Question:
Is it permissible to pray in a Chabad synagogue that believes that the Rebbe is the Mashiach?
Answer:
Chabad people, are wonderful people, who give their lives for Klal Yisrael. It is difficult to understand what the Jewish people in the world would have looked like without them.
The living spirit, for all their activities is their revered rabbi, whose power was immeasurably wonderful. Although, at the height of its flowering, he fell ill and died.
Some thought at the time that the Rebbe himself deserved to be a Mashiach. And in this there is no fault.
But those who have already decided that he is the Mashiach, were wrong about it.
And when he died, there was no room for their mistake Nevertheless, there are those who have taken root in their mistake, in their opinion: that he did not die, or that he disappeared and will return – which is a complete mistake, as explained in Rambam.
However, this does not make them unbelievers, since they believe in mashiach but mistake in the identity and therefore, it is permissible to pray with the..
But one must be very careful not to get caught up in these lost opinions! Therefore, where one is preoccupied with these ideas, one should not pray regularly, not to be infected with their ideas.
However, I do not know if there are those who are mistaken in attributing G-d to him, as God’s revelation in the world, and so on. (as said The goen rabbi ovadia Yosef Zazkol, in his class on the satellite, on Saturday night in the 1990s, that they testified to him). Or praying in front of his picture. And even, if they are “machabad” him wuth a “aliyah”. Or to be infected with some work, in the holy spirit in it. Or other lost opinions, after all, these are workers of real foreign labor. (Unfortunately, we heard that there are some, in another community( And with these, one should certainly not pray. That they are mistakenly considered unbelievers – and are not condemned as unbelievers, to all the laws of the Torah.
In any case, one should not pray with them at all, that their prayers constitute foreign labor.
Greetings Rabbi Chaim Zafarani.
