[Avodah] on nittel

[Saul.Z.Newman at kp.org]

in considering  how  different communities  act ,   it  seems  that  the 
basis  could  be summed  up as  follows  [ though  i don't doubt  others 
will correct where i have it  wrong].
in chassidish communities  there are two issues. one  is  the idea  of 
klippa  and tumah ,  maybe the center of the whole derech of 
chassidus--tuma and tahara.     adjunct to this is maase avos . 
in litvish  communities  the  ideology  can be simply summed up  , talmud 
tora kneged  kulam.

modern communities [as in MO] certainly  are not motivated  by tuma/klippa 
issues.  furthermore , they would  mostly see nittel as actually 
sociologic---
don't be  learning tora  in places  where one would be killed for this.  
in 21st century  western world  , there are  few locales where  that would 
be an issue.
litvish communities would agree that since  there is no pikuach nefesh 
involved,   it is like a gzeira  whose reasoning  fell away...

what i am not  sure  i understand  is why communities who  believe that 
the world can't  exist  even a moment  without tora   , and  communities 
who  believe  that  the Klippa  power could lead to unmitigated disaster, 
why  they  are not  vigourously  agitating  the other  communities to 
their  derech.


and it's odd that there would  be  an issue  of such  tantamount 
importance that  half of jewry  [ ie  eidot  hamizrach ]  wouldnt even 
have  known of the issue's existence......


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