Aww your great but a bit too sharp I’d say normally. But here I think there is a place for it. People who have no clue of Chassidus are paskening on the Rebbe and Chassidus, expecting us to bring sources for everything we say, which they then promptly dismiss because “they” think it doesn’t fit with what they think of Chabad or Yiddishkeit, without bothering to bring a counter source. And these chutzpinyaks dare to place themselves on the same footing as the Rebbe to judge if he is a frum Jew?! Such craziness warrants a real sharp response. As for me, I can’t share here in such a crazy environment where people take half a sentence, pasken its shitfus because that’s what feels right, don’t bother to reply to the sources brought or bring their own, or ask further on what isn’t clear – that would be a serious productive discussion, and if all else fails, counter with 5 new questions…
Anyhow there is a site that answers many such questions with respected Mashpiim within Chabad in short videos called stump the Rabbi – I invite you serious people to check it out.
Bubbyo you sound sincere except for the chutzpah of the above attitude so I’ll respond to a point:
Shitfus is when something says serve me IN ADDITION or INSTEAD OF Hashem. Not when Hashem Himself decides to make tzaddikim His partners in running the world – like all the miracle stories of tzaddikim you hear, just one example – how Hashem left the option of Napoleon or Czar winning the war up to which tzadik would blow shofar first – because in these cases its HASHEM’S system, not a rival one.
By your understanding, it must be very hard to understand the posuk that says “Three times a year all your males should see the face of Hashem your G-d in the place He chose…”
Because according to this sort of understanding, anywhere Hashem reveals Himself becomes shitfus and avoda zara so this we should be forbidden from visiting the Beis Hamikdash, because maybe we’ll think the mountain is god.
I know that’s ridiculous. It’s also ridiculous to say the same about a tzadik.