qwerty613 – Just to set the record straight. Anyone who want to do so can click on my username and view all of my posts, to everyone, and then do the same with your username, and see which one of us is נוהג to “go pit bull” on people. What I did do, was to suggest that if you are so profoundly troubled by something Rabbi Manis Friedman said, you could – contact him and ask for clarification… To that you responded by harping on how what Rabbi Friedman said MUST BE kefirah, CAN ONLY BE kefirah, HOW CAN YOU DARE SAY IT ISN’T kefirah… To which I responded by again politely suggesting that you just call or otherwise contact him and ask him for pshat in what he said. You then launched into a series of verbally abusive posts that can only be described as psychotic, upon which I signed off of that thread for over a month. Shortly before Tisha B’Av, I noticed that the same thread was still going strong and racking up hundreds of comments over a month and a half, far more and longer than any other thread, mostly posts from you, displaying obsessive hate for the Lubavitcher Rebbe, and using gross nivul peh to describe him, which the moderators repeatedly ignored. (Rabbi Friedman was no longer the main focus of the conversation at that point, if that even matters.) I suggested that: 1. Perhaps Erev Tisha B’Av is not a proper time for such discussion. 2. No one here is qualified to be a בר פלוגתא of the Lubavitcher Rebbe or anyone else. 3. Who are you trying to convince? To which you responded with another psychotic fit. Anyone can read it and decide for themselves, because again nothing was deleted… I’m not sure where Yankel Berel comes in to all of this, because we otherwise agree very often.
To the point, as I wrote here before:
I am aware that some גדולים criticized the Lubavitcher Rebbe. For our purposes, it doesn’t change anything. Many of the criticisms directed towards Chabad parallel criticisms leveled against Chassidus in general, when it was still a new movement. Some very big גדולי עולם called out some other very big גדולי עולם over many of the same issues (and then too, they suspected them of going further than they really did…) Be that as it may, my main point was that it isn’t OUR place to stick our little noses into מחלוקת between real גדולי עולם when we have no שייכות to being a מאן דאמר for either side.
HaLeiVi said – Yaakov Yosef A, you ask where the moderators are. However, when I tried being מוחה at one point for the very inappropriate manner in which anti Lubavitch spoke of the Lubavitcher Rebbe, a moderator responded with ‘how do you know he’s a Gadol’.
Let’s say they ‘don’t know if he is a Gadol’. (If someone would write here similar trash about the Rov of a local Shtiebel in Boro Park, or a third-tier Rosh Yeshiva, I don’t think it would fly as easily, but let’s say they really ‘don’t know’.) My Rebbe said about such situations ספק דאורייתא להחמיר, certainly safek of up to 31 דאורייתא mentioned in the Hakdama of the Chofetz Chaim, especially ביזוי תלמידי חכמים which is exceedingly severe. The threshold for triggering an issur of בזיון is much lower than being a ‘Gadol’.
No one even tried to offer a serious response to either of these posts, and I don’t think any more is necessary. Wishing you the best, and זאל זיין געזונט.