The question came up. Are Chabad Lubavitchers also Sabbateans?

The short answer is: sure does look like it, though (surprise surprise), it’s a bit of a hairball to sort out, historically speaking.

Chabad history stretches back to the same time as Jacob Frank (late 1700s), using the same books (Cabalah, Talmud), and philosophy (mysticism), and coming from the same area (The Pale, established 1791)…but with different rabbis.

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(January 3, 2010) - They stand on the bustling street corners from Los Angeles to New York City and all places in between. While distributing literature to the passersbys, they joyfully declare “the messiah is here- the messiah is here.” But these are not the stealthy anti-Jewish Christian missionary organization Jews for Jesus, these are hasidic Jews who now follow a new upward developing religion of Schneersonism. This break-away religion of Schneersonism, a modern daughter of Judaism not unlike Christianity or Islam, is a new and developing religion-a new and genuine religion.

About 2000 years ago a group of Jews acted exactly like the Schneersonists. After their leader (Jesus) died, they worshiped his dead body-and have not stopped since.

And this is not only a U.S. phenomenon, Schneersonists are across the globe spreading Schneersonism with anyone who will listen, this includes to the non-hasidic Jews. When people make contact with these men wearing black suits and black hats and immediately conclude they are traditional hasidic Jews who dress and follow the traditions of their European ancestors, what they don’t know is that they are actually making contact with men that are at the genesis of a new religion–they are speaking with people that whether they know it or not, are the founders of the beginning of an entirely distinct religion, one based on the worship of a dead human being, Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson.
Rabbi David Berger, Ph.D., professor of history at Yeshiva University and visiting professor at Harvard and Yale, says that the Lubavitch who feel Schneerson is the messiah, are virtually identical to those of the early Hebrew-Christians. Schneersonism is growing closer to Christianity and distancing itself from Judaism - why - because Judaism has no place for messiah worship or the worship of a dead man. It is categorically anti-Jewish to worship a dead man. 

He expresses alarm and claims that the powerful Jews are “afraid” to speak out about this. Also, the Lubavitchers behave in ways that make it hard to tell who really believes what.

Most Jews don’t understand how over at least one dozen false messiahs have come and gone throughout Jewish history, nor the damage they have done to the Jewish people. The large established Jewish organizations, most of which have Chabad members among them, are afraid to speak out of this topic-they won’t go near it.

The problem is you can no longer tell which Lubavitch hasidim are Schneersonists and which are not.

But they’re serious. And they have their pins and flags and posters, and they’re putting them up all over Brooklyn.

…Posters of Rabbi Schneerson are plastered all over Brooklyn New York with the word“messiah” posted underneath his image. This writer attended Shabbat at 770 Eastern Parkway and saw men calling for the messiah. There were men wearing the yellow “messiah” flag lapel pin, the symbol of the Schneersonists. …To be sure, the “World Headquarters” of Lubavitch is a center for Schneersonists who worship the dead rabbi and who have made him the center of their new religion.

If it looks like a Sabbatean, and acts like a Sabbatean, and talks like a Sabbatean, it’s probably a Sabbatean.