CS: “as you admitted, the Rambam doesn’t make sense to explain as a literal king because then he’d be in Eretz Yisrael , anointed by Sanhedrin etc and the Rambam is speaking of the person who leads the process from golus”
I never wrote anything like that! Once again, I wrote that the if we’re going to follow the Rambam, which 1000s of Lubavichers have quoted over the last 30 years, then I don’t know how it will work. But I never chas veShalom said the Rambam doesn’t make literal sense.
“If Beis HaRav are able to trace their lineage, and you have no logical reason to dispute it (besides the obvious issue of saying they were lying)”
I have lots of logical reasons to dispute it, but that is irrelevant. The Beis Din Hagodol in Lishkas Hagozis would investigate all kohanim to see if they were meyuchosim. I assume they will also investigate any claim to being Davidic. I don’t think anyone would agree with you that someone claiming to trace their lineage is good enough. That sounds ludicrous. Does anyone following this disagree with me?
“In the language of Halacha, compel is also used to mean convince with words”
Sources please.