Talk:Avraham Brandwein

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The article - rightly, as far as I know, though I don't know the relationship to the dynasty of the "Strettiner" Rebbes with surname Flam -- labels Brandwein "the Admor [=Rebbe] of Stretten". Stretten, Stretin, etc are all transcriptions of the Yiddish form of Stratyn, a shtetl on the outskirts of the small Ukrainian city of Rohatyn. The dynasty derived from Uri ("Irale") of Strelisk an exceptional emphasis on sincerity of kavvana in prayer -- and Czech author, Ba'al Tshuva and friend of Kafka, Jiří Langer, says that who has not heard the Streteners pray has never known the meaning of piety. R. Avraham Brandwein seems to have learned from the Ashlag school a re-emphasis on theoretical study of Kabbalah.

I think that we need to start an article on Stretener Chasidus and collate all material relating to the Brandwein (and maybe Flam) Rebbes and their relatives (e.g. Naftule Brandwein the Klezmer clarinettist) under this. UnknownSage (talk) 17:43, 16 May 2008 (UTC)