@damoshe:
“Sechel: the idea that a person can’t get to higher levels on their own without a Rebbe lifting them up in preposterous. It’s one of the main issues I have with chassidus.”
1) this idea is mentioned in Tanya perek 14 by the end, so just putting it clean that’s it’s an old idea.
2) I see here and before too, that you make fun of teachings of the baal hatanya or the baal shem tov, you really think you have better comments sences than them?!
If you would say you follow the opinion of I.e. nefesh hachaim that one should not focus as much as chassidim on kavana, hachanos, or not contemplating yichuda ilaah rather only yichuda tataa (as he writes in שער ב), ok, I understand you,
But how can you – by yourself – decide that teachings of the baal shem tov or the baal hatanya (who I’m sure you know were baki in kol hatorah kula – niglah, and nistar) is preposterous?!?
I think that’s called an apikores!!
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