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

Regarding the Rebbe not being able to make a mistake:

It may be helpful to understand that it’s not that the Rebbe was incapable of making a mistake as a person – no person is infallible, and I can cite you two times where the Rebbe did make a mistake on a personal level.

When we talk about the Rebbe not being able to make a mistake we mean on a communal level and that is not because of the personal greatness of the Rebbe but because of the extra siyata dishmaya a leader of klal Yisrael has.

There is a well known story with a non chassidic Rabbi (was it the noda biyehuda? Name is eluding me). He was trying out to be Rav of a learned city that prided itself on getting top notch Rabbonim. The Torah scholars of the community gathered to test him on his knowledge and presented many complex tricky halachic questions.

He answered all brilliantly and correctly, except for the last one. The leaders exchanged glances. He failed. He asked them if the last one was a real halachic case or a theoretical one. They said theoretical (as opposed to all the others). He said he knew it was because his logic can fail, he can make mistakes as a human, but since he does his best, he knows when it comes to halacha lmaase, Hashem will help him not to fail for the sake of the community