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May 2 |
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Why did nobody succeed the Lubavitcher Rebbe? It is worth noting that the Rebbe did start a campaign in the mid-80s of עשה לך רב, "make for yourself a leader" (mashpia, in Chabad jargon). I think that even at the time, and certainly in retrospect, this was understood to mean that Chabad will continue in a more "decentralized" model. Indeed, in a sichah many years earlier the Rebbe foreshadowed this by quoting a story where the Tzemach Tzedek said, "There are my children [to succeed me]; further, the achdus of chassidim will bring them to Moshiach" - on which the Rebbe commented that the first option is gone, and all we have is the second. |
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May 2 |
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Why did nobody succeed the Lubavitcher Rebbe? @HodofHod: it maxes out at 99. |
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May 2 |
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Why did nobody succeed the Lubavitcher Rebbe? And @ShmuelBrin (second comment): I also don't get the impression that in most other branches of Chassidus they find this centrifugal tendency to be objectionable, whereas in Lubavitch - very likely related to the נשמה כללית idea - there is the feeling that there is supposed to be strictly דבר אחד לדור ולא שני דברים לדור, no matter how great the rebbe's other sons, sons-in-law and talmidim might be. |
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May 2 |
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Why did nobody succeed the Lubavitcher Rebbe? @ShmuelBrin (first comment): not entirely. The Rashab's will directs the Rayatz to say and explain Chassidus, to give himself over to the good of the chassidim, and to run Tomchei Tmimim. Reading between the lines - and חסידים זיינען קלוג - this indeed amounts to appointing him as rebbe, but the fact is (as described by R. Folye Kahan in his Shmuos Vesipurim) that the Rayatz resisted fully accepting the nesius in other regards - such as accepting pa"nim - for several months. |
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May 2 |
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Why did the scholars of Bavel live in Bavel and not Eretz Yisrael? @DoubleAA: probably the fact that Koresh's proclamation (Ezra 1:1-4 and II Chron. 36:23) was predicted by Yeshayah (44:28-45:1). Plus, they had prophets at the beginning to tell them, and we would assume that the permission, once granted, stays in effect as long as the Beis Hamikdash stands. |
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May 2 |
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Division of Verses in Tanach @DoubleAA: not really, because both of them are giving this as a reason why there's a taam tachton - so as not to violate this rule. |
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May 2 |
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Why did nobody succeed the Lubavitcher Rebbe? Re your second comment: Ger would be another example - every Gerrer rebbe has been his predecessor's son, grandson or brother. There are probably other examples too. |
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May 2 |
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Why did nobody succeed the Lubavitcher Rebbe? Thanks! Can't promise I'll be around much, because since last summer I'm extremely busy, but maybe once in a while I'll pop in. |
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May 2 |
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Shabbos Chol HaMoed / Shabbos Yom Tov @DoubleAA: maybe because Shabbos is, by necessity, connected with the previous days of the week (it is their culmination, plus מיני' מתברכין כולהו יומין), whereas Yom Tov stands apart from them? |
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May 2 |
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Division of Verses in Tanach @DoubleAA: Chizkuni to Ex. 20:14 says, "We don't find any verse in the Torah of two words, except for [dibros 5-9]." Similarly in Shulchan Aruch Harav 494:11: "We find no verse in the Torah less than 3 words." |
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May 2 |
answered | Why did nobody succeed the Lubavitcher Rebbe? |
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Apr 10 |
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Apr 10 |
awarded | Nice Answer |
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Mar 28 |
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Mar 24 |
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Mar 24 |
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Mar 11 |
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Mar 11 |
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Mar 10 |
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