@sechel
by chassidim it was done for many generations, in ruzin, tzenabel habad etc…
[sechel]
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Absolutely not.
There was no ‘lets look for M candidate policy’ nor was there a ‘Lets promote the best candidate’ policy in any of these places.
Nowadays there is no zeher of such a policy in ANY of the many rizhine hasiduyot.
Not a zeher.
Nor is there any zeher of this in Tsjernobil.
Nor in any of the other Tsj. offshoots like rachmestrivk or skver etc
In habad of yore , in Russia were they busy with any of these meshigas ?
I am not talking about what a few hasidim might have said between themselves after they had one vodka too much.
I am talking about a hasidut wide obsession. Which they are mehaneh their offspring with.
New generations who never saw their leader as a human being.
They only hear about him as some sort of God clothed in human form.
Who knows where this going to lead in another few generations ….