Dear Always,
This was your post:
“n0 > That is the proper attitude of a talmid for a rebbe. Everything the rebbe says is unequivocally the Word of the Torah. (A wise student knows not to retain everything as is.)
This is not what some Tanna thought in pirkei avos – a sponge is a first option mentioned for those who sit in front of chachamim, but not the preferred.”
The words in the parenthesis were written with you in mind!
I disagree with a lot of the substance of your next post, but I won’t respond here. Chabad has swallowed everything else for the time being.