This thread is missing the point. Chazal and Chabad, speak openly about tzaddikim being alive posthumously. This talk irks the non-Chabad. Whatever Chazal meant, it is not an easy or simple concept. Yet, Chabad asserts it openly. Whether it is properly understood or properly applied is besides the point. It obviously is out there – and it is the source of this thread.
If Chabad has to answer for all of it’s own, so does everybody else. The reality is no group does. For Chabad to be degenerated because they do not answer for a possible misunderstanding or misapplication of Chazal, is highly inconsistent. If it’s not an issue what they are trying to teach (Which some of you are claiming they are getting the wrong ideas.) then they do not have to answer for those in their group who have it wrong. And if they have to answer for the whole group, then the real question is are they teaching it right, and should they be teaching it at all.
To say that they have something wrong and should answer for those in the group that have a heretical understanding of it, is an oxymoron. And then it feels like a baseless accusation.