But that was cuz it was Shabbos

If only there would be a real transformation and true expansion of 770!!

My wish is that they should at least be wordless. They can show off their shtick without exploiting the holy words of Torah and Tefilla.

I don’t claim to be an expert, but back then many children in Beis Rivkah came from not Lubavitch homes outside of Crown Heights. The question is can you make more expectations of a family that lives in Crown Heights and considers themselves Lubavitch.

however, the method presented doesnt seem to be the Rebbe’s method in general, as we are always very wary of refusing children from attending our mosdos. and should someone say that this doesn’t apply in crown heights, the following anecdote will clarify:

(I have not personally verified this story, but I’ve heard it with more details that are not being shared here that make it seem true) – in the late 5740s, there was strong interest among very well-meaning people in CH leadership to create a policy that families who send their children to beis rivkah cannot have a tv in their home, and Rabbi Hodakov fully vetoed it.

This shiur needs to be broadcast in every lubavicher shul, school and yeshiva.

I cannot recommend this strongly enough.

There’s no general solution for this.

To aim at a standard is by definition to lose focus on our individuals. There’s a time and a place for that but that time is not this time – Because it just cannot be done.

Our Rabbonim have no secular authority – so forcing people to adhere to a standard is out of our hands.

Sending a young adult out of town to CH is dangerous and foolish or uplifting and inspired depending on the circumstances of those directly involved.

This isn’t yeush. This is recognizing the mission of the hour – one yid at at time.

In the last sentence I assume you meant to say “FAR from Harav Kazarnovsky”. Exactly right

Different topic for a different article.

the fact remains that this is one of the things that puts some people off associating with Lubavitch. Something that the Rebbe already warned about in the 5740s.

You don’t have to visit them to obtain a Shulchan Aruch, but you can and should be inspired by how they actually live that Shulchan Aruch and improve your own avodah thereby. איזהו חכם הלומד מכל אדם. (And you can also dispose of the פרעמדע label.)

Thank you from the bottom of my heart, it gives me the strength to continue!

So to reach that point, we have to drop the “us vs. them” mentality. The same way as there’s no particular “team” as far as, say, Chovos Halevavos, the same way there should be no particular “team” as far as Tanya. Or Daf Yomi. Etc.

Thank you very much!

Yes, it’s there.

The point of the article seems to be that our closed minded shtoltzkeit made us frei and we should be more like the rest of the קהילות החרדים. Im saying that taking a caricature of a bad lubavitcher and a good poilisher doesnt mean lubavitch is any different. Lets get more specific here. I could make my own caricature. A lubavitcher with a blue shirt and a smartphone who does chitas and rambam and keeps mitzvos behiddur and a satmer chossid who doesnt put on tefillin every day and dresses the way hes supposed to to keep up appearances. But these people dont exist. I made them up to prove a point on the internet.

No. Shulchan aruch is obviously important. But pretending we have to go visit the neighbours to find a shulchan aruch isnt accurate. My shtoltz is that if I see a lubavitcher I who doesnt do the right thing my problem is not with calling him “chabad” and it isnt מעורר ספיקות about my choices in life. My problem is that he doesnt do what the Eibishter wants.

Classic disproportionatism! Making a whole to do about one line! Just proves the point!

Why assume this is political?
The author’s argument isn’t about politics—it’s that any specific focus or practice loses its meaning when it gets detached from the core fundamentals of avodas Hashem.

Yeshus is not exclusive to any particular group and BH Lubavitch has a healthy dose too.

The solution to abuse of power is not to do away with standards and authority (that’s what leftist liberals do and it destroys society – socialism instead of capitalism). Standards are critical to the success of a society and community, even though it runs the risk of yeshus.

The solution is to work on our middos by learning Heichaltzu and real avoda.