Better Than Nothing

Once, a chassid praised his fellow in the presence of the third Lubavitcher Rebbe, Rabbi Menachem Mendel, saying: “So-and-so learns Chassidus.”

The Rebbe responded:[1]

“It is better than nothing, but what has Chassidus taught him.”

Chassidus is not merely a philosophy, its main purpose is to transform the individual that studies it.

[1] Sefer HaSichos 5706, Pg. 21

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