I think we are facing the following problem (it has been voiced a number of times in the thread but I don’t believe it has been pointed out on its own, so thats what I’m trying to do here clearly):
Chabadshlucha seems an honest well meaning woman who is convinced of her view and who is trying to make us understand it and perhaps even agree with her, and I commend her for her honesty and metchlichkeit. What she quite likely doesn’t realize is that it is all based on one thing – the rebbe made up the concept of dor shivii because he decided to start from the Baal Hatanya, and that makes him dor shveii. Wouldn’t it have made more sense to start from the Be”sht, if you were indeed forced for some reason to cound seven generations? I assume every non lubavitcher would answer yes.
So we now have two points – 1. dor hashevii is significant 2. he is dor hashevii – all based on his own say-so. (I know it’s been pointed out as circular, but as I wrote I just wanted to make it clear as a standalone point.)
Everything else Chabadshluca has written to back the above up, or to show how it works is from the lubavitch rebber himself or from Chabad sources “interpreted” to fit in.
So please, if it is at all possible, give us some outside Torah sources – pure and unadulterated – that would get us “cynics” to believe.
(Btw I found the story about Reb Boruch Ber and it fits in with all the other stuff. Told by a lubavitcher on a lubavitcher website. And regardless I can’t believe that Reb Boruch Ber would ever say to anyone at all that he guarantees that he will “be the leader of the Lithuanian yeshiva world.” Reb Boruch Ber himself wasn’t the leader of the Lithuanian yeshivah world as at the time there was basically no such thing. How could he guarantee that any individual would become one?)