Reply To: The world is in a state of Geula- and don’t misunderstand us!

“Converting” 2 (final):

Now I just want to reemphasize what I mean and what I don’t mean with the above post.

Am Yisrael is one body and we need every limb or kreiz to be whole just as you need every limb for the entire body to be complete. Back in the day every shevet had their own nusach in davening. Today we need the balance of the frum zionists and the anti zionists. The Kollel learners and the shluchim. Litvaks and chassidim. Askenazim and sefardim. Am Yisrael is complete precisely with diversity and that is its beauty – shivim panim la Torah, and my previous post in no way negates that.

In fact within Chabad you have this diversity represented as well – you have sefardi Chabad women who wear tichels (and as long as they completely cover all hair, everyone applauds them for it. That’s their shitta and chumra.) You have Chabad sefardim who eat rice on pesach, and the askenazim who don’t. You have chassidim who have joined from other kreizin who keep their levush and long peyos with the Rebbe’s explicit encouragement. Etc.

So here’s what it boils down to: if it’s a specific horaah from the Rebbe that can only add and not contradict other minhagim or chumros, we can and do encourage it. Like saying chitas (which there are many stories of people who’ve had yeshuos from), joining the learning Rambam campaign (so all of klal Yisrael, men women and children, can unite through learning whichever track best suits them on the same Torah topic), the 12 pesukim etc.

If it’s something that can take away from other minhagim or chumros, even if by us it is a Chumra (like sheitel, no rice on pesach, peyos length etc.) then we say go by your minhagim and don’t drop them just because lubavitch does different.

To conclude: when moshiach comes, and techias hameisim happens, there will be the Avos, Moshe Rabbeinu himself and all the Tannaim, Amoraim and tzaddikim from all the generations. They will not be held in any less regard just because well unite under moshiach. They will still teach Torah and give guidance etc. Just they themselves will learn from moshiach because he will be the greatest of all. May it happen asap. Amen.