Just for your information. There is a Zohar in Parshas Bo, Os 126, I believe, that says on the pasuk Shalosh peamim bashana yeraeh kol zechurcha es pnai haadon hashem, as follows: Man pnei haadon hashem, da Rebbe Shimon ben Yochai…uvai l’ischazi kamei.
The pasuk says 3 times a year we are supposed to see the face of the Master, Hashem. The Zohar asks, who is the face of the Master, Hashem? This is Rebbe Shimon Bar Yochai and one must appear before him. Sounds very unusual to me, and not worse than something any Lubavitcher would say.