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March 31, 2009

Chabad and Chagas

In one of his talks, the Rebbe Rashab said that words of chassidus elevate a person a tefach above the ground.

A chassid from "Poland" was present on that occasion and contributed that he heard in the name of R. Menachem Mendel of Kotsk that singing lifts a person three tefachim above ground.

The Rebbe responded: "...one needs to know how to sing. There is a type of song  of "the cows sang I Shmuel 6:11) ", and such song certainly does not elevate. However chassidus always elevates a person a tefach above ground".

(quoted in Shulchan Shabbos 3.27.09)

More on the purported difference between Chabad and Chagas chassidus, here and here

Posted at 04:09 PM in Chassidic Thought |

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