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Rabbi Reuvain Mendlowitz clarifies his position on Ksav Chabad (and my final thoughts)
Last week I posted some thoughts in response to a public lecture given by Rabbi Reuvain Mendlowitz regarding Ksav Chabad (the Alter Rebbe's ksav). I felt he did not represent the issue fairly, and since I had received questions about it from a number of people I felt it made sense to write a general response. After I posted my response on this forum, Rabbi Mendlowitz reached out to me by email and we ended up having a respectful and productive email exchange regarding the relevant issues surrounding Ksav Chabad. His position is a lot clearer to me now, and I think he also took certain things on board that I clarified with him. The purpose of the Stam Forum (at least back in it's heyday before all the whats app groups took over) was to connect sofrim from around the world, to promote achdus and build bridges, as well as to offer support and advice. In that spirit, I felt I should write a follow up post, to clarify some of the issues and misconception...
Perhaps he copied it directly from the source......
ReplyDeleteHmmm... also here.
And in the Kabalah version (משנת חסידים) slightly different.
Maybe he knows something that we don't know???
My Rebbeim taught me that, since these words are Shaimos, one does not pronounce them. They refer to them as, "Chof, Vov, Zayin, Vav."
ReplyDelete(They would also not say Metatron, but "Mem, Test, Tes.". Similarly, they never pronounced the name of the Shaid called Lilis, rather: "Lamed Lamed.")
Please post picture of front.
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