Reb Mendel Futerfas, a proto-orthodox Christian?
Messianic Lubavitch
On the subject of publishing of the prison photo of Mendel Futerfas by the Chabad “nomenklatura” and proto-orthodox Christianity. Did you have to butcher the photo with your farkater stamp? Do you see NYT do it? Do you see mentalblog do it? But no, every Chabad pisher behind a screen thinks it’s the first commandment to mutilate a historic photo. They stopped drawing yarmulkes but can’t shake the terrible habit of the selfish graffiti on the historical documents, especially the photos they steal.
Back to Reb Mendel. I am not a historian but I have questions. Was Mendel Futerfas the person who moved aside the original culture of avoida and changed it to all hiskashrus? And when you tell people that nothing matters except your connection to the savior, what happens when this savior dies? Is this the main reason that the Israeli Chabad converted to Christianity en masse? Therefore, is Mendel Futerfas the creator of the Chabad Christianity in Israel? Did he object, did he call for a new Rebbe? I am asking questions, maybe someone who knows about this can help me out here. Is Reb Mendel Futerfas the reason Israeli Chabad now completely infected with Christianity? Or should we forget about personalities and admit that the post- Shabbatian movement simply returns to its Christian, messianic roots and this evolution is inevitable? But then how do you explain that it is largely an Israeli phenomenon?
However, in the context of this post I am interested in the early apostolic history only. Someone indoctrinated and molested the children. And now no one even objects. This toxic cult of personality mess did not materialize out of thin air. Rebbe encouraged it, designed it, but he had his agents. There are faces behind it. Perhaps now we can have a closer look at one of them.
Excellent.
Although I saw him ,I didn't know Reb Mendel.
Always thought he was the real Chabad.
Instead he was a more acceptable version of Reb Yoel,and worshipped the Rebbe.
He and others like him could have used their personal to try to get Lubavitch to appoint a new leader.Rather he just spoke of hiskashrus.
Those years in jail must have had an effect on him.
Why give the US a pass ,many here believe RMMS was messiah,others seem to think he was divine
When history is written only a few like Rabbi Hasofer of BG University will go down as heroes,others as sheep followers and opportunists.p
First lets do the history. He was in Russia arrested for document tampering not for spreading yiddishkeit. He left russia and start a failed business in london. Then was instructed to move to kfar chabad in the 70's. Not to be little his history, he was the old timer and informed the younger generation of the glugs and hardships.