Editing Crown Heights Beis Din (section)

== Attempt to Create a Committee to Bypass the Neighborhood Rabbonim ==
At the beginning of Cheshvan 5750, several of the dispute-makers arose again and decided to return to fighting against the rabbonim. Their claim was that the Rebbe supposedly was not satisfied with the neighborhood rabbonim, and therefore other rabbonim should be chosen under whom would be the shluchim and Lubavitch institutions and they would be like "Chief Rabbi" of Chabad.

For this purpose, they sought to publish an advertisement in the Algemeiner Journal about establishing the committee that would be the authority in all Chabad matters. The newspaper's editor Rabbi Gershon Ber Jacobson was hesitant to publish the advertisement and therefore submitted it to the Rebbe for approval. The Rebbe's response was: "Obviously I am satisfied with the Va'ad HaRabbonim of the neighborhood shlita and may they have length of days and years in their position. Obviously there is no Chief Rabbi in Chabad (not in the neighborhood and not in the world) and there never was one."