מכתב מהר"ר דוד טעבלי קצינילנבוגן משנת תר"צ
לנכד גיסו הרב אליעזר סילווער נגד חב"ד
This "polemic" letter is now on sale - or was sold on November 6th, rather. A quick search will show you that
RDTK was at odds with the FR about other issues, such as the Leningrad אסיפת הרבנים in 1927. The fact that the
asifa went on was to happen despite the FR's opposition shows us that there were differences of opinion on Rabbinic matters and
Rabbonim didn't necessarily heed his words. There the פריערדיגע רבי נ"ע shows respect to RDTK by saying that they "managed to drag the elderly
Gaon Reb Dovid Tevel into this and to support the
asifah, despite the damage it will do." I was hesitant to put this up, because of what letters like these bring out among some of our readers, but I believe most of you can see the letter for what it's worth. Misinformed. I doubt RDTK knew what was going on hundreds of miles away in the towns and villages of white Russia and the Ukraine.
Nigleh - גפ"ת - was very much studied in Lubavitcher
Yeshivos, just as it is today. Many, many
talmidei chachomim were produced in those
Yeshivos. I'm not sure who was feeding him this information, but it doesn't make him look good. And I VERY seriously doubt that they were becoming
Rabbonim and
Shochtim under threat of imprisonment and death just to
chap nefashos for
Lubavitch... Just my hunch. I also wonder about what he says about the money not reaching the
Yeshivos... which
Yeshivos existed in 1930 other than
Lubavitch. I may be mistaken, but I know of none.
Novardhok had escaped over the border to Poland, and all of the others were in Poland, Latvia or Lithuania. I was going to name this post "Old time
Litvishe Rabbonim believed very much what today's
Yeshivaleit believe," but then I changed it to something nice and benign. I figured that would show the readers that I have only love in my heart.
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