1) I want to reiterate that the “proof ” for initiating communication with a Tzadik who passed away from the Ari Z”l who learned Torah from RSHB”Y is a false move. The Ari Z”l did nothing to initiate that communication.
Here’s an example of the Arizal telling his student a certain Yichud, and since that student didn’t listen to the Arizal (he talked to someone when he shouldn’t have), the Neshama didn’t reveal anything.
Surely you know what the last Lubavitcher Rebbe wrote in the sicha regarding not sleeping in a Sukkah Why are you changing it’s content? It is, after all, the svora in the sicha that Rso was asking about.
How am I changing its content? That HaArah was in the original Sicha.
I”m still interested to hear in what way Chabad Chassidim respect their Rebbe more then other Yidden respect their Rabbonim. You said that their is a machlokes re: degree of required respect. Please elaborate.
Can and do Rebbes sin? According to what I’ve read here and on previous posts, the Litvish Hashkafa is that everyone, including Gedolim, sin, to some degree or other. Sure, they won’t do anything major, Cv”s. but everyone has some minute sin in them. The Tanya, on the other hand, says that a Beinoni doesn’t sin, and a Tzaddik doesn’t have a Yetzer Hara:
Chapter 10:
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A Beinoni is someone who is in such control of himself that he never sinned and won’t sin, but has to continue fighting the Yezter Hara the whole time.
See chapter 12 of Tanya:
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