It is good to see that "Lord, Liar, Lunatic" is alive and well in Crown Heights.
Rabbi Yehoishophot Oliver writes as follows:
Think about it. A person comes to the Rebbe. It’s an emergency. Should he follow the doctor’s advice to operate on his child. Rebbe, I’m asking for your berocho. I’m relying on you.J.D.
Anyone who could even dare to open his mouth to answer this question is one of two things:
1. A megalomaniac, someone so power-hungry and giddy with excitement at the adulation that he receives that he can ignore the safety of the child that common sense says should be left in the doctor’s expert hands.
2. A truly holy person, one with intimate connections to deeper spiritual realities, who knows full well what responsibility he takes, and does so nevertheless because he is one hundred percent sure, according to the “connections” he has on High, that this is what is correct. To paraphrase Chaim Fogelman, “he saw it with his eyes.”
Even without the concept of emunah in Tzaddikim because Torah tells us so—just from a purely logical perspective—there is no third possibility. If the person is not aware of what he is doing, or imagines that he is aware when in fact he isn’t, then by definition he is a megalomaniac.
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