Reply To: The Shach

I agree with Wolf on this. In many many litvish circles if you start off a sentence with ‘the rebbe’ they will assume you are talking about your son’s teacher. If a chassid starts a sentence with ‘the rebbe’ there is no doubt they are speaking of their own rebbe. We only assume ‘the rebbe’ to be a reference to the lubavitcher rebbe of a lubavitcher said it or if that is the specific topoc of conversation. (Or on the occassion that he is dead and tbey say shlita anyway)