@Phil
Yaakov avinu lo mes IS literal. The Rebbe has a whole sicha on it bringing mefarshim from different places to prove this.
Also as explained by famous chabad editor Uri Kaploun after I asked about this awhile back:
“btw, although I’m a kohen, and hence lich’orah exempt and indeed banned from such duties, it is written that kivrei tzaddikim are not metameh. Nevertheless, the Rebbe was makpid for some reason that kohanim shd observe all the necessary distances etc. when at the Ohel of the Frierdiker Rebbe.”
Instead of attacking chabad, why don’t u learn something.