Reply To: Question of an ignorant, closed-minded Lubavitcher

Avram,

>>> First I want to express that I appreciate your willingness…

Thanks, I try.

>>>I was in a mainstream Chabad shul a few weeks ago and saw a fellow with a photo of the rebbe on his shtender while he was davening.

I think that this doesn’t enter the minds of most Lubavitchers, all Lubavitchers that I know consider this unacceptable, and this is the chinuch that is given.

I’m always shocked when people claim that Chabad schools have the children face a picture of the Rebbe when they daven, and the like.
I went to an ultra-Chabad cheder, all Yiddish, no secular studies at all for all ages (no math, English, etc.), very “Rebbe-centered”.
In third grade, a student had a picture of the Rebbe near him during davening (I don’t think it was intentional), and the rebbi gave a lecture how this is not allowed, as well as how the Rebbe didn’t allow for his picture in the Kfar Chabad beis medrash. (Suprisingly, some yeshivos do have his picture on the wall of the beis medrash, but I have never seen on on mizrach side. Always in the back).
This is the regular education that I and everyone I know has received throughout the years.