@ Fakemaven
“Both of you seem to claim that A) Chassidus is an invention (in the strictest sense),”
Interesting. Where did we make this claim?
” and B) no talmudei Ha’Gra held that it’s novelty had any truth to it,
on the contrary it was put into cherem percisely for it.”
Where did we make a claim regarding what the precise reason for the cherem was?
“According to any interpretation of the English language this is called a ‘claim’.”
To somehow construe our posts as making the claims you imagine requires either 1) an novel approach to the English language or 2) an outright fabrication.
As for your claim regarding Tzimzum being an example of the “many places” where the Nefesh HaChaim basis himself on Chassidic teachings and disagrees with his Rebbe the GR”A. You are very much mistaken. What the Nefesh HaChaim actually does is show how starting from the same point of departure the approaches diverge. The actual point of disagreement between the GR”A and the Baal HaTanya on this matter is not something I will not be delving into here. Sorry.