Looking at a leading Chabad-Lubavitch website recently, I admit I was surprised at a discussion I came across. It wasn't about some of better known problems within the group, such as drinking, messianism, et al.
Rather it was something new to me. Evidently among them there is a big problem of ניבול פה, using language improper for Orthodox Jews.
This is a group that claims to be the vanguard of Torah Judaism, of Hasidism, bringing Moshiach, yet they use vulgar language of bums in bars and on street corners.
And we learn that it is not just a new thing, that even in old Lubavitch, even mashpi'im used 'colorful' language.
Where does that come from? From the vodka? Farbrengens? Tanya? Likutei Sichos?
Of course, the giant Chabad Lubavitch propaganda machine, will not tell you about such things, but it is important for people to know the seamy side of Lubavitch, lest they be fooled by Yudel Krinsky and his minions at Chabad PR into wholly accepting the Disney-like fantasy image of the group that they disseminate.
Maybe instead of vodka at farbrengens, they should start giving out some soap.
May we be zoche בקרוב to true Yiddishkeit, and true פנימיות התורה, and be purged of all pretenders, and deceptions.
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I've spoken to several people who love Chabad and they all give the same reason,"Chabad accepts us as we are." We can then make a Kal V'Chomer. If Lubavichers accept, as perfect, Jews who are Mechallel Mitzvos, isn't it obvious that they'll view themselves as perfect? Therefore trying to give Mussar to Lubavichers is basically an exercise in futility. Chabad leaders starting with the Rebbe presented a completely distorted version of Judaism but one which is amenable to this fast food ,quick fix, generation.
ReplyDeleteThe main focus of posts like the above is to alert the Jewish world at large to a reality beyond the fantasy version of the propaganda being churned out by the Chabad Lubavitch PR machine. So people should not so easily be duped by it, with HKB"H's help. As the saying goes, 'you may fool some of the people some of the time, but you can't fool all of the people, all of the time'. As awareness grows of their tactics, G-d willing, the amount of people who fall for them will lessen, and past victims will wake up and realize that they've been had, and take corrective action.
ReplyDeleteNot only do I doubt that Lubavichers will ever see the light, but I don't hold out much hope for their supporters. Can you envision Dovid Lichtenstein saying All Chat? The Shabtai Tzvi story reminds us of the extent which people will go to to hold on to a lie, rather than to simply admit that they made a mistake.
DeleteYou never know. Sometimes the truth becomes so clear and overwhelming that the other side is swept away and concedes.
DeleteA freilechen Purim!
Chabad always had a collection of salty sayings, going back generations. They have dirty jokes from the first generation of CHassidim, toilet humor from the fourth Rebbe, and more. I don't want to propagate them, but it is certainly not a new issue. The last Rebbe was actually careful in his speech, but he was an anomaly, perhaps because he did not learn in Tomchei Temimim.
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