's hear them, with the answers
DeleteIt would be too deep for you. A conversation between those two is way over your head!
DeleteOk
DeleteThis is not true. He told me the story, and it wasn't ten questions, it was a single question about maaser beheimah, and it wasn't a question he had been going around asking other gedolim and the only who could answer was the LR. Fabrication.
DeleteLet's hear the questions. I guarantee you will not provide them and neither will rabbi brown bc the story never occurred
Deleteהוי זהיר בגחלתן שלא תכוה
ReplyDeleteI’m as against the seventh Lubavitcher Rebbe as you can get (although I do think he was a shogeg who truly believed what he was saying) but one story about his learning. I know someone who in a conversation with Rav Gifter made fun of the seventh Lubavitcher Rebbe’s chiddush about not flying to or from Australia during sefira and if someone does start sefira there and goes to the US (or vice versa) Shavous is on a different day for him than the place is in based on when he started counting. Rav Gifter who was certainly no fan of Chabad got upset at the guy making fun of it and said “Can you tell me klor with maareh mokomos why he is wrong that you can talk this way about his shita?"
ReplyDeleteR gifter ranked him our publicly in yeshivah many times and told bachurim to stay away from him
ReplyDeleteThe Holocaust was a cataclysmic shocking, protracted agonizing near destruction of out entire nation including almost two million children. That's why people reacted the way they did. No shaychus to Oct. Seventh
ReplyDeleteR miller once said that in torah we learn it to know how to apply the laws to our daily actions. A lawyer though, studies law to find loopholes and see where it does not apply!
ReplyDeleteThe Holocaust didn't allow the victims a second to reflect on their predicament. They were incessantly tortured and woken up at dawn to fifteen hours of slave labor etc the Oct seventh prisoners had a lot time to think despite the horrible conditions. That's the true answer
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