Reply To: Clarification to mod and DaMoshe

Gadol hadofi,

“ CS,

So while you admit that most of chabad believes the Rebbe, zt”l, niftar three decades ago, is mashiach and that they declare this by plastering “yechi” over everything from yarmulkes to billboards, it’s not an obsession. Nothing to see here, let’s all just move on?

Sorry, nobody’s buying. It’s a dangerous obsession and significantly detracts from much of the good chabad does.”

It’s not a general obsession because of the lack of education within lubavitch on the topic, and also because even when we do find the education, it’s considered something to keep hush hush. You’re right, naturally it would be outspoken. In that way, we’re lucky we have the meshichists who while not completely balanced to what The Rebbe expected in many cases (at least to my limited observation, and obviously there are exceptions), balance the imbalance that “mainstream” lubavitch has by allowing the hush hush mentality, which is definitely not where we should be at today.

The Rebbe focused on hafotzas hamaayanos for many decades, but the last year or so we had (where he prepared us for our unique stage today), he said that focus today needs to be welcoming moshiach and to do everything we do, Torah, mitzvos, shlichus etc with that intention. Much of lubavitch unfortunately isn’t plugged in to this today due to factors mentioned.