– Please answer, why Chabad desired to open a chabad house in kiryat sefer, the frummest chareidist community in the world, where there is no kirv to be done and no one to be mekarev,
Let me answer with a question. When the Baal Shem Tov was around, did he spread Chassidus only to the secular Jews of his time? What about the Mezritcher Maggid? For that matter, the Mezricher Maggid was a huge Lamdan before he became a Chossid. Why didn’t the Baal Shem Tov leave him as is? What about the Toldos Yaakov Yosef, Reb Pinchas Koretzer, Reb Michel Zlotchover? They were all big Lamdanin.
Also, please explain the video where Cunin (again, one of, if not THE most influential chabadsker on the west coast) proclaims unambiguously that the rebbe runs the world.
צדיק גוזר והקב”ה מקיים
“No you moron, we’re not asking the rebbe to answer our tefillos, Hashem answers tefillos, Rebbes are, at most, a meilitz yosher”
Here you go, I’ll say it- “No you moron, we’re not asking the rebbe to answer our tefillos, Hashem answers tefillos, Rebbes are a meilitz yosher”
which is why the Nusach of a Pidyon in Chabad is “Ana LeOrer Rachamim Rabim” not “Rebbe, give me a pony NOW”.
We ask for a Bracha.
Oh. And just for the record. We don’t worship the Rebbe. We don’t treat him as a G-d (ChV”sh).