Brothers, last evening Hashem granted me, His Hebrew major (Jewish Studies major focusing in Hebrew), a very great idea. The Hebrew word מתנגד, which colloquially refers to somebody who is against the ways of chassidus, is in the tense of התפעל.
Now, just a quick lesson in Hebrew grammar. This is a lesson that is fairly simple, i think, and one which will allow you to understand a number of the teachings of רש"י on the Chumash.
The tense of התפעל, ex.: התהלך לפני והיה תמים, means that you do the thing to yourself, such as in the example of התהלך it means that you cause yourself to walk.
Now, for the punch line: a מתנגד, therefore, is someone who brings himself to be against Chassidus. Nobody is born as someone who is naturally anti-Chassidus. The way for that to happen is only if one brings himself to be that way.
Good Shabbos
שבת שלום
sruli, a very nice vort, and your hebrew typing is coming along nicely. however, how does all this explain why the word "misnaged" is used to describe the plastic thing at the top of a vodka bottle that prevents the mashkeh from flowing?!
ReplyDelete@tzavei that is really funny.
ReplyDeleteit was not created for the purpose. it was created as a pacifier and some chaddishe' family wanted to educate their child in drinking so they put their kid's pacifier on a wodka bottle so he would go for the wodka and ease off the pacifier. therfore they had to make it come out slowly to ease their kid into it. then when the kid is ready, he is supposed to get rid of it...until he has a kid. ka-incidently a few children didnt take it off and they eventually started to oppose chassidim.
ReplyDeletesruli, did you go to gush? not that heres anything wrong with that....
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