In the first and second grade, my parents bought me a gold marker, and I spent many classes drawing the Menorah as well as I could.
There's something about insisting on straight arms despite(nay *davka*) tradition and culture (and your own lying eyes)that perfectly encapsulates Chabad.
Maybe you can expound on this by highlighting the seeming Chabad obsession with the ~45° angle: the menorah, 770 (favorite icon), the kvetch at the front of the fedora.
If by "goyishkeit" you mean it doesn't matter how the menorah actually was built, I concede. If you mean that the chances of the sculptor of the Titus Arch actually seeing one, doesn't matter compared to Rashi and Rambam 1000 years later, I again concede.
In the first and second grade, my parents bought me a gold marker, and I spent many classes drawing the Menorah as well as I could.
There's something about insisting on straight arms despite(nay *davka*) tradition and culture (and your own lying eyes)that perfectly encapsulates Chabad.
Do not mix it with Chabad, it is the Rebbe idea. In a sense, that Chabad doesn't have ideas besides the Rebbe's ideas, it is Chabad.
Maybe you can expound on this by highlighting the seeming Chabad obsession with the ~45° angle: the menorah, 770 (favorite icon), the kvetch at the front of the fedora.
If you mean the rooflines of the 770, it was the building they acquired, not designed.
Of course. But it is what it is now. Things evolve that way. The kvetch in the hat was also not designed to make a certain angle...
I don't know about the kvech, but the design of 770 has nothing to do with Chabad.
Neither does the design of Lipsker's Aron. I thought we're talking de facto.
If by "goyishkeit" you mean it doesn't matter how the menorah actually was built, I concede. If you mean that the chances of the sculptor of the Titus Arch actually seeing one, doesn't matter compared to Rashi and Rambam 1000 years later, I again concede.
Temple Institute, influenced by the Israeli Menorah. But they came up with their model, reading the same text.