@sechel83 Satmar does everything in their power to promote “Divrei Yoel” and “VaYoel Moshe” all over the place. However, they do not dedicate regular sedarim in Yeshiva to teach it, pasken halacha based off of the Rebbe’s speeches, nor make it a priority to memorize entire swaths of it.
I’m not “hiding the Rebbes amazing teachings”, I’m criticizing the undue amount of importance that Chabad puts on every word ever spoken or written by Rav Schneerson ZT”L. It’s Kodesh, but not that kodesh. There are many things he may have said that he changed his mind on, or that he was mistaken about at the time. Not to mention the changes in society and audience that make the words obsolete or irrelevant. You can’t base a Yiddishe lifestyle on things a single Tzaddik said decades ago!
The reason I mention it is that you want to prove to us that Chabad minhagim about certain mitzvos are justified because of things the late Rebbe of Lubavitch once said. However, that’s not good enough for us because of the circular logic.
The Lubavitch minhag is to treat Rav Schneerson’s writings and speeches as the be-all and end-all of Torah. So they interpret many of these writings and speeches to follow certain minhagim. And then justify those minhagim by referencing the writings and speeches. Circular.