about Chabad Chassidus 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 was a great Rosh Yeshiva.
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 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 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 was greater.
The Lubavitcher Rebbe is in a different category of leadership.
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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/
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/
