katan :
Finally, in addition to all that, the midrash notes that the final geulah is something that must come from Hashem alone, not from man’s efforts (other than Torah and mitzvos, of course).
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katan would have us believe that man cannot make any effort for the final ge’oula ….
so how exactly did r akiva think that bar kochba was mashiach ?
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was r akiva so badly mistaken ?
or is rather katan badly mistaken ?
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