Discussion of man's role in this world
Schneur Zalman of NY comments to mentalblog.com: No-one goes near Chabad with a ten foot pole:
Although I agree with the comments here, there is more than meets the eye. Indeed Chabad has gone off the deep end in the last 15 years. I won't argue there. But the fact that the Yeshiva world (As I have remarked many times these people are not Lithuanian Jews they are of Yekke, Hungarian or American Young Israel or BT extraction and backgrounds except for the roshe yeshiva there are few Litvishe talmidim in this world)) gets along with Ger, Belz or Bobov means nothing. The only Chassiduth that stresses Chassiduth as a derech hachaim and the intense study of Ruchnius al pi Nistar is essentially Chabad and Bratzlov. And both are disliked by the Yeshiva world. They also disliked Shlomo Carlebach, Shloime Twerski, and others who talk in a ruchniusdike lashon and actually talk about G-D, man their relationship etc. Spirituality and the yeshiva are not a "pohr" as we say in Yiddish. I think one can sit in the yeshiva world for weeks without a serious discussion of man's role in this world and what G-D seeks here.




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