“brilliantly devious post. One of the main tainos against chabad is the Rebbe’s interesting interpretations of 770 as the bais hamikdash and he said in a sicha that when a rebbe speaks its “shechina medaberes metoch grono”. 5ish assumes he preempted all taanois against the rebbe in this regard with this quote, as the chozeh is accepted by all of klal yisroel.
However, careful readers of my comments will note that I only criticize the chasidim – not the rebbe. And many chasidim take all these quotes to believe that the rebbe is moshiach or even a godlike figure – which they dont believe in regards to the chozeh. And furthermore, nowhere in that quote does it justify omnipotence and omniscience.”
My intention was not to be devious and I was not responding to the comments you mention. I was just posting an interesting source about the maaleh of a Rebbe from a non-Chabad source, since one of the vague taanos people make about Chabad is that we make such a big deal about the Rebbe.
Broadly the inyan of mikdash meat, makom hasharas hashecina b’bais harav, and ispashtusa d’moshe is of course applical to many tzaddikim and many places of Torah study. I don’t dispute that all of those maalos apply to the Chozeh and for his followers that is how things were revealed.