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Is the Rebbe's Torah dead? I don't believe so.

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Is this a question or a statement? I am confused. Certainly has nothing to do with the post.

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A genuine question.

‘“Rome reminds me of a man who lives by exhibiting to travellers his grandmother’s corpse.”’

Is this not about crown heights?

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Yes, of course. But more broadly, was Joyce speaking about Rome or about the Christian Rome? He had a Jesuit education. So he was aware of the literal display of Catholic crucifixion.

If you consider Chabad to be a Christian sect, the metaphor becomes even stronger. And so was the layered aphorism from Joyce.

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Agreed. But, no Christian lives according to the historical Jesus’ teachings. There are plenty of people living according to the rebbes teachings, I think

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PS, Jesus was the original Chassidic Rebbe after all.

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"no Christian lives according to the historical Jesus’ teachings"

I can think of several teachings that are ascribed to Jesus or his school and/or his students that are consistent. In fact, it is the entire Western civilization.

Where is this idea that the Jesus movement stands for nothing come from?

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From Eisenman. Jesus was a xenophobic halachik extremist who hated goyim. His religion doesn’t exist anymore. Jews are better Christians than most Christians.

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what is the picture of?

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I will add a subtitle later. Do not get your hopes up. It’s just a regular apartment in Leningrad.

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