My view is that the flaw in the argument commences when we ask the question: Is there not supposed to be Mashiach ben Yoseph who dies fighting the war of Gog and Magog, AND THEN comes Mashiach ben David? See the traditional texts in the subject such as מלחמות מלך המשיח.
I find that after asking this question of a Chabad Devotee they say “yes but if we merit it we could bypass the wars with Mashiach Ben Yosef and go straight to a peaceful transition under Mashiach Ben David”.
From there it is a short distance to the muddy waters stirred up around the memory of the Lubavitcher Rebbe, may he be remembered for good, whereby we hear of amazing Ruach HaKodesh and help in many, many, people’s lives but then that is automatically equated with being the Mashiach or the best candidate.
But when the fervour set in so many years ago and they began wheeling out an incapacitated Rebbe saying that Hashem will heal him, and later, he either didn’t die because a Tzaddik is more with us after his passing then before, or secretly whispering that he will raise from the kever, one realises that this has become an halachic merry-go-round with no end.
The reality, in my view is, that just as when we were in Mitzraim, we have failed to generate the enormous zchut to be redeemed on our own merits alone which is the basis of a purely peaceful Mashiach ben David alone.
Let’s wake up and smell the roses.
David
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