It doesn’t make sense to me that someone who learned chassidus and has read A DROP of the Rebbe’s value system (which is the chassidic value system which is the true Torah value system.)

Which the Rebbe repeated and repeated countless times How EVERY SINGLE JEW is a shliach and wherever Hashem has put you in this second is your mokom hashlichus and every second that Hashem gives you is for a shlichus…

How can lubavitchers look at life like the misnagdim, where you have the “talmidei chachomim” who are important to Hashem, and you have the simple non-important Jews.

It is kefirah in hashgocho protis.

The Rebbe begged in 5746 “I am asking the shpitz chabad not to play with my words. I say what I mean and I mean what I say. “אט דאס וואס איך מיין, אט דאס זאג איך” and then the Rebbe said “EVERY YID IS A SHLIACH OF NOSI DOREINU”

It seems the shpitz chabad still didn’t get it…

Moshiach NOW!!

And I would add, from personal experience, that it applies not only to those who DON’T go on shlichus, but equally to those who DO go on shlichus. If they go on shlichus, but don’t have these basics of hashkafa, then something is very “off” with the “Yiddishkeit” that they are spreading… If a person thinks that all of Yiddishkeit is to “feed” the “shlichus machine”, and nothing more, then there are big misconceptions. It’s not that Yiddishkeit was “created” for the purpose of providing parnasa for the shluchim. The OPPOSITE is true: the Shluchim were sent to spread YIDDISHKEIT.

A practical suggestion to the author: you’ve written the clearest article on the topic that I’ve personally ever come across.

You write “The stories we tell can be about erlicher business people, about fathers and mothers. When discussing topics like b’chol drachecha da’eihu we can make sure to give practical examples and draw on life experiences of people we know.”

Even for people who AGREE with you (such as myself), it might be difficult to come up with concrete ideas. Maybe share with us on this platform some of yours, to get everyone’s mind going.

It’s truly unfortunate that our Youth and Yungeliet and even many that are older, don’t realize that great and infinite value of being a Frum and Chassidishe Baal Habos and how much it matters to them, their families, and the community. As well as the tremendous Nachas and joy that it gives the Rebbe.

On a related topic. Unfortunately this extends itself to Limmud HaTorah as a separate topic for itself. Working in Chinuch, I very often hear of “at 16 this Bachurim feel that it’s already too late for them to learn how to properly learn” or “at 25 and married, he sees himself as not Shayach to learning. When it comes to learning, the system failed him and he failed the system”.

How can a 16 year old or even 25 year old say such a thing? At 25 a person has Baruch Hashem 40, 50, 60 or even more years left where they can dedicate some time every day to learning. They were only בן חמש עשרה לגמרא for 1 or 10 years (and only 7 or 16 years if they started Gemara at 9 years old) and they have 4, 5, 6, or more of as much time where they can still learn. Yes, they don’t have the כל כולו experience of a בחור. But they still have so much time.

In addition, now have the appreciation and desire for learning (that’s sadly leading them to feel down instead of inspired) and also a greater intellectual maturity which can help them in their learning.

The love the Baal Shem Tov had for the simple Yidden was unbelievably great. Today we have even more than that. Then, many of them struggled to even read, let alone understand anything at all. Today, a Baal Habos has access to so much, yet finds a way to feel bad that he’s “only” reading Chassidish Ma’asos, “only” learning Nach, “only” learning Mishnayos, etc.

If anything, today we have so much to be grateful for when it comes to our access and ability to learn Torah. The Yetzer Hara wants us even more than our actions, and so he finds a way to get us by making us feel down. If we overcome that, then Baruch Hashem there is so much good that we have today to use out and to be thankful to Hashem