@Phil,
(What a name for a nice Jewish boy)
“Harav Shach’s zt”l fierce opposition to the Rebbe’s Rambam campaign. He foresaw that Chabad would very simplistically learn Mishne Torah, which needs to be studied in great depth, then deliberately corrupt and misuse it to confirm their cultish dogmas.”
I’m not sure what he foresaw, but as recently as 5772 Rav Vosner gave a beautiful speech at the Siyum HoRambam in Yerushalayim, and praised the Rebbes initiative. Such logic is like saying that Daf Yomi shouldn’t be learned because someone might take the wrong ideas out of it by learning it on a superficial level.
The Siyum HoRambam has always been attended by Gedolei Harabbanim, and opposition to Yidden learning Torah solely because of who the initiator was brings into question the motives of his machlokes, whether it was a machlokes Lsheim Shomayim or not.
Lest you think that I’m lacking emunas chachomim or questioning Gedolei HaDor, I quote the words of Daas Yochid, a famed Coffee Room contributer, and an avid poster on this forum:
“You decided that a basar vodom is infallible, and when it became clear that he made a mistake, your world turned upside down. So you suspended all reason and rational thinking to twist matters to fit your indefensible world view.”
It’s quite clear to many Yidden that however great he was, he made a mistake by declaring out children Bnei Niddah, our wine assur, our children not worthy of marrying, and many other indefensible statements.