Let me give you an example. A celebrated older shlucha was invited to speak with us. One of the things she mentioned was how she was lucky to be by the Rebbe for Tishrei every year. In fact, she says, when we were by the Rebbe by Tishrei, we felt so uplifted that we didn’t even feel we needed Moshiach, because this is how it’ll be, but we’ll have to share the Rebbe with everyone.
I was shocked, because growing up on the Rebbes sichos, I couldn’t help but think, who cares if you were uplifted? Don’t all other yidden deserve to be similarly uplifted? And what about the fact that the Gilui Elokus when Moshiach comes will be much much greater than we could ever imagine because we’ll be able to see Hashem, and there will no longer be any concealments?? And what of the pain of the Shechina?
Honestly, if I had ever had such a feeling, I would’ve been embarrassed from my yetzer hara to say it out loud, it would reflect poorly on me as a chossid. But she said it and didn’t seem to have any issue.
I think this is because as I said, people were enthralled by the Rebbes presence whereas today were enthralled by his essence (teachings, direction etc) . She may have been on shlichus already when the Rebbe really pushed the urgency of Moshiach and geula, and so she seemed to have missed some of it that seemed so obvious to little me.
In fact, the difference was so stark that I was embarrassed to even ask her how she could say such a thing, so I didn’t. Of course she is an outstanding role model in many other areas