SHY wrote: “Secondly, this story is said throughout the Chasidishe velt, I myself have heard it from other Chassidim.”
Quite possibly. But where did they get it from if not from a lubavitch source? I myself tell stories that I have heard about lots of tzaddikim but I can’t vouch for them especially if a story about the Ploni Rebbe was told by his grandson.
And the Baal HaTanyas opposition to Napoleon is recorded by him, himself.”
Yes. It was. But the story about the tekias shofor has no source other than lubavitch (I could be wrong as I haven’t read every storyin every book, but please show me an external source if you can), so to quote it to prove anything about lubavitch is circular reasoning.
And still no reply about using hidden pictures as kedushah/segulah…