Reply To: Clarification to mod and DaMoshe

“CS, chabad are the ones who made a contest out of yiddishkeit. Do you ever use the phrase “kiddush Lubavitch”?”

I could say the same thing to you. Can you list the top ten current leaders amongst the sefardim? The Rabbonim/ mashpiim in Ger? Bobov? Etc?

It does seem that the bigger a group gets, the harder it is to know everyone within the community/ group, and we know “outsiders” even less.

I think the term kiddush lubavitch is a defensive term which you could ask yourself why it needs to exist… Not hard to understand when you see how lubavitch is maligned by some…

In any case, Chassidus teaches that all of Klal Yisrael are one body, with its leaders being the brain Neshamos, etc.

Every part of Klal Yisrael is important to the whole. Seeing it in such a light, a contest is ridiculous.

The Rebbe once said, if Satmar wouldn’t be so anti Zionist, we would need to be more…

Similarly, the yishuvniks risk their lives for yishuv haaretz and thereby protect so many Jews.

Satmar are renowned for their community wide Chessed/ bikur cholim etc.

The Litvish highlight the supremacy of Torah learning

And the list goes on and on…