Reply To: Question of an ignorant, closed-minded Lubavitcher

>>>ended up with some Satmar chassidim pinning down a Chabad Rabbi and cutting off his beard. Why? Because he’d been hired to tutor a Satmar kid, and instead of teaching him the subjects he was being paid to, he started teaching him about Chabad, and why Chabad was preferable to Satmar.

If you want to argue with Chabad ideology, fine. But how dare you fabricate the details of a story to blame the victim!?

I will clarify the story(s) for the sake of the readers. I would like to preface that I’m not chas v’Shalom trying to besmirch Satmar, especially since much has changed since then, rather I’m just setting historical facts straight.

It is accepted in Chabad (since the times of the Alter Rebbe) to give shiurim in chassidus (especially Tanya) to non Lubavitchers (similar to how Breslovers spread the Torah of Rabbi Nachman).

Several esteemed mashpiim were especially know for busying themselves with this, including Reb Yoel Kahn and Reb Pinye Korf. They would often go to Williamsburg and Borough Park where there were arranged shiurim of people who were interested in learning chassidus (the whole idea of being hired to be a tutor is completely fabricated!).
Since Satmar had already started to have tensions with Lubavitch since the Entebbe story in the 70s (they falsely accused Chabad of being Zionist because the Rebbe praised Hashem for the miracle), these shiurim often had to happen in secret.

In Sivan 5743, Reb Pinye Korf a”h (an incredible talmid chacham and oved Hashem) was asked to give a shiur chassidus in Williamsburg.

In middle of the shiur, some satmar chassidim burst in on him and beat him. When they reached for his beard, he begged them to kill him instead, as long as they wouldn’t touch his beard. They cut his beard off.
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Reb Mendel Vechter was a satmar talmid chacham who had questions in chassidus. He became acquainted with Reb Yoel Kahn, and they started in chavrusa in learning chabad chassidus.
Slowly, he became closer to Chabad, while keeping this a secret, lest he become a victim of Satmar violence.

On 9 Tammuz 5743, a few weeks after the incident with Reb Pinye, Reb Mendel Vechter was on his way to Shachris, and several Satmar chassidim pulled him into a car and broke his bones with clubs, stabbed him, cut off his beard and payos, and cut his throat.
They threw him from the car, and left him bloody and naked to die on the street.
B”H, he was saved by an African American who found him.

This is the true story.

Again, I am not accusing Satmar as a whole for these atrocities, but please don’t trivialize the attack and blame Chabad for this. Unbelievable chutzpa.