The point is that those who sent R' Tzvi Kahana to ask the question are simple בעלי מחלוקת and not בני תורה. The Rebbe clearly says that פרומע אידן cannot be מתנגדים. He brings R Chaim Volozhiner and Chaim Oizer as examples of true תלמידי חכמים who were not Chassidim, yet since they were true בעלי הלכה, never involved themselves in mschlokes and מדון ומריבה, but rather worked hand in hand with נשיאי חב"ד for the benefit of klal Yisroel.
The Rebbe specifically says he is NOT addressing the sleeping in the Sukkah issue. Everyone knows that the Mitteler Rebbe and his father the Alter Rebbe were experts in Halacha, yet they didn't sleep in the Sukkah. That should be sufficient for any true בן תורה!
Preface I'm not trying to start a fight or plain חוצפה , just honestly & simply trying understand
There are lots of Ta'anos that the "בני תורה" have on that but putting that all aside and putting aside the point of those who sent R Kahana was, what I never understood was why he couldn't just answer the question and ג'ענדיק why waste his time with for arguments sake someone who came to argue, for 23 minutes like that...
which honestly I have yet to see a (good) answer anywhere and just because it was a dvar mefursam that the mittler rebbe did so and supposedly all those rabbis knew about it, 1. who says they never asked? 2. And even if they didn't why can't we ask and know now a days, he wasn't asking the facts he was asking the why it's called להגדיל תורה ולהדירה not a new concept.
Just answer and send the ''חוצפיניעק" away?