by teaching them to see Chabad through suspicion before they ever learned it from its own sources.
That was not Torah greatness.
Torah and ahavas Yisrael are united.
Rav Shach z”l was a great Rosh Yeshiva and made lots of good wonderful choices.
A person can know a lot of Torah and still fail to represent the greatness of Torah when his influence trains Jews to mistrust other Jews instead of learning, understanding, and caring about them.
Rav Shach z”l had other foolish beliefs like “give away land for peace”, “relate to secular Jewish people through hate.”
If Torah greatness means control over a yeshiva world, Rav Shach z”l was greater. If Torah greatness means opening the depth of Torah, Talmud, Chassidus, Tanach, Rambam, and Jewish thought to the whole Jewish people, Rabbi Adin Even-Yisrael Steinsaltz z”l was greater.
The Lubavitcher Rebbe z”l is in a different category of leadership and he taught more then 70,000 pages of teachings to support his worldview.
“The ego does not always tell a person to stop learning Torah. Sometimes it encourages the student to restrict his studies to abstract Talmudic subjects and to avoid those books that would inspire change.” – Rabbi DovBer of Mezritch
“Rav Shach misguided more than 100,000 Orthodox Jews about Chabad Chassidus.”
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Related guides:
How does Chassidus explain the Creator? https://nextself.ai/spirituality/the-word-god-is-a-descriptive-name/
The 13 principles of faith by the Rambam have to be understood through Chabad Chassidus to be healing for the nervous system: https://nextself.ai/spirituality/beliefs-are-not-only-an-idea/ –
Generational trauma means living with and managing a broken nervous system.
Jealousy had to be repaired before Sinai: https://nextself.ai/spirituality/from-murder-to-mount-sinai/
If people were jealous of Moshes leadership in the desert, it was probably worse in Egypt, if spiritual giants guided people to be against Moses after Sinai, there was likely more of that happening in Egypt.
why is it hard to change unhealthy beliefs? https://nextself.ai/spirituality/ever-wonder-why-its-so-hard-to-leave-a-dysfunctional-system/
When the nervous system is stuck in trauma, it plays scary fantasies all the time: https://nextself.ai/spirituality/abusive-thinking-doesnt-appear-out-of-nowhere/
“And there is even a hidden gift in being misguided.
When a person wakes up,
they often feel a deep motivation
to help others who fell into the same place.”
– based on a teaching of the Rebbe.
How to identify the leader of the generation: https://nextself.ai/spirituality/the-talmud-and-midrash/