LU, you are correct but so is everything said by the Mitnagdim. So are rationalism and mysticism. The latter are a big difference between Litvaks and Chassidim. The former will not pasken according to all kinds of kabbalistic ideas and the latter do. Even the idea of daat Torah is different. A Litvak (I was told this by a Litvak rabbi) beleives that learning Gemara at a very high level teches a person to analyze all problems whereas a Chassid believes that his rebbe/mekubal has a direct pipeline to what they are saying in Heaven.
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