2] DID A JEWISH COMMUNITY ANYTIME , ANYWHERE USE THE MEANS OF MASS ADVERTISING AVAILAIBLE TO THEM IN THEIR CONTEXT TO PROMOTE AN INDIVIDUAL AS MASHIACH ?”
Possibly. Rabbi Akiva promoted bar kochba. Shabtai tzvi was endorsed by many Rabbanim. How exactly they did so I don’t know since we don’t have media from then.
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CS agrees -again- that there is no proof whatsoever .
It is ‘possible’. That is the furthest she can go.
R’Akiva said – I thought Bar Kochba was Mashiach . He PROMOTED bar kochba ???
If CS is honest , she will agree that there is NO source whatsoever of anyone PROMOTING bar kochba.
It seems more like Bar Kochba’s ACHIEVEMENTS ‘promoted’ b’k . Without any outside ‘promotion’ necessary. Ma’aseha Yekarvuha ….
Which, incidentally happened to the reason for R’A ‘s assumption ….
It seems that ,in an inverse sense , all the way through the ages, people realized that the more ‘outside promotion’ is needed , the more that shows that the helek hama’asim is lacking.
Thats why ‘promotion’ is historically totally absent and lacking in Jewish Life.
Which leaves us as the only other precedent, the other False , Failed and despised ‘messiah’.
It’s quite simple , Shabtai tsvi , Shem Resha’im Yirkav, had a devoted army of sincere , blindly devoted followers who fell prey to the charisma of their leader , who ‘promoted’ their leaders supernatural feats , far and wide, as proof of his messiahship.
Woe to the cause which draws its legitimacy and ways of operation from that exposed fraudster and his mass movement of lies and deceit …..
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