Reply To: The world is in a state of Geula- and don’t misunderstand us!

Neville (post 2):

“I can’t speak for everyone, but I personally have not disparaged your Rebbe here. Criticizing things his followers do is not the same thing as criticizing him. His sichos on chumash are not something a random bum off the street could accomplish.”

Acknowledging this adds to your integrity.

“We know, by virtue of the fact that you’re a Lubavitcher, that you hold him higher than his contemporaries. If I made an account on a popular Chabad forum for the purpose of “explaining” to everyone how the Litvish gedolim are actually superior and how Chabadniks are actually “misunderstanding” everything we say about them, would you think of me as a good person? Because that’s exactly what you’re doing here.”

Not at all. Here’s what would be the appropriate analogy:

Neville chances upon a Chabad forum where users are questioning how litvaks could possibly regard X as a Gadol if he said xyz. Neville sees the chance to clear up possible miseducation and ignorance so he creates an account and offers to answer their questions. As he defends the litvishe positiono, he starts getting attacked that he’s trying to push his gadol on everyone else.

He then decides to try to connect to these lubavitchers on another less controversial topic (assuming he wouldn’t walk away in disgust at that point and badmouth the I’ll mannered lubavitchers who can’t handle the answers to their own questions.) he starts a thread on the importance of kollel learning. He knows its a big focus in lakewood but doesn’t see many long time kollel learners in lubavitch. He knows they value Torah learning so he thought this would be an interesting topic to have a go at.

Surprisingly, or maybe not by now, the lubavitchers are extremely suspicious of nevilles ill intentions and insist he answer more questions on his Gedolim. When he answers honestly as they asked,and brings his sources or evidence to back himself up, they complain that he’s disrespectful to lubavitch for daring to hold by his shittos and not apologise for them and they ask the mods to please close his account because he’s engaging in litvish propaganda.