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Dear Avira,
You posted a few days ago, ” Chabad uses the ‘you don’t understand’ with Satmar …. who very much do understand their language”.
Satmar is so far from the mainstream chassidus in terms of Toras Habesht and kabbalah that you’ve written your own retort. It’s like proving Telshe from Brisk.
Here is an example. The guf of a tzaddik. In normative kabbalah this means simply that the flesh and the blood are elevated to the point that the pull to earthly desires is lost, and they have a bodily desire for heavenly matters. In Chabad it means that the tziddkus of the the tzaddik is his actual reality and not his guf. You could have two people using the same term, and his a totally different implication. This is why the study of kabballah is sometimes done with a Master.