anyPotato: “I forgot to add you clearly have also not seen the Yad Ramah to kegoin Doniel… Nor even the maharsha or the arugas haboisem or the maharsham”
You are right that I had not seen the Yad Ramah, but now I have, and as far as I can tell he says exactly the same thing that Rashi did. That is, that if Mashiach is someone who died it must have been Daniel because there was no one else to compare to him.
As to the Maharsha, I certainly had seen it. He doesn’t say anything that could disagree with anything I have written.
I am having trouble figuring out where you see proofs in either of the above. I get the feeling that it’s like the old European joke proving that one has to wear a head-covering. “Vayetzei Yaakov… Now, could you imagine Yaakov goind anywhere without a covering his head?” Your ‘proofs’ are only proof if you decided on what they are going to prove before you read them.
As to the Maharsham – no, I have not seen it, and I don’t think I’ll look it up. But I have a question for you? When was the last time you, or 99% of Lubavichers, looked up a Yad Ramah or a Maharsham when you weren’t trying to prove something that it doesn’t say in Rashi or Tosfos? Would I be right in saying, never?
And that is my major complaint. You want to prove something you WANT to be the case, so you search for a (usually non-existent) proof. You are not searching for the truth, which is the way Torah-Yidden are supposed to learn Torah.
In my opinion, that is THE major problem with Chabad today.