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shimon:
lubab what do you think about the custom to spit on a church when you pass it. i know that many chassidim spit on the floor when they say "shehem mishtachvim le havel verik". do you do this custom?
thank you, shimon
Lubab:
--- Quote from: shimon on March 03, 2008, 05:28:47 PM ---lubab what do you think about the custom to spit on a church when you pass it. i know that many chassidim spit on the floor when they say "shehem mishtachvim le havel verik". do you do this custom?
thank you, shimon
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Hi shimon. I've never heard of the custom to spit when passing a church, though I think I might have heard something about saying a particular passuk.
Yes I do spit at that part in Alienu. This custom of chassidim is written up in the Rebbe's Hayom Yom.
Dominater96:
--- Quote from: lubab on February 15, 2008, 03:51:24 PM ---
--- Quote from: DownwithIslam on February 15, 2008, 12:53:01 AM ---Lubab, I was wondering what you thought of the Yeshivish Lakewood type jews. They are famous for their hatred of Lubavitch as their original Rabbi was very anti Lubavitch. "Rabbi" Kotler was famous for publicly spreading lies about the lubavitcher rebbe. I think that he was vile.
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Well I don't take insults from such people very seriously. Rambam says that if an adult serves G-d because they want to go to Olam Haba they are an "Am Haaretz" (ignoramous). So when an ignoramous insults my group, I don't take it very seriously.
I have personally spoken with many litvaks who freely admitted to me that their observance of the Torah is based on their desire to get into Olam Haba. I would venture to say that most of the students in Lakewood-type yeshivot also feel this way.
As far as Shach, the Rebbe didn't think much of him and neither do I. He was rejected when he applied to be a Rosh Yeshiva for a Chabad yeshiva long before he was very famous because he didn't know Talmud Yerushalmi well enough. I feel he had a personal vendetta against Chabad ever since then which was the source of his vile and nearly always unfounded attacks against the Rebbe and Chabad.
With all that said, they are Jews, and I love each one of them with a full heart, screwed up though they may be.
We should note that not all Litvak Rabbis are or were like this. Rabbi J.B. Soloveitchik had a wonderful relationship with the Rebbe and attended several of his farbrengens and raved about them.
The former Rosh Yeshiva of the Mir (forgot his name) also used to speak glowingly about the Rebbe's Gaonus (genius) in Torah knowledge.
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Rabbi Yosef Ber Soloveitchik?ZT"L. I am suprised, I figured that since he was from the Soloveitchik dynasty, who are the epitamy of Mitnagdim, he would be as mitnagdish (if thats a word) as you can get.
OdKahaneChai:
--- Quote from: Dominater96 on March 03, 2008, 06:48:41 PM ---
--- Quote from: lubab on February 15, 2008, 03:51:24 PM ---
--- Quote from: DownwithIslam on February 15, 2008, 12:53:01 AM ---Lubab, I was wondering what you thought of the Yeshivish Lakewood type jews. They are famous for their hatred of Lubavitch as their original Rabbi was very anti Lubavitch. "Rabbi" Kotler was famous for publicly spreading lies about the lubavitcher rebbe. I think that he was vile.
--- End quote ---
Well I don't take insults from such people very seriously. Rambam says that if an adult serves G-d because they want to go to Olam Haba they are an "Am Haaretz" (ignoramous). So when an ignoramous insults my group, I don't take it very seriously.
I have personally spoken with many litvaks who freely admitted to me that their observance of the Torah is based on their desire to get into Olam Haba. I would venture to say that most of the students in Lakewood-type yeshivot also feel this way.
As far as Shach, the Rebbe didn't think much of him and neither do I. He was rejected when he applied to be a Rosh Yeshiva for a Chabad yeshiva long before he was very famous because he didn't know Talmud Yerushalmi well enough. I feel he had a personal vendetta against Chabad ever since then which was the source of his vile and nearly always unfounded attacks against the Rebbe and Chabad.
With all that said, they are Jews, and I love each one of them with a full heart, screwed up though they may be.
We should note that not all Litvak Rabbis are or were like this. Rabbi J.B. Soloveitchik had a wonderful relationship with the Rebbe and attended several of his farbrengens and raved about them.
The former Rosh Yeshiva of the Mir (forgot his name) also used to speak glowingly about the Rebbe's Gaonus (genius) in Torah knowledge.
--- End quote ---
Rabbi Yosef Ber Soloveitchik?ZT"L. I am suprised, I figured that since he was from the Soloveitchik dynasty, who are the epitamy of Mitnagdim, he would be as mitnagdish (if thats a word) as you can get.
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So? Shivim Panim L'Torah! The Rebbe and the Rov were both big fans of each other.
Dan:
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