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<DIV><FONT style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: transparent" color=#000000 size=2 face=Arial>Date: Fri, 24 Dec 2010 <BR>From:
Saul.Z.Newman@kp.org<BR>"<BR><BR>>> in considering how
different communities act , it seems that
the <BR>basis could be summed up as follows [
though i don't doubt others <BR>will correct where i have it
wrong].<BR>in chassidish communities there are two issues. one
is the idea of <BR>klippa and tumah , maybe the center
of the whole derech of <BR>chassidus--tuma and tahara.
adjunct to this is maase avos . <BR>in litvish communities the
ideology can be simply summed up , talmud <BR>tora kneged
kulam.....<BR><BR>....what i am not sure i understand is why
communities who believe that <BR>the world can't exist even a
moment without tora , and communities <BR>who
believe that the Klippa power could lead to unmitigated
disaster, <BR>why they are not vigourously
agitating the other communities to <BR>their
derech.<BR><BR><BR>and it's odd that there would be an issue
of such tantamount <BR>importance that half of jewry [
ie eidot hamizrach ] wouldnt even <BR>have known of the
issue's existence......</FONT></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV>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.</DIV>
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<DIV><FONT lang=0 color=#0000ff size=2 face=Arial FAMILY="SANSSERIF" PTSIZE="10"><BR><B>--Toby Katz<BR>==========<BR><BR></FONT><FONT lang=0 color=#000000 size=2 face=Arial FAMILY="SANSSERIF" PTSIZE="10"></B>--------------------</FONT></DIV></DIV>
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