Qwerty, thanks for R Miller/Chabad story, so I am glad I am following in the steps of the giants – he has a very similar reasoning to what I am presenting here. There is always a mixed story – R Soloveichik’s father was a Rav in a chabad-majority town, and his melamed was a chabadnik. Rav S remembered fondly the studies and a picture of Alter Rebbe on the wall … At the same time, his mother noticed that he was learning chassidus to the detriment of the gemora, and directed the father to take take from his all-important position and teach the child himself.
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