There were many great Chassidic scholars. In our times, three of the greatest geniuses were Chassidic: Satmar Rebbe, Lub. Rebbe, and Rav Meshulum Roth. And there were many others including Rav Menashe Klein. But on top of that, many of the great so-called Litvish gaonim came from full or partial (usually half) Chassidic backgrounds. Rav Hutner from Gur, Rav Moshe Feinstein from Koidenover, Rav Yaakov Kamenetsky from Chabad (his mother was raised by a Chabad uncle), the Steipler (and Rav Chaim) from Chernobyl, Rav Ruderman from Chabad, Rav Yaakov Weinberg from Slonim, Rav Gedalyahu HaLevi Schorr from Sadigerer and Rav Dov Ber Schwartzman from Chabad. Even Rav Aaron Kotler had some Chabad roots, which is where his son got the name Shneur. And of course Rav Shraga Feivel Mendlowitz came from Chassidic roots. Rav Eliyashiv's mother was Chaya Mussa, which is a Chassidic name, and I have heard that she had some Chassidic roots. Besides that Rav Elyashiv, like Rav Shlomo Zalman Auerbach, was Yerushalmi, and the Yershulamim are a blend of Chassidic and Litvish as students of the Gra and Besht came to Israel 200 years ago and lived alongside one another in small communities in Sfas, Tiberias, and Yerush.
The Alter of Slobodka pulled several of them away, most famously Rav Ruderman; although Rav Ruderman had a relative doing that too. He pulled them into an avodas Hashem of a different kind (musar), but it was still avodas Hashem. Problem is their children and students dropped the musar and went back to nigleh/lomdus only, which is where we were before the BESHT. It's almost as if the Satan found a way to pull a whole generation from avodas Hashem this way.
The Menalism cover all of this up. You read biographies and articles on these figures and not hear a word about their Chassidish roots. They have created this illusion that the great figures were all hard core Litvacks. And even the definition of Litvack they changed as I have explained repeatedly. The Vilna Gaon if he came back today would probably remind you more of a Chosid than a contemporary (neo) Litvack. Their intent is to say that they own the truth. And this is the way of cults. So is the lying the way of cults, and the isolation, and the intimidation, and the imposition of phobias and neurosis, and the taking of your money.
On top of that many of what we call Litvish rabbanim are not from Lithuania. The Vilna Gaon, Rav Chaim Volozhine were from White Russia. The Chaye Adam is from Poland. The Mir yeshiva was in Poland. R Yaakov Kamenestky is from White Russia.
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Schwartzman was born in Elul 1921 in Nevel, Soviet Union, to Rabbi Yehoshua Zev Schwartzman, a graduate of the Slabodka yeshiva.[3] In the 1930s, his family fled from Soviet Russia and immigrated to Tel Aviv, where his father was a rabbi. Schwartzman studied at Yeshivas Bais Yosef Novardok under Rabbi Yaakov Yisrael Kanievsky, known as the Steipler Gaon.[1] In 1933, at age 12, he transferred to the Hebron Yeshiva in the Geula neighborhood of Jerusalem [3] His mother descended from a prominent Lubavitcher family. He was named after his maternal grandfather's brother, Dovber HaYitzchoki, who was the father of Reb Zalman Moishe HaYitzchaki, a devoted follower of the Rebbe Rashab.
Hutner was born in Warsaw, Poland, to a family with both Ger Hasidic and non-Hasidic Lithuanian Jewish roots. As a child he received private instruction in Torah and Talmud.[citation needed] As a teenager he was enrolled in the Slabodka yeshiva in Lithuania, headed by Nosson Tzvi Finkel, where he was known as the "Warsaw Illui" (Genius of Warsaw).[
Chabad & Friends #10 Rabbi Yaakov Kamenetsky of Torah Vodaas
Rav Moshe’s great-grandfather Rav Dovid, was a Koidenover Chosid, as was Rav Moshe’s father, Rav Dovid, in his youth.
" Yisrael Asper1/30/05 #279278
In the introduction of the eighth volume of Rav Moshe FEINSTEIN's
Egros Moshe it says on page 6 which is a part of the biography of his
life that his father's father was a Koidanover Chassid and so was Rav
Moshe FEINSTEIN's own father but that in order that Rav Moshe
FEINSTEIN's father could marry with the approval of her father who was
from a line of fervently Misnagdic rabbis, Rav Moshe FEINSTEIN's
mother he had to stop being a Chassid. This was agreed upon by both of
Rav Moshe FEINSTEIN's grandfathers. It seems a little liberal that the
marriage was able to go through since Rav Moshe FEINSTEIN's father's
ancestor's brother the Vilna Gaon and other Misnagdim would not have
wanted to have anything to do with a Chassid. Being Chassidic ever
just cut you >from the family tree so what important ancestry could you
boast of anymore to get you into families which care about such
things. My own ancestor the Noda Byehuda though a sharp Misnaged
himself befriended and respected certain Chassidic Rebbes and
surprisingly the Maggid of Dubna who was a close friend of the Vilna
Gaon also had respect towards Chassidim who he felt were worthy.
Yisrael Asper
Pittsburgh PA
mailto:yisraelasper@..."
https://groups.jewishgen.org/g/main/topic/70515735
Koidanov (Yiddish: קאידנאוו)
is a Hasidic dynasty originating from the city of Dzyarzhynsk (Koidanov), Belarus, where it was founded
by Rabbi Shlomo
Chaim Perlow (1797 - 1862) in 1833. Koidanov is a
branch of both Lechovitch Hasidism and Karlin-Stolin
Hasidism as Rabbi Shlomo Chaim Perlow was the
paternal grandson of Rabbi Mordechai of Lechovitch and the maternal grandson of Rabbi Asher
Perlow of Karlin-Stolin. Koidanov was the smallest
of the three Lithuanian Hasidic dynasties (Slonim and Karlin-Stolin), with most of its Hasidim being
murdered in the Holocaust. The
dynasty was re-established after the war in Tel Aviv, then moved to Bnei Brak, where the majority of the
dynasty is located, but there are Chassidim located around the world.
Weinberg was a scion of the Slonimer Hasidic dynasty. He was the great-great-grandson of Rabbi Avraham of Slonim, author of Yesod HaAvodah and founder of the dynasty, and the grandson of Rabbi Noah Weinberg of Slonim and Tiberias, whom the first Slonimer Rebbe had sent to Palestine to establish a Torah community in the late 19th century.[2]
The Steipler was born in Ukraine to Rabbi Chaim Peretz Kanievsky, a Chernobyl Chassid and the local shochet, and the latter's second wife Bracha.[a] It was the family's subsequent move to the town of Hornostaypil, from which his appellation, "the Steipler", was later derived.[8]
Ruderman was born to a Hasidic family of the Chabad denomination in Daŭhinava, in the Vilna Governorate of the Russian Empire (present-day Belarus), where his father, Rabbi Yehuda Leib Ruderman,[3] was the rabbi. He studied in Yeshivas Knesses Yisrael in Slabodke,[1] under the "Alter", Rabbi Nosson Tzvi Finkel, and the rosh yeshiva, Rabbi Moshe Mordechai Epstein, receiving semicha from the latter in 1926.
Satmar Dayan, Rabbi Mordechai Betzalel Klein
#305 Rav Shmuel Wosner Zt’l A Glimpse Into The World Of Chassidic Psak Halacha
https://thevoiceoflakewood.com/the-satmar-dayan-speaks-his-mind-and-heart/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Hasidic_dynasties
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