Reply To: Question of an ignorant, closed-minded Lubavitcher

Menachem, you’re misquoting the gemara about rebbe hillel; he doesn’t say that Hashem will redeem them, he says only “ain moshiach ba lyisroel,” moshiach will not come. Rashi says that he means that Hashem will redeem them Himself, but many understood rebbe hillel literally, and that’s what we pasken to be kefirah. I don’t know if it’s kefirah to follow rebbe hillel according to rashis pshat, but nevertheless the gemara says he was wrong, and that Hashem should forgive him (rebbe hillel) for saying that.