Also, it’s not even that the lubavitcher rebbe failed to accomplish all of the rambams criteria; he didn’t fulfill a single one. He did not “coercd all of yisroel to torah” – not even close, not even close to being close. There are 13 million jews in the world, of which, only about 15% are Orthodox. In the rebbes time, fewer than that were.
During his time as rebbe, for every intermarriage he may have prevented with his kiruv workers, countless others happened.
Most jews had nothing to do with lubavitch and his reach was hyped up in orthodox circles, particularly in chabad, where they’d have you think that every jew in the world knew the rebbe and became frum because of him. They made a huge deal out of him, for instance, appearing briefly on a television show once…as if “the whole world” saw him…in reality, 99% or more just saw him snd went on to watch whatever came next. Ask goyim if they “remember” him being on tv and they’ll look at you like you’re from Mars. TV is on 24/7 and it’s forgotten as soon as it’s over.
But to chabad, this is some monumental achievement.
I was on TV once when i was a kid. I was 10, and i made a demonstration in front of an ice cream truck that frequented my playground, because they sold fake cigarettes. I and a few friends protested, and for some reason a local TV station put me on for like 5 minutes. I felt like a million bucks, but do you think anyone in the world remembers that? I barely remember it myself!
If anything, numbers of Orthodox jews trended up after he passed away. I’m not in any way saying that the two are linked, but my point is that he did not bring all, most, or even 1/4 of jews back to yiddishkeit.
He didn’t bring Jews back to Eretz yisroel, he didn’t fight with the neighboring countries, he didn’t build the beis hamikdash, he didn’t fix up shmiras hamitzvos any more than, say, the tzelemer rov or rav moshe… Nothing
Actually, there was one criteria that he may have fulfilled. The rambam says that if a messianic candidate is megaleh ponim batorah, or says that a certain Mitzvah is not applicable, he definitely is not moshiach.
And… The lubavitcher rebbe said that in our time there’s basically no Mitzvah to sleep in a sukkah.
Now you’ll say, no, he didn’t say there’s no Mitzvah, just if you’re mitztayer because you’re not mitztayer that you don’t feel a kabbalistic concept in the sukkah, then you’re patur.
And on that, the rambam says that a false moshiach can “take a Mitzvah out of its simple meaning”
The simple meaning is, if you’re cold, you’re patur. He comes and says that “spiritual” pain about not being in pain is enough.
He’s a false Messiah, and this was known early on. When he first became rebbe, the brisker rov said “dehr meshugah meint as ehr is moshiach”