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

Syag I’m sorry to hear of your experience. I haven’t seen anything like that and it definitely isn’t mainstream. Could be your lubavitchers are a bit insecure I don’t know how else to explain it. By us, my kids play with my neighbours, we share simchos such as sholom zachars and brissim etc. I’ve cooked for them when they have babies, and they sent over stuff for my sons sholom zachar etc.

My husband davens by the Lubavitch shul on shabbos shacharis and kabbolas shabbos, but he’ll go to the neighbourhood shul during the week, and for mincha maariv on shabbos. He goes there every evening to learn as well. This is not unique (unless your live in crown heights and are surrounded with pretty much all lubavitch? Maybe your neighbours come from crown heights and are used to being among only lubavitchers? I’m not sure why this is)

My husband will attend the shiurim in the neighbourhood shul between mincha and maariv, but for events etc we pretty much only attend lubavitch because it’s our community and the speakers etc tend to have a different message / mentality for the most part. But that’s not a “rule” just kind of natural. I have gone to one non lubavitch event as a friend brought me along and enjoyed it (one of those worldwide shabbos events).