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“ You along with the notzrim
A second coming……”
I hope you agree with the notzrim that we should await Moshiachs coming every day. Oh and believe in Moshiach to begin with. Otherwise…
What the notzrim believe or not doesn’t make something treif. It’s whether it’s Torah or not. The notzrim are wrong first and foremost because yoshke was a rasha and was never fit to be Moshiach to begin with.
Now I don’t think there’s any Torah sources for someone who started the job, and didn’t finish/ was killed or otherwise thwarted, to continue to consider them Moshiach.
The debate is if someone started and, at least to our eyes, passed away, but their work and personal influence continue, what then? There’s room to say (and the Rebbe actually wrote this about the Frierdiker Rebbe) that he could then have techias hameisim with the first round of Tzaddikim (40 years earlier than
the rest) and finish the job.
I listed earlier in the thread, there are classical sources (rashi, Medrash, Rabbeinu Bachya, The Chasam Sofer) that say that Moshiach will start the job and then disappear for a period of time, and that this disappearance is a test of Emuna.