"::As to the first point: I am not denying that there are heretics in Lubavitch. I am asking why you feel this is somehow more important than those in your own synagogue? Why is this suddenly something that needs to be brought up in every conversation about Chabad? Why is Chabad so different than any other Jewish group? As far as the second point: how many Chasidic leaders do you know? How strong is your Yiddish? Chabad is extraordinary among Chasidic groups only in its willingness to translate its texts and beliefs for the common Jew. This is something that only Breslauv even comes close to. I'm sorry, friend, but you are making a very grievous mistake here. Not to mention the fact that you are sticking with the Ashkenazi community. Similarly ""shocking"" views are also deeply enmeshed in Sephardic writings. The groups that you speak of have recoiled at these ideas since the time of the Baal Shem Tov and possibly even the Arizal. This is nothing new. Just read up on the articles on Hasidism. If you pay attention to my editing to the Chabad articles, you will see that I have been trying to put this debate into its proper context. The people who are shocked and outraged at Chabad now are the heirs of the same people who were shocked and outraged at the Alter Rebbe over 200 years ago. There is a long history between Chabad and the various groups that are now issuing condemnations. It is sad that these fights keep on being fought so many years later. You have to take a good look at how you define heresy. The vast majority of Orthodox Jews don't really believe that Moshiach will come any time soon, even though that is clearly heresy, too. 

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