Driving from the school run yesterday, I had the pleasure of hearing my six-year-old brother's full run-down of the latest school news: which teacher he likes and which he isn't so keen on etc. Despite being 16 years his senior, it’s almost enjoyable to hear it, not least as it reminds me of myself at that age. But in the middle of it all, he mentioned something that made me think.
Op-Ed: What Happened to the Moshiach Campaign?
Driving from the school run yesterday, I had the pleasure of hearing my six-year-old brother’s full run-down of the latest school news: which teacher he likes and which he isn’t so keen on etc. Despite being 16 years his senior, it’s almost enjoyable to hear it, not least as it reminds me of myself at that age. But in the middle of it all, he mentioned something that made me think.
He mentioned some Moshiach project he and his friends were undertaking. “Hmmm,” I thought as I pulled up outside the house, “haven’t heard much mention of the whole Moshiach thing in a while.”
Taking a trip down memory lane, I still remember that 1996 family trip to Crown Heights. The Moshiach Champaign was as at its peak; everywhere I looked, I saw Moshiach: T-shirts, baseball caps, bumper stickers; the words “Moshiach now” were everywhere.
I can still remember my red and white Moshiach T-shirt; “let’s welcome Moshiach” it read in large yellow words. I would wear it everywhere, although, admittedly, “annoying the Misnagdim” may have been on the agenda back then if am honest.
My time spent in Camp Gan Israel was all about Moshiach, day and night, song after song; it was almost an obsession.
As I was jolted back down to planet earth, I thought to myself, “nowadays it’s nearly completely off the agenda; forget the stickers, caps, and t-shirts – they went years ago.”
At the Yeshiva which I attended for 3 years, every morning after Davening, the words “inyoney geula umoshiach” were proclaimed; they were followed by 5 minutes of some mumbles no one could really understand. Now even that’s come to a stop, and so did the local ‘geula umoshiach’ weekly publications. In fact, it’s not much discussed at all anymore, and when it is (usually at the end of a speech), to me it sounds flavorless and dry.
Whatever happened to the Lubavitcher Moshiach campaign? There can be no denying that it is fading away.
I can think of two possible reasons why this may be:
1. As the saying goes, ”there is no point in trying to flog a dead horse.“ After Chassidim spread the Rebbe’s message of Moshiach to much mockery from world Jewry, only to still be in this Golus 20 years after we told them that ”the time for redemption is now,“ perhaps it has developed into a sore point.
2. Perhaps the whole Moshiach thing was in a way hijacked by the Mashichist faction of Lubavitch, giving it a sour taste and an ugly look, and for this reason, mainstream Lubavitch Chassidim try to distance themselves from that ”Moshiach Campaign,” and the negative attention it is bringing to Lubavitch.
So where does that leave us as Lubavitch Chassidim? Is the Moshiach campaign really on its way out, or is it just changing course for PR reasons?
In any case, let us not forget that Moshiach is a very big part of Torah and being a Jew. Let us never forget the Rebbe’s message of Moshiach, and may it be fulfilled speedily in our days, amen!
Mendy
Moshiach Now !!!
Lubavitcher
Moshiach is coming on his own time. Get over it.
#2
You hit it on the nail with the hijacking by the meshichists. We are all embarrassed to bring up the topic as that leads straight to the question of how crazy are you. For those absolute believers who need to convince others that they are right, they end up sounding like complete nut jobs no matter how right they may actually be. Unfortunately, the closer you live to a ghetto the less likely you are to know what normal reality looks like. The meshichist issue has given the term B’oifen Hamiskabel a whole new meaning and made the entire subject verbotten.
In order to reframe the discussion it now needs to be brought up by a legitimate source not tainted by the lubavitch scandal of rudderless leadership and inmates who have taken over the asylum by default.
Not From CH
Why not just focus on doing good in the world? And I don’t mean going out to every street corner to harass people about putting on tefillin etc…..
Instead of worrying about proclaiming “Moshiach,” which makes every other Jew in the world look at you like you’re nuts even if you aren’t closely linked with the meshichistim at 770 (it’s all one and the same to anyone outside CH), work on yourself and the good you can do with the gifts God gave you.
This must be stopped!
The Moshiach campaign has indeed been hijacked by the radical, fundamentalist Mishichist movement.
It is for this reason that us Lubavitchers have distanced ourselves from it, it simply associates us with those who scream in 770 that “Harebe hu Ha’elok…”
The innocent Lubavitchers who sported bumber stickers on their cars, as well as caps, shirts, posters and more have completely stopped so as to disassociate themselves with the radical extremists.
All sane Lubavitches who care for the honor of the Rebbe should stand up and once and for all quash the radical Mishichist movement.
ENOUGH IS ENOUGH!!!
sarah
When you witness the sick, ugly, unlubavitch parade the bochurim who don’t know the difference between Chabad and Talaban,put on today to desacrate the holy day of Yud Shvat, You don’t want to hear word moshiach for a long time.
es
‘The straight path to the revelation of Moshiach is to learn about Moshiach and Geula in Torah Shb’chsav , Bal Peh and especially in the Ma’amerim and sichos of the Rebbe and Rabbeim’ , ‘ All the signs have been fulfilled , especially that of the Yalku shimoni , and the time of redemption has arrived’. If we have the courage to embrace the Rebbe’s clear unambiguous message that we are literally seeing the fulfillment of the end of days prophecies before our eyes, and take his advice on how to make that part of our lives, then all the pilpulim , machlokos and finger pointing evaporate. The Rebbe said we must prepare to be Mekabel Moshiach , he would not advice us to do so if it wasn’t something that needed preparation for. Moshiach is bigger than anyone’s opinion , ultimately we will all discover this.
admire
well done one of the most well written op-eds i have read so far
Seventh Generation
If we think about it, we will realize that EVERYTHING that we want in life is included in Moshiach, and much more. In addition, every Jew wants Moshiach above logic, just because that is who we are.
We now have an open playing field, a golden opportunity, to show Hashem, and the Rebbe, that we want Moshiach, even without the Rebbe telling us.
One way to know that we are doing what we need to do is by making sure that we are doing everything we were doing before Gimmel Tamuz (including the t-shirts and bumper stickers), and to add on from there.
So let’s join together and shake off that Galus rust, and make Moshiach happen, NOW!!
2#2
“lubavitcher wrote”… “Moshiach is coming on his own time. Get over it” doesn’t sound to lubavitch to me. that’s the way misnagdim interpret the ani maamin… b’chol yom, sheyovoh when ever he wants. the rebbe stressed just the opposite.
dovid
very true and its i point that needs to be discussed we cant hide away from it forever!!!
Milhouse
#5, Did the Rebbe tell us to spend our time denouncing crazy people? No, he told us to do whatever we can to bring Moshiach. The writer is correct, we’ve slacked off on our job, and blaming it on the crazy people is just an excuse. The truth is we’ve lost our enthusiasm, we’ve lost our interest, and we need to get it back. Concentrate on that, and let the meshichisten do whatever they like. They’re irrelevant.
Lets not shift the blame, or find excuse
Enough with the meshichists, YES; they make it difficult to be taken seriously, or to discuss Moshiach without raising eyebrows, but thats all the more reason we HAVE TO DO IT and in the RIGHT WAY. Like the Rebbe said so many times, our job is not to fight the dark but to spread the light.
Stop focusing on whats wrong, lets get something RIGHT happening!! You know the Rebbe wouldnt accept the ‘meshichists hijacked it’ as a viable excuse. Not even for a second. And no, dont start the ‘times have changed’ business either, unfortunately they have not, bec MOSHIACH IS NOT IN FRONT OF OUR EYES! And until that is the case, lets not try and get off easy by convincing ourselves that ‘its not the same anymore…’
I took a cab to the shluchos convention a few years ago. The car service guy was an african american. When he understood where I was going / what for etc he told me that he remembers the Rebbe. But he asked me why noone talks about Moshiach anymore? He said, I remember ten, fifteen years ago, thats all they would talk about, every one of you guys that stepped in my car, didnt matter how old or young….
So author, you are so right, sadly; and no, there is no excuse, everyone single one of us need to role up our sleeves and make Moshiach a reality to all of those around us….yes, beofen hamiskabel, whatever that may be and however difficult it may be to find it! When the Rebbe said (screamed ) ker a velt heint, he meant it literally, and seriously!
On that note, may we be zoche to hisgalus Moshiach with the Geulah shleimah now.
Shliach
What is the point of this op-ed? Certainly not achdus promoting and davka on Yud Shvat! Maybe everyone sit down calmly together and speak. You may learn a thing or two. We are all children of the Rebbe, and all supposed to want to fulfill his rotzon and bring Moshiach. Why can’t it be done in a Chassidishe fashion?
If Chassidim are willing to forgo the Moshaich campaign because someone is doing it in a different way than he sees fit, something is radically wrong.In the country I live in, all songs, plays, productions, mivtzoim etc. are all connected somehow to Moshiach. And we all join.
May we merit the hisgalus of Moshiach, NOW!
Toby Katz
Welcome back to Klal Yisrael.
logical answer
Don’t call yourself a chossid if you can’ t/won’t believe in the Rebbe you’re supposed to be following.
The Rebbe spoke hundreds of sichos – between the years of 5746-5752 – about what? about Moshiach! Yet, for a very disgusting reason, these sichos were assered by a number of “learned and ”respected“?! mashpi’im” ??! WHY?! Because they claim that the Rebbe DID* (b’loshon sagei noeh) have clarity of mind, and therefore you can’t learn those sichos?!
CAMP
you can always go back to camp they r still strung up on mashiach….
If you people are jewish...
Moshiach is a fundamental part in Judiasm. It’s what the Rebbe, yes, the same Rebbe on Living Torah, campaigned endlessly about. In almost every talk the Rebbe ended with a prayer for moshiach.
To #2 – it says “Achakeh Loi B’chol Yom Sheyavo” – YOU have a clear halachah in Rambam that you must ACTIVELY wait for Moshiach!
When you say that you want Moshiach now, your also telling Hashem that you want his G-dly light. so theres no room to say “oh, let moshiach come on his own, I dont need all the miracles and g-dly revelations yet”. Hashem wants you to daven for moshiach. Like by Yetzias Mitzrayim (exodus) there was G-dly revelations, Dont you want the same thing right now? And puleez, Hashem wont get insulted if you beg him to please come home!
Besides, It’s been all the rage about people in pain(if you know what i mean) don’t you want us all to stop having pain right now?
and if your living a dandy perfect life right now, that “theres no need for Moshiach right now” CV“S, please, think about the people in the greatest pain these days who aren’t as lucky as you!
About campaigning,You definitely heard the rebbe speaking about the campaign; its one of the ten Mivtzoim!
The way some of you are writing, it seems as if youve never opened a sichah! And if you didn’t, please stop bad-mouthing people who did! Instead of reading and taking in nonsense a whole day, (so it seems),open up a sichah and learn a little. Research, and then talk.
Open your eyes a bit to the world of Kedushah, close yourself up a bit from the worlds outer influences even for just a bit! Be a bit ”open-minded” towards Kedushah. If your not doing it for your Lubavitcher brothers and sisters, at least do it for the rebbe who’s the only one in the world who truly cares about you!
1420
once again we hear from “lubaitchers” who think the rebbe is wrong. too much moschiach..too much teffilin . too much rebbe.
whoopee the rebbe is dead. cancel yud shevat .
this is one time im EMBARRASSED to be part of this lubavich club
Mihu YeHidi campaign????
Its being shelved nex to the
To#19
Yes it’s sad. There was a Mod Squad. Now we have most of chabad shmad. They don’t care and are not serious about anything, much less torah & mitzvot. But we in C.H. know they do care for ONE thing, MONEY, MONEY, MONEY. That’s why it is call chabad INC. In 1996 they wanted to make a new Rebbe. They came to the Meshechistim to explain that every COMPANY needs a CEO. That is all the Rebbe was to them, a person to USE to get money for them. My friend went outside and threw-up. This person who they wanted to be Rebbe is so looked up to in chabad. He even daven’s R’L at the omed. Of course, he’s very old, so don’t step on his toes, he’s a zaken, a zaken v’c’sil. Yes, we inside know what’s going on. You young squirts, and newcomers haven’t got a clue. This is an easy story to tell you, I could tell you stories that would make your hair stand on end. So either get in and back the MHM or as they say,“ If you can’t take the heat get out of the kitchen.” Run, because the next series is not for little boys in short pants. Chag Sameach, Gut Yom Tov
moshiach now
its sad that the focus of “moshiach now” turned into “ who is moshiach?”- an unimportant detail!
May we all be zocheh to be chasidim
Let’s not kid ourselves, it basically boils down to these two things:
1) 20 years ago we only understood one definition of “ut, ut”. Now 20 years later, we understand that ut, ut is not the klein kepeldik way we thought then and have no clue how long a time frame ut, ut can really be in our fergrepteh lives.
2) Should one be a “literalist” Chosid. There is a sichah where the Rebbe says a chosid must greet everyone, everytime, with the two words: “Moshiach Now”. Do you know anyone that does this? Shluchim in Poland and Mexico were once varbotten, now it’s an established truth. College today for the mainstream, perhaps times have changed? Eruv in CH is up for debate. Shmuley Boteach sees himself as a chosid while many disagree. It really comes down to balance and understanding and where to draw the line. Earlier Nissiem/Chasidim did not share the same Rebbe/Chosid relationship as our Rebbe did. Even our Rebbe did not have literalist Chasidim until around the mem’s (why were there only a few that heeded the calling for shlichus in the early days?). It picked up from there to the point of what we teach our kids of the Rebbe and hiskashrus is through a rose colored, literalist, lens (what Rabbi and chosid Adin Evenezer – actually he goes by Adin Steinzalts – calls the Elijah-fication of the Rebbe). Before the onslaught of criticism for this view begins, just keep in mind that the Tzidoikim were literalists.
May we all find a path to being the Rebbe’s chosid in a way that makes him proud.
The Ikar is the Ikar, not the Tofel
Maybe someone realized there are 11 Ikarim before the one about Moshiach? While believing in Moshiach is important, believing in G-d is even more important!
The Rebbe ZT L himself YELLED at them
12. Milhouse wrote: “…Did the Rebbe tell us to spend our time denouncing crazy people? …let the meshichisten do whatever they like. They’re irrelevant.”
—Milhouse, as usual you are totally wrong.Please bang your head against a wall a few times, maybe you can reset your thinking ability.
The Rebbe ZT“L himself many times yelled and screamed out against the idiots who went around proclaiming that he was Moshiach. The Rebbe ZT”L himself denounced them loudly and clearly, and if we want to follow his holy example we will similarly loudly and clearly denounce these wackos, who in our times have gone way, way beyond the bounds that they did during the Rebbe’s lifetime.
We have let them “do whatever they like” for way too long, and now look at the absolute mess we are in, the laughing stock of all.
The Meshichistim are about as “irrelevant” as cancer cells growing in our bodies. They have to be eradicated before they do any more damage, and only then can we begin to become healthy once again.
Milhouse
#25, the Rebbe did not tell us to deal with these people at all. You forget that during the Rebbe’s life it was *right and proper* to believe that he was Moshiach, and people who said so were not crazy at all; indeed we all said it and believed it. But at a certain point he saw that telling outsiders this truth was interfering with the shlichus so he told people to shut up about it. He never said we should stop believing it, or that we should stop teaching it to our children and saying it amongst ourselves!
But remember that in those days 1) it was not a crazy idea, and 2) the people who were saying it were not crazy. The phenomenon of today’s meshichisten did not exist. The Rebbe was a real person, not a myth or an image on the video. Everyone understood that the Rebbe was a human being, who ate and slept and went to the toilet, and had a mother and a father and a wife, and if we compared him to a Malach Hashem it was understood that this was only a moshol. The problem today is that we have people to whom the Rebbe is not a real person at all. He’s an *idea* to them, a concept of “rebbeness”, a sort of Platonic ideal of a rebbe. And that is where they’ve gone off the deep end. They’re insane, and the only thing to do is to ignore them, let them wallow in their insanity, and concentrate on the shlichus the Rebbe gave us, which is to bring the light of Moshiach to the world, and then we will find out the small and irrelevant detail of his identity, and we will accept him no matter who he is.
The Alter Rebbe, after all, said that Moshiach would be a misnaged!
sholom
wow well done Yaakov Goodman!!!
TO # 25 &26, and all who agree with them
You people are lacking ALOTTTTTT of chassidus knowlegde. If only you’d learn abit about what a Rebbe is, you wouldn’t dream of writing the way you do. The problem is, that your Farshtopt!! You need some chassidus to penetrate you! Your stuck in some nonesesnse, and that’s all you care about. Learn a little Chassidus. LIVE A LITTLE CHASSIDUS. It might be a bit more recognizable that you are actually Lubavitch…
(learn the maamer Atoh Tetzaveh, Learn Baasi legani, learn perek beis tanya! aske the Rabbi more sources…)
I belive but i dont wear all the stuff
Unfortunately, its true.
I strongly believe Moshiach is coming and everything i do is revolving around Moshiach i for its a fundamental part of Lubavitch.
But no, i dont go around with bumper stickers, t-shirts, flags etc.
Why?
Because it has become like a color war, were all the crazy radicals are on the yellow flag team. i don’t wear those stuff, cuz i don’t want to associate myself with them.
As soon as someone puts on a pin or any yellow flag moshaich thing, they’re looked at as crazy and people listen to what they have to say less.
NO, i wont wear it.
Yes, i believe Moshiach is coming!
You-re still Wrong - Bang your head more
26. Milhouse wrote: “#25, the Rebbe did not tell us to deal with these people at all. You forget that during the Rebbe’s life it was *right and proper* to believe that he was Moshiach…”
— First of all, the Rebbe zt“l did tell us how to deal with these people, by showing us his upset reaction to them. If that was not a lesson directly from the Rebbe to all his followers I don’t know what was. How can you say that that wasn’t a call from the Rebbe himself for us to reject these ideas and the people who espouse them?
Secondly, back when the Rebbe zt”l was alive it may have been proper to believe that the Rebbe COULD BECOME Moshiach, but you are very wrong, it NEVER was proper to believe that the Rebbe WAS Moshiach. After he would have built the Beis Hamikdosh and gather in all the exiles of Israel, that is when it would have been proper to believe that he WAS Moshiach. Until then, which unfortunately did not happen in his lifetime, it would be ABSOLUTELY WRONG to believe that that Rebbe “was Moshiach.”
So 1) it was ALWAYS a crazy idea, and 2) the people who were saying this were crazy BACK THEN TOO, and because of their mistake (it seems you erred in this too) we have the terrible results that see today.
— As for what you wrote: “They’re insane, and the only thing to do is to ignore them, let them wallow in their insanity”: The problem is that the inmates are running the asylum, and you haven’t answered the cancer analogy mentioned before. These people cannot be just “ignored,” they are Chilul Hashem and a grave danger to our community.
Also, how is it that you say we have to “concentrate on the shlichus the Rebbe gave us, which is to bring the light of Moshiach to the world”? How is it that we have to save the world, but the destruction of Lubavitch right under our noses we must ignore? Don’t we have any responsibility to set our own house in order? Are you paying attention?
From some of your words near the end of your comment you seem like you might be able to start thinking straight, but for the time being I would say you should keep banging your head some more, you’ve still got a looooong way to go.
wearing it isn-t the main thing,
believing an davening to hashem constantly about it is..
m.d.
you hit the nail on the head yaakov its one of those things people always avoide.
Milhouse
#30, Come off it. During the Rebbe’s life EVERY CHOSSID believed that he was the Moshiach. And I’m not talking about the later years, I’m talking about from the beginning of the nesius. It was understood among Lubavitchers that this was so, and it never occurred to anyone to ask for proof, let alone to measure him against the criteria in the Rambam. We sang “…and we’ll march to geulah with the Rebbe Shlito”, and “…hu yolicheinu behatankim le’artzeinu, yovo veyig’oleinu”, etc. It wasn’t something one had to discuss with outsiders, it certainly wasn’t a campaign slogan, it was just what we said amongst ourselves.
When the Rebbe said to finish Moshiach’s Sefer Torah, everyone was sure that this was it, this was the time of geulah, and the Rebbe would reveal himself at the siyum and take us straight to Eretz Yisroel. There was no campaign at the time, nobody told the press, but this was how Chassidim felt. And it was right and proper at the time.
bunch of idiots
If the Rebbe was “yelling and screaming” at them to stop saying he’s moshiach – why did he encourage the singing of Yechi for hundreds of times during 5752-5754?
Secondly, the Rebbe himself referred to the Frierdiker Rebbe as ALIVE, even after Yud Shevat 5710. As did the Frierdiker Rebbe regarding the Rebbe RaShab after Bais Nissan.
If it was good enough for the Rebbe – why is it not good enough now?
Is it not hypocritical to do things for gimmel tammuz because you say …“the Rebbe would-have-wanted-it for himself, if he wanted it for the Frierdiker Rebbe”…?!
How do you know this? Did the Rebbe ever say it? Did he ever say it to somebody? How do you know what the Rebbe wants or doesn’t want?
Especially about something that HE NEVER MENTIONED AT ALL!?
to 34!
in order to make an argument you meet to get your facts right stop talking rubbish the rebbe didn’t encourage yechi hundreds of times theY waited till he had i stroke and was not in controll of things happening!
soll
i agree 100% with 29
you guys ready
ok here we go…. We want moshich now
#30 to #33 - with hat tip to all readers
Like I wrote before, obviously many Lubavitchers, you included, erred about this in the past — but it was certainly wrong then, and of course, it is certainly infinitely worse now.
BTW, since I don’t have enough time to waste I’ll for now take your advice and just ignore #34 – the poor guy doesn’t have enough brain cells left, banging his head against a wall will not help.
As for you though, keep banging away, maybe some day you’ll come to your senses – but I don’t advise anyone to hold their breath until then.
Best regards,
shimm
38 your spot on its that kind of honestly which people respect
4get it
34 you just got it wrong Sorry
korach-s compatriots
Hey morons: If the Rebbe “wasn’t in control” of things – and his encouraging of yechi was…..? WHAT???
Secondly, was he ALSO not in “control of things” during the video of tes vov iyar nun aleph – as he was VERY STRONGLY encouraging yechi being sung as he was walking out of the shul?
There was also another time beside that as well.
Lastly, was he also “not in control of things” when he used the same head and hands to instruct that the Lubavitcher in Florida should stay there during the hurricane?!
For what suits you – all of a sudden, like a ness – he’s in-control, he-knows, he’s a Rebbe, etc. etc.
Obviously – kefira does not happen overnight. Neither does believing in a Rebbe for that matter – someone who didn’t believe in a Rebbe 20-30-40 years ago, will not start now.
It does seem odd that 100% of all those guys who throw their chassidishkeit and yiddishkeit in the trash – are ALL from those whose families and homes are permeated in this filth and garbage about the Rebbe “not” being moshiach.
As with everything….LOCATION, LOCATION, LOCATION!
What the heck – whats a few more anyway, Korach should have plenty of room for you guys.
CR
No discussion of the Moshiach campaign is complete without mentioning the Sicha of 28 Nissan H’TShNA. Everyone mentions the Rebbe’s words of “I turn the matter over to you. Do everything you can to bring Moshiach.” Little mentioned are the Rebbe’s closing remarks:
“May it be G-d’s will that there will be one, two, or three among you who will appreciate what needs to be done and how it needs to be done, and may you actually be successful and bring about the true and complete Redemption.”
Let that sink in; “one, two or three among you who will appreciate what needs to be done…” And the rest of us? Are we just a bunch of Golems? After 20 years maybe the answer is a resounding “yes!”
To#25 & # 30
You need to go to a doctor immediately. Tell the doctor he must do a scan to find that disease that you mention. The doctors at Sloane-Kettering are specialist at this. With HaShem’s help they will find it in time to help you. Don’t take no for an answer. They must find it before it is to late for you. Refuah Shlaimah. Again, go immediately.
a useful summery of CHABAD-mainstream
this summs up the mainstream “messianist” view of the Rebbe
the vast majority of “mainstream” chabad believe this sensible approach:
On all matters of Halacha and Hashkafa we must follow Rabbonei Chabad.
The following (civilized) Rabbis are of the same belief as 95%of chabad arround the world,
simply put,
re All matters of The Rebbe visavi Moshiach etc
A yid, needs to consult Torah Sources,
& NOT to form opinions based on feelings or wishes or comfort… or public approval..
1. Many Torah sources in “Niglah” EXPLICITLY ALLOW the belief for “Moshiach to be Nisgalah, Niskasa, chozer Vnisglala, aka for the Rebbe to still return as Moshiach
2. Many sources in Torah even PREDICT this process to be the very way the Geula process (yes process) will unfold
3. From the very first Maamer of the Rebbe, the Rebbe makes it clear that we are in fact ”Dor Shvii“
as the Rebbe declared countless times since that THIS is indeed THE last Dor in Galus…
4. In Nun Alef & Nun Bais The Rebbe publicly announced & Edited, that IT already came to pass that Moshiach was ”Nisgala“ kepshutoi bepashtus! (the Rebbes words not mine) that Moshiach has already proclaimed… ”Anovim higiah zman geulaschem“
5. the Rebbe urged us to ”open up our eyes“ via Diligent study of Torah sources on the subject of ”Geula & Moshiach“
6. Torah allows fdor the belief that…
we are now After the first stage of Hisgalus, soon to complete the current stage 2 of ”Nichseh”
with the immanent final Stage 3 = Choizer V’nisgaleh
ushering in the Full & Complete Geulah kpshutoi, Aki”r
continued ….. part #2
part #2 continued...
part #2
7. The Rebbeh is still Nassi Hador, & is thus Still Goel Hador,
8. As Reb Yoel put it best, Halacha allows this belief & Sichos nun-alef-nun-beis force this belief!
9. Yet, Just because its True or Allowed, does NOT make It appropriate to advertise this belief (first thing) to someone who is NOT already of this belief, to someone who is NOT already knowledgable in Torah Sources that permit this belief
10. to prematurely push this belief, can Ch“V Turn off people from learning Chasidus-Chabad etc etc
Our real Goal as chasidim is Spreading Chasidus NOT who moshiach is! (at the expense of being Merachek people from learning chasidus)
11. The Rebbe was against V’Kuchim & Machlokis! It is wrong to Fight, Verbally/Physically or Politically in the name of Emes! The Rebbe saw all Vikuchim as a CLEVER” tactic of Atzas Hayeitzer (to Trap good-hearted well intentioned people)
12. The best way to approach this subject is as the Rebbe himself advised & Urged us… to learn Inyanei Geula Umoshiach & become proficient & immersed in the Torah Sources, to the point where it shapes our entire view of the world (and opens our eyes to see Geula process already unfolding)
the ABOVE POINTS ARE UNDESPUTED BY THE FOLLOWING “mainstream” Rabbis:
the following sample of Rabbi’s believe all these statements to be accurate & “Oisgehaltin” Alpi Torah & Chasidus:
Rabbi Majesky,
Rabbi Simon & Yossi Jacobson,
Rabbi Osdoba,
Rabbi Schwei
Rabbi Yoel Kahan (yes go ask him one on one)
Rabbi Berel Bell
Rabbi Levi Garelik
Rabbi Ashkenazi
The list goes on
part #3 continued
part #3
the lack of CLEAR DISTINCTION BETWEEN THE few CRAZIES & THE VAST MAJORITY OF NORMAL CIVILIZED “believers” is a unfortunate trap for many well intentioned people who lack the proper education in the matter…
it does much damage to not inform the public re the VAST difference between a legitimate well educated belief and the small number of anarchists who tarnish the reputation of the masses,
simply because to few of us sensible “believers” take the time to clarify the difference!
In conclusion:
lets all heed the Rebbe’s call & study the topic & get others to do the same!!
44 ty!
well said
ricky
love the piece a pleasure to read!!!
levi
agree with 44
Can-tSay
For all the non Meshichists, as an outsider, might I ask, why is there no new Rebbe? Why does your chassidus not feel the need for a new living leader? I can ask the same of Breslov. Is your answer one that would work for both Chabad & Breslov?
Is there one answer you give to outsiders and a different answers to those who can accept the real answer?