Reply To: Confusion on Lubavitch.

Baseless as it may be, most poskim hold that it’s not apikorsus to believe that the lubavitcher rebbe – or rav shach for that matter – was moshiach. This would allow consumption of messianic lubavitchers’ meat and wine. Rav Menasheh klein held that it was apikorsus and that lubavitcher meat/wine would be problematic as a result. My rebbe Rav Belsky told me directly that the OU checks every lubavitcher shochet to see if he is an elohist, a believer in atzmus ideology. I hope this standard is still in place 5 years after his petirah.