Avira
While skimming through this thread I saw that you posed a question to emunas about learning a lot of Chassidus and how it goes against the Shulchan Aruch Harav and that it comes from neo-Chabad.
I’m not that involved in reading this thread so I don’t known if an answer was posed, but the notion that learning a lot of Chassidus is a neo- Chabad thing and very recent is completely off target.
There are countless stories of Chassidim of previous generations that would think Chassidus for hours at a time way before your “neochabad” coined phrase can be applied to.
We don’t even have to bring proof from earlier Chassidim, the rebbe rashab instituted learning Chassidus for four hours a day in tomchai temimim- obviously they also had an 8 hour non stop nigleh seder- but the fact is that they learned Chassidus a big part of the day, and these were young bochurim in yeshiva, not very old and pious Chassidim over the age of forty.
I’m sure the rebbe rashab knew hilchos Talmud Torah of the alter rebbe, and if you’d ask him I’m sure that he’d be able to give a proper reconciliation to your problem, and if you think he wouldn’t and that you attribute “neo-Chabad” all the way back to the rebbe rashab, than I’m a proud neo-chabadnik.
Ps i didn’t read everything on this thread so I do t know if I align with emunas with regards to his hashkafos, but the fact is that learning a lot of Chassidus is not a recent invention.