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Ask a Lubavitcher Anything
« on: March 17, 2021, 12:10:52 PM »
Does "The Gehza thing" [sic] keep you up at night? Ask away.

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Re: Ask a Lubavitcher Anything
« Reply #1 on: March 17, 2021, 12:16:29 PM »
What makes you a Lubavitcher? And is that the same as a chabadnick?
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Re: Ask a Lubavitcher Anything
« Reply #2 on: March 17, 2021, 12:18:19 PM »
Firstly how do I tell apart a Gehza from a Tzugekumener? A Reitzes is probably of course a Gehza but how about A Lazar? (Both remote cousins of mine). Don't tell me the most famous Shliach in the world isn't considered Gehza just because he's a descendent from Yekkes.

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Re: Ask a Lubavitcher Anything
« Reply #3 on: March 17, 2021, 12:26:19 PM »


The most prestigious shliach can indeed not be gezhe. You can be gezhe and not even be an observant Jew. So long as your grandparents urinated in select Russian/Ukranian towns. Depending on which town any gezhe Lubavitcher stems from, the other towns won't count.

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Re: Ask a Lubavitcher Anything
« Reply #4 on: March 17, 2021, 12:26:55 PM »
What makes you a Lubavitcher? And is that the same as a chabadnick?

You might get some indications here and possibly here (a book was recently published in EY with essays from RZP, I was translating it in my mind to English as I was reading it, I might take up the task if/when I have time).
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Re: Ask a Lubavitcher Anything
« Reply #5 on: March 17, 2021, 12:29:23 PM »
What makes you a Lubavitcher? And is that the same as a chabadnick?
Or Chabadsker
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Re: Ask a Lubavitcher Anything
« Reply #6 on: March 17, 2021, 12:29:43 PM »
And is that the same as a chabadnick?

Chabadnik is an Israeli term. Chabadsker is only used by non-Lubavitchers (often when trying to pass as a Lubavitcher). 

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Re: Ask a Lubavitcher Anything
« Reply #7 on: March 17, 2021, 12:34:03 PM »
The most prestigious shliach can indeed not be gezhe. You can be gezhe and not even be an observant Jew. So long as your grandparents urinated in select Russian/Ukranian towns. Depending on which town any gezhe Lubavitcher stems from, the other towns won't count.

Not sure about the Ukranian towns (Yekatrinoslav/Dnepro doesn't cut it, and I'm doubt if Nikloaev does). Maybe Belarussian. It's basically a handful (Klimovitch, Nevel, Beshinkovitch, and maybe another 2 or 3 that I can't think of at the moment. The fact that you had famous Chassidim in Nikolaev, Homel/Gomel, Horodok/Gorodok, etc. doesn't make those Gezhe. The purebred is a product of a select few towns).
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Re: Ask a Lubavitcher Anything
« Reply #8 on: March 17, 2021, 12:34:12 PM »
Chabadnik is an Israeli term. Chabadsker is only used by non-Lubavitchers (often when trying to pass as a Lubavitcher). 
Ok, didn't answer the first part of my question, but follow up question, if labels are for t-shirts why all the sect names?
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Re: Ask a Lubavitcher Anything
« Reply #9 on: March 17, 2021, 12:35:22 PM »
Ok, didn't answer the first part of my question, but follow up question, if labels are for t-shirts why all the sect names?

Who says labels are for t-shirts? Sounds like a line that came off of a t-shirt.
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Re: Ask a Lubavitcher Anything
« Reply #10 on: March 17, 2021, 12:36:40 PM »
Ok, didn't answer the first part of my question, but follow up question, if labels are for t-shirts why all the sect names?

IDK. My t-shirts are tagless.

As for labels and sect names, I respectfully refer you to the links in my post above.
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Re: Ask a Lubavitcher Anything
« Reply #11 on: March 17, 2021, 12:38:07 PM »
So long as your grandparents urinated in select Russian/Ukranian towns.
So as long as they were there for a few hours and had a drink? Is it davka grandparents? What about people who they themselves urinated in these towns?
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Re: Ask a Lubavitcher Anything
« Reply #12 on: March 17, 2021, 12:38:28 PM »
Ok, didn't answer the first part of my question,

Not my field of expertise.

Ok, didn't answer the first part of my question, but follow up question, if labels are for t-shirts why all the sect names?

Labels are for t shirts. And pants. And undershirts, etc. Though sometimes we prefer tagless because the labels get in the way, the information is still helpful and necessary and thus still printed.

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Re: Ask a Lubavitcher Anything
« Reply #13 on: March 17, 2021, 12:38:33 PM »
Will non-lubavitchers get canceled if they ask questions in this thread?

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« Reply #14 on: March 17, 2021, 12:39:45 PM »
Will non-lubavitchers get canceled if they ask questions in this thread?

We already know your opinion on Chassidim. Ask away.
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Re: Ask a Lubavitcher Anything
« Reply #15 on: March 17, 2021, 12:40:35 PM »
So as long as they were there for a few hours and had a drink? Is it davka grandparents? What about people who they themselves urinated in these towns?

What I said was abundantly clear. If you can't yell, "Mein zeideh hot gepished in Nevel" you ain't squat.

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« Reply #16 on: March 17, 2021, 12:40:42 PM »
Is it davka grandparents? What about people who they themselves urinated in these towns?

DEFINITELY wouldn't qualify? Do you really think anyone can enter the exclusive club of purebreds by traveling to a said location and relieving themselves there?

That would nullify the entire premise of Gezhe!!! What kind of heresy are you advocating?
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Re: Ask a Lubavitcher Anything
« Reply #17 on: March 17, 2021, 12:41:37 PM »
What I said was abundantly clear. If you can't yell, "Mein zeideh hot gepished in Nevel" you ain't squat.

Are you ignoring the Klimovitch clan? With known implications at a certain yeshiva.
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Re: Ask a Lubavitcher Anything
« Reply #18 on: March 17, 2021, 12:41:42 PM »
Not sure about the Ukranian towns (Yekatrinoslav/Dnepro doesn't cut it, and I'm not doubt if Nikloaev does). Maybe Belarussian. It's basically a handful (Klimovitch, Nevel, Beshinkovitz, and maybe another 2 or 3 that I can't think of at the moment. The fact that you had famous Chassidim in Nikolaev, Homel/Gomel, Horodok/Gorodok, etc. doesn't make those Gezhe. The purebred is a product of a select few towns).

What about a descendent of one of the Alter Rebbe's early chassidim whose ancestors didn't reside (or address their bodily needs) in? What about if someone's ancestors lived in Lubavitch itself and were Chassidim of the Tzemach Tzedek/Rebbe Maharash/Rebbe Rashab?
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Re: Ask a Lubavitcher Anything
« Reply #19 on: March 17, 2021, 12:41:54 PM »
We already know your opinion on Chassidim. Ask away.
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