The question that still has not been answered is how is it possible that before 3 Tammuz ABSOLUTELY EVERY LUBAVICHER rejected the notion that Mashiach could be someone who had died, and then they did an about face after 3 Tammuz. Btw I am not exaggerating the facts. I have been around Lubavich, a very long time and I remember the “proof” that the then-live Lubavicher rebbe was Mashiach was the claim that Mashiach has to be someone alive and, of course, there is no one more fitting than the L rebbe.
As I wrote in another thread, the only consistent Lubavichers are the crazies who say that he did not die.
The problem is, and this has been pointed out by others and by myself in the past, that we start with the result, the Lubavicher rebbe must be Mashiach, and then we work around the facts – either rejecting or modifying them – in order not to question the result. Much like the moshol of the Dubno Maggid about the fool who used to fire the arrow first and then draw the bullseye around it.