ChabadShlucha – I need to respond about a much older post.
Firstly, you started this thread to address litvishe taanois that Chabad are koifrim. I demonstrated that their suspicions are not without basis, at least in regards to the meshichistin.
You said
Now we in lubavitch are the last ones to rush to do that and we take it very seriously.
This is exactly the problem! Chabad should be the first to jump out to protect the rebbe’s name! The fact that they don’t implies shtika kehoidaah! When avoda zara – or avoda zara like statements enter the mainstream with nary a word of protest, it brings churban to klal yisrael! You might claim to know it’s not avoda zara, but so did the dor of enosh. When you can go to chabad simchas without ever hearing the name of Hashem, only the Rebbe, when everything is addressed to the rebbe, when kids are encouraged to kiss a picture of the rebbe everyday, when kids only hear about the Rebbe’s yeshuos, YOU may know it’s not avoda zara, but do you think the next generation will???? Remember, J’s followers did not consider him a god, it was their kids and grandkids who did. And the way things are going, if Chabad doesn’t do anything, it’s headed in the same direction.
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Finally, it is quite a jump to say that because you can name one person who wrote something outrageous, the whole lubavitch needs to do some serious purging because we have a serious festering problem within. One individual who recanted does not equal a festering lubavitcher kefira problem cvs.
First, CS, we have no clue of it was recanted! Second of all if the Yated, Ami or Mishpacha, would put a picture of a gadol and write “Hu Elokeinu” they would be boycotted and have to close down the next day! Certainly no one would let them into their homes, even if they apologized.
Yet Beis Mashiach does the same thing, Meshichist Chabad says “Meh, just don;t do it again” and they keep selling thousands of copies! CS, let me tell you, this would not happen in ANY other frum community
And that’s why I left lubavich. The misnagdim are right – many chabadniks, even if not kofrim, have no problem with language that borders on kefira. And that’s a huge problem.
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