anyPotao to me: “can people on this thread speak to the lamdus of the sefer as it relates to Chazal, rishonim, acharonim and Rambam without speaking about Lubavitch?”
This is so typical of Lubavich. Trying to force the discussion into an area where you won’t feel uncomfortable.
I’m not dealing with the sefer, and I don’t even know which sefer you’re talking about. And as to your reply to my claim that when he was alive ALL Lubavichers, without exception, claimed Mashiach has to be someone who is alive, you are distorting the facts.
I personally heard many Lubavichers giving public shiurim say that 1. Mashiach has to be someone who is alive, and 2. Who alive is more worthy than the Lubavicher rebbe (In this post I’m not going to argue how this last claim does not hold water). You claim that they believed that Mashiach has to be someone who is alive only because they believed their rebbe was Mashiach. If that was their reasoning, they hid it and lied, because they claimed the reverse, as I explained, that because it has to be someone who is alive it must be their rebbe.