“19 Kislev has always been celebrated in chabad with seudos, yom tov clothing, no tachnun etc. This was passed down by tradition through the 7 Chabad Rebbes and generations of Chabad families”
“It is true, however, that there is more of a fuss nowadays in regards to 19 Kislev, but that is the case with every long-held initiative Chabad offers nowadays, the reason being that the Rebbe, in general, always brought Chabad’s ideas to a much broader scale than his predecessors
Yechi, these two statements are contradictory. But it seems you agree that the last lubavitcher rebbe infalted this and other practices in chabad to a much more dramatic level.
Every year, missionaries from crown heights would come to my yeshiva on ya”t Kislev, uninvited, to a yeshiva that is not in their community. I’d spend a few minutes bashing their messianic fantasies and their arrogance in saying that their way is superior. I’d tell them, how would you feel if i came into 770 and started preaching that everyone must learn nefesh hachaim(some missionaries didn’t even know what that sefer is).
Other yeshivos weren’t as kind. They’d just throw them out or threaten to call the police if they didn’t leave.