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Eli Y
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RSo: “Could you perhaps give me some names of prominent chassidim who have opposed it vehemently?”

I’ll bet you a cream cheese bagel w/lox that this info cannot be provided as long as we define a “prominent Lubavitcher” as one who davens at 770 and visits the Ohel.

RSo: “I can accept someone searching for the lubavitcher rebbe’s view on a question/topic, but that is nothing like writing a question, putting it in a page at random in the igros, and then getting the answer from that page”.

The quality of the letters we are speaking of are in regard to questions such as “should I move to FL to open a pre-school or should I remain in NY as a civil service lawyer”. The Rebbe could answer two similar letters in entirely different ways.

I’m not sure we agree on some very basic foundational principles so I ask you:

1. Do you agree that a Tzaddik can operate in ways beyond what we perceive as natural laws?

2. Do you agree that the Rebbe was a Tzaddik?