Menachem, funny you should say that about the Lubavicher rebbe’s anivus. On the one hand you all say that he meant himself when he said his father-in-law was Mashiach, a novi and nossi hador. Then you tell us that he was talking about his father-in-law only. You can’t have it both ways.
Was/is he Mashiach, a novi and nossi hador, or not? If yes, how do you know if he didn’t mean himself when he said those things about the Rayatz.
I don’t think you’re fooling anyone. And i don’t think he was an anav at all.
You write that he didn’t want to become rebbe, and resisted it for a year. Have you read Gurary’s book where he writes openly about the fights between the L rebbe and his brother-in-law Shmaryahu Gurary? And have you read Larger than Life who writes that because his parents knew that the L rebbetzin would not be able to have children, they made a condition of the shidduch that their son would be the next rebbe?
To CS (are you really the long-departed ChabadShlucha?), of course there WAS a concept of Nossi Hador. But not for the last thousand years… until the L rebbe reinvented it and applied it to himself.