I mentioned in a different thread that it irks me when people mispronounce the song lekovod hatana… It’s supposed to be eloki, but it’s an innocent mistake. Same way people mispronounce “baruch hu elokeinu sheBARanu likvodo, which means “we created”
You’re mistaking praises of tzadikim for avodah zara; this stuff only happens in lubavitch.