I have a Chabad bloodline running through me, and though I was on a Litvishe Brisker traectory, I hobnobbed at 770 in my youth. It struck me to see Morracan/Israeli rechokin that were chabadnikized, thinking that it would be a greater hashovas aveda to restore their native mesorah, as Rav Ruderman had done. I had an unfortunate argument with a big-wig on the nusach at the chupah of a sefardi chatan/lubavich kalla. His answer was lo khalacha and his arrogance was off the charts, Years later the מכין מצעדי גבר placed me as a baal koreh at a chabbad minyan. It would seem, that at least in public, there is no creativity, no original thought, as every discourse starts with “The Rebbe says”. It is sad to see Torah learning stunted in service of a narrative.
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