[Avodah] on nittel

[T613K at aol.com]

Date: Fri, 24 Dec 2010 
From:  Saul.Z.Newman at kp.org
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>> 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.....

....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......

 
>>>>>
Eidot haMizrach would have been only marginally aware of nittel.  How  many 
christians are there in Arab lands anyway?  Not many, and they're  a very 
small minority of the pop.   The kochos  hatum'ah  generated by xmas worship 
wouldn't be very strong in Muslim lands.
 
 


--Toby Katz
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