@qwerty. you did not answer the question. moshiach can not “compel all of Israel to walk in (the way of the Torah) and rectify the breaches in its observance, and fight the wars of God” without help from others. so who who help him? you wont, cuz you will say he belongs in the mental home. so please explain how moshiach will come. according to me, its in the rebbe the rebbe started with sending shluchim, and it is continuing (thats how the rebbe can still be moshiach after his pasing because his work continues its not over, the rambam writes if he does not succeed).
so what is chassidus? chassidus came to wake up the deepest part of the neshama called yechida. one of the main aspects how that happens is thru being connected to the rebbe which is a higher neshama – neshama diatzilus. by chabad in addition the focus was and is on learning chassidus in chuchma bina and daas, to bring it bipnimius.
so can you have chassidus without a rebbe alive? the alter rebbe in tanya igeres hadodesh 27 writes to the talmidim of R. Mendele of Vitebsk after his passing how the tzadik continues to give hashpaa to his talmidim after his passing and even more than in his lifetime, since hes not anymore limited in his body.
he also explains there that a tzadik – tanyas definition – this holy neshama his life when hes alive is not life of flesh. (so if you ask me if the rebbe is still alive (assuming commen defintion of life) i would say “he was NEVER alive!)
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