Reply To: @Chabad Shluchah Please Explain Why Davening To/Betten a Rebbe is Okay

1) The boreinu-niks are not extremely uncommon, not that we need to talk about them, though you will need to distinguish how whatever atzmus areingishtelt in a guf does mean doesn’t essentially mean the same thing.

2)People who believe with unconditional certainty that the Rebbe is moshiach. To break this down, unless we’re unhinged and believed he never died, it means a belief that moshiach is here/has come, and is dead.

3)I’m fine with any Torah sources, niglah and nistar, with the obvious exclusion of any Chabad torah from after the Baal Hatanya, simply because if we’re going to try and establish the hashkafic/halachik validity of a chassidus and its questionable practices, relying on the very texts that are extremely problematic is a bit of a fait accompli. The Rebbe’s sicha about him being atzmus can’t be accepted as a source if I’m going to try and show why it’s problematic.