@sechel
Coca cola type of pirsomet to [search for candidates and then] publicly make atsarot lekabalat malhut shel mashiach was NEVER done within klal yisrael irrespective of location and date.
Not like CS and sechel attempt to make us believe.
This is A TOTAL NEWFANGLED IDEA promoted by neo habad.
Even if you turn yourself in to a pretsel , like the theological twists and turns of neo habad , you will have ZERO EVIDENCE of any precedent for that.
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