Some people were asking about the Noachide path a short time ago. I just came across this site for the upcoming Global Noachide Conference this fall in Jerusalem.
Posted by Stephan (Member # 7549) on :
I heard about that, pretty cool. It would be neat to see some congregations spring up.
Posted by rivka (Member # 4859) on :
It was pointed out to me that this group is affiliated with the controversial (and IMO, extremely problematic) "Sanhedrin."
Posted by starLisa (Member # 8384) on :
The nascent Sanhedrin has a lot of support from some very mainstream rabbanim. Including members of the Eidah Chareidit. No one is suggesting that it's fully a Sanhedrin. But it's a start. God isn't going to drop a fully functioning Sanhedrin down from heaven.
I will not debate whether there can be a proper Sanhedrin before Moshiach comes. The fact of the matter is, this one is extremely controversial.
I would much rather recommend Noachide groups that have been around for over 10 years, but which you seem to consider problematic because of their link with Chabad.
Posted by starLisa (Member # 8384) on :
What could be controversial about a group that considers pictures of the late Rebbe, whom most of them consider to be Moshiach despite his passing, to be sheimos. I actually just found out about the sheimos thing, and I have to tell you that while I'm mostly squick-proof by this point, that one really got to me. <shudder>
Posted by rivka (Member # 4859) on :
Not "most" -- not even close. Not if you look at the international population. (Looking at Crown Heights alone will give a very distorted picture.) And while I quite agree that the group has issues, their kiruv (including of Noachides) has been of their strong points for 30 or 40 years.
And the sheimos bit (which just makes me ) applies to all gedolim, not just him.
Posted by starLisa (Member # 8384) on :
Their kiruv has been phenomenal. They deserve huge credit for that. And until the Rebbe's passing, it was mostly good. But I was living in Israel when they had the "coronation", and I know enough Chabadnikim to know that the real division between the meshichistim and the non-meshichistim is primarily one over whether it's appropriate to publicize the late Rebbe's messiahship.
At the Chabad Cheder in Chicago, where the kids daven, they have a picture of the Rebbe on the front of the aron. And a Yechi sign. And this is in an ostensibly non-meshichist school.
I'm willing to accept that the elokistim are still a small minority. But the line gets blurrier and blurrier. "Ein sof b'guf" indeed.
Posted by Tante Shvester (Member # 8202) on :
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) applies to all gedolim, not just him.
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