Pashuteh Yid: I’m sure Shlomo Carlbach continues to receive the s’char he deserves for all of his positive contributions to yiddishkeit and as I stated before, you can certainly consider him a Tzadik years after his p’tira.
Chazal say, the greater the person, the stronger his Yetzer Hara and as Shlomo always said, “The world is full of contradictions”.
But unfortunately, his weakness was the cause of a lot of hurt and many people turned away from frumkeit as a result.
And RabbiofBerlin: G’dolim can have disagreements with each other in shittos but that doesn’t take away from their saintliness and greatness, whether it’s the Lubavitcher Rebbe or Rav Kook or the Baal Shem Tov. But don’t put a performer in the same category.
And yes, SC was rejected not only by his Rosh Yeshiva in Lakewood; but also by Chabad in Crown Heights.
And to which Rosh Yeshiva do I pledge allegiance? You seem to know.