My entering the fray so late in the piece – and this is the second time that has happened – makes me think that I am suffering some sort of time-delay. I have no idea why I miss the beginnings of these threads.
Be that as it may, here are my two cents.
Yaakov Yosef A: My real point is that no one posting here has any ?????? to being a ?? ?????? with the Lubavitcher Rebbe. Period.
It’s not a matter of being a ?? ??????. It’s calling out patently false views made by an individual whose claims are not only outlandish but dangerous to Klal Yisroel. I am not c”v comparing the L rebbe to Shabsi Tzvi, but had you been around 400 years ago would you have said it is not our business to dispute (and denigrate) S”T because he was a big talmid chochom and we therefore have no ?????? to being his ?? ???????
I once heard in the name of a R Bunim of Peshisscha that the reason for the decline of yir’as Shomayim in Germany was that they were too ‘careful’ in regards to Lashon Hara. That is, when someone pointed out the dangers of certain groups of Yidden and their views, they were silenced as one is not allowed to talk Lashon Hara. This then led to the dangerous views spreading and eventually eroding the yir’as Shomayim of the populace.
All this is aside from the fact that no Lubavitcher could care less what anyone here think
That is SO not true! Every single Lubavicher that I have ever met over more than the last fifty years is focused on spreading the word of how great their rebbe was/is, and it really irks them if someone doesn’t believe that he was/is the tzaddik hador.
My Rebbe said about such situations ??? ???????? ??????, certainly safek of up to 31 ???????? mentioned in the Hakdama of the Chofetz Chaim, especially ????? ?????? ????? which is exceedingly severe. The threshold for triggering an issur of ????? is much lower than being a �Gadol�.
That’s fine when the question is merely, is someone a gadol or not. But when the question is whether the supposed-gadol has views that are dangerous and misleading, your rebbe’s rule does not apply, even according to the Chofetz Chaim.