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“Halacha does not pivot, saying its based on old principles but pivoted is not the structure of
halacha.”
I don’t really care which words is used. My point is that Halacha adapts to whatever situation there is, and it is always relevant because of that- same with Chassidus.
“Regardless, it seems you clarified the mindset of chabad, that “the Rebbe” is not just another rebbe but the ultimate person alive since mankind and therefore his word is accepted as final as if its from Hashem himself. So much, that you try teaching it to the masses.”
No not at all. We hold our Rebbe to be the Moshe Rabbeinu of this generation. Other Chassidim I’ve met relate to this awe of The Rebbe (because their parents tell them stories etc of their original Rebbes) but hold there Rebbeim have gone through yeridas hadoros. As I said, I would treat the Baba Sali with the same reverence, and whatever other Tzaddikim there are out there who speak with ruach hakodesh which used to be much more common. In the Litvishe world, I’ve heard that R. Yisrael Salanter was a Tzaddik.
“I don’t think that in our history, starting from the Avrohom Avinu did we ever hold any human being to this high regard.”
I’m sorry that’s your history… we have it today.
“Furthermore, it would require more than your subjective assessment to determine if any human being actually reached that level, your feelings toward “the Rebbe” are irrelevant and certainly not enough to place him at that level.”
When a Rebbe follows another Rebbe of the same caliber in an unbroken chain of Tzaddikim, and acts the same way, no reason to suspect otherwise.
Someone once asked the Rashag why he ultimately supported The Rebbe as Rebbe (he was his brother in law, and the Rashags Rebbetzin wanted him to become Rebbe) and he answered because my brother in law isn’t a liar. He says things he’s heard from the Frierdiker Rebbe (after The Frierdiker Rebbe was nistalek) and I haven’t heard anything, and he’s not a liar, so I stepped aside…