Just a small questiont faceBURN yes or no, are you arguing with the friediker Rebbe and saying that this story is false? And if yeah (which I hope not, just I don’t see that in your words) who are you to say such a thing?. Not only that, you say that “it’s disgusting” for the friediker Rebbe to put words in the Bal hatanyas mouth.
Not only is he saying that the story is false (with practically no source), but that
1. The Frierdicker Rebbe invented it. Not that he had a tradition about it, not that there was a tradition that burtface didn’t have (which would be quite expected. The Frierdiker Rebbe was born in 5640. The Alter Rebbe was arrested in 5558 or so. He was born within a generation of the event. And considering that he was a son of the Rebbe Rashab, he had access to many Chassidim, including a few of the Alter Rebbe, that others didn’t. And considering that anyone burntface saw in Lubavitch was, at most, a bochur in the Rebbe Rashab’s times, there’s no way for him to be able to say “I was around the same time and no one heard the story”). Not even that there was a broken telephone, or that the person he heard it from made a mistake. Not even that the person he heard it from invented it. No. He invented it, all on his own.
2. He said this so we’d “get drunk an extra day”. That’s what the Rebbe and Frierdicker wanted. For us to be drunk. You know, they made a Takanah for us to drink at least 770 ounces a day of 77.0% alcohol /s.
For all those who don’t get the reference. The Rebbe said, time and time again, and the Frierdicker Rebbe said, that Mashke is a disgusting drink, and the Rebbe said, many times, that anyone who calls himself a Lubavitcher may not drink more than a Revy’is (Following Reb Avrohom Chaim No’eh’s shiur 🙂 ) of Mashke a farbrengen (the famous “no more than 4 rule”).
And that’s an absolute maximum. If you’ll get Shikkur on less than that, you can’t have that either. And there are no exceptions. Not Yud Shevat, not Purim, not even Simchas Torah, Nada.