I will descend to comment about this crap. There are two most annoying and virtually ubiquitous reactions. Firstly “this was what the Nazis did”. And the second is the lament about the “degraded state of the orthodoxy, how things have changed”, etc. Just wait a freaking minute… Violence, intimidation, abuse of power and even murder were always part of the hassidic culture, especially in Ukraine (if you are illiterate to read some Der Nister, read some Gotlober). The Ruzhiner Rebbe had to escape to Romania because of his alleged role in the Ushatz murders, Boruch of Medzhibozh was known for his violent feudal rule and the Skverer Rebbes will go down in history for one thing only – beatings and violence against the small hassidic sects and especially the sustained intimidation and the abuse of the Breslevers. Except in the old country the police was on the take and no free press or human rights violations available. They swept the deaths under the Ukrainian carpet. The burning that just occurred is a poor reenactment. The Twersky family, the Talners and the Skverer Rebbes were known for this very thing. And then there is the universal theme. Old men play with fire of the unrestrained sexual energy of the youth to ignite the violence. This is how after Ramash’s verbal frenzy a c.18 year old went upstairs in the 770 to punch repeatedly the 90 year old daughter of the Rayatz. This exact theme played out now under the New Square dictatorship, where they are all about the “tradition”.
Further reading:New Square Reenactment, all in the Twersky Family
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