Reply To: Melech HaMashiach

1A2B3C SAID:

<< Presumably the followers would claim that their Moshiach will father children afterwards >>

MY RESPONSE:

What do you mean by “afterwards”?

If you mean “after death”, then any Jew can claim to be the Melech HaMashiach, and when people ask why he has not fulfilled the requirements to be the Melech HaMashiach, he can just claim that he will fulfill the requirements after he returns from death.

Additionally, the concept of the Melech HaMashiach coming from the dead is NEVER mentioned by Rambam (or any other Rishon).

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1A2B3C SAID:

<< perhaps that the talmidim can be called children >>

MY RESPONSE:

Torah law requires that the Melech HaMashiach be a direct descendant of David HaMelech AND Shlomoh HaMelech. This eliminates 99.99% of randomly-selected talmidim.

Also, if Rambam would have meant talmidim, then he would have written talmidim.