Rudderless

Esnaged commenting to Likkutei Maysim:

The Lubavitch world has fragmented since 1994 into an almost uncountable number of sub sects. The lunatic fringe has apparently developed an 'apotheosis theology' far in excess of any previously known since the days of osoh hoish. But even among 'mainstream' Chabad, there is such a bewildering array of beliefs about the late Rebbe that it is scarcely possible for an insider to ascertain what beliefs an individual owns, let alone someone from the non Chabad world.

This is obviously is a failure of leadership on a massive scale. An organization that always functioned totally at the behest of its leader is completely rudderless in its absence, and this splintering is the unfortunate result. It is hard to see how the disparate groupings could ever again combine, even in the unlikely event that a new leader was to emerge in the near future.