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As to why it was “impossible” to end up this way- a) partly because there are sources also from the Rebbe about this generation going straight into chaim nitzchiim- So that does pose a seeming contradiction to Gimmel Tammuz- which is why the entire lubavitch refer to Gimmel Tammuz as such, and also why very few will say zia.
But the main answer is that they were having bitachon that things wouldn’t end up this way.
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THIS IS ABSOLUTELY UNTRUE .
I was alive then and followed EVERY PRONOUNCEMENT from 770 in real-time .
Including the articles by habad rabbanim and mashpi’im.
That was NOT the rationale .
It was very simply – Based on the NORMATIVE JEWISH BELIEF that mashiach , ONCE HE STARTED could not die [in any shape or form] , otherwise he would be proven as Mashiach Sheker.
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You are just repeating PROPAGANDA .
And blindly so.
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