To Menachem Shmei
Let’s assume you’re right and the Rebbe’s Pshat in the Gemara is correct, i.e. all Jews will be redeemed when Moshiach comes. Here’s a problem. The Gemara quotes an Amora who said that he doesn’t want to be alive when Moshiach comes. Now that makes sense if we accept the old-fashioned, now disproven pre-Rebbe Pshat that very few Jews will actually be redeemed. But according to the new and improved version, it’s gonna be party central. Alan Dershowitz, Woody Allen, and Bernie Sanders will have a Ketzos Chavrusa. So why would that Amora not want to see that halcyon period?