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observance of the
details of the
Torah and Talmud. The
characteristically misnagdic approach to
Judaism was
marked by a
concentration on
highly intellectual...
-
Lithuanian Jewish Talmudist, halakhist, kabbalist, and the
foremost leader of
misnagdic (non-hasidic)
Jewry of the past few centuries. He is
commonly referred...
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defining fault-line of
Eastern European Jews was
between the
Hasidim and the
Misnagdic reaction against them.
Reform attempts by the Czar's
government all had...
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opposition to Hasidism, "Lithuanian" came to have the
connotation of
Misnagdic (non-Hasidic)
Judaism generally, and to be used for all Jews who follow...
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official rabbinate) for the
entire community,
overwhelmed many
towns even in
Misnagdic stronghold of Lithuania, far more so in
Congress Poland and the vast majority...
- Poland–Lithuania was the
heartland of
Rabbinic Judaism, with its two
streams of
Misnagdic Talmudism centred primarily in
Lithuania and Belarus, and
Hasidic mysticism...
- his leadership. Hutner's
pedagogic style was a
blend of the
Hasidic and
Misnagdic elements of his own family's origins. His discourses,
called ma'amarim...
- operation.
Initially publishing halakhic and
homiletic works from the
misnagdic tradition, the
Romms were soon
caught up in the
controversy between adherents...
- by
Avraham Yehoshua Heshel of Apta, but the
synagogue became mostly Misnagdic not long thereafter. In 1855, Iași was the home of the first-ever Yiddish-language...
- years,
Lithuanian Hasidism suffered immense ****cution by the
Lithuanian Misnagdic rabbinate, who
attempted to ban and
excommunicate Hasidism on several...
