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Menachem Shmei
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>>>The Chassam Sofer wouldn’t apply to your reasoning.

My point was as follows:

Unfortunately, there are people today (e.g. Yaron Reuven) who claim that Moshiach isn’t an exciting thing that we should be looking forward to, rather a terrifying thing that we should hope to never experience. They base this misconception on the aforementioned statements of Ulla and Rabba.
(“If such great amoraim didn’t want the Geula, why should we?”)

My answer was that the accepted psak throughout Jewish history was that Moshiach is something we should constantly be looking forward to (as reflected in our daily davening and Rambam).

If someone would claim that it is valid to not want to experience Moshiach based on Ulah’s opinion, my response would be comparing it to the Chasam Sofer.