Avira,
My point was that when it comes to the midrash, you look in mefarshim to understand what it meant.
When it comes to a sicha, you refuse to even open up the sicha itself and see what it says, let alone ask someone learned in these subjects to explain it properly (excluding those in the CR. Online discussions just go in circles.)
You hear that the Rebbe quoted a Midrash, and suddenly it’s kefirah!?
And your Rambam problem is even more ridiculous.
What kind of lomdus is this? Imagine you hear a chiddush of a rosh yeshiva, and you are told that he discusses how it fits with a Rambam, yet you are stubborn that “it’s impossible to explain it any other way” without even taking a peek at his explanation!
Did you check the link I sent? Did you look at seif daled:
“לכאורה קען מען אויף דערויף פרעגן: דעם רמב”ם פסק’נט: אלו שכותבין מבפנים…”???
Did you see that the Rebbe’s original statement (which seems to contradict the Rambam) was based on a diyuk in the ב”ח and the טור?
You would rather “refute” what the Rebbe said without seeing it.
If this isn’t called burying your head in the sand, I don’t know what is.