To imitate, not the persona but the philosophical underpinnings
By zevi770 · August 18, 2013
Many are those who saw the Rebbes visible persona, and imitated it; but it is the rarest who understand the Rebbe’s philsophy that created the persona; similar, to how the Alter Rebbe said, that he is the spiritual grandson of the Baal Shem Tov though others, the physical!