CS: “Moshiach can clearly come from the dead, hidden, or the living (as brought earlier on this thread)”
I really like the word clearly in that sentence.
Those of us old enough to remember what was going on pre gimmel Tammuz clearly remember lubavichers “proving” that the rebbe is mashiach from the fact that there is no one else ALIVE who fits the criteria.
Before gimmel Tammuz if you would have suggested to a lubavicher that maybe someone who died will be mashiach he would have explained to you that that is impossible, and likely apikorsus. This is not conjecture. I remember it well, and there are probably other posters who remember it too.
My, my. Look what someone’s death on gimmel Tammuz has now made “clear”.