CS: “I don’t know you personally, what I do know is that you have a bitter bias against Chabad, so unfortunately I cannot take your word that you heard (and you’ve never said you were in 770, somehow I don’t picture you at a farbrengen). I hope you understand”
True I have an extremely strong bias against Lubavich, but I wouldn’t call it bitter. It just upsets me greatly the way Lubavich has attempted to bring concepts into the Torah world that have clearly always been unacceptable, and are distorting Torah-true hashkafah. And by that I mean hashkafah that has always been accepted by ALL streams of chareidi Jewry, including chassidim, misnagdim, Ashkenazim and Sefardim.
Anyhow, as yankel berel wrote, he too remembers the prediction that no one will be killed in the Gulf War. So it’s just the two of us bitter people against the brainwashed multitude of Lubavicher, many of whom, I am sure also remember the prediction but won’t admit to it.
“About your second point about Eretz Yisrael being the safest place, the way I appreciate it is…”
Well said! The way YOU appreciate it, not the way it was understood literally by anyone who heard it at the time. Because the way it was understood then would have to lead you to conclude that the LR was wrong!
“And yes, there may have been an extremely limited number of people who died from side effects”
The two who were killed from missile strikes were killed by ‘side effects’?!
“but the natural death occurrences elsewhere (traffic accidents) were probably higher than the supernaturally minuscule number of tragedies.”
I’m not a mathematician, but I believe that ‘supernaturally minuscule number of tragedies’ is still more than the zero in the prediction… oops… sorry… nevuah.