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CS, in a long post you go on to “prove” what a tzaddik your rebbe was from stories of when he was a child and so on.
Did you ever read the accounts given by the only grandchild of the Rayatz on his uncle-in-law’s early life? I don’t expect you to believe them, I don’t believe all of them either, but then again, I also don’t believe most of the wondrous stories about the Lubavicher rebbe.
I don’t give much weight to stories that Satmar chassidim tell about their rebbe, and I don’t give much weight to stories litvishe tell about Reb Chaim Kanievsky. I am more likely to believe stories litvishe tell about Satmar and stories Satmar tells about Reb C Kanievsky. All the wondrous stories I hear about your rebbe have lubavich as their source, so I see no reason to give them much weight at all.
In your next post you again try to demonstrate that I can’t judge your rebbe the way I do. You’re wrong, because I don’t think he was a tzaddik. None of your arguments will convince me otherwise because they have all been tried on me in the past – I have a long history of studying and questioning Lubavich, and not getting satisfactory answers to what started out as innocent questions – and I found them unacceptable.
Too much of what he said and did was warped, and nearly 100% of the problems with lubavich – e.g. worst tznius in the chassidic world, most open use of internet, most interaction between genders – can only be attributed to his views, his lack of foresight, and his obsessing over concepts that should not be the primary concerns of bochurim and avreichim in the Torah world.
All the same arguments you use to prove that I have to hold of your rebbe could be used by your friends the Litvaks to prove that you have to hold of ALL their gedolim (I especially didn’t mention the name of the person you are allergic to). But they don’t work if you don’t believe in them.