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May 19, 2008 at 07:58 AM
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Disciples of the Baal Shem Tov, who lived in the 18th Century, spread his message in little villages, shtetlach, of Eastern Europe where the bulk of Jews then lived.
Wherever a rabbi settled, a dynasty was founded bearing the name of the village—Lubavitch, Satmar, Belz—names that survive in the movement's branches. The communities vanished in the Holocaust, though some rabbis escaped to refound dynasties in Israel and the United States
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May 19, 2008 at 09:30 AM lavdafka Says:
it happens to be that chasiddim are happier.... for what ever reason.
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May 19, 2008 at 09:42 AM Anonymous Says:
Thanks for your Haskomoh, Chicago Tribune, What else is new?
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May 19, 2008 at 10:03 AM Anonymous Says:
Sorry i disagree simcha can not be a trait to follow it has to be worked on. You cant say that all chasidum are happy we all know thats not true. Well maybe some chasidasha goy wrote that articale. :-P
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May 19, 2008 at 11:01 AM Anonymous Says:
10:03 - Being a chasid doesn't automatically make you a happy person. But simchas ha'chaim and doing mitzvos b'simcha sure are important foundations of chasidus. And when those ideals are engrained in people's every action, they sure come out to be happier people.
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May 19, 2008 at 11:14 AM miami yid 2 Says:
A HAPPY PERSON IS ONE WHO IS HAPPY WITH WHAT HASHEM GIVES HIM ...
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May 19, 2008 at 11:17 AM miami yid 2 Says:
i'm not a chosid but i'm happy b/c i can wake up every morning daven and go to work what else can a man ask for?? B"H i'm still breathing that a miracle in its self
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May 19, 2008 at 12:00 PM Chosid Says:
To be happy because you wake up and live, which is an every day miracle has nothing to do with the Simcha that the Bal Shem Tov implimented. Our Simcha is from the fact that we are PART of Hashem and Hashem gives us every day a new oppertinity to connect and unite with Hashem thru his Torah and Mizvos. There are many goim that are very Happy every day, but our Simcha is totaly beyound and different from the Goy. To understand more you must read, learn understand what Chasiddus is and how it brings out the Emess and Neshama of everything in this world. Try it you will appreciate it.
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May 19, 2008 at 12:22 PM lavdafka Says:
What makes a person happy is being naive, sheltered from common societies indulgences even up until adulthood, Low expectations. non pressure to be an achiever in secular academics ....THE CHASIDIM FIT THIS PROFILE !
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May 19, 2008 at 12:56 PM Anonymous Says:
10points for that! How right you are!!!!! A bunch of empty headed skulls!!!
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May 19, 2008 at 01:07 PM Anonymous Says:
And when the Torah commands - Vesomachto Bechagecho it means to go ahead be naive and emptiheaded????
You are in dire need of an education - any!
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May 19, 2008 at 01:41 PM Yid Says:
simcha breaks ALL barriers including those of this last and final golus.
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May 19, 2008 at 01:53 PM Anonymous Says:
No! Chas vesholem! What the torah is saying to be happy is, with the yom tuv Vesomachto "Bechagecho" other then what "lavdavka" was trying to say that the happyness they have is of the cause of baseless reasons. now don't get me wrong the derach habal shem tov is real and true, but what that articale was on our time of "chasidus" which in our case yes it is just filled with pollitics and emptyness!! GOTCHA
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May 19, 2008 at 02:16 PM L Says:
"we are PART of Hashem"
Oh ? I thought the Torah says that Hashem created odom (guf) from earth. We say every morning in davening (Elokai neshomo) that Hashem created the neshomo.
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May 19, 2008 at 03:23 PM Anonymous Says:
cone on L
Haven't you learned that EVERY Yid is a Chelek Elokei Memaal Mamash.
That applies to non-Chasidim too.
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May 19, 2008 at 03:23 PM Anonymous Says:
You make zero sense go back to first grade!
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May 19, 2008 at 10:38 PM Anonymous Says:
Does the man with the three kids in the picture look happy to you???? I dont think so
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May 20, 2008 at 03:04 AM VOOS FARSHTAISTEE Says:
lavdavka, how naive are you, to think that knowledge makes you sad shows that you have very little of that blessed creation...
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May 20, 2008 at 03:06 AM VOOS FARSHTAISTEE Says:
and those three children look very happy to me. (even without skateboards...)
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May 22, 2008 at 06:42 AM Matzahlocal101 Says:
Lavdavka,
Why is that movie stars who (some anyway) have secular education, money, fame, groupies, and all the other perks of the "secular lifestyle", have a higher suicide rate than dock workers and cab drivers? Your need to shore up the importance of the "secular world' only goes to show how worthless it truly is.