By Hershey Novack
 | The year: 1798. The person: a leading figure in the newly-established Chassidic movement. The crime: supporting Jewish settlement in the land of Israel
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In Australia, the celebration of the EUREKA STOCKADE uprisng which took place on the 3rd December in 1854 in the small town of Ballarat, Victoria will be held tommorow. It concerned a Struggle against Injustice.
"Rabbi Arrested For Pro-Settlement Activity" (Chabad.org) gave an insight into the ongoing struggle in a far away land instigated by Rabbi Shneur Zalman. Struggle against Injustice.
May the memory of these selfless fighters live long in our hearts.
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BS"D
I am not entirely sure that the scholarly Jewish leaders were against Chassidism because they were afraid to lose authority and power. I think the issue was that Chassidim and "Misnagdim" disagreed upon whether or not to spread certain teachings pertaining to the hidden Torah among the masses. I'm not a mind reader and I don't really know why the Misnagdim oppposed the Alter's teachings, but I think they should be given the benefit of the doubt.
This is especially true given the fact that the Beit Hamikdash was destroyed, and is STAYING destroyed because of hatred among Jews.
(I don't really know what happened 300 years ago, but I am afraid that some unaffiliated Jews reading this article may get a negative impression of present-day Misnagdim.)
-from a descendant of the BeSH"T.
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If the Med. Sea is to the west of Tel Aviv, how can Kfar Chabad be ten minutes west of Tel Aviv without getting very wet?
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Kfar Chabad is actually a few miles southeast of Tel Aviv. (I see that this was corrected already in in the article).
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