syag, let’s not turn this into a big chakira.
The rebbe doesn’t need to be farhered to know his status.
I am just really bothered that somebody can decide something (which has effects, because he has talmidim, who now share his opinion) when he hasn’t even looked into it deeply to say such a statement. Many do not know much about the Rebbe, which we can talk about a different time. I’m not getting into it.
When you think of seforim maybe you think, “oh nice, a 3-volume set on nice chiddushei torah.
That’s not what I’m talking about.
I’m talking about 3 massive sets of works which are not smaller than 30-40 Seforim in EACH set.
Tora Menachem is 90+ volumes which they didn’t even finish publishing. That’s not even all of his works.
We are talking about somebody who sent out 6,000+ (and more coming) shluchim around the entire globe to bring Yidden closer to yiddishkeit. Billions of mitzvos came as a resut of his work. He is not some small rebbe or talmid chacham, your dealing with big things here.
The satmar rebbe is considered by this rosh yeshiva of somebody on the CR one of the gedolei hador. I DON’T want to start getting into details, or arguments, and I’m not coming to refute the satmar rebbe.
What I’m saying is that if he considers the satmar rebbe such a gadol, then how can you just dismiss The Lubavticher Rebbe like that? How? Because the lubavitcher rebbe didn’t do what lakewood did? Because he didn’t build his own lakewood? In fact, He built lubavitch in every continent (they even have chabad.org in antartica, a jewish scientist there uses it for shiurim and other stuff).
I understand that the litvishe derech is to stay learning in kollel your whole life, or at least stay in the velt, not to go and be mekarev people, for the most part.
But that isn’t a deciding factor.
Just be honest with yourself, you can’t just dismiss it as “shkoyach, I don’t ‘see’ that as helping world. It’s ‘nothing’ special.”
I started this conversation, so I will take achrayos and end it. Just after the post above. (: