sechel: “every other gadol considered the rebbe either THE GADOL or a gadal (even r shach”
Not true at all, unless, of course, you only consider someone as a gadol if he held of the Lubavicher rebbe. There were/are quite a number of gedolei Yisroel who did not hold of his greatness. And as to Rav Shach, I heard from someone close to him that Rav Shach asked for the LR’s mother’s name when the LR had the first stroke, and when the person he asked looked surprised, he said that although he does NOT agree with his shitos, he wants to daven for him because he has brought a lot of people back to Yiddishkeit.
Which is something I have said all along. If Lubavich stuck to disseminating real Torah, their kiruv work, and their Chabad Houses, no one would denigrate them. It’s their WRONGLY assuming the mantle of leaders of world Yiddishkeit, and of course the Mashiach meshigass, that we take issue with.