How can Chabad Chassidim refer to the Rebbe as a G-dly being?

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The opening of this shiur, in The Parsha In My Life - Rabbi Reuven Wolf’s own words — taken from the captions, so names and Hebrew terms may be approximate.

Good afternoon, everyone. Okay, this is a special class, which is not part of our regular classes. Um, I received an email last week from someone. And um, I feel it's a very, very important question and needs to be addressed. I myself was very bothered with this question in the early earlier days when I started my journey into the world of Hasidus. And it annoyed me And it annoyed me uh, certain things that I heard. Uh, the more I studied Hasidus, things became clearer to me. So, I'd like to forward I'd like to first present the question. From someone, I'm not going to mention his name or where he's from, but he said as follows. Shalom Rabbi Wolf. I haven't gone to my local Chabad house, uh, wherever that is, in about 6 months. I've been watching your videos recently, and now I know what is scaring me off. It seems that you believe that, number It seems that you believe that, number one, Hashem and the Rebbe are almost indistinguishable. And number two, Hashem has delegated the running of the world to the Rebbe. Example, the Rebbe put President Trump in office. If I can't tell the Rebbe apart from Hashem, then we are talking about shituf Has v'shalom. For those who don't know what means shituf. Shituf means partnership. Which partnership is considered avodah zarah for a Jew. For a non-Jew, not, but for a Jew, it's considered avodah zarah, which

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