WARNING: There Are CRAZY Fakers Ruining Chabad (12 Minutes)

0:11is good, but if you're zealous for the wrong reason or you're zealous in the wrong way, not only is it not a mitzvah, it's an aveirah that could technically turn into chilul Hashem. Now, everyone thinks that their rabbi is great; if he wasn't great, he wouldn't be a rabbi. Everyone thinks their rabbi is great. I personally think my rabbi is the best rabbi in the world. You want to debate? I'll debate you for as long as you want. He's the best rabbi in the world. And I'm sure you think your rabbi is the best in the world. Everyone thinks their rabbi is the best in the world. It's very easy to think that your rabbi is Mashiach. Very easy. I understand it. I'm telling you. If Hashem asks me, who should be Mashiach? I say, my rabbi should be Mashiach. No questions asked. Don't ask me, oh no, maybe Hashem. No, no. I already know the answer. He should be Mashiach. Hashem is not going to ask me. That's why He hasn't asked me. So now, it's very easy to love if you're connected to your rabbi. It's very easy to love him. It's very easy to honor him. It's very easy if you have a connection with your rabbi. If you don't have a connection with your rabbi, you have to get yourself a rabbi. Now, in the Chassidus, the Gaon of Vilna had a problem with Chassidus, and he wasn't the only one. There were many other major Chachamim It's very easy to love if you're connected to your rabbi. It's very easy to love him. It's very easy to honor him. It's very easy if you have a connection with your rabbi. If you don't have a connection with your rabbi, you have to get yourself a rabbi. Now, in the Chassidut, the Gaon MiVilna had a problem with Chassidut, and he wasn't the only one; there were many other major Chachamim.

1:34had a major problem with Hasidut to such an extent that some of them, like the Vilna Gaon, said that they are the closest religion to Judaism. He was talking about Breslov and Chabad and other Hasidut that were around at the time, meaning he considered it so far away from basic level Judaism. He didn't consider them Jewish and Maybe he didn't see what would happen from them. Maybe this, maybe that, I don't know. Maybe he did see, I don't really know. Of course, a lot of good came out of Chassidut. We have the Baal Shem Tov, we have Rabbi Nachman from Breslev, the Lubavitcher Rebbe, and many, many other Kedoshim that came out of Chassidut, that are still there now, have been, and so on and so forth. The problem is not Chassidut. The problem is when Chassidut turns into idolatry. The problem is when people turn their rabbi into an idol. That's the problem. Because that not only is the obvious sin of idol worship, you're not allowed to worship your rabbi, it doesn't matter even if he's Moshe Rabbeinu. That's why Hashem did not tell us where He buried Moshe Rabbeinu because He knew that people would worship his grave. They would go to his grave and start praying to him instead of to Hashem. He says this: Moshe Rabbeinu, Kodesh Kodashim.

2:55Sacrificed his entire life for me. I'm not gonna let people ruin it. So even that he didn't let the world see where Moshe Rabbeinu is buried, the rest of the Chachamim, for the most part, we know where they're buried. We know where they are. For example, the Ohr HaChaim—you go to Har HaZeitim... Yerushalayim, near Yerushalayim, over there in the Old City. That's where he's buried. You go to his grave, as many people go there every year. The Arizal, the Ramchal. There's even a cave that is the last site where Eliyahu Hanavi was seen—not that he was buried, because he never died. There's even a cave that we went to one time in Israel, where Eliyahu Hanavi was at one point. And people pray there all day, all the time. Going to the graves, by default, according to the Rambam, you shouldn't do. But there is another daas (opinion) that there is something good that could come out of it if you know how to do it the right way. Meaning, you're praying to Hashem at the grave, not praying to the tzaddik. You're not praying to that tzaddik, you're not praying to the person that died. You're praying to Hashem. The problem is that people sometimes fall in love with their Rabbi so much that they turn them into an idol. And...

4:15This, unfortunately, I don't think has been as bad in history as it is now, at least to my knowledge. Two incidents that have happened just in the last few days, to me personally, that I saw are as follows: One, I saw this today. This was an announcement. It needs to be said. Because people need to understand that there's a problem. The biggest part of the problem is we don't talk about it. You just, you know, behave like it doesn't exist. The guy has cancer, but you pretend it's a headache. Apparently, they announced in Chabad at 770 in New York. They put a public announcement on Sunday, April 29th, the 15th of Iyar. And they said, I'll just say it in English: Tomorrow, they're saying this is on Sunday, the Melech HaMashiach, the Rebbe, the Lubavitcher Rebbe, is not going to be able to accept the congregation that comes to visit him every day because he doesn't feel well and

5:43doesn't feel well, so he's not going to accept any visitors. But he will be at the events the following day for the bar mitzvot and the weddings and all the other events. He'll be there; by then he should feel better. Now, if anyone has been sleeping under a rock for the last 30 years, the Rebbe died almost 30 years ago, 20-something years ago. He's not alive. He died. Everyone knows this. But apparently, they fell in love with the Rebbe to such an extent that they are, forget about it, forget about the fact that they said that he's Mashiach was already a problem to begin with. To say that the Rebbe is Mashiach, he's Mashiach, okay, whatever, you want to say whatever you want to say. levels of crazy, but to say he's still alive and he's not going to accept people because he doesn't feel well—this is a new level of crazy. This is something—there's something wrong in the water. This is just, this is like new levels because I saw a video one time, and

6:57How they give the Rebbe an Aliyah. Meaning they have to give the Torah; they take the Torah out on Mondays and Thursdays and Shabbat. But I don't think anybody's recording on Shabbat. They bring the Torah, and everybody, you know, there are three people getting an Aliyah, except on Rosh Chodesh you get four, and holidays you get five, and so on. The point is they give an Aliyah to the Rebbe. Now, one time somebody came to somebody that knows my rabbi. He went to, he's a Chabadnik. He went there, but he's an Ish Emes. And he saw they're giving an aliyah to someone who doesn't exist. He died. He sees they're giving him an aliyah. And everybody's dancing. And everybody's looking as if he's walking down the aisle. Now he's watching this whole fiasco, and he says, there's something wrong here. But okay, he doesn't say anything. But then he sees they're giving him an aliyah. So he says, he's got a little fire in him. He says, why don't you give him hagbah too? Why don't you have him lift the Sefer Torah also? They threw him out. They threw him out of the shul. I guess maybe it's a little heavy. I don't know. So he says, he's got a little fire in him. He says, why don't you give him the Hagbah too? Why don't you have him lift the Sefer Torah also? They threw him out. They threw him out of the shul. I guess maybe it's a little heavy. I don't know.

8:07The point is, rabotai, there's a new level of crazy in the world. I understand people love him. I understand he was a tzaddik. But why are you perverting his Torah? Why are you perverting Hashem Yitbarach's Torah? This is chillul Hashem. This is the definition of chillul Hashem. The goyim are looking at us and they're saying, how is this different than JC Penny? said he died and he came back. You're saying he died, didn't come back, came back. Sometimes he's back, sometimes he doesn't feel well. How is this different from Christianity? The chilonim, the secular Jews, are looking at this like, "You want me to be religious like these people? Even I know without a Torah that he's not there and... This is, this is Chilul Hashem. Now, Baruch Hashem, this was publicized by who? By a Chabadnik. That is an Ish Emet, that's a real Chabadnik, and it's not crazy. And he says, even the Meshichistim have gone to a new level. The people that are, you know, turning them into a Mashiach, even they are going to a new level of crazy. The fact that they've turned them into a Mashiach already is something that's a problem, but whatever, it's not kefirah gemurah. It's not complete heresy. It's just crazy.

9:24To say that he can't see people because he's sick, and he's going to come back tomorrow to the bar mitzvah, you've turned into an imaginary friend. You've involved everybody else like a little five-year-old kid that has an imaginary friend, and he's forcing you to play with him, too. Something's wrong here. If you're his parent, okay, maybe you're going to play with him for a little while until he goes away. But you're now going to force your neighbors and the teachers and the principals? They're going to put you in a cuckoo house. But this is Chilul Hashem. This is Chilul Hashem. And this is something we have to speak about. Why? Because we have to understand that just because somebody says he's Chabad doesn't mean he's Chabad. If he is one of these people, I don't care if he has the Rebbe's face tattooed to his forehead, it does not make him Chabad. Chabad is a Chassidut. Worries about kevod Hashem, the worries about the honor of Hashem. The honor of Hashem means the honor of the Torah, following the Torah, not following some person, even if the person is a tzaddik. You don't desecrate Hashem's name to honor a person. You don't violate Hashem's Torah to honor the rabbi. It just cannot be.

10:42It cannot be— even if Moshe Rabbeinu comes and says, "Listen guys, I'm gonna give you a new Torah"— we cannot accept it. There's no new Torah. So real Chassidut means you're doing above the definition of it according to the Torah. The definition of Chassidut means that you're doing above and beyond Halacha, above and beyond the law. If, let's say, for example, Shabbat is 25 hours, you keep 26. That's Chassidut. Technically, you're allowed to wear, as a man, according to Halacha, a t-shirt. But if you want to be a Chassid and you want to be as modest as can be, you're always going to wear a long-sleeve shirt. It doesn't necessarily need to be a dress shirt or whatever it is. You want to be tzanua; you want to be modest as a man. You're always going to wear a long-sleeve shirt. That is a small form of Chassidut. So on and so forth. Now, these are not obligations. This is extra. Want to do extra good for you. You don't want to do extra? It's fine. Point being, that's Chassidic. Chassidic is above and beyond the law. Of course, it means working on your middot. If Hashem says don't be angry, to the average person that means that you not only are not angry, you're happy. Meaning you're going to the complete opposite extent—you're an extremist, but to the good. And...

12:04Hashem says to be generous. You're overly generous. You're above and beyond. You sacrifice yourself.