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"Historically, revolutions are generally not good. The Romanovs were replaced by Bolshevism. The Bourbons were replaced by Jacobeanism. And raboseinu nisieinu (l'havdil) are threatened with being replaced by Yellowism.
This sounds great exept, "raboseinu nisieinu" got replaced by the mortal legacy that tastes like Adam’s apple, not the yellow fever in the gym.
Also let’s not paint revolution with one broad stroke. Ther are things that people do not call revolution but they are. Writing down Torah was the Talmud revolution. Baal Shem Tov was revolutionary. Kaballah was a revolution. Zionism was a revolution. Science is revolutionary. Medicine is revolutionary. Information revolution is enabling us to speak here.
What Yosef Heller book?
TA - I don't get your Adam's apple line. Please decode.
Which? Catch 22 or Hilchasa d'meshicha (Kehos 5752). It's a thin, dark blue, hard cover book which has written up in it a whole bunch of shiurim that Rabbi Heller gave in kollel that year on hilchos melochim from Rambam and other sources. It's hardcore stuff, I mean in its zealousness.
The one about tahara is "Catch 22"?!
Revolution? In Lubavitch? Boy do you have the wrong vampire. (I'll explain the allusion if need be.) Does anybody here remember the infamous bochurei 770 rebellion against the hanhalla and the Rebbe's response? That incident epitomizes everything you are addressing and the Rebbe's response serves as an elegant solution to an endlessly knotty problem. Although the Rebbe's response was addressed to the moment it was, in fact, a re-statement of the core values of Torah as illuminated by Toras Chabad. In other words the Rebbe was forced by our own collective stupid yaishus to remind us of who and what we are supposed to be. Were any of you present during that period?
Adam and Eve apple = death.
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Wow, that's a great exchange, with both sides presenting very convincing arguments. But the issue still hasn't been resolved. How can we cause effective change from within the system, without legitimizing the current opposition? There has to be a solution!
One of the possible reasons that revolutions sometime fail maybe because they lack the concept of "nosay hafachim". Why can't two oppisite concepts, not in the realm of klipah, co-exist? Live and let live!
The Rebbe made us all shluchim! Just as an army consists of miriad positions so that almost every person has something to contribute from the trash collector to the systems engineer v'chulu. In a time of war all citizens are mobilized for the battle, trained and otherwise.
This may sound like a cliche but knowing that the sun rises every day does not preclude us from basking in its warmth today and appreciating it.
The Rebbe's system must follow halacha. Which means if there is any issue or sichsuch between shluchim they go to a din torah or a neutral zabla as required by Torah. Nobody can dictate which rabbonim to go to.
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