Timeline for Are there other extant Chabad groups besides Chabad-Lubavitch?
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| Aug 22, 2017 at 4:43 | comment | added | SAH | The Liadier are still around today, if I'm not mistaken. They are Chabad but not Lubavitch. | |
| Mar 31, 2016 at 20:06 | comment | added | ezra | @jake In David Eliezrie's book The Secret of Chabad he says on page 402 in a note that says that their is an old family tradition by Rabbi Leibel Schapiro, dean of the Rabbinical College of Miami that goes as follows: Rabbi Schneur Zalman, the Alter Rebbe and first rabbi of Chabad attempted to meet with the Vilna Gaon, to which the GR''A obviously declined. Here's where the tradition kicks in: apparently, the Vilna Gaon later said that if he had opened the door to the Alter Rebbe, he would have given in to Chassidus. | |
| Jun 1, 2011 at 6:53 | comment | added | Yahu | The story is true. | |
| May 31, 2011 at 22:10 | comment | added | YDK | Very appropo for a Rosh Yeshiva of a Litvishe yeshiva who comes from heavily Chasidishe blood. So the story goes that Chabad tried to chap him while he was learning in Chaim Berlin. | |
| May 31, 2011 at 18:15 | history | edited | Yahu | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| May 31, 2011 at 18:13 | comment | added | Yahu | Jake, as my Rebbi, Rav Yaakov Weinberg ZT"L used to say "If not for the GR"A we would have no more Torah; If not for the BESH"T there would be no Yidn left to learn it." | |
| May 31, 2011 at 4:50 | comment | added | Alex | @jake: there were at least two grandsons of the Vilna Gaon who were chassidim of the Tzemach Tzedek, so the converse can happen too. :) | |
| May 31, 2011 at 4:34 | comment | added | jake | It's a little strange to see descriptions of a chassidic background coming from someone with the Vilna Gaon as their personal image. :) | |
| May 31, 2011 at 4:29 | history | answered | Yahu | CC BY-SA 3.0 |