https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gakHcN1161w&feature=youtu.be
He says to turn off your brain. "Let go of your mind." The act of proving is problematic to him. Is that Judaism, to be anti-intellectual? In a religion where study is the highest act - so says the Baal HaTanya himself - should you turn off your brain to reorient your entire Judaism, to build it around a man like you would God, to have faith in a man like you would God? Oh but he's not a man, they say, he's a general neshama. In other words, God. Just like JC is to the Christians. And like the Christians it's more important to them that you believe in this man than you believe in God Himself.
And if the Rogatchover used the term Nasi that doesn't mean Nasi Hdor. He's the Nasi of Lubavitch.
And what kind of source would that be anyway? Does the Talmud use the term? Does the Shulchan Aruch reference the need to believe in a Nasi Hador? What they are not interested in the Talmud? That's how it works in Lubavitch today. They don't like the Talmud. And that's why Chabad today is viewed by many as not being part of Torah Judaism. It's a new religion that is built on imaginative readings of the Zohar, independent of the Talmud, independent of the Mesorah. I don't even want to call it Lubavitch. It's not any kind of Lubavitch.
I have watched stump the rabbi before. These are the types of guys who ruined Lubavitch. They make it up as they go. They are unscholarly but pretend to sound like scholars. They use crazy slippery slope arguments that sound superficially like logic but are really just manipulations of the weak minded. They are brimming with confidence but it's based on nothing but assertions. They are milking the Chabad Chassidis that people like my great-great father helped to carry.
You are way too smart a guy to buy into this demagoguery. It's like New Age religion. It's so lame.
Suddenly, I'm feeling appreciation for Rav Shach and Dr. Berger.