Jewish schisms
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Schisms among the Jews are cultural as well as religious. They have happened as a product of historical accident, geography, and theology.
Ecclesia and Synagoga by Konrad Witz (1400–1447).
Karaite Kenesa, Kyiv, Ukraine.
Sabbatai Zevi crowned as the messiah. Amsterdam, 1666.
Rabbi Shneur Zalman of Liadi, founder of Chabad-Lubavitch
Misnagdim
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Misnagdim was a religious movement among the Jews of Eastern Europe which resisted the rise of Hasidism in the 18th and 19th centuries. The Misnagdim were particularly concentrated in Lithuania, where
Jewish schisms
…his classic stringent Talmudic and Halakhic scholasticism, who put up the fiercest resistance to the Hasidim ("devoted [ones]"). They were called Mitnagdim, meaning "[those who are] opposed [to the Hasidim]". The Vilna Gaon, who was himself steeped in both Talmudic and Kabbalistic wisdom, analyzed the…
An anathema against the Hasidim, signed by the Gaon of Vilna and other community officials. August 1781.
The Vilna Gaon
Litvishe yeshiva students in Israel