<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Jul 8, 2009 at 7:13 AM, <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:rabbirichwolpoe@gmail.com">rabbirichwolpoe@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
My friend's thesis is that Judaism w/o Qabbalah or Hassidus is mechanical<br>
and lifeless.<br>
<br>
And so he challenged me as follows: To List aspects of Jewish Spirituality<br>
that were devoid of Qaballah or Hassidus.</blockquote><div><br>Discussions of this kind inevitably degenerate into the "no true Scotsman" argument <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_true_Scotsman">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_true_Scotsman</a>.<br>
Especially in this case where your friend has two options for any example produced: he can reject it either as not true Jewish Spirituality or as not truly devoid of Kabbala/Hhasidut.<br></div></div></div>