Love those Peaceniks

I seem to upsetting those Lubavitchers who worry about Ahavas Yisroel. They say that the Rebbe would not have approved of the "misnaged-bashing" that goes on here, and maybe they're right, but may be not. I don't go after those that don't bother me, for the most part, just those who claim to defend Yiddishkeit from the dangers of Lubavitch. The way I see it is that those tree-hugging "Peace-Loving" people are in some ways responsible for the destruction of Lubavitch as we knew it. Now, before you jump out of your seats or smash your monitors, hear me out.

We all know that all troublemakers, even children, take advantage of superiors or adversaries being "nice". You being nice to them makes them feel like they have the upper hand and they'll take you for everything you got. Try it on your kids, you'll see I'm right. The same goes for all battles, be they religious or mundane, when you keep on being nice, you'll get pie in your face.




This is the rationale behind some of the "Misnaged-bashing" that I do. I live in Charedi society, and consider myself very much a part of it, but there's only so much hate a person can take. Be it a Shivah, or lehavdil a Chasunah or other Simchah, people never seem to miss a chance to bash Chabad and the Rebbe, and even when "forced" to compliment will do it with a side order of critique. Replace the Rebbe and Lubavitch with your local "Godol" or Yeshiva or Chassidic group and see how you feel.

Most Lubavitchers live cut off from the rest of the frum world, whether in CH, Kfar Chabad, or even when they live in cities like Montreal or Chicago they instinctively keep to themselves, thereby missing out on seeing what their neighbors think of them. Most of the time they don't care about their frum neighbors, for whatever reason, and people like that usually see no reason to provoke their neighbors. What they fail to realize is that them being cut off from the rest of the frum world yet, no where else, diminishes their value and sets them up for attacks.

The same goes for what goes on in the Rebbe's shul and elsewhere in the world of Lubavitch. As long as you insist on just having Ahavas Yisroel the rabble-rousers will take advantage of you, because they know you'll stand by and do nothing. Ahavas Yisroel must be practiced, but not at the expense of sanity.