You have put into words the inner hearts and feelings of thousands of Chabad chassidim, shluchim and Anash.

Merkos et al. has no more of an effect on our lives than a Maggid shiur at a mesivta that we didn’t know existed. They’re both tyrer yidden whom I love but have no immediate bearing on my everyday Avodah, Shlichus or Family life.

We are the leaders. We are the Rebbe. The Rebbe is the Rebbe, Nosi hu hakol. Moshiach Tzidkeinu.

Take up the helm and bring Moshiach now!

The fact that each chossid devotes himself to other Yidden has nothing to do with organizational and political issues. A true chossid doesn’t care about power and politics.

Thank you! For not being afraid to see what needs to be said. Loving every Jew does not mean that we pretend Emes and Sheker are all the same.

On the contrary,
Up until the rebbe rashab,
There was more of an individual stress,

But ever since the establishment of tomchei temimim, as the vanguard who would secure the flourishing of judaism,
The rebbe gave us the title of חיילי בית דוד

And as an army, we have a collective spirit.

Anyone who wants to separate between the individual and the klal, is being עוקר
The very fundamentals,.

The rebbe spoke many sichos about hakhel, and how we need to unite the jewish people.

Now this doesnt mean that each person should be a decision maker,
But on a general level the people in charge need to know what an achrayus they have

Calling something which is divisive and controversial “politics” not bashmutzing or uninformed commentary, it is a neutral description of the events. It’s ironic that the commentator and the writer of the article bemoan the very same thing -“undermining the very concept of leadership in our community”. The focus of the article was how to deal with a sense of abandonment and lack of leadership, by harnessing one’s own duty to the Rebbe.

I agree with Rabbi Schmerling’s point and I agree with the article. The points are not mutually exclusive. As someone who also was disappointed at least about the optics of the unfortunate event, I found encouragement from the article’s main point, that the focus of the Rebbe’s involvement in our lives should be more about the individual than the collective. I’ll add a point of chizuk I told myself after feeling very farekelt. Have lower expectations and you won’t be disappointed.

The majority of the life of a chossid revolves around learning nigleh and Chassidus, davening, and leading his family etc. They need a rov/mashpia to guide them in those. Grand organizations, as important as they are, play no role in the life of a normal chossid.

Having every person thinking about “Lubavitch as a whole” (instead of his own avodas Hashem) is a problem we have, not a good thing.

The point of the article was not about a specific incident. It touches on a fundamental question on who constitutes the “leadership” of our community. Is it the chassidishe Yidden? Or the askonim who do organizational work?

Regardless of one’s opinion about what transpired, publicly criticizing and bashmutzing the Rebbe’s Aguch crosses a line. The writer himself admits he doesn’t fully understand what took place — and neither do most of us — yet still calls it “political.” That kind of uninformed commentary risks undermining the very concept of leadership in our community.

We can disagree respectfully, but publishing something like this should have been beneath Anash.org’s standards.

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My Gemorah, Shulchan Aruch and Chassidus Mevueres are not Kehos seforim, is that a reason not to know about them?

The shliach clearly meant that the role and job description of Aguch is not relevant to his avodah.

The statement “Everything the Rebbe said and did was for a reason, for our benefit; to get us to The revolution of moshiach…To say that Aguch (from the friediker rebbe is “not relevant ” to you is disrespectful at best……” implying everything the Rebbe did must be relevant to everyone, is just wrong. If a 60 year old woman would say the Rebbe’s horo’os to yeshiva bochurim has nothing to do with my avodah, it is not disrespectful…

We can see this
On many fronts –
From the charedi yid
Who recognizes the
Need of mivtza tefillin
To the israeli government.

And i think it
Is only a tiny amount of time
Before the rebbe will
Conquer us all.

Never heard of it either, and i doubt too many of my chaverim from oholei torah in the 90s ever heard of it.

One correction… Chabad is Rebbe! (Which is in seforim, ala Rebbe Rashab)