Reply To: Clarification to mod and DaMoshe

Mods I appreciate the edits!

“CS: So if a Chabad Shulcha regularly goes shopping in non tznius clothing, they’d be no consequences and she’d be allowed to continue representing Lubavitch? What if she regularly ate in public chicken-and-cheese sandwiches? There’s no explicit lav against eating chicken-and-cheese. What if she regularly drove to her Chabad House on Shabbos?”

Within Chabad, there is a lot of trust given to individuals. If that trust is broken, there can be severe consequences for the individuals involved, no matter their status (I saw such a communal correction myself). But yes, unfortunately some of my non lubavitch friends tell me how they’ve been to shluchim all over the world, and how one was not ok (yes the vast vast majority are yereim ushleimim in any way.) I don’t know the individuals involved, but if I ever saw something that was a serious breach, I’d go to the head shluchim about it, as each shliach is answerable to their head shliach.

“Where are you drawing the line? Why a bathing suit no but a short dress TMI in public when she sits, walks, edited or perhaps even when she walks has no repercussions regarding her representing Chabad?”

Ultimately we all represent our communities, and there are over 5000 shluchim and if you look percentage wise, that will speak for itself positively and when I ask these individuals, they admit that the vast vast majority are admirable in every way. Each shliach is busy doing their own work and aren’t busy policing others. But like I said, if something egregious were witnessed, I would certainly want to talk to the head shliach.