<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Jan 13, 2008 4:43 PM, Micha Berger <<a href="mailto:micha@aishdas.org">micha@aishdas.org</a>> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
There is a HUGE chiluq whether RMMS said "the gadol hador" or "a gadol<br>hador". Given the role in Chabad thought of the yechidah kelalis, I<br>really doubt RMMS could give a non-Chabad rav the title of the
<br>generation's greatest.<br><br>SheTir'u baTov!<br>-micha<br><font color="#888888"><br></font></blockquote></div><br>
As I heard it, the Rebbe exhorted his Hassidim to stand up and honor the "gadol hador." It could be he said A gadol Hador but then why ask Hassidim to rise? <br>
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<br>FWIW I don't know WHERE I read it but I remember it was around 1999 give or take a year.<br><br>I also pointed this out to a Habad Hasid who was an Avodah member and he did NOT deny it.<br><br>-- <br>Kol Tuv / Best Regards,
<br><a href="mailto:RabbiRichWolpoe@Gmail.com">RabbiRichWolpoe@Gmail.com</a><br>see: <a href="http://nishmablog.blogspot.com/">http://nishmablog.blogspot.com/</a>