Sechel 83, Litvaks aren’t against the idea of having a Rebbi, they argue against what the function of having a Rebbi is and even what it means to connect with hashem, litvaks or at least briskers, which is where my rebbis mesorah in hashgofo and learning comes from was incredibly close to his rebbi, Rav Aharon Soloveitchik zatsal. He explained to me that a Rebbi is to give over to the talmid his hashgofo and derech halimud exactly, that’s all. We don’t connect to Hashem through a rebbi by connecting to a rebbi, we do by using the tools our rebbeim give us. The idea of following a rebbi isn’t chassidish, and the only reason chassidish rebbeim our passed down through a dynasty is because that was how the rabbinate often worked in a shtetl.
