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

DY:
“Mamash avodah zarah”

Mamash not. If I thank Moshe for saving the Jewish nation from extinction with his davening, would you say Mamash avoda zara because Hashem saved them? No. Hashem saved them in the zechus of Moshes davening so Moshe gets credit too. And we thank our Rebbe when a yeshua happens because it happened in their zechus etc. Obviously the yeshua itself comes from Hashem.

Same here. The Rebbe pretty much vowed he would not go to gan Eden (so he would not forget about us) until he succeeds in bringing the Geula.

The way Chabad is alive and expanding today, and more people learning Chassidus than ever etc, is due to the chayus the Rebbe is pumping into us. There is no other way to explain it. If we were just living off the Rebbe’s legacy we would be decreasing every year. And the Rebbe us certainly still urging Hashem to send the Geula and when Hashem listens to that and we see miraculous events bringing the world to that state (especially when its connected to Chabad) we can say the Rebbe is running the world the same way Torah says vayaminu baHashem uvMoshe avdoi. Eved melech melech. We have a mitzvah to honour talmidei chachamim the same way we honour Hashem etc.and rebelling against your Rebbe is rebelling against Hashem (Rambam brought as we see from Korach.)

Because it’s not a contradiction. The more we connect to the Rebbe the more we feel Hashem is real and connect to Him even stronger.