Reply To: Clarification to mod and DaMoshe

Arso
“If that’s true that’s absolutely terrible! No background check on standards, so a shliach can be a total am haaretz, or a menuval, and he is officially recognized by the Lubavich powers-that-be as a shaliach.”

The way the shlichus system is set up is that shliach oseh shliach. The first shliach to a country is a head shliach, who Is authorized to bring down further shluchim who can also etc.

The Rebbe never conditioned shlichus as only being for perfect people, but rather taught, as other Rebbeim did, if you know aleph teach aleph.

A flaw which may seem significant in the general community is not that important when there are unfortunately millions of yidden who dont know basics.

So there’s no extensive benchmarks one needs to pass, but they will have an interview with the head shliach who is considering them. Obviously if something is really off, the head shliach will see it. And can always take that person off the list if a mistake is made.

Generally the shlichus lifestyle demands growth, or the community will not financially support the shluchim. Generally shluchim are truly admirable in every way.

There can be some exceptions as there is to any rule.

An interesting question would be if we can be more picky lchatchila today because the globe is covered and so maybe we can be more selective?

An interesting point but A) many people would miss out on growth oriented lifestyle and the zechus harabbim, so is that worth it?

B) ckids, Jewq, cteen, cyp are all relatively new and we still are far from covered