Reply To: Clarification to mod and DaMoshe

Arso,
“Can you supply sources for the claims made about Rashi and the Or Hachaim above. And, of course, I mean non-Lubavich sources?”

I think this is common info. I didn’t learn it in a sicha, I think The Or hachaim thing I learned in intro to learning his peirush in Chumash class. Rashis daughters also well known- it’s in the non lubavitch film Rashi- I know I’m not supplying a real source- but you can Google or something.

“As to the Baal Hatanya’s grandmother, would I be wrong in assuming that the source is the memoirs of the Rayatz? As I have shown in the past the stories cited there are allegorical and cannot be taken as cold hard facts.”

I’m sorry you personally decided this because of your third grade science knowledge of how shade works on sundials. This is part of Lubavitch’s history, and yes we do take zichronos literally, certainly about our own history.

“One other question, does the Baal Hatanya in Hilchos Talmud Torah refer to women learning Torah sheb’al peh?”

No idea, that’s usually studied by the men.