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

Hi rso been so busy with YTK that haven’t had much time for anything else. My husband is now at his third farbrengen and I have a few minutes, so I’ll just write a few things I’ve wanted to say. A) I do feel my story posts would have helped with the Tanya question. Looks like the mods didn’t allow them though so I’ll leave that one. B) tburnface im surprised you felt you had to resort to slander and fake news. I mean there are plenty of “secrets” you can tell about lubavitch without creating silly lies. All Farbrengens I and my husband attended emphasised achdus between all yidden (including the farbrengen of the Rebbe we watched) my husband didn’t drink at all (if he does tonight it would be under 4 kelishkes as per the Rebbe’s directive to those under 40)
C) rso I definitely wouldn’t say its creative fiction. A Rebbe doesn’t make stuff up. Also in lubavitch particularly, chassidim and Rebbeim alike have been very careful with every detail of a story transmitted, so it’s not the culture to add in stuff that sound good but aren’t true.

The memoirs I would assume are based on what the Rebbetzin Rivkah, the Rebbe Maharashs wife, told the Frierdiker Rebbe – as he heard much of lubavitch history and stories from her. Curiously though, I will tell you I think I may have personally noticed one tiny contradiction in the memoirs themselves, and I have wondered about that. I would need to double check but if my memory doesn’t fail me, in one place it says that baruchs mother passed away before his father, and in another it says that his father passed away first… Maybe some lubavitchers here would know whats up with that. Anyhow as I haven’t looked into it I didn’t comment before.

Anyone else (lubavitchers) seen that?