“I was at that funeral. I explicitly and unmistakably heard R’ Elya Svei say,
“I have a kabala from my rebbe, Rav Elchonon, that Mashiach will come in the year two-oh-oh-nine.”
I’m not necessarily doubting the veracity of the story, but doesn’t it strike anyone else as odd that R. Svei would explicitly use the Gregorian date, rather than the Hebrew date?
The Wolf