“That’s not from the Frierdiker Rebbe. That’s from the Alter Rebbe’s sons in their first print of the Shulchan Aruch HaRav.”
I never said it was from the Friedriker Rebbe; I just said we don’t hold of it. Don’t you think if that was widely accepted you would see other Chassidim holding by the S”A HaRav? The story exists only within the Chabad mesorah and it is constantly promulgated as historical fact. In your defense, I don’t think it’s out of malicious intent. I think there are things/stories that Lubavitchers believe that they assume everyone else also believes (or at least all other Chassidim).