Dr. Michael Muschel - What Chassidus Did for Me

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The opening of this shiur, in Rabbi YY Jacobson’s own words — taken from the captions, so names and Hebrew terms may be approximate.

Rabbi Jacobson points out correctly, we come from very different backgrounds, me and many of the people here. And yet here I've been coming so many times to the best of my abilities last few years and met so many wonderful people besides for our revered Rebbe. I've been studying Hasidus and the very legitimate question is, why would I do that? Or why would I recommend it to everybody here or everybody who's watching or everybody who's not doing it? Why would I recommend it whether it's they come to the shear or they study texts so that they get involved in the world of Hasidus? Whether again, Hasidus? Whether again, as I said to you before or as I said to you before, I don't know. Especially since for me it seemed really something foreign. It happens that my father came from a Galicianish Hasidic household. But I was raised Litvish. I was raised modern Orthodox. My father never tried to to pour any Hasidus in household. Sure, the Nusach Ari, the Nusach Ari, I go to the Seder night. He was very big on speaking Hebrew. He was mechanech, who was emphasized Eretz Yisrael Eretz Yisrael. I went to Yeshiva University. I was proud to go. I was able to study a bit from Rabbi Soloveitchik, the great part of the

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