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<DIV>My father once commented to me that had he lived at the time of the Vilna
Gaon, he would never have become a chossid. His basic posture towards
anything new was similar to that of the Chasam Sofer -- "Chadash assur
min haTorah." Chassidus did stand the test of time and since his
father and grandfather had been Gerrer chassidim, my father was too. (He
also told me that his grandfather -- or maybe great-grandfather, I'm not sure --
became a chossid because among the non-chassidim, he was the last frum person in
his town and there was nowhere else to go. My father said that chassidus
saved yahadus in Poland.)</DIV>
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<DIV><FONT lang=0 color=#0000ff FAMILY="SANSSERIF" PTSIZE="10"><BR><B>--Toby
Katz<BR>==========<BR><BR></FONT><FONT lang=0 FAMILY="SANSSERIF"
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<DIV><SPAN class=359392810-12012009>This is one of the great conundrums (to me)
of the halachik process - the earlier ones do something that at best is talui at
that time on future results (imho that is the best case description) and that
kashers the result for later generations (and retroactively for the first
generation)?</SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=359392810-12012009>KT<BR>Joel
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