>>> most jews did not sleep in a sukkah in Europe. The mitteler rebbe had a valid, normal halachik heter not to.
Again, you obviously only learned the sicha from those who seek to twist the Rebbe’s words, but not the original. This is like arguing about pshat in a Rashi without learning the Gemara!
Lubavitchers are extremely machmir in Sukkah, not even taking a sip of water outside of the Sukkah when it’s pouring rain. Yet, when it came to sleeping in the Sukkah, Chabad was never machmir. This, the Rebbe points out, is very strange.
The Rebbe brings a story (told (and printed) by the Frierdiker Rebbe – Sukkos 5699) that the Mitteler Rebbe (who was appointed by his father – the baal hatanya – to lead the younger chassidim during his own lifetime) admonished the yungeleit for sleeping in the Sukkah “ווי קען מען שלאפן אין מקיפים דבינה”.
The Rebbe then supports this minhag on a halachic basis. The Rebbe is not being mechadesh a new minhag, rather being מיישב a minhag of several generations.
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>>> and no, there’s no reference to look at tzafnas paneach or other seforim from the rogotchover.
I’m not exactly sure what you’re referring to, maybe something earlier in the posts?
Anyway, there are two points in the sicha which are based on the Rogotchover, and of course, both are clearly referenced in the footnotes:
Seif daled discusses Tzofnas Paneach on the Rambam הלכות סוכה פ”ו ה”ב.
Footnote 63 discusses Tzofnas Paneach מהד”ת כה, רע”ג.
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>>>where is the source for not washing for shalosh seudos? It just doesn’t exist. He was mechadesh these things
You asked a question, yet decided the answer on your own.
The Frierdiker Rebbe mentions several times in his sichos that minhag Chabad (and the minhag of the baal hatanya, mitteler rebbe, tzemach tzedek, etc.) is not to be קובע סעודה for seuda shlishis, rather to eat a small snack.
See סה”ש אדמו”ר מהוריי”צ תש”ב ע’ 29, and more.
Also, Hayom Yom 22 Adar Beis, the Frierdiker Rebbe says:
אאמו”ר כותב באחד ממאמריו: הא דסעודה שלישית היום לא גו’, היינו שאין צריך פת, אבל צריך לטעום איזה דבר
The Rebbe is מיישב (not מחדש) this minhag halachically in Likkutei Sichos. That’s it.
https://www.hebrewbooks.org/pdfpager.aspx?req=14944&pgnum=97
P.S. Sorry for writing so long, but really much more should be written to defend כבוד התורה.
Honestly, the sichos speak for themselves and my explanations are unnecessary, but it seems that no one is interested in looking in the originals despite them being widely available online, so I feel the need to provide the general ענינים.
I encourage everyone to read the truth for themselves in the original seforim before reading them in books whose entire purpose is to be מזייף ומסלף the holy words of tzaddikim.
The amount of nonsense and lies on every page of על התורה ועל התמורה is endless.