On last night’s kinus of the Chabad Shalichim (which is available via podcast) there was a brief clip of the Rebbe being asked to define what was meant by “being a chasid of the Rebbe”. He answered simply by saying “a chasid of mine is simply a yid helping another yid in need”. When you watch the news in EY with R’ Auerbach’s followers engaging in violence, property destruction, showing hatred of the medniah an disrupting the lives of hundreds of thousand of yidden and then watch a chabad shalicah helping yidden in the far corners of the world put on tefillin for the first time, its fairly straightforward what the Rebbe meant and what it means to be a Lubavitch “chassid” or whatever you want to call them. Do other chassidus engage in their own forms of positive engagement with other yidden…Yes, but not to the same degree. Do Litvish mosdos do good work for the tzibur? Yes, but again, not to the same degree.
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