I am still trying to tell if you deliberately distort the questions or if you really don’t understand them as they were written. On the chance it is not deliberate:
@syag I never said or implied I’m so smart and you’re all not.
that wasn’t my claim. you have made several comments about how your concepts are too deep for most of us and have commented several times that it’s too hard to understand. Mostly because someone disagreed and you assumed it was a lack of comprehension.
And like you said we are all frum yidden, so it shouldn’t be so difficult to expect respect for Torah as that should be a frum value
My mention of being frum was not made in this context. As you know, I brought up being frum as a way of explaining to you that we too have rebbeim and Torah giants and a mesorah and will also defend our Rebbeim and Torah so asking us to set aside what we know is right and wrong so that you can feel respected is not acceptable. If you think my mention of being frum was about being respectful, then you seem to have missed my most important point.
.About the brain reference, that’s Tanya perek beis. Concept of all yidden being one neshama is brought down in Zohar. And expounded upon in many places in Chassidus. Also Tanya perek beis.
You must be aware that it was not the Zohar portion I was commenting on, it was claiming the Rebbe is the brain. I said the comment is problematic and you answer with the portion that isn’t and bring sources. Is this a deliberate omission? Is this how all of our sincere questions will be “answered”? You claim xyz are attributes of the Rebbe, and as a source you bring that xyz exist. That doesn’t begin to explain your statement and I feel you are making a fool of our sincerity. If there are answers, why can’t we have them? If I tell you that a donkey told me who was going to be moshiach, and my source was that donkeys indeed speak as we see in parsha with Balak, that would be insulting, denigrating and a distortion of Torah. Please do not do that in answering our sincere questions either.
in a respectful manner.
As I said, you are asking for respect but not willing to acknowledge the disrespect to our own gedolim and talmidei chochomim. Please understand that.
Rather, he is Hashem’s messenger telling me what my lifes mission is. A personal message from Hashem – relayed to me via his Roeh Neeman. And if that’s what I’m meant to do, that means this is what I was created for and given my set of talents for. And if course, fulfilling my mission will help me live life to the fullest
that is not special for lubavitch. that is how we all do things and how we all see the messages delivered by our gedolim and rabbeim. The problem is the Rebbe is not alive and could not have told you that. He is not here to be a personal messanger and give you advice. and THAT is what is in question.
Please go back to answering Toi, his questions are valid, thought out and speak for many.