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Menachem Shmei
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>>>Rabbi Miller said he wasn’t a Gadol and I agree with him

And the Rebbe said publicly that he lacks yiras shamayim and isn’t a tzaddik.

Does this change my perspective of him?
Of course! I think much more highly of him!

We call this anivus.

See for example the incredible anivus of the Bal Haturim in his introduction:
“I have no understanding… nor have I learned any chochma. I have no knowledge, I know nothing. However, despite all that was concealed from me, this is the work of Hashem… ”

The Sifsei Chachomim in his introduction:
“I cannot talk great things, because דרך נשים לי ודעתי קלה, I don’t have the power to stand in the chamber of the rabbis…”