There was once a student of Rav Isaac Hutner in Israel.
Rav Isaac Hutner had already started Chaim Berlin in N.Y.
This student got involved in Breslov.
Rav Hutner called him into his office and told him it is one or the other, "If you are going to be Breslov, you can't learn here."
When he was called in Rav Hutner had a Guide For The Perplexed on his desk. In Breslov that is equivalent to having the most offensive book possible in front of your face.
I have a reason for bringing this story here. It is not what one would think. This student was showing up for the regular two sessions of the --morning and afternoon but he would go to Breslov [Rechov Salant] to pray at night. Rav Hutner did not have a problem with that.
Nor did he have a problem with Nachman from Breslov and Uman. He said if it would happen that someone would find a book of Nachman that had been hidden, he would not sleep until he got a copy of it. And for a whole year his main learning besides Gemara was the Lekutai Moharan of Nachman of Breslov. (In Chaim Berlin it was on his learning shtender [desk] a entire year.)
The point is rather that Brelsov is a cult. They use the greatness of Nachman and his advice to draw people into their cult. And the cult of Breslov has nothing to do with Torah or with Nachman.
The advice and ideas of Nachman are used as conscious traps to lure people in.
A few months went by a the student was a wandering American student in Israel in a time when there was no such entity. Lost and forlorn. Eventually Rav Freifeld called Rav Hunter and begged him to let him back in.
The thing to understand here that you do not see on the surface level of this story is that Rav Hutner was building a kind of Noah's Ark. Not before the flood (the world outside of Torah), but after the flood is already here. And this student was part of the inner circle. He was being groomed for greatness you might say. I can relate to this because I had a similar type of relationship with Rav Freifeld until I too upset the boat.
There is a lot to discuss here and I have made this essay to short. I hope to fill in some gaps for people but I have had along day and I had plenty of other things I wanted to discuss on the Internet like the offering the high priest has to bring in he does idolatry by accident. Also the subject of Israel Salanter. Also the Aristotelian approach of the Rambam and the Neo-Platonic of the Ramban (Nachmanides, רמב''ן).The way to differentiate when you are talking is to say "Ramban" with the accent on the last syllable, and Rambam with emphasis on the first.
Rav Isaac Hutner had already started Chaim Berlin in N.Y.
This student got involved in Breslov.
Rav Hutner called him into his office and told him it is one or the other, "If you are going to be Breslov, you can't learn here."
When he was called in Rav Hutner had a Guide For The Perplexed on his desk. In Breslov that is equivalent to having the most offensive book possible in front of your face.
I have a reason for bringing this story here. It is not what one would think. This student was showing up for the regular two sessions of the --morning and afternoon but he would go to Breslov [Rechov Salant] to pray at night. Rav Hutner did not have a problem with that.
Nor did he have a problem with Nachman from Breslov and Uman. He said if it would happen that someone would find a book of Nachman that had been hidden, he would not sleep until he got a copy of it. And for a whole year his main learning besides Gemara was the Lekutai Moharan of Nachman of Breslov. (In Chaim Berlin it was on his learning shtender [desk] a entire year.)
The point is rather that Brelsov is a cult. They use the greatness of Nachman and his advice to draw people into their cult. And the cult of Breslov has nothing to do with Torah or with Nachman.
The advice and ideas of Nachman are used as conscious traps to lure people in.
A few months went by a the student was a wandering American student in Israel in a time when there was no such entity. Lost and forlorn. Eventually Rav Freifeld called Rav Hunter and begged him to let him back in.
The thing to understand here that you do not see on the surface level of this story is that Rav Hutner was building a kind of Noah's Ark. Not before the flood (the world outside of Torah), but after the flood is already here. And this student was part of the inner circle. He was being groomed for greatness you might say. I can relate to this because I had a similar type of relationship with Rav Freifeld until I too upset the boat.
There is a lot to discuss here and I have made this essay to short. I hope to fill in some gaps for people but I have had along day and I had plenty of other things I wanted to discuss on the Internet like the offering the high priest has to bring in he does idolatry by accident. Also the subject of Israel Salanter. Also the Aristotelian approach of the Rambam and the Neo-Platonic of the Ramban (Nachmanides, רמב''ן).The way to differentiate when you are talking is to say "Ramban" with the accent on the last syllable, and Rambam with emphasis on the first.
