Reply To: Validity of Vilna Gaon's Cherem Against Chassidim

Naysberg – are you saying that the Gra made an error and his talmidim were wiser than him and recognized the error? That is like kfira in emunas chachomim!

I could accept that gedolim hold that nowadays the chassidim are not the “true” chassidim of yesteryear, that is probably true, just as the misnagdim of today are not the “real” misnagdim. Today we are “farmished” and each of us is partly chassidic and partly misnagid – that I can accept, but that’s not what you are tayning! You seem to think that the Gra simply goofed and his talmidim chapped that their Rebbe goofed up!