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Tomim – “is because we have zero respect for them, because they do not deserve any honor, because they went against the Nesi Yisroel”,
Look, I respect you guys, I admire and even love you folks, but you are crossing the line here!
Don’t you dare speak against the Sar HaTorah!
If he did not see eye to eye with your Rebbe, so what?
The Talmud is filled with heated machlokes of the greatest ta’anoim (even placing some in cherem due to machlokes) but does that demean their gadlus in Torah?!
Did the talmidim of one Ta’na insult the other ta’na?!
I will stand up fiercely against anyone that dares say a negative word against your Rebbe who was a Gadol and Tzaddik (as everyone honest knows), but I will equally howl at you for being disrespectful to my Gedolie Yisroel!
The Satmar Rebbe Reb Yoilish zt”l also disagreed with your Rebbe (especially about putting on tefillin on non-religious men), but they had mutual respect, even if they disagreed and did not see eye to eye.
Rav Hutner disagreed with your Rebbe about many issues, but they were chavrusos for many years, learning once a week (I think on Friday night when Rav Hutner lived in Brownsville – he would make the long walk).
Respect does not mean agreeing. You can disagree with others but still respect them.
I denigrate those that howl like dogs at Lubavitch. Don’t be like them by howling disrespectfully at my Gedolim!