im sorry for touching a raw nerve but chabad prides itself for being openminded and you should see the oppinion that the majority of torah jews hold so may i ask why on the topic that is the core of chabad are you so closeminded have you ever serieously considered the logic of those who disagree whith you and if you did i will respect that as you guys (i mean the main contributors to this site and for that i thank you)are clearly very intelligent.
The only one being close-minded here is you.
What do you want me to say? That the Rabbe can't possibly be mashiach? That Rav, the Rashbi, the Midrash/B"R, the Sdei Chemed, and the Abarbenel among many others were heretical and modern anti-chabad spewing rabbis know better.
Or should Chabad have stopped being makarev yidden and putting tefilin on yidden back in the 50's because at the time most torah jews were aghast at doing so and denouncing it? Never mind that they all came around after to claim they themselves started the movement.
Or should Chasidism itself have admitted to being wrong back from the times of the Baal Shem Tov and onward when misnagdim were ready to physically harm, mosar to the government, and even kill chassidim, lest their ways teach all jews to be "heretical?"
This is nothing but a long standing tradition of anti-chasidic/chabad rhetoric that has been around for hundreds of years and has no basis in halacha.
We're going in circles here. Nobody is going to convince anybody out of what they believe. I don't think I have much else to add to this subject.