Reply To: Relive Hakhel!

Syag,

You’re right, we can’t just let people use whatever names we want for things. For that we have our gedolim. It is for this reason that I made it clear that this was started by the Lubavitcher Rebbe.

Meanwhile, no one had any substantial issue with Hakhel. Their only problem with it was that it has no support from Gedolim besides the Lubavitcher Rebbe, and they don’t consider the Rebbe to be a דעה.

In other words, they didn’t argue against my point at all, rather they just said that they don’t hold of the gadol who made this point, meaning that there is some sort of animosity to the Rebbe.

To this I expressed my disapointment that Yidden haven’t learned to accept that just because they don’t accept a certain gadol (either for a good reason, or out of ignorance, which I fear is usually the case) that doesn’t mean that they should bash others who do accept him and spread his teachings (obviously, in a respectful way. Like starting a topic on a forum).

If someone would have asked an actual Torah question on Hakhel, I would have never responded about achdus and ahavas yisroel. I would have researched the answer like any idea in Torah. If someone says “stop proselytizing what the Lubavitcher Rebbe says” – that seems to be sinas chinam.

Correct me if I’m wrong.

מפני קדושת המועד לא באתי עהח”ת