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CS: Forgot to mention. Of course Chessed starts at home, and The Rebbes involvement in all matters of world Jewry did not detract from his leadership of Chabad, in fact it enhanced it. Baalei teshuva probably make up at least 50% of Chabad today. When the Rebbe unveiled his vision for dor shvii in his inaugural maamar, there were 100 or so Chassidim there, many survivors of the Soviet Union. They had no idea how they would change the world. Today of course, this is fact, and the tremendous expansion of Chabad, both shluchim and Anash, post Gimmel Tammuz. even without the Rebbes physical hand holding, are only testament of what the Rebbe gave us.

You’re missing the point. I know he was out to change the world, but it resulted in Lubavich itself becoming a watered-down chassidus with the push being on the outside as opposed to the outside. The number of children of shluchim and stam Lubavich youth who are off the derech, or close to it, Rachmono litzlon, is absolutely terrible, and don’t tell me you haven’t seen that yourself. Hashem should save you from such tzoros!

You yourself, in passing earlier on, wrote that you don’t know when the change came about that Lubavich as a rule now davens quickly rather than “be’avodah”. That is just one example of the changes that have come about through the focus on looking outside instead of inward. (I assume you’ll answer that chassidus means penimiyus, and looking inward, which is standard Lubavich talk, but for the majority that hasn’t been the case since you started on all these mivtzoim etc.) And there are far worse changes, that I have been harping on, mainly in areas of tznius.