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asked 2 years ago

Does the rabbi have a well-organized article in which you explain the main points of your opposition to Hasidism? I searched and couldn’t find it.


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מיכי Staff answered 2 years ago
I don’t remember. Practically I don’t object, I simply don’t see any value or content in it. The majority is just nonsense, and anything that isn’t like that simply isn’t Hasidism. I do object to the concept of a narrow-mindedness that is commonly associated with Hasidism, and this was explained here and in my book No Man Has Control over the Spirit.

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מאיר replied 2 years ago

Is this also your opinion, for example, on the book of the Tanya, and all the books of Chabad for their generations?
It is customary to look at them as books with an organized and profound method (even if not correct in your opinion), which touches on many matters and not just in a narrow or simple way

מיכי Staff replied 2 years ago

I'm not knowledgeable enough to say. I've definitely found interesting things in Chabad. But even there, in my opinion, there are quite a few vague ideas with undefined concepts.

הערה replied 2 years ago

If I'm not mistaken, columns 104-106 deal with this, and also column 113.

ישראל replied 2 years ago

Hello

I would love to understand what the problem is with vague ideas and undefined concepts
For this very reason we will need to delve deeper into studying and defining things
Even if the external expression is a bit vague
Inside our minds we often feel things that we are unable to explain
Although this does indicate that we do not really understand them
But it does not undermine their very existence!

In general, it sounds like you are sick of Hasidic slang
When it comes to endless explanations in words that are not necessarily related to the simplicity of the scriptures
Do you think the letters of the Torah are empty of any other meaning
Apart from the matter that is implied even for a 7-year-old child
Do the letters have no value in their weighty sense?
Is identifying similar roots nonsense?
Are similar words just similar by chance?
And do you call it wordplay instead of calling it by its real name – ‘Torah play’
When your Torah was my play, then I was lost in my misery…’

How can one disregard the insight that emerges from the verses from the emotion of a God-fearing Jew and a learned scholar
in a way that even the Sages used in many cases
Although it is possible to rely on the descent of generations or the absence of explicit tradition
But a minyan that demanded that the Torah not be practiced is avoided due to the lack of tradition.

מיכי Staff replied 2 years ago

The problem is that in many cases they don't mean anything. Just wordplay. I've written more than once that things can't always be defined well and that undefined things have meaning. But that's when they do. In my opinion, in most cases, this is not the case with Hasidism.
The problem is not the disconnection from the simplicity of Scripture, but the lack of content.
I have no problem with insights that come from emotion or meditation, and even from a Jew who doesn't fear God. As long as I understand these insights and there is substance in them.
Hasidic vortices usually make me sick, but not only because of the disconnection from Scripture. The emphasis on Scripture is just ridiculous. The main problem is that the content doesn't impress me. It's usually either trivial or devoid of content.

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