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It’s hard to discuss rumors or quotes that I don’t see the context
Can you bring me where you get this quote from “But that’s not what the Besht taught – he taught that the tzaddik has to lower himself into realms of tumah in order to lift others out.”
To say the baal shem tov changed the mesorahs 1) you need to. Point out an example and show how it’s a new idea not mentioned in any proceeding seforim (otherwise you can’t claim it’s new) 2) even if the baal shem tov taught an idea which you say was never practiced before, 1) what’s the issue of not following mesorahs (unless you claim it’s AGAINST Torah) 2) the baal shem tov new more Torah than me and I’m sure he had his mekoros, he also had talmidim geonim adirim who accepted his ways and did not attack him for changing mesorah.
The gra did not change mesorah?? 1) he argues with shulchan aruch??!!
What exactly is mesorah in the first place? I need to follow everything exactly the way my father did? What if my father got a heter to be makil in something, I can’t be machmir? How in the world should I know everything what to do just by growing up in my father’s house for 20 yrs or less? What if my father was not the biggest tzadik, I should follow him? What about all the new things happening in the world – internet, radio, technology, etc?
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