There is a famous story that the Baal Shem Tov was once in the oliomus helyonim and he keep right up to Heichel Hamoshiach and he asked him when are you coming, moshiach replied when you guys start learning Kabbalah.
I’ve never heard that story. And I don’t believe it either. So there. Moshiach said “you guys”? Really? And why when you guys start learning? Why not when you have learnt?
Anyway, I have a different story, which I also don’t believe. So the rebbe dies and he has two sons. And the one son comes to the other the next morning and says “last night tatte came to me in a dream and said I should be the next rebbe.” And the other son says, “if tatte wanted you to be the rebbe, he should have come to ME in a dream.”
If Moshiach wanted all the litvaks to learn kabballah, he should have told the Gra or Rav Chaim Volozhin.