GamaH wrote:
you mean to say that the whole thing, even the bit about being a Habbani is made up?

How can he be a חַבָאנִי when his parents were Bretzlov ḥashŭdĭm—which means they must have been of European extraction? The חַבָאנִים are מִזְרַחִיִּים and come from תֵּימָן.

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