“1. So what if Rav Kook’s sheeta does not agree with them?”
Nothing; I didn’t mean there was anything wrong with it disagreeing with them. I just didn’t see what you were bringing to this thread since that shittah has nothing to do with Chabad.
“According to Rabbi Hillel Rivlin’s exposition of the Gra’s sheeta it is clear that Mashiach ben Yosef is here.”
OK, then who is he? Where is there proof that you’re allowed to believe Moshiach is an abstract concept and not a physical person?