Yud Tes Kislev Brings Misnagdim To Light

Do Misnagdim still exist today?

Well, they do exist, I have even met some during my lifetime :), but they don't usually go around with big signs and bullhorns proclaiming their beliefs. 

However, at times Hisnagdus comes out into the open.

A few days ago, before יט כסליו, two such cases were seen on the internet. 

We share the details with you below, courtesy of Chabad-Lubavitch.

1) In London, a Satmar school issued a letter exhorting people to stay away from a Lubavitcher Yud Tes Kislev gathering.

2) A Lubavitcher blog posted a Hebrew broadside from the Dati-Leumi community about the stance of Rav Avraham Yitzchak and Rav Tzvi Yehudah Hakohein Kook z"l toward Chabad and Chasidus.

So not only do Misnagdim still exist today, they exist in places and forms that people may not be aware of, e.g. among other (non Lubavitch) Chasidim, and among Dati-Leumi Yidden. The Misnaged today is not necessarily your sterotypical Litvak.

May we be zoche to see the light bikarov.

A freilichen Chanukah.