Chapter 11: Scapegoating Through Distortions of the Rebbe’s Sichot

“More than the number of hairs on my head are those who hate me without cause; mighty are those who want to cut me oft, my enemies who pursue falsehood, that which I have not robbed I am nevertheless compelled to return.” (Tehillim 69:5)

What could possibly be more painful to Chassidim than the purposeful attempt to distort the Rebbe Shlita’s sichot to perpetuate a bitter machloykes over money, power, and kovod? That is what the enemies of Rabbi Fischer did to create hatred of him within the community.

They would say, that when discussing a particular inyan, for instance making machloykes over money and not for the sake of Heaven, that the Rebbe was referring to Rabbi Fischer. This was completely fallacious because it is well known that the Rebbe has said, on more than one occasion, that if he means a particular chosid when he is speaking he will say so! Furthermore, the Rebbe went so far as to assert that if anyone dare point to a person and say that the Rebbe is referring to that particular person when the Rebbe is discussing a certain inyan, then that individual is waging a war not only with the Rebbe Shlita himself, but with all the past Rebbeim of Lubavitch as weill!

The Rebbe Shlita has told us that if the Rebbe Shlita does not refer to a certain individual, then each of us should feel as if the Rebbe Shlita means each one of us personally and not another person.