Groners - live as caricature, die as caricature

People who were assigned a role of caricature in life, are destined to be stripped of real selves in death. The Australian Groner’s passing is just a warm up for the beautification of the assorted feudal lords in the Chabad cosmos. People whose life has been marked by bulling, hording, pathological nepotism, paranoia, crudeness of character amongst the multiple job hazards are now sanctified in death. No, this would not be an occasion for a single voice to suggest that the Head Shlichus was an abusive, stifling institution. Yet the Heads will be measured by the quarreling clans, the controversial legacy and the dead cult of personality to which they clung and emulated.