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@sechel. why are you asking me that? Anyway,one of them is a big askan in crown heights… not a lamdan but a big askan. (This is a public forum, i cant say whom)
@daasyochid. There is no reason given to not sleep in sukkah.
@dasyochid. i dont know what you said.
@knaidlach. just to provide the theory with a real life example. I have heard from a couple of lubavitchers (VERY VERY few to be honest but one is to much, HEY, the people in lakewood dont care, its YOUR community) that its okay to daven in front of a picture…
@knaidlich. what i meant to say is the focus on the rebbe as an all powerful being. not someone who is devoted to his teachings and derech in avodas hashem and ahavas yisroel, but those that see hiskashrus to the rebbe as an IKKAR in YIDDISHKEIT. Such a focus automatically causes misunderstandings in the generation that cant differentiate between the rebbe as a holy man and continues to have a spiritual effect on the world and someone to live by his teachings to GOD Almighty himself. not to mention the impression it has on baalei teshuvas (at least in the beginning stages of the their teshuvah journey)
The reason as to why they were not machmir is definitely not warped. And a chassidic explanation was given. And as you say, the issue of not sleeping in sukka is not an issue. There is a substantial HETER. (whether in north america or anywhere else in the world, the basis of the heter can remain the same and see the many heterim mentioned by Rabbi Gavriel Tzinner.) And Chassidim will definitely be “mehader” to utilize a limmud zchus provided by their Rebbe as much as figuratively possible. NOW THINK AND READ AGAIN BEFORE YOU RESPOND!
@neville-myself. is your issue that you think the heter is warped or that they say they are better than those that do sleep? if its the former then check out the sicha where the lubavitch Rebbe explains it not as a heter but as a reasoning as to why the chassidim were machmir on shehakol but not machmir on shina bssukah. in other words its not exactly a heter and not even a limmud zchus in the conventional sense. (perhaps this is what username meant to say.)
But i agree that the over focus on the rebbe in chabad circles is a major issue and can lead to something “interesting” things to say the least.
comparing sleeping in sukkah to tefillin in ANY way, is ridiculous.
I would like to add another difference between the mitzvah of putting on tefillin and sleeping in sukkah. The mitzvah to put on tefillin is to put on tefillin, and the mitzvah of sleeping in sukkah is part of the all encompassing chiyuv of “teishvi k”ein taduru”, therefore we are “koiveia” the bracha of “leisheiv bassukah” on the eating and not on the sleeping.
This is my bewilderment: If one has a minhag to not fulfill a mitzvah and he is unable to find a substantial Heter then he would still be mechuyav to fulfill the mitzvah regardless of the baloney he received in his community. As far as i remember, RSo said that he has no issue with the minhag per se but with the “warped”(in his understanding) explanation that the Lubavitch Rebbe provided to explain the Heter in Halachik terms. (am i correct on that?) I take issue with that outlook on yiddishkeit. I may have a very holy and ancient minhag to not keep shabbos, but as long as i keep it in the realm of MINHAG and don’t bluff that it has a halachik and legal basis, then im alright?! am i missing something here RSO?
@rso, did you not say before that you have no issue with the minhag of sleeping in sukkah?