Editing Unity of Chassidim (section)

==== The Negative Aspect ====
Many times when disunity among Chassidim was revealed, the Rebbe expressed his immense pain and the loss that results from it, in preventing the receipt of heavenly blessings, both in communal matters and in the personal matters of each individual. One who behaves in a way that disturbs unity among Chassidim is considered as harming himself and others, and damages the receipt of blessings and divine influence, especially in matters of parnasah. In a rare style, the Rebbe expressed in a response from 1982: "If all Chabad askanim would be united, Moshiach would have come long ago, and therefore the Yetzer Hara rages in ways and with temptations that are completely against logic..."