Reply To: Clarification to mod and DaMoshe

Arso,

“ That is one way it happens, although they don’t quote the Rambam. Another is when I pass a tefillin booth or similar, and the Lubavicher manning it apparently wants to make an impression on the people with him, so he calls out to me – an obviously chassidic non-Lubavitch type – and makes a comment ‘demonstrating’ how he and his cohorts are better than us lesser Yidden.

I have NEVER been the one to start the ‘altercation’.”

Interesting. Not in my experience, or knowledge of communal affairs. Maybe you’re by one of the 3 or so Meshichist yeshivos in America.