“The Rambam writes he will compel all Israel and wage wars. He then says “if he does this” what is this going on? Wars? Okay, wars. “And he succeeds” what’s this now going on? Wars again? Strange. Maybe u want to say it means “if he waged wars and succeeds in them” but then he could have just said “if he succeeds [in them]” as he already wrote earlier he was doing them. And then he writes “and defeats all the enemies that surround him”. ”
Not a kashya; the rambam lists every qualification before saying im lo hitzliach; it’s not repetitive at all
Re, secularization; I was not aware of your personal circumstances. I apologize if i offended you.
However, gedolim still say that in our time, intermarriage is a red line. It means they’re out. Hashem doesn’t hold back the schar of anyone, but when in that state, they are not to be considered redeemed by a messiah. That is not geulah, it is a spark of good in a miasma of evil sin. And every mitzvah is precious; every thought of maybe doing a mitzva is precious, but that is not the state of messianic redemption at all. Like i said, things only got worse when the Lubavitcher rebbe was alive. More jews became further away and were not oseh maysoh amcha. Regardless of culpability, they have the halacha of goyim regarding things like stam yainom and bishul akum(the latter is a machlokes). A nation of millions of mumarim, even if at this point they’re tinokos shenishbu, is not moshiach’s mission.
Re, rav hutner; I’d trust what his talmidim say over online people obsessed with their rebbe, who continually attempt to make him not only their rebbe, but the nasi hador, etc..
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