[Avodah] Klal Yisrael - one people, many tribes [was: Self Esteem]

[Arie Folger]

R'n TK wrote:
> It is part of the incredible Hashgacha Pratis we see throughout
> the sweep of Jewish history that the Ribono Shel Olam created
> a wondrous  world that contains both Yekkes and Litvaks, both
> Sefardim and  Chassidim, not to mention many other shevatim.

Thank you for properly using the word shevatim, in the same sense the
Ari used it when speaking of the different gates of prayer, each of
which corresponds to its shevet's nussach hatefillah. There, as in
your sentence, shevet does not literally mean one of the twelve groups
that descended one each from Yaakov's twelve sons (nu, let's count
Yossef as one here), but rather its secondary meaning of groups,
'edot.

(source: R' Binyomin Shelomo Hamburger)

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Arie Folger,
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