Avram, i read he was maskilish too, but i didn’t want to write it because it’s all from secular sources…people claim that many figures were maskilim, or close to them, which are mistakes.
So because i don’t accept their accounts as a given, i chose not to passel a yid who I know nothing about, who for all i know could have been a very good jew. But to call him a leader of Litvishe jewry, as chabad did on their office website, is ludicrous.