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| | Martin Rudner - BUCZACZ IN AUSTRIAN GALICIA |
 | | From the early 18th century the religious and cultural fabric of Galician Jewry was buffeted and torn by the rival beliefs and doctrines of Hassidism (Jewish charismatic pietism), Mitnagdim (traditionalist Talmudism, in opposition to Hassidism) and the Haskalah (secular Jewish Enlightenment). | | | At the heart of their struggle to maintain the influence and standards of Orthodox Jewry was the desire to live their traditional lifestyle and practice their religion undisturbed. | | | Despite differences over doctrine and rabbinic leadership, Hassidim and mitnagdim alike remained unalterably commited to a punctilious observance of orthodox beliefs, values, rituals and identity. |
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http://www.ibiblio.org/yiddish/Places/Buczacz/bucz-p2.htm
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| | Mitnagdim - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Hasidism in the south of eastern Europe had established itself so firmly in the various communities that it had no fear of persecution. | | | The struggle of rabbinism with Hasidism in Lithuania and White Russia led to the formation of the latter sect in those regions into separate religious organizations; these existing in many towns alongside of those of the Mitnagdim. | | | Mitnagdim or misnagdim is a Hebrew word (מתנגדים) meaning "opponents"; this term was used to refer to European religious Jews who opposed Hasidic Judaism. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mitnagdim
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| | Brest Lit(owsk) , Belarus [pages 121-156] |
| | The original Mitnagdim obeyed all of God's laws as they were written in the Shulchan Aruch (book of laws listing all the rules and customs) according to their own interpretations and the interpretations of their commentators. | | | After the first excommunication ban was proclaimed by the Vilna Gaon and his followers in 1772 against Chassidim and Chassidism – the Jewish masses in Pinsk were outraged and came forward with insults and curses against Rabbi Levi Yitzhak, and attacked him in his house, which was robbed and looted. | | | There remained pockets of Mitnagdim, but the ideological debate between the two worlds was still unresolved. |
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http://www.jewishgen.org/yizkor/Brest2/bre121.html
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| | Jewish Woman's Memories of the Russian Pale - Hassidim, Mitnagdim, Child Kidnappers, Kashruth and War |
| | So the joy multiplied throughout the city tremendously, but the Chassidim said, "The Mitnagdim are like a barren woman who doesn't give birth until seventy, and when she delivers this son of her old age, she thinks he is without equal. | | | There are those who say he didn't go, and those who say he went that night to the Rabbi from Proznay who made him understand, and from that time the feud was laid to rest in the city. | | | At first they would mock them, and if the Mitnaged responded with some barbed words from the quiver, then their wrath would be kindled and it sometimes came to blows. |
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http://www.fonerbooks.com/memoir.htm
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| | Mail-Jewish Volume 43 Number 77 |
| | Any objections raised by the Mitnagdim were not to the >dress style as such but, rather, to the excessive emphasis placed on it >by what they saw as a deviationist movement which exhibited laxity in >many much more important matters. | | | >The Mitnagdim stopped dressing in this manner because of decrees of the >Czarist government in the early 19th century banning 'Jewish' dress and >compelling Jews to dress in either the 'Russian' or the 'German' >style. | | | The same applies to the rest of the so-called chassidic >dress. |
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http://www.ottmall.com/mj_ht_arch/v43/mj_v43i77.html
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| | Jewish Stories from WUJS |
| | The big fight between the Mitnagdim and the Chassidiin was one hundred or tho hundred years ago, when the Mititagdim were saying that the Chasidim don't learn enough. | | | Okay, both of them are very holy; I'm not talking about that, but I heard a very good thing. | | | House of Love and Prayer, San Francisco, 5733. |
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http://www.wujs.org.il/activist/programmes/stories/reb_shlomo/34.shtml
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| | Schisms among the Jews - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | It was Rabbi Eliyahu Kramer (1720-1797), known as the Vilna Gaon ("Genius [of] Vilna"), and those who followed his classic stringent Talmudic and Halakhic scholastism, who put up the fiercest resistance to the new self-described "Hasidim" ("Righteous [ones]"), who then counter-labeled those who opposed them as Mitnagdim, meaning "[those who are] oppose/d [to the Hasidim]". | | | Each group has its own unique method of yeshiva study and communal life, no matter where they establsih themselves. | | | Rabbi Yosef Shalom Eliashiv, leader of the Mitnagdim's Degel HaTorah in Israel. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schisms_among_the_Jews
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| | EPYC Culture Religion |
| | The most important leader of the Mitnagdim is the Gaon of Vilna, who is universally acclaimed as a great scholar, regardless of which side of the debate one is on. | | | They find the Hasidic rebbes and their followers to be anti-intellectual, anti-rational, promoting the "worship" of their leaders. | | | The Mitnagdim are now also organized as a group, and they want to sustain only older, traditional ways. |
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http://epyc.yivo.org/content/15_2.php
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| | United Torah Judaism: Encyclopedia topic |
| | [follow hyperlink for more...]) who are Mitnagdim (Mitnagdim: mitnagdim (also: misnagdim) is a hebrew word ()... | | | At that point he split from them, and created the Degel HaTorah party for the "Lithuanian" Mitnagdim (Mitnagdim: mitnagdim (also: misnagdim) is a hebrew word ()... | | | He chose the name "Flag of Torah" as it would be a contrast to the well-known flag of the State of Israel (State of Israel: Jewish republic in southwestern Asia at eastern end of Mediterranean; formerly part of Palestine) that was a symbol of secularity (an "anti-Torah" symbol) in his opinion. |
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http://www.absoluteastronomy.com/reference/united_torah_judaism
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| | The two Orthodox groups (Hasidim and Mitnagdim) differed in their liturgies, folkways, and views of traditional Judaism. | | | Hasidism, a pietistic movement of religious revival founded in the eighteenth century, emphasized mysticism and personal spontaneity rather than fixed practice and talmudic discourse. | | | With the increase in Galician and Ukranian Jewish settlers after 1900, Hasidism made its appearance in Atlanta. |
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| | Yeshiva Ohr Tmimim - Torah Online - Festivals - Yud Tet Kislev - 5765 |
| | He taught that the Jews, each of them, are 'part' of G-d's essence while the gentiles are only part of the creation and, in this aspect, the Talmudic scholars are essentially no higher than the simple Jews. | | | The Rebbe taught that all Jews; including even ignoramuses, are holy. | | | Forged documents had been presented to the Czar to the effect that The Rebbe was working together with the King of Turkey against Russia and was forming a new Judaism over which he would be crowned King Messiah. |
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http://www.ohrtmimim.org/Torah_Default.asp?id=495
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| | JewishGates.Com - The Definitive Source for Talmudic Learning |
| | Elijah ben Solomon Zalman (known as the GRA) was born in 1720. | | | His emphasis on dedicated rational Talmudic study and learned reached its pinnacle in the yeshivot of the 19th century all based on his approach to study and Jewish life. | | | The Vilna Gaon and Leader of the Mitnagdim |
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| | NodeWorks - Encyclopedia: Hasidic Judaism |
| | In Poland, where since the sixteenth century the bulk of the Jewry had established itself, the struggle between traditional rabbinic Judaism and radical Kabbalah influenced mysticism became particularly acute after the Messianic movement of Sabbatai Zevi. | | | European Jews who rejected the Hasidic movement were dubbed by the Hasidim as "mitnagdim", (lit. | | | Hasidism believed in miracle workers; they believed that the Ba'al Shem Tov and some of his disciples literally performed miracles. |
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http://pedia.nodeworks.com/H/HA/HAS/Hasidic_Judaism
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| | Dr. Izhak Ze'ev Yunis: The Old Home Town: Chapter 7 |
| | All the tanners, Hassidim and Mitnagdim alike, made a living from this trade. | | | The Mitnagdim tanners, some at break of day and others at the second minyan, prayed at the old or new besmedresh wearing small cloth hats and dressed in ungirdled black gabardines. | | | Entirely different were the tanners at the other end of the street, the Mitnagdim. |
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| | Judaism - Movements of Judaism |
| | Today, the Chasidim and the mitnagdim are relatively unified in their opposition to the liberal modern movements. | | | There was strong opposition from those who held to the pre-existing view of Judaism. | | | Orthodoxy and even the liberal movements of Judaism today have been strongly influenced by Chasidic teachings. |
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| | Ascent of Safed - In The City of Kabbalah |
| | The disciples of the Maggid of Mezritch, the successor to the Baal Shem Tov, were greatly agitated. | | | Though filled with empathy for his followers, he thought that it was nevertheless better not to answer or react to the events. | | | They felt strongly that the mitnagdim, those Jews opposed to the Chassidic movement, had over-reached all bounds of legitimacy. |
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| | Term Papers 2000, Term papers, Vol.59, Pg.140, 060430 |
| | However, despite this date, the calendar of Islam does not begin with the prophet's first vision, but begins instead in the year... | | | This paper analyzes of Hasidism, the Jewish "revivalist movement" of the 18th century; its major foes, the Mitnagdim; the role of Hasidic leader Baal Shem Tov; historic context of anti-establishment sects; personal and mystical elements. | | | As Gershom G. Scholem immediately makes clear in his Major Trends in Jewish Mysticism that the "Polish and Ukranian Hasidism of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries had nothing to do with medieval Hasidism in Germany. |
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| | JewishGates.Com - The Definitive Source for Talmudic Learning |
| | Levi Yitzhak then became a disciple of the Maggid of Mezritch, sitting as a member of his inner circle. | | | In one case he had his house broken into, had his belongings stolen, was evicted, and was fired from his job in breach of contract: Fortunately, his next post, in Berditchev, went much better for him, and he served there without opposition for the last twenty-five years of his life. | | | Around this time differences between the Hasidim and their Orthodox opponents, the Mitnagdim, were becoming acute, and during the first thirteen years of his career as a Hasidic leader, Levi Yitzhak was driven from one pulpit to the next under attack by the Mitnagdim. |
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| | AMSHINOV- no quarter asked,no quarter given: A Little Editing |
| | Not all Hasidic Jewish groups are affiliated with Agudath Israel.(so long as they "toe the party line" of select anti-semitism and catholic dogma). | | | Agudah represents many members of the yeshiva world, known as mitnagdim, and sectors of Hasidic Judaism, commonly known as Haredim or "ultra-Orthodox" Jews. | | | Agudah in the United States has managed to retain its major Hasidic factions, with members from the Ger Hasidim in America working together within the organization and its Lithuanian mitnagdim partners. |
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http://amshinover.blogspot.com/2005/11/little-editing.html
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| | The "Tzemach Tzedek" and the Haskala Movement — Revisited |
| | (Whether the Mitnagdim have actually succeeded in preserving the original tradition or whether they too have been transformed by reacting to the other movement, is a moot point.) | | | The Mitnagdim ("opponents," on account of their opposition to Hasidism) were the oldest of the factions, who attempted to adhere to rabbinic Judaism as it existed before the inroads made by Hasidism. | | | Today, we generally associate Mitnagdism with Lithuania—after all, the greatest leader of Mitnagdism was the Gaon of Vilna—but at the time, Brody, Galicia might as well have represented the ideal of Mitnagdism. |
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| | THE BERDICHEV REVIVAL |
| | He created a great commotion by his teachings and by his quarrels with the "mitnagdim". | | | As the town grew, a number of noted scholars served as rabbis of Berdichev, including Lieber "the great", Joseph "the Harif", and from the end of the 18th century until his death in 1809, "The Zaddik", Levi Isaac of Berdichev, the author of "Kedushat Levi" (The Holiness of Levi), made the town his headquarters. | | | Berdichev have become an important center of Volhynian Hasidism in the last quarter of 18th century, and the Hasidim were thus able to secure the election of "dayyanim" so as to free themselves from the jurisdiction of the "kahal"and its "mitnagdim" rabbis. |
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| | Genealogy Page for Michael Tobin |
| | Both the Mitnagdim and the Hasidim were very pious Jews. | | | At the beginning of the 20th century the Vishkov Jewish population could be divided into two groups: Mitnagdim and Hasidim. | | | It appears to me that the difference between the two Vishkov groups was that the former prayed in the Ashkinazi style, and the latter in the Sfardi style. |
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| | Yitzchok Hutner |
| | Ironically, Rabbi Hutner became a fierce critic of Lubavitch and the idolization of Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson. | | | Rabbi Yitzchok (Isaac) Hutner (1906 - 1980) was born in Warsaw, Poland, to a family with both Ger hasidim and mitnagdim[?] in their origins. | | | Many times there was singing and dancing all night. |
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| | Dr. Izhak Ze'ev Yunis: The Old Home Town: Chapter 13 |
| | Wealthy and respectable Hassidic Jews were the sons of craftsmen, tailors, and butchers who excelled in the study of the Torah and in good manners. | | | Only a few Hassidic and Mitnagdim families had any influence on the community. | | | It was natural for Hassidim, Mitnagdim and workers to be linked through marriage. |
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| | Commentary Magazine - Cedars of Lebanon: Man, the Master of All Created Worlds |
| | ...That this is not so is proved by the many works of mystical exegesis issued by the Mitnagdim, the rabbinic critics of Hasidism... | | | ...This appeared to mean a weakening of the binding power of rabbinic law, which for the Mitnagdim was synonymous with Judaism... | | | ...These discoveries of meaning had an enormous influence both on the Mitnagdim and the Hasidim... |
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| | United Torah Judaism at AllExperts |
| | *The Degel HaTorah ("Flag of Torah") party that is guided by the rabbinic heads of Haredi Ashkenazi Jews who are Mitnagdim (those who were not, and were often historically opposed to, Hasidism). |
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http://experts.about.com/e/u/un/United_Torah_Judaism.htm
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| | Nature and the Environment in Hasidic Sources |
| | This might be interpreted as saying that, while man can serve God in many ways, there is a hierarchical order between these, as otherwise he would not be considered a sinner. | | | Norman Lamm perceives a profound difference in the relationship between the Hasidim and their opponents, the Mitnagdim, to the natural world. | | | Thus it is better for him to have clean teeth" and not eat anything. |
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| | Doron Rosenblum - Give Us This Day Our Daily Enemy |
| | In fact, it's so rampant that it can be called the "Opponents" movement, after the opponents - the Mitnagdim - of the Hasidic movement in the 18th century; but with one difference: in our case the tenacity and the ecstasy are the preserve of the opponents themselves. | | | I would go so far as to say that what we have here is a Hasidic movement of Mitnagdim, if only I could finish a sentence... | | | Really, you should go so far that you will leave us alone. |
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| | Yeshiva Ohr Tmimim - Torah Online - Parshiot - Vayak'hel - 5763 |
| | The Besh't spread his refreshing teachings about G-d, Torah and the Jewish people on a small scale, but the Chabad Rebbe really went public. | | | He printed and distributed his ideas in his 'revolutionary' book the TANYA, held open debates in the stronghold cities of his enemies (Mitnagdim), and suddenly transformed thousands of his most bitter detractors into his pupils and admirers. | | | In desperation, thinking that Judaism was in danger, the Mitnagdim forged documents to the effect that Rabbi Shneur Zalman was planning to overthrow the Czar and presented them to high Government officials. |
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| | myss.com |
| | But as the liberalization of Jewish law toward the end of the 18th century was perceived as a threat by both the Hasidim and Mitnagdim, the two groups closed ranks. | | | Hasidism merged with the rabbinic mainstream and stands today as a bastion of Orthodox Judaism, a somewhat closed society with a slightly antiquated style of dress. | | | Still it continued to spread rapidly all over Poland and Lithuania, across Eastern Europe and around the world, until almost half of all Jewry was Hasidic. |
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| | The Disguised Prayer Chabad.org > Magazine > Story |
| | These mitnagdim ("opponents" -- as they were called) decided to challenge Rabbi Israel. | | | And after prayer, you bring out cake and brandy, and sit together around the table eating and drinking and singing and wishing each other 'lechayim!' Yet everyone calls you people chassidim ('pious ones') while we're labeled mitnagdim? | | | Reb Leib, the attendant of the Ruzhiner, could not restrain himself. |
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| | Avodah V2 #106 |
| | I get this feeling that was is permitted is my machlokes which is for heaven but your machlokes is prohibited. | | | >> but the Ba'alei Machlokes are worse - they are from Amalek On the other hand the machlokes bewteen mitnagdim and chassidim cost countless harm to the Jewish community. |
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