n0m: “What do you mean that he wasn’t spending time on communal needs?”
I never said or implied that. What I said was that other rebbes spend the majority of their time on communal needs and the needs of the individual. The Lubavicher rebbe did not spend MOST OF HIS TIME on that.
“Go blame all the other leaders for where their groups ended up.”
Where did their groups end up that anyone is deserving of blame? And I certainly would blame their leaders if I saw a direct link between their actions/views and a resultant departure from accepted chareidi norms.
I think it was qwerty – although I’m not 100% sure – that Rav Moshe was the undisputed Gadol Hador.
As great as Rav Moshe was, and perhaps he was indeed the Gadol Hador, but he certainly did not have that title undisputedly. When I was learning in E”Y as a bochur, he was virtually never quoted. Not that the israeli chareidim hadn’t heard of him, but they had Rav Elyashiv, Rav SZ Auerbach and others whose piskei halocho were quoted and given full weight. Rav Moshe was considered a big posek for Americans. I am not denigrating Rav Moshe, chas veShalom, just arguing with the term “undisputed”.
Avira:”neo chabad changing the mesorah and general cookiness”
Are you suggesting that they allow the cooking of basar bechalav?! Have they gone that far?! Oh, I get it. You mean kookiness with a k.