I’m going to have to keep it short and address only some points, and in short, because it is becoming very tiring. CS, I don’t know where you get the ko’ach. (Oh no! I just gave her the opportunity to say, “I get it from the rebbe!”)
Re women’s tznius. I don’t care what is in the woman’s heart (although we have a rule האדם נפעל כפי פעולותיו, and good actions will bring to good intentions). A woman who is ‘chassidish’ in her heart, and does not ‘fake’, but dresses un-tzniusdik, is being machshil many men daily. A woman who is ‘forced’ into being tznius, is saving men from being nichshal, regardless of her behavior at home.
Not sure what you’re on about. This is basic math. The Alter Rebbe was Chabad Rebbe 1, so obviously the Rebbe is 7. What’s invented?
You really don’t get it?! Since when was there a significance to dor shevi’i? Didn’t it only become significant when the LR decided that he was Mashiach, and he then used ‘dor shevi’i’ to refer to himself?
A. Was never a blanket rule (The mekubalim as a whole encouraged women’s education including gemara.)
Which mekubalim?
B. Torah adapts to every situation, Halacha changes accordingly, Rabbanim decided overwhelmingly in favor of women’s Torah education today.
Halacha does NOT change. We have to apply halacha to changes in situation, but what was halacha centuries ago is still halacha nowadays.
And Rabbanim did NOT decide overwhelmingly in favor of women learning gemara.
Btw I asked you for non-Lubavich sources for Rashi learning with his daughters (which, even if true, is not really relevant, because Rashi may have paskened hundreds of years earlier differently to the psak that we follow in Shulchan Aruch), and to Or Hachaim being what he taught his daughters.
Now I know that tradition has it that the Or Hachaim was childless all his life R”l, so I decided to do some research. And lo and behold, the ONLY source for the statement that he had daughters is… something quoted by the Rayatz that was told to him by a chossid!
And while I was doing that research I can across a thread in the Otzar Hachochma forum that discusses the Rayatz’s ‘historical’ stories, and his memoirs. If you’re interested – you will surely regret reading the posts! – search for
האם לאור החיים היו בנות? מכתב מעניין להאדמו”ר הריי”ץ
According to a number of posters on the thread, even in Lubavich many do not take the stories as being historically accurate.
Finally, in this post, my disbelieving the sundial story has nothing to do with 3rd Grade science. It is simply fantasy with the science being fictional. I challenge you to show it to a (non-Lubavich) scientist and have him explain how it works.
(And I said I was going to keep this short! 🙂 I need to take a break.)