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If you didn't believe what has long been known and revealed (here and elsewhere) of the deep and historic connection between Chabad-Lubavitch "Chassidus" and hitting the bottle, here are some additional illustrations that just came to light to consider.
1) Breathalyzer project:
The Chabad-Lubavitch drinking culture is very revealing of the sect.
2) Female Chabadskers joining in:
The problem is not limited to male members of their faith (!).
This is not some outsider making this up, this is coming from insiders of Chabadianity, longtime practitioners of Lubavitchism.
ב"ה, thank G-d I was raised Jewishly, with traditional Torah attitude in this area.
Chaim Dalfin, a prominent Lubavitcher author/speaker/propagandist recently issued and disseminated impassioned, forceful pleas against the deep-rooted major problem of drinking and drunkenness in the Chabad-Lubavitch faith, among his fellow "Chasidim".
You can see from how he speaks how deep rooted and widespread the problem is. Even when their late leader tried to reign it in, he was not successful.
Note the large amount of comments and heated reactions as well.
Will a sect of bearded drunkards bring Moshiach? Would you be interested in an investment opportunity in an old landmark bridge in Brooklyn perhaps?
Interestingly, Dalfin's family is relatively new to the Chabad-Lubavitch faith, having converted from Vizhnitz Hasidism in the post WWII period.
May הקב"ה open our eyes and guide us in the proper Torah way, and may the confused, both individuals and sects, return to true Judaism.
Prominent rabbis, Litvish, Yekkish, Chasidish, speak out clearly in warning.
More fallout from false and dangerous fantasies spread by TYH group and others, notions that lay the ground for predation and victimization of the naive, G-d forbid.
Follow the old Torah and true Rabbis, reject the dangerous new TYH presudo-Judaism nonsense.
How low has Chabad-Lubavitch fallen? How low will they stoop for some PR and politicking?
I was quite surprised to see that no less than an official spokesman for them, who tweets with the handle @Chabad Lubavitch, recently hosted a Ramadan Iftar meal in Crown Heights. Now I understand wanting good relations with other groups, that is admirable, however, it is our way to maintain a separation in the religious sphere.
Not only that, he was joined by Belzer and Agudath Israel representatives at the event as well.
This shows the hefkeirus in Chabad-Lubavitch nowadays. No living Rebbe, איש הישר בעיניו יעשה. Where is Yudel Krinsky, Shemtov, etc.? A lone voice protested online, but otherwise there seemed to be just silence along with support from a major Chabad-Lubavitch outlet.
Does Agudath Israel not exercise oversight over its representative? Belz? It's true that their participation raises serious questions as well, however, it seems that they just joined, while Chabad-Lubavitch was the driving force behind it.
Get together with others, work together for good things, sure. But there are still certain boundaries set by our faith and rabbis, that stay in place.
Does anyone think that the late Lubavitcher Rebbe would endorse such a thing?
What will Chabad do next? Host an Easter egg roll on the lawn of 770?
May we be zoche to תשובה שלמה and שלום על ישראל בקרוב.
The massive Chabad-Lubavitch propaganda apparatus endeavors to spread among the population various deceptions, such as 1) Chabad-Lubavitch is normative Torah Judaism, 2) Chabad-Lubavitch is normative Chasidism, 3) Chabad-Lubavitch is the vanguard, the leaders of Judaism/Chasidism, 4) Their leader is the leader of the Jewish people (נשיא הדור), 5) They respect, love, get along with every Jew, etc., etc. The truth however, is at variance with these claims.
Let us just examine now one of the multiple, or should I say manifold, Chabad deceptions.
Let us see how Chabad-Lubavitch views Jews that do not belong to their sect, in the words of no less than the sixth and seventh leaders of the Chabad-Lubavitch faith, their late Rebbe Menachem Mendel Schneerson, and his predecessor and father-in-law, their late Rebbe Joseph Isaac (Yosef Yitzchok) Schneerson.
The context of this revelation is a book of guidance for matchmaking and marriage based on Chabad-Lubavitch teachings, in which the following appears under a heading inquiring about there being Possibly Someone Better Non-Anash (meaning non Lubavitch)?
Question: What about a Non-Lubavitch shidduch/match?
Answer of Rebbe Mendel Schneerson, seventh Chabad-Lubavitch Rebbe -
There is a well known saying of my father in law, the previous Rebbe, that our ziburyos (worst) is better than their idiyos (best).
The Hebrew - Yiddish version can be seen here, letter 673.
So there you have it. The contempt of Rebbe Joseph Isaac Schneerson for non-Chabad, echoed by his son-in-law Rebbe Menachem Mendel.
Despite all the propaganda, whether old or new (like a recent hagiography by Chabad-Lubavitch propagandist David Eliezrie on Rebbe Yosef Yitzchok), beyond the noise, the PR made for naive and unknowing outsiders, the words written for insiders reveal the true face of the beliefs of the sect.
Know the truth and don't be duped by the Chabad-Lubavitch fraudsters.
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