Reply To: The world is in a state of Geula- and don’t misunderstand us!

Rso:
“Yes, that is hugely different. However, it is still problematic especially in lubavich where for the past 50 years everything has been, “The rebbe didn’t say it and no one else can make up their own views.” Who gave whichever mashpi’im the right to say that this type of (at the very least) questionable divination via the Igros is ok?”

I think I answered that already. Namely that people tried it to see if they could use it as one of the ways of the Rebbe getting back to them (as the Rebbe said about the FR), and as it worked and there is nothing wrong with it, it caught on.

“Btw, more in a comment to other lubavichers in the forum than to you, I find the claim that most lubavichers don’t believe in using Igros in that way strange. While I cannot claim that even most of the lubavichers that I know use the Igros, I have never before heard any lubavicher say that it is wrong.”

Agreed. The most I’ve heard is that they hold of using the iggros differently (in a way less applicable to my generation)