tfaceBURN
“The story goes that after being released he was taken to the wrong apartment and instead of being in the house of a chosid he was in the house of a misnged where he was forced to debate his host for three hours and defend chasidus. He later famously said that those three hours were worse than the entire time he spent in prison. This happened on Kislev 20.
Now the fact is that there is no source for this story other than the writings of the Frierdicke Rebbe Rav Yoseph Yitzchok and no one had heaerd of it for more than 100 years until he came around.
When I was in Lubavitch I used to believe it just as I believed all the other fantasies I was told. Now not only don’t I believ it but I think it’s disgusting to put those words in the Baal haTanya’s mouth just so that the gullible chasidim can get drunk an extra day and hate misnagdim even more than they had.”
Just a small questiont faceBURN yes or no, are you arguing with the friediker Rebbe and saying that this story is false? And if yeah (which I hope not, just I don’t see that in your words) who are you to say such a thing?. Not only that, you say that “it’s disgusting” for the friediker Rebbe to put words in the Bal hatanyas mouth.
Btw I have been to around five chabad Farbrengens in this past two days and I haven’t seen any bochur drunk ( the Rebbe made a gizerah that the people under 40 can’t drink more than 4 kelishklach). And at least when they do drink it’s at and only by a frum and chassidiche atmosphere (not like when the litvaks drink, like you see especially in Israel).
I’m really sorry to see your comment is just out of hate. I really don’t think it’s your fault at all just might be the atmosphere you were brought up.