Yechi – is such an idea stated specifically in the miteler rebbe’s(or those who came after him) writings? Was this supposed declaration documented, or is it just something “everyone knows”?
There can always be kabala-oriented reasons on top of simple halachik ones; do you know the famous story of the rizhiner who gave three different reasons to three different people when asked why he insists on making the “iher mot tzibul” himself? To a rebbe he said some hecher zach about being mamtik dinim, to a talmid chochom he said because he’s worried that others might grind it too much and have a problem of tochen, and to a simple jew he said “because if I don’t do it there won’t be enough shmaltz”.
Can it be that the miteler rebbe said this declaration? Could be; wouldn’t change a thing, because he had a viable halachik heter to rely on.
I also don’t understand the preoccupation with your assertion that no one complained about what chabad and other groups did….”sigh” again, in Europe…
Never was there a group of orthodox jews in eretz yisroel who did not sleep in the sukkah. Never. You have yet to address that at sll, and instead keep harping on kabalistic reasons that would, in your view, license one to abrogate halacha.
Shabsai tzvi did that; i should hope that chabad is not following in his footsteps, though in reality….well, i won’t go into detail, but shabsai tzvi never claimed divinity, or that he was the atzmus elokus vos ehr hut areingeshtelt in a guf…i digress
I’ve seen the rebbe’s piece defending this “minhag”…i referenced it above, and I can be dan lechaf zchus, as it were, and hope it was not meant seriously. A serious halachik position does not include defining mitztayer vis a vis a deoraysoh as “being mitzrayer that you’re not mitztayer that you can feel the ohr makif bina”, a concept that is above anyone who’s posting on the CR including myself. If someone actually feels that tzaar, he should get his heads out of the clowds and learn a blatt gemara; maybe then he’d know what spiritual tzaar really is.
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