RSO,
“Not necessarily. Tzaddik haámiti does not necessarily imply one individual in a generation.”
Read it again. It’s very clearly written in the singular Loshon, and that’s not an opinion or Hergesh, that’s fact. Tzaddik HoAmiti Shebador means exactly what it says. You can argue on me bringing this as a source, and the truth is, I wouldn’t necessarily bring Rav Nosson as a primary source, because I am not sufficiently familiar enough with his Torah, and it would be dishonest to pluck him out at random to prove a point, but here I’m trying to show that this idea is not exclusive to Lubavitch.
While I like your flattery of me, I don’t think you need to put down CS. She has made many valid points, and has contributed much to this discussion. I don’t think that everything she is writing she believes to be empirical evidence, clearly much of it is anecdotal, (the YU story) and there’s no problem with the anecdotal, just don’t expect it to sway anyone’s strongly formed opinions. Also, if it wasn’t clear yet, The Yeshiva World doesn’t exactly hold YU in the greatest esteem, and neither does the Lubavitch world. ואין כאן מקומו.