In a landmark meeting held last week in the Catskills, the eight Rebbes of the Viznitz dynasty reached a significant and historic agreement. The Viznitzer Rebbe of Monsey announced that, moving forward, Viznitzer Chassidim will be permitted to transfer brisim from one city to another. This new policy allows Chassidim to honor their chosen Rebbe by having him serve as the Sandek.
Additionally, the agreement includes the establishment of new shtiblech independently by each community in cities where any of the brothers reside.
This agreement comes after six years during which the Viznitzer Brothers refrained from accepting Sandekois from Chassidim living in cities where another brother served as Rebbe. Furthermore, during this period, none of the brothers had opened a shtibel in a city where another brother was already leading.
This nauseates me. They have to have an historic meeting to give someone sandikaus??!!
How moronic, silly and petty!! This is so ridiculous! I can’t believe people actually care about this shtuskiet.
It’s so easy and simple to hate, so go on ahead; knock yourself out. But perhaps the significance of this policy, made in the uniquely close-knit community of the Vizhnitzer Rebbe zy”a of Monsey, led by his many children dispersed around the globe, might teach YOU something about ahavas Yisrael. This may escape you but in other communities–whether chasidusen or Litvak yeshivas–The precarious balance of hereditary power has proven over the decades to be powder-kegs, ready to explode. Stepping on one’s adversary’s proverbial toes, whether inadvertently or deliberately, is sport, and fodder for all sorts of dispute, disharmony, disruption; everyone has to one-up the other, and involve their ready-to-fight armies of chasidim or talmidim. If you don’t know this, your naïvete and/or ignorance shows, but then this new policy in Vizhnitz makes no sense to you.
However, the beauty of this resolution by the Rebbe in Monsey is that a Vizhnitzer chosid living in Monsey, who is a chosid, say, of the Rebbe in Williamsburg, may invite the Rebbe from Williamsburg to Monsey to be sandek, and it won’t offend the Rebbe from Monsey. It’s that simple! The subtlety may be lost on you, but in a world where people in power have the thinnest skin, to make a decision cooperatively to not hold a kibud against a sibling, and to encourage chasidim to not feel obligated to a Rebbe they don’t feel is their leader, is a level of maturity you don’t get elsewhere. It’s a shame that this “nauseates” you; perhaps you thrive on machlokes, hatred, disunity… That’s YOUR problem.
Yasher Koach to u!
True. Also, the monsey scoop are the ones calling it historic. who knows? between the Rebbes, it was just a short simple conversation confirming that no one will be insulted. Listen, if a news site would write about a 2 minute conversation between brothers, there’s no story, right? 🙂
הלואי שחסידיות וחצרות אחרים ילמדו מהם לחיות באחוה ובשלום.