Misnagdim
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Oct 29, 2026
Yehoshua PfefferGUEST
One is Degelator and one is Agudat Yisrael or Agudas Yisrael.
Yehoshua PfefferGUEST
Aguda is the more Hasidic party and Degel is the more Misnaged or Litvish.
Yehoshua PfefferGUEST
These are different orientations within Ashkenazi Judaism.
Yehoshua PfefferGUEST
I say broadly because there is some overlap, there's some Hasidim that go with Degele Torah, I don't know of anything quite vice versa, but those are two that come together in this joint slate which is called United Torah Judaism for the national elections.
Chaim KramerGUEST
All these things, these Gezeris started and they're ever said, we need to until that happens, nobody's going to listen to us.
Chaim KramerGUEST
And all the leaders, Chassidim and the Misnagdim, they all worked with the Tzar, and nothing helped.
Chaim KramerGUEST
The Vardit Shavarov was very much into it, but nothing helped.
Chaim KramerGUEST
And the Rebbe in this Torah explains what's going on.
Yaakov Asher SinclairHOST
He never, he says, we'll see.
Yaakov Asher SinclairHOST
Reb Chaim unquestionably took over from the Vilna going after his passing to become the leader of the Misnagdim.
Yaakov Asher SinclairHOST
Mitnagdim or Misnagdim means those literally who are against, keneged, against the Hasidic movement.
Yaakov Asher SinclairHOST
While the Gilnavon was the key signatory of the three Vilna bans on the Hasidic movement, in contrast, the one single fact we have relating to Rav Schaim of the Hasidim is that he was absolutely silent.
Yaakov Asher SinclairHOST
He never signed any bans.
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Yaakov Asher SinclairHOST
But even though he is basically critical of the Hasidic movement, but he doesn't do it in a very stark, a very strong way.
Yaakov Asher SinclairHOST
Against the background of this widespread success of the Hasidic movement in Rebbe Chaim's day, there are some who speculate that this success motivated the urgent writing of Nefer Shechaim.
Yaakov Asher SinclairHOST
In other words, there are those who speculate that the reason why he wrote this was because he wanted to defend, from a philosophical point of view, the fact that that Litvisha, that Misnagdim also had a deep and compelling and mystical understanding of things, which was no less than the Hasidic movement.
Yossi PaltielHOST
In Europe, there was a clash between chassidim and mesnagdim.
Yossi PaltielHOST
And the Misnagdim said that the Chassidim cannot learn.
Yossi PaltielHOST
The Chassidim are ignorant.
Yossi PaltielHOST
They're so busy eating cholent and kugel and singing songs and dancing around that they have no time to learn.
Avraham GislasonHOST
Somehow, Torah is connected to tefillah.
Avraham GislasonHOST
And this is a very, very big thing in Rabbi Nachman, and a very, very big thing historically, because there's historically been a battle between the Misnagdim and the Chassidim on the importance of prayer versus Torah.
Avraham GislasonHOST
And the Misnagdish, the Litvish side was always like, no, everything is Torah.
Avraham GislasonHOST
Tefillah is like a secondary thing.
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And it's the same thing with the Baal Shem Tov HaKadosh.
Moshe WeinbergerHOST
I'm not saying that's this Chassidim and Misnagdim.
Moshe WeinbergerHOST
We're way past all of that.
Moshe WeinbergerHOST
The same thing with the Chassidim who are speaking the name of the Baal Shem Tov.
Moshe LevinHOST
The one who was named the Shubla in the time of Tzemach Tzedek was a real Haman.
Moshe LevinHOST
And so they made this meeting, they invited the head of the Misnagdisha camp, the head of the Rebbe Itzhe Velazhner, or as the Freak Rebbe calls him, Rebbe Itzhe Amsheslaver, to represent the Misnagdim.
Moshe LevinHOST
And the Tzemach Tzedek was called to represent the Hasidim.
Moshe LevinHOST
B'tzal Stern was invited by Dr. Lilienthal, who represented the Haskalah movement.
Arnie WittensteinHOST
But Rav Dovid's key p- statement that Rab- Rab Nosher of Iliya, or that Rab Nosher of Iliya, um, was certainly no maskil, I agree with that absolutely.
Arnie WittensteinHOST
Now, there's an issue with Rab Shmuel Munshein and Ra- and, and Rav Dovid Kamenetsky that, uh, you know, it's just the classic Hasidim versus Misnagdim argument, and e- each side reacts very strongly to the other one.
Arnie WittensteinHOST
Um, so that, that's what goes on over here.
Arnie WittensteinHOST
So he has a [laughs], so Rabbi Munshein has a whole tirade and rant about how- H- about how, uh, many people very closely connected to Rab Nosson of Ili were Maskilim, and therefore Rab Nosson of Ili is probably a proto-Maskil, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera.
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Arnie WittensteinHOST
In other words, here we can just get another example of a historian ignoring the large level context of Rabbi Nash of Ilya.
Arnie WittensteinHOST
We saw-- we discussed a couple of weeks ago, recently, pretty recently, a quote from Shekalah Kodesh in which Rabbi Nash of Ilya says, "I don't trust outside sources to say what people are saying inside." In other words, there's this, these different groups in the Jewish people.
Arnie WittensteinHOST
There's the Hasidim, there's the Misnagdim, there's people who think more rationally, and there's Maskilim.
Arnie WittensteinHOST
I don't believe in 1807 he was really talking about Maskilim, but certainly in the 1820s, he would be bothered by the Maskilim.
Justin PinesHOST
Got it.
Tuvia TenenbomGUEST
The Misnagdim, where I got my education-
Justin PinesHOST
Right, that's where you went to school, got it
Tuvia TenenbomGUEST
... you know, they speak Hebrew.
Yossi PaltielHOST
Now the Alter Rebbe says, "Okidumali," it's my opinion, "Shetsvas em eino misadik diklalosh." That means is the deal that I just made, that it shouldn't say sharsah, it should say hislapsha.
Yossi PaltielHOST
I don't even think that's what the Misnagdim were concerned about because it's, it's a small difference.
Yossi PaltielHOST
Ela, what was the issue that the Misnagdim had primarily? It's m'iker inyan hislapshas Hashchinah b'klipos.
Yossi PaltielHOST
The basic idea that Shechinah goes into klipos.
Yossi PaltielHOST
In other words, that even ra, and even a person with bechirah chofshis, every reka, the Aibish is creating him and giving him his matiyos in his life, and therefore, al anidin kanigzim min haShamayim.
Yossi PaltielHOST
We're safer like a golem in Kabbalah.
Yossi PaltielHOST
Sheim yirtzu writes, and the Ariza says that everything is chayay tzaliki.
Yossi PaltielHOST
What was the taynah of the Misnagdim? The Alter Rebbe says, "Sheim yirtzu l'chal." If the Misnagdim wish to distinguish bein klipos haruchnim l'umes ei lamagashmim, between ruchnius dige klipos and gashmius dige klipos, and say, in the ruchnius dige klipos, which is called maiga, they agree that there is a ha'ara of Kav.
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