@NonPolitical,
“Siting an Agadah to sanction an unprecedented theological shift among Klal Yisroel is unacceptable. ”
This Gemara is a very strong precedent. Agada only isn’t a proof if it contradicts Halacha, which as explained, it doesn’t. The Rambam does not say that Moshiach isn’t min hameisim, or from one who was zoche to Techiya before the process of Geula began, (and that is a legitimate possibility, צדיקים קמים מיד, and other sources,) and there was such a possibility accepted by no less than Amoraim. Was the Gemara not accepting your definition of “Halachic process”?
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