{"id":59024,"date":"2014-10-12T11:54:05","date_gmt":"2014-10-12T19:54:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=59024"},"modified":"2014-10-12T11:54:05","modified_gmt":"2014-10-12T19:54:05","slug":"who-was-the-greatest-hasidic-rebbe-ever","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=59024","title":{"rendered":"Who Was The Greatest Hasidic Rebbe Ever?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In his talk &#8220;Sukkot of Glory&#8221;, <A HREF=\"http:\/\/rabbiarikahn.com\/\">Modern Orthodox Rabbi Ari Kahn<\/a> says: &#8220;The Kotsker Rebbe said I do not want followers who are big tzaddikim (righteous ones). He was the greatest Hasidic rebbe ever. He shut himself up in a room for 13 years and wouldn&#8217;t talk to Hasidim. He told them to think for themselves. It was like <A HREF=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Monty_Python's_Life_of_Brian\">The Life of Brian<\/a>.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>According to <A HREF=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Menachem_Mendel_of_Kotzk\">Wikipedia about the Kotsker<\/a>: &#8220;[He] was well known for his incisive and down-to-earth philosophies, and sharp-witted sayings. He appears to have had little patience for false piety or stupidity.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In his talk &#8220;Sukkot of Glory&#8221;, Modern Orthodox Rabbi Ari Kahn says: &#8220;The Kotsker Rebbe said I do not want followers who are big tzaddikim (righteous ones). He was the greatest Hasidic rebbe ever. He shut himself up in a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=59024\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[14009],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-59024","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-r-ari-kahn"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59024","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=59024"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59024\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59025,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59024\/revisions\/59025"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=59024"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=59024"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=59024"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}