CS: I honestly don’t understand what you mean by “the Rav Shach excuse to hate”. The only reason I mentioned Rav Shach was to show how there can be someone many people – in this case tens of thousands of people – believe was a world leader yet you and your compatriots won’t accept him and you totally disparage him and his opinions. And my point was that in the same way you can’t expect others – and those tens of thousands of people – to accept what your rebbe says simply because you consider him a world leader.
I just reread everything that was written above about Rav Shach and I fail to see where I gave any excuse to hate. Just the right – not an excuse – not to believe someone is a gadol hador.
And I find your closing line of “Rav Shach was a Litvak just to remind you” irrelevant and very revealing.
Irrelevant because, as I wrote above, I was merely using Rav Shach and his followers (no, I am not one of them) as an example of how Reuven does not have to agree that Rav Ploni is a gadol/tzadik/etc just because Shimon says so. And the fact that Rav Shach was a Litvak therefore has nothing to do with it. I could have used Rav Kook as an example, or Rav Y D Soloveitchik, or the Satmarer Rov, but I used Rav Shach because I knew that, as a lubavicher, you definitely do not hold of him.
And VERY revealing because you always give the impression that you value all segments of Orthodox/Chareidi Jewry, yet here you basically told us all that Litvaks are not counted!