Kadouri's Legacy
Short bio of Rav Kadouri includes one crucial aspect of his life, strangely overlooked by his most ardent followers:
Active and articulate until the last weeks of his life, Kadouri lived modestly in Jerusalem's Bukharan Quarter. A vegetarian, he rose early and went to bed late.
- sheikh X at 12:52 PM
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probably this detail was left out of his biographical details because the biographers did not want to embarass this great man
The rav was quintessentially Israeli. He was an immigrant and he dealt in knick-knack, amulets and jewelry. Moreover, he took the mystic garbage of the Ashkenazi Hasidim and adapted it for Sephardim.
I bet he cooked a mean cholent.
i'm hoping that somebody whose spouse has an interest in chassidut might convince them to follow up on the reasons for his vegetarian diet and whether other chassidim have considered adopting his example...
Well, it should be made clear that vegetarianism and vodka are not mutually exclusive. Otherwise there is no persuasion to chasidut.
Speaking of, did you notice the erupting controversy over the status of Johnny Walker? A major blow to Chabad I think.
First of all, the connection between Chassidut and vegetarianism is very simple- both are unsound ideologies based in erroneous interpretation of basic metaphysical truths.
Secondly, Rav Kadouri was hardly a chassid, notwithstanding any assertions of asherv to the contrary.
Finally, the OU in a pamphlet published a few years ago stated unequivocally that whiskey aged in sherry casks is definitely kosher. I have little doubt that with prevailing political trends in the Jewish halachik elites there will be an erosion of this principal, but the case made for the ruling was detailed and extremely compelling.
I know that Rav Kedouri was not a Wizhnitzer and didn't wear a streiml, alright. But he dealt in mystic mumbo-jumbo, people came to kiss his hands (quite disgusting, just like inherited holiness) and he peddled in ridiculous amulets with supposed magic powers - precisely the three kinds of shady stuff hassidim are doing.
Imagine what Maimonides or the Vilna Gaon would say about Kedouri.
Johnny Walker - eh, Eastern Europe has enough kosher-made alcohol to fuel an ocean of hassidim (who of course are drinking to commune with HaShem, not cause they have a booze problem).
There was an attempt to declare kingklip unkosher in South Africa. Some big rabbi dude arrived in South Africa and told everyone that kingklip was not kosher. Kingklip was stable in all Jewish household until that point.
After a very long controversy the South African Beth Din eventually declared Kingklip kosher this here (not not mehadrin.)
why... because there are still some scales (even though very lightly attached when removed from the sea.)
hmmmm
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