rockstar (I hope you don’t mind me calling you that. The “yeshivish” part makes it less catchy!): “some people – including a rebbe in Ohelei Torah – put a Rebbe picture in front of them while davening for hiskashrus (this has been confirmed to me by a reliable source)”
What about putting a picture of the rebbe in the pillow under the baby at a bris? No one sees the picture, so it can’t have been put there to bring a hisorerus by looking at it. It must be imbued with some “power”. Why is that not a problem associated with avodah zarah?
I have also hear – I don’t know if it’s true or not – that lubavichers will never throw out a picture of their rebbe, and if they have to dispose of it they put it in genizah. Is this true?