tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20257999.post410221776216116207..comments2024-03-29T06:05:20.562+03:00Comments on Life in Israel: the non-chassidishe Lag bOmerRafi G.http://www.blogger.com/profile/00699851287106903971noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20257999.post-32340526156384646212017-05-15T14:18:01.969+03:002017-05-15T14:18:01.969+03:00"remez in the arizal" -- I love it!"remez in the arizal" -- I love it!Rafi G.https://www.blogger.com/profile/00699851287106903971noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20257999.post-81440215771701101632017-05-15T14:17:26.527+03:002017-05-15T14:17:26.527+03:00I've noted that too but the level of Uman and ...I've noted that too but the level of Uman and Meron have taken it way further than with anything elseRafi G.https://www.blogger.com/profile/00699851287106903971noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20257999.post-5828074772544604462017-05-15T13:24:44.101+03:002017-05-15T13:24:44.101+03:00I once had a Bnei Noach family as guests on Shabba...I once had a Bnei Noach family as guests on Shabbat. They said that one of the challenges of raising children to follow the Noachide laws, is that there is no ritual. It makes it hard to teach your kids without the framework as a messorah. Bnei Noach would keep the chagim that were applicable to them (ie Shavuot) as one way to address this issue. <br /><br /><br />Tu B'Shvat and Lag B'Omer are very halachically significant days about don't have any mitzvot to mark these days. The Tu B'Shvat seder and the Lag B'Omer fires have mazel in establishing themselves to almost the level of a mitzvah. <br /><br />As my Rabbi says, imagine what the world would be like if the Aseret HaDibrot had been just a remez in the Arizal instead of in the Aseret HaDibrot. <br /><br /><br />I think Chasidut has the same attraction that originally attracted the Baal Shem Tov followers. It is easier to shun the chasidim and then adopt the minhagim that one likes rather than adopting a completely different set of minhagim. ehwhyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06436676108396672275noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20257999.post-27788875544710091702017-05-15T11:12:38.065+03:002017-05-15T11:12:38.065+03:00I did not realize that expressing an opinion could...I did not realize that expressing an opinion could be Lashon Hara. Do people take on Chassidishe Minhagim because they like parties? The more-frum-than-thou syndrome is hardly limited to taking on foreign Minhagim, but I think that's a good example.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20257999.post-57983785679848409022017-05-15T10:39:10.257+03:002017-05-15T10:39:10.257+03:00Once in a class with Professor Yaakov Elman, he sa...Once in a class with Professor Yaakov Elman, he said, "The fight with the Karaites was more serious than you're taught. For a while it wasn't clear who would win, although now we know who did. Like the fight between the Chassidim and Misnagdim."<br /><br />A student asked, "So who won that one?"<br /><br />Prof. Elman looked surprised and said, "The Chassidim, of course."<br /><br />I'd never thought of it that way before. I thought that might be the chassid in him speaking, but now I see how right he was. They won just by surviving and staying a "kosher" option, but they did so much more than that. As R' Rakeffet says, any yeshiva student wearing black and white proves it.Nachumhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11292162031685942549noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20257999.post-26132784278870781962017-05-15T10:26:19.012+03:002017-05-15T10:26:19.012+03:00Simple. It's because Chassidut "won"...Simple. It's because Chassidut "won" the philosophical/religious struggle vs. the Mitnagdim. When you see an announcment for a "hilula" for Rav Shach zt"l, I think we can safely say that.<br /><br />Prof. Chaim Soloveitchik (ben Harav Yosef Dov) wrote a paper years ago noting how the Litvishe have for the most part become Chasidim who daven "Ashkenaz" and worship the Rosh Yeshiva instead of the Admor.<br /><br />I personally believe there's a fundamental cosmic process involved, but that's worth an entire paper on its own.Shlomo Gorenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12694065288077240002noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20257999.post-19746880630505454052017-05-14T21:40:35.135+03:002017-05-14T21:40:35.135+03:00Avi,
You seem to think that writing lashon hara a...Avi,<br /><br />You seem to think that writing lashon hara about anybody who might be what is commonly called "haredi" is a wonderful thing. It's not. <br /><br />comment elsewhere please..<br /><br />Jacknoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20257999.post-71708495525827623972017-05-14T16:59:15.394+03:002017-05-14T16:59:15.394+03:00This is hardly the only one. Upsherin, for anothe...This is hardly the only one. Upsherin, for another common example. I think it's because people think Jews dressed as 17th and 18th century Polish Goyim are more Frum than they are.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com