Here we go with the myopia again – I’m saying it’s offensive to lay sole claim to the arizal”s shita, and say that chabad doesn’t have payos because of him, which would imply that everyone else doesn’t follow the arizal. To prove that point, I mention 4 leading figures in Arizal based kabalah, and your answer is “but what about the baal hatanya?” Yes he was an expert in kabalah(and halacha, and everything else for that matter), but he was not the only one and does not have any more of an objective authority on arizal than the gr”a(who held of payos).
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