SHY: “I’m not sure if people place a picture of the Rebbe under the baby’s head by a bris, it’s certainly possible, I’ve never seen it”
I find this TOTALLY strange! It is done and has been done at EVERY lubavitcher bris I’ve been to – in a different thread I have mentioned how I have come in contact with hundreds of lubavitchers and have lubavitcher relatives – and I have heard it talked about. Yet you, an apparent lubavitcher, haven’t seen it.
“but I don’t have a problem with it if it is done. How exactly does it bother you?”
And you accuse me of not reading what YOU write?! I’ve already said that using an image as kedushah or a segulah is bodering on a”z c”v. As I wrote just yesterday, I can understand a picture being placed in a position where it can be seen so that people who look at it have a chizuk, but putting it INSIDE the pillowcase under the baby at a bris where it can’t be seen is attributing special powers to a picture. You don’t have a problem with that?!
“If it’s not a legitimate Minhag, I wouldn’t do it”
This is the crux of the problem! What makes something a “legitimate Minhag”? Because it is done in Lubavitch (I am currently shaking my head in disbelief wondering how it is possible that you don’t know about it) it is probably a “legitimate Minhag” and therefore not problematic. The entire discussion is based on things that are currently considered a “legitimate Minhag” in lubavitch which the rest of the world finds close to apikorsus.
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