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“No we don’t believe moshiach is Elvis, Elvis died (some people don’t think so) but what we believe is that if moshiach was going to come from the dead (which is highly unlikely) he could be from the thousands of tzaddikim that lived before the rebbe”
That does have a base in Torah, although we hold (like the Rambam) that the person suited to be Moshiach is the person who did the work to get his generation to be the one to tip the scales and bring Geula. And in that sense, The Rebbe is very much alive. Yechi HaMelech:)!
“It’s like this. Remember Bnei Yisrael protested that the Torah is for everyone and shouldn’t be just for shevet Levi? So as Rebbetzin Vechter put it when her husband revealed to her that he was teaching her TheRebbes Torah, “If this is what I thought I’d go to Gehennom for learning, it’s worth it!!””
Tell that to any missionary and he laugh you out of town because that is his reasoning too