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Re: Messianism among Lubavitch
« Reply #960 on: February 05, 2015, 10:46:07 AM »
I don't see how you can be so amendment that the Rambam CAN'T be talking about the Rebbe (not even 1 of the Tna'im? for real? There are at least 2 that are beyond debate: ואם יעמוד... מבית דויד הוגה בתורה ועוסק במצוות כדויד אביו, כפי תורה שבכתב ושבעל פה...).


כדויד אביו - Really? It's beyond debate that he was הוגה בתורה ועוסק במצוות כדויד אביו?
We can have a debate if even the Rambam fulfills that tnai!
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Re: Messianism among Lubavitch
« Reply #961 on: February 05, 2015, 10:46:11 AM »
I am not sure what i said disagreed with that.... Anyway i removed the name of place but you quoted it..
1 is a violation of halacha, 1 is not.
What is so hard to understand?

If you aren't willing to prove your claim TOT you've lost major points by me.
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Re: Messianism among Lubavitch
« Reply #962 on: February 05, 2015, 10:47:01 AM »
Do I have to be a Chabad guy to do the letter thing?

I would like to try it as an experiment.
Do you have to be Chabad to write a letter to the Rebbe at the Ohel?

See #5: http://www.nytimes.com/2014/12/07/sports/football/jets-giants-better-ways-to-spend-your-sunday.html

But I agree, if you don't do it seriously then you won't find what you're looking for.

And I'll come out and say it. I have a brother who is alive today only because of advice in Igros and I find my shidduch (albeit through a long chain reaction of events) from advice in Igros.
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Re: Messianism among Lubavitch
« Reply #963 on: February 05, 2015, 10:49:58 AM »
Do you have to be Chabad to write a letter to the Rebbe at the Ohel?

See #5: http://www.nytimes.com/2014/12/07/sports/football/jets-giants-better-ways-to-spend-your-sunday.html
No, im referring to inserting a letter in the igros to her an answer on a question.

Also, does it have to be a רוחניות question or I can just ask any silly question, like which airline to fly?


ETA: don't get me wrong, I'm being serious. I want to experiment. Not trying to be disrespectful.
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Re: Messianism among Lubavitch
« Reply #964 on: February 05, 2015, 10:50:21 AM »
1 is a violation of halacha, 1 is not.
What is so hard to understand?

If you aren't willing to prove your claim TOT you've lost major points by me.
I apologize that i don't have a picture of something i saw once 5 years a go

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Re: Messianism among Lubavitch
« Reply #965 on: February 05, 2015, 10:51:22 AM »
I probably shouldn't have named the place publicly with out proof... But you all admit there are some pretty crazy moshiachists, elokists etc...  so why is it so crazy that one place has that?

I could believe it but more likely it isn't a "Chabad" house. And more likely a mitzva center.
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Re: Messianism among Lubavitch
« Reply #966 on: February 05, 2015, 10:52:36 AM »
No, im referring to inserting a letter in the igros to her an answer on a question.

Also, does it have to be a רוחניות question or I can just ask any silly question, like which airline to fly?


ETA: don't get me wrong, I'm being serious. I want to experiment. Not trying to be disrespectful.
See ETA of my post you quoted.

Doesn't need to be רוחניות, but it does need to be a serious question. Many do hachanos just as they would do before a yechidos.
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Re: Messianism among Lubavitch
« Reply #967 on: February 05, 2015, 10:53:13 AM »
I could believe it but more likely it isn't a "Chabad" house. And more likely a mitzva center.
Oh so i didn't even know there was a difference

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Re: Messianism among Lubavitch
« Reply #968 on: February 05, 2015, 10:54:25 AM »
I apologize that i don't have a picture of something i saw once 5 years a go
I didn't ask for a picture from 5 years ago.
I asked for you to go back and snap a pic (assuming you frequent that area) to back up the claim.

Oh so i didn't even know there was a difference
Are they listed on Chabad.org?
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Re: Messianism among Lubavitch
« Reply #970 on: February 05, 2015, 10:57:12 AM »

And as for war it also means it figuratively as explained in Torah Shelemah on vayikra 21:14, par. 84.
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Re: Messianism among Lubavitch
« Reply #971 on: February 05, 2015, 10:57:22 AM »
So this is for any religious faith?
I had an muslim Uber driver who asked for a blessing there...
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Re: Messianism among Lubavitch
« Reply #972 on: February 05, 2015, 11:05:04 AM »
I had an muslim Uber driver who asked for a blessing there...
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Re: Messianism among Lubavitch
« Reply #973 on: February 05, 2015, 11:05:27 AM »
I'm not chabad, and I'm not trying to start any fights or anything, and I totally respect different opinions and ways of doing things, but, can someone repeat in a few sentences everything that happened in the last 10 pages because this thread has been moving too fast for me to read all of it especially since I also didn't read the first 55 pages because it isn't about law.

Maybe try and say it in a way that a lawyer would understand.

Thanks

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Re: Messianism among Lubavitch
« Reply #974 on: February 05, 2015, 11:05:53 AM »
No, im referring to inserting a letter in the igros to her an answer on a question.

Also, does it have to be a רוחניות question or I can just ask any silly question, like which airline to fly?


ETA: don't get me wrong, I'm being serious. I want to experiment. Not trying to be disrespectful.

It's not a "trick" to experiment with. As many others have quoted, the idea is that you are writing to the Rebbe, seriously. How he answers, is up to him. It could be through a book of his letters or many other avenues. If it was 1987, and you heard miracle stories of the Lubavitcher Rebbe, would you write a letter to him as an "experiment?" If so, go ahead. If not, then don't do this either.

There are many stories of people who wrote letters but did not place it in the Rebbe's igros (they placed it in the Ohel, for instance), and then studied the igros only to find it directly answered them. The same is true for other parts of the Rebbe's Torah. And, as others have mentioned before, the same thing occurred when the Rebbe, and other Rabbeim, were alive and people "wrote letters" with thought, or wrote letters that did not actually get received by the Rebbe -they received answers. Sometimes written (as with R' Mendel Futerfas mentioned previously).

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Re: Messianism among Lubavitch
« Reply #975 on: February 05, 2015, 11:07:10 AM »
Maybe try and say it in a way that a lawyer would understand.

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Re: Messianism among Lubavitch
« Reply #976 on: February 05, 2015, 11:07:18 AM »
I'm not chabad, and I'm not trying to start any fights or anything, and I totally respect different opinions and ways of doing things, but, can someone repeat in a few sentences everything that happened in the last 10 pages because this thread has been moving too fast for me to read all of it especially since I also didn't read the first 55 pages because it isn't about law.

Maybe try and say it in a way that a lawyer would understand.

Thanks
It's a long complicated topic, start from page 1 and see how far you can get.
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Re: Messianism among Lubavitch
« Reply #977 on: February 05, 2015, 11:09:05 AM »
It's not a "trick" to experiment with. As many others have quoted, the idea is that you are writing to the Rebbe, seriously. How he answers, is up to him. It could be through a book of his letters or many other avenues. If it was 1987, and you heard miracle stories of the Lubavitcher Rebbe, would you write a letter to him as an "experiment?" If so, go ahead. If not, then don't do this either.

There are many stories of people who wrote letters but did not place it in the Rebbe's igros (they placed it in the Ohel, for instance), and then studied the igros only to find it directly answered them. The same is true for other parts of the Rebbe's Torah. And, as others have mentioned before, the same thing occurred when the Rebbe, and other Rabbeim, were alive and people "wrote letters" with thought, or wrote letters that did not actually get received by the Rebbe -they received answers. Sometimes written (as with R' Mendel Futerfas mentioned previously).
Well said.
Though when you can see advice written that so perfectly pertains to your situation it's pretty mind-boggling.

But either way, the belief of a chosid is that the rebbe will find a way to answer, whether direct advice or indirectly.
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Re: Messianism among Lubavitch
« Reply #978 on: February 05, 2015, 11:13:29 AM »
No, im referring to inserting a letter in the igros to her an answer on a question.

Also, does it have to be a רוחניות question or I can just ask any silly question, like which airline to fly?


ETA: don't get me wrong, I'm being serious. I want to experiment. Not trying to be disrespectful.

If you are truly being serious, then let me advise you to go to the Ohel (you live in NY, right?) and just go say some Tehilim. Maybe instead of asking a question, you can "turn the tables" so to speak, and make a statement, such as mentioning a hachlata tova that you have taken on. That would be a nice start.

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Re: Messianism among Lubavitch
« Reply #979 on: February 05, 2015, 11:15:20 AM »
To do list.

CM, I am going next week. I will take you to the Rebbe's ohel.