"Rare is the person who can practice more than one approach"
No matter your path in Yiddishkeit, you can always benefit from broadening your hashkafic horizons by learning sifrei mussar/chassidus associated with different groups.
Agree, Disagree, and Why?
“Hashem sefasai tiftach…” In addition to being a request to the Ribbono shel Olam that He open our mouths so we can sing His praise, this preface to the Amidah is also a prayer that we open and expand our boundaries so we can emulate His infinite nature.
Jewish life and learning thrive in difference. Torah creativity, hashkafic, and halachic thought proliferate within an array of different perspectives. “Eilu v’eilu divrei Elokim Chaim —Both these and those are words of the living G-d” (Eiruvin, 13b). Without difference of opinion, there is not a “living God” but a “dead” one, chas v’shalom.
Avraham Avinu and Sarah Imeinu spent decades sharing the word of G-d, and were enthusiastically joined by the nefesh asher asu b’Charan, the souls whom they had brought under the wings of the Shechinah. However, after this pasuk, we don’t hear about these students again as being attached to the Jewish People.
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