Arso
Firstly about Eliyahu hanavis arrival, as I said in the original post, it can happen at any one of the three stages (which is why we await Moshiach’s coming every day)
“I have to admit I was waiting for those references. Yachuf bidvarim does not mean “encourage”, it means using words to “compel” someone. As in the first example you brought, where Rav Pappa said that if he enters the place in question, it is equivalent to compelling the person there to sign over assets. The Lubavicher rebbe encouraged but did not even use his personality to compel.”
In the first source, Rav Pappa did not even say anything! Just his presence was a force. I have heard shluchos tell me that we’re having a friendly conversation with a local Jew, and the woman said that you’re going to be so proud, I started lighting Shabbos candles.” When the shlucha hadn’t mentioned it.
The Rebbe said in chayei Sara 5751 that even if the album were just to tell every yid they met that they should keep Torah and mitzvos- they would fulfill this shlichus, and in fact, it has already been fulfilled. (Btw do you know how many people visit just Chabad.org yearly? And how in the beginning of the war, yidden who had never made contact with the local Chabad house reached out and started asking how to keep mitzvos etc? Just their presence created a positive pressure.)
Btw The Rebbes yichus up to the Maharal, is listed in Hayom Yom. It’s ridiculous to say he made it up as Beis HaRav is well known.
I’m sorry you’ve convince yourself that you can never think of The Rebbe as a tzadik. It’s ok, The Rebbe is still there for you edited