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I will let you on a secret.
Bleich is the Chief Rabbi of Kiev.
(he never officialy took on the title "cheif rabbi of Ukraine" until the Yated ne'eman crowned him, after Chaikin was already in the position)
Ezriel Cheikin is the official Cheif Rabbi.
Kaminetzky is in reality the "cheif rabbi", the main powerbroker, and the is the unoffocial head shliach of Ukraine.
see here
http://www.jafi.org.il/papers/20...n/
jan23bjta.htm
Bleichs brother, moshe, is on shlichus (chabad) somewhere in ma. in a small college town i think. if i remember the place i will let you know
The place is Wellesley, MA
Moshe Bleich speaks very good Russian, better than any non Russian Chabadnik I ever met. I actually spoke to him last week on the phone but I never knew that he was the brother.
Plato, especially in The Republic, identified an active historical process in governance, rather as a doctor diagnoses the stages of a disease in which each stage changes the state of the host body. In his model, autocracy, or tyranny, and that latter term was not pejorative as today but rather meant �single rule�, gave way to democracy, which in turn could only be a temporary phase giving way to oligarchy, since democratic wars enrich only a minority. This in turn would force its collapse and the time would produce a new autocrat.
This process, in almost comic, speeded-up form, as befits modern life, could be recognised in action as follows: Stalin the autocrat, Gorbachev and democracy, the rise of the jewish oligarchs under Yeltsin, and the re-imposition of autocracy under Putin.
From: Democracy and Finance - the Axis of Evil
Chabad cannot 'fargin' anybody else doing something for yiddishkait, therefore they had to bring their 'RABBI' to Ukraine.
Btw,R'Bleichs mother is a Lew, her brother unfortunately joined Lubavitch, long ago and is now Rabbi Shmuel Lew of London,England, one of the old timer shluchim in London
"her brother unfortunately joined Lubavitch"
Was that necessary?
BTW, the position of the chief rabbi of Kiev is not uncontested by Lubavitch, it is claimed by Moshe Asman (some of us still know him as Moshe Stul). Will tlak about him someday,
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The best line - in the other article (Chabad: 'We're Here To Stay'):
(after the tour of the Chorale Synagogue in St. Petersburg) “Do we like Chabad?”
Sound familiar?
Secrets "razin derazin"! Does rabbi Chaikin reside in the Ukraine ?
What does the title chief rabbi mean in halachic terms ?
Can someone just come and be mevatel the rabbanuth of someone who has been there for years before him regardless of the nature of his official title.
I remember well the sichoth of the rebbe in about 1972 when Chief chaplain Shlomo Gore desired to unseat Rav Isser Yehuda Unterman as chief rabbi.The rebbe was livid in many sichoth !
Why not refer to those sichoth for the status of a rav and the halacha of ousting a rav.
Its a shanda that after years of PIONEERING work in Kiev others should take away the bissele kavod that Bleich gets.
somebody please email to me contact for R. Bleich. I will ask him personally what he thinks about this wonderful situation.
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