Wednesday, January 12, 2005

The famous letter

The baal Shem Tov wrote a letter to his brother in law Rav Gershon from Ketov. An english translation is available here at http://www.inner.org/chassidut/bstleter.htm. This letter contains some of the foundations of chassidus. The importance of attaching oneself to G-d at all times through fullfilling Torah and Mitzvos is central and mentioned in the letter. This letter informs chassidim of their mission to bring the geula through spreading the torah throughout the world. To be countinued....

1 Comments:

Blogger modern chassidish said...

Your comment has nothing to do with my blog. However, in case you may beleive some of what you read I will ask you this. Would the frum yidden be better off without chassidus without 70% of their population? Even you most probably have chassidic roots and are a product of the movement you hate. If not for chassidus you and I would not exist. Chew on that.

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