Sechel: “That’s wonderful, but that isn’t Koveah Halacha. Ma Zaroy BaChayim Af Hu doesn’t mean that the Rebbe is considered physically alive in the sense that if we weren’t continuing his legacy, he couldn’t be Moshiach, but now that we are, he can. Halacha simply doesn’t work that way.”
There’s a point that you have missed. The gemoro says, as you quoted, ma zaroy bachayim… But that is referring to physical descendents. Unfortunately, the late lubavicher rebbe did not have any physical descendents, so it can’t apply to him.
Yes, I know. You, or CS or someone else, will claim that his chassidim are descendants. But that’s a distortion of the gemoro, which some of you have distorted more than enough already.