Dear Avira,
It easier for me and you when we can discuss all our differences in one post.
“Menachem, there are many things in medrashim that we don’t understand; this is a great example. The rambam rules that if one believes that Hashem gave over command of a part of the world to a malaach, or a kochav, or anything else, he is an oved avodah zara. That’s halacha lemaysoh. Thinking that Hashem gave over control of the world to a tzadik is the same thing.”
I went back to find the post and couldn’t. But the midrash says that ‘He is a partner with Hashem in the Act of Creation!’ However you understand it, the point stands. These statements are not out of bounds. Not only that, but these statements are the very basis for the teaching of what constitutes boundaries in esoteric and mystical doctrines. Why would anyone think that The Rebbe meant something the Midrash doesn’t. He knew the Rambam better than we did.
The Rambam calls this minus. There is no A”Z without an action. We went through this on this thread. But once it got down to what the Rambam says without any implication on Lubavitch, all the ministers of the holy inquisition lost interest.
[On a side note, I mentioned a Chinuch that says that the Mitzva of listening to a Navi is at any time there is a Navi. Nothing about it not possible in our day. Like he writes in many other places.]
It is not practical halacha until we can read minds. What someone says and what they themselves value are not the same thing. Unless the individual is a man of extreme integrity. It is also not a matter of halacha for the individual. If the person thinks that this is the proper belief, they will understand the Rambam in accordance with their view. Many fanatics of astrology awere all over the Rambam and the Moreh, even though he criticizes astrology extensively.
How did you get that thinking a Tzaddik can completely change reality is the same thing?!? And why is it okay for all other gedolim to teach such a claim?