The original question was “what you think about his music, his Nussach hatefillah and, lastly, his derech in ahavas yisroel”
All the answers here have been as controvosial as the man himself. His music had / has great followers and those who don’t particularly like it. His method of kiruv was also controvosial – some agreed with his derech and others not.
However he did have a great love of Hashem which he showed in his own inimitable way.
I did not reply to the original post as I felt for someone who proclaimed to be such a great follower and called him a ‘Tzadik’ it was wrong to post the question knowing full well the answers it would draw – this is not respect for your Tzadik, but hey if everyone else is I’ll jump on the bandwagon as well.
I don’t like the music, I don’t like the hippy cult like following and I don’t like people compromising halacha in the name of kiruv and I can comment here because I am involved in kiruv and I do not compromise in any way whatsoever any halacha (or at least I hope I don’t. P.S. I don’t think I’m small minded either and as for influencing thousands of yiden back to yiddishkeit so does SEED,AISH, Lubavitch and countless other worldwide organisations and people