The Rebbe�s Uriah moment

REMBRANDT, David and Uriah, 1665, The Hermitage, Leningrad.

Chaykl Vilner: I read on your blog and all the discussions surrounding Barry Gourary�s library case. For example Schneur Zalman of NY wrote about the "non human" family�. By the time you add up all the facts about the only nephew who was as close to the Rebbe as his own son, beating of the Rebbetzin Chana, etc. if you a honest person you have to say that it was all supra natural (see A Rebbeshe Zach or a third way of looking at the Barry Gourary controversy).
Tzemach Atlas: I think that for the Lubavitcher Rebbe as for Dovid Hamelch this was his Uriah moment. Before this picture was published one might have though that it was a punch, but no, this was a beating to kill. One can only inflict these wounds after repeated sustained punches. So one has to sit back and ask if the building, the library, the siddur is worth murdering an old woman who was a daughter of the Pervious Rebbe? This is your fundamental Dostoyevsky question.
Chaykl Vilner: You mean that if you are the Rebbe than you have to ask yourself if the Previous Rebbe (who was alive at the time) approved of an attempted murder of his daughter and a fight with his only grandchild, all in the name of a building in Brooklyn and some valuable books? We know there were more valuable books stolen on the day of Rebbe�s wedding in Warsaw (see RASHAB's books and the Rebbe).
Tzemach Atlas: Exactly. And then suppose you discover that this terrible beating has been perpetrated. Is your first instinct to hide the person who beat the Rebbetzin so badly? And then the question that we will never know the answer: did they ask the Rebbe, as Chasidim should, before the bocher was shipped oversees in the middle of Shabbos?
Chaykl Vilner: Perhaps it was his Uriah moment.
9 of AV, 5765

UPDATE: Schneur Zalman of NY comments to the Rebbetzen's older sister post:

The whole issue of the bad beating of the daughter of the Rayaatz by a Lubavitcher bachur - a Tommim - no less on Shabbas has never been dealt with by the elders of the Crown Heights community. Let�s forget about the books, but the etzem fact that this could happen on Shabbas by a Tomim against the Rebbe's daughter an old lady in 770 as the Rebbe called the building Beth Aguch has never been dealt with in terms of a cheshbon hanefesh, by all Lubavitcher chassidim world over. The fact that the bachur has never been sanctioned, etc. does not add to the kavod of Lubavitch either. I must add that the whole war against Mrs. Gourary, Barry, etc. is not the finest chapter in Chabad history. The facts that the beating happened on Shabbes in 770 committed by a tomim against Rebbetzin Gourary close to 90 years old can not be denied. Instead of all sorts of billboards and other PR tricks, perhaps Lubavitch today should take stock, do a cheshbon hanefesh on this matter. So far I only sense denial.