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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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opposition to Hasidism, "Lithuanian" came to have the
connotation of
Misnagdic (non-Hasidic)
Judaism generally, and to be used for all Jews who follow...
-
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...
- 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...
-
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...
- 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...
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introduced Hasidic philosophy to the
chagrin of the city's
conservative Misnagdic po****tion.
Despite efforts to
depose him from his office, he was nevertheless...
- with
other Hasidic courts (such as Ger and Vizhnitz), as well as the
Misnagdic communities,
particularly Degel HaTorah. He
quickly became known as a...
