Also, it’s false that Litvishe rabbonim don’t know kabalah. The Gaon was a tremendous source of post-arizal kabalah; probably the most prolific, too The zkan rosh yeshivos in America, Rav elya ber vachtfogel, is an open mekubal. As was rav elya weintraub… My rebbe rav Belsky wouldn’t talk about it much, but it was known that he was very into kabalah. The common saying is that the Litvishe show their nigleh and hide their nistar, while chassidim show their nistar and hide their nigleh.
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