Talk:Zvhil (Hasidic dynasty)

message: "However the Zhviller Rebbe of Boston is not well respected in Haredi circles."
why???
Bresolver 01:38, 3 March 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: A clarification. The top paragraph was an unsigned comment left by someone other than me. I wouldn't have said that the Zhviller isn't frum, for example. I didn't call him a Conservative Rabbi. Look at the history, and you'll see that that comment was not me. I'm not interested in debating on behalf of whoever wrote that comment, because its a strange comment. I stand by what I wrote. I'll also note that the offending term in the article was erased, and that all of this is now a moot point.Meshulam 11:41, 11 October 2006 (UTC)

text: He prints a newspaper in Boston that does not adhere to Charedi standards of Tznius for a newspaper.  I think he was originally a Conservative Rabbi who's grandfather was the Zhvil-Mezbuz rebbe of Boston, who did not appoint a successor.  When he realized that he had Rebbishe yichus he set up a Rebbeviste, but is not known to be a frum yid
The paper in Boston (a popular paper among Frum Yidden in Boston) is a Zionist paper. Its not luke-warm about Zionism like Belz. Its literally Zionist.  The guy wears the whole robe and whatnot, but he's hardly a Rebbe: Used to be a Rabbi in a Conservatve shul He wasn't actually a conservative clergyman. He was a modern orthodox musmach who presided over a Conservative shul.  (I heard a story that during his "transformation," while he was still married to his first wife whose father owned Viacom, he spent one Shabbos drosho denouncing the evils of television... while his father in law was in the audience. Talk about knowing your audience). I heard him speak once. He justified the holocaust by saying "We don't know how G-d does things. Its like when a doctor tries to make us eat a medicine that tastes bad, its for our own good even though we don't like it" (so far, pretty standard, and then all of the sudden...) "Like how before the holocaust, there was no way we were going to get a state.  But now, we have a Jewish state! There are more Yeshivos than ever!" I say there for a few minutes after he said that saying "Did he just say what I think he said?" I looked around the room to see if everyone else had heard. They had! Everyone had a face like they had just tasted something that had spoiled or something. Anyway, the point is that he's a little goofy. --Meshulam 05:05, 11 May 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Controversy

message: Why is this article spelt Zhvil when the spelling is really Zvhil? It should be changed  Redaktor 20:14, 4 December 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Zhvil (spelling) 

message: A long-simmering editorial dispute between  and  over how to deal with information about certain Hasidic topics has reached the Wikipedia:Mediation Cabal. Please see and provide any helpful input at Wikipedia:Mediation Cabal/Cases/2007-04-29 Mezhbizh (Hasidic dynasty). Thank you, IZAK 16:01, 30 April 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Mezhbizh (Hasidic dynasty) at Mediation Cabal 

message: Something seems way off with this sentence:
:Rabbi Yechiel Michel, the Maggid of Zlotshev (d. 1786), ... Son-in-law of Rabbi Mordechai Twersky, the Maggid of Chernobyl 
The maggid of Zlotchiv was a disciple of the Baal Shem Tov, and, according to some, one of his succesors. Reb Nachum of Chernobyl was younger than both the Besht and the maggid of Mezritch, and a disciple of the latter. I don't have sources at hand for authoritative dates of birth, etc. but it seems pretty far out for R' Mechel to have been R' Nachum's son R' Mordechai's son-in-law. Anyone have a source for this? --Kotzker 17:38, 7 May 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Lineage/Maggid of Zlotchiv 

message: The article states that "The last rebbe to reside in Zvhil was Grand Rabbi Yaakov Yisroel."
Didn't Reb Gedalyo Moshe (the son of Reb Shlomke) stay in Zvhil longer than him? Could someone check this out? --Redaktor (talk) 13:39, 24 June 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Last rebbe to live in Zvhil