menachem to yb:
Is it true that rabbi Rivkin’s ashkavte devei rebbi is not considered ‘acceptable reading material’ in habad mosdot ?
Y or N ?
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Completely false. All my years in yeshiva, never heard of such a thing. Ashkavta D’Rebbi is considered one of the most respected seforim on Chabad rabbeim, quoted many hundreds of times in Chabad seforim for history and minhagim. I’ve never heard of any objection to it.
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All of menachems years in yeshiva ….. .
Were menachems years in yeshiva before , or after the ‘herem story’ ?
We do not know menachems age, so it could be that his yeshiva years were before the RY’s disagreement with his rebbi.
According the habad sources I have consulted , the sefer ashkavte d’Rebbi is now on the same level as Rav Shaul Shimon Deutchs multi volume biography about the late rebbi of the habad.
Meaning they both are classified as ‘non allowable’ reading materiel.
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