A few additonal comments on earlier postings…To mariner- I admire yo ustadning up for reb joiseh ber but i must tell yo u, you are dead wrong about moshiach and lubavitch. There a slew of maaorei chazal, zoahr, and afterwards who conclusively tell us that there will be a slow awakening of the “jemosa hamoshiach”. You don’t belive me? Go and learn the sefer of Rav Zvi Hirsch Kalisher zz’l (written, by the way, in the 1850’s!) “Derishat Zion’ and you will see how he brings down hundreds of mmamorei chaal who absolutely mirror the derech of the religious zionists (the “failed’ mizrachi”)e wrote this fifty years before zionism even existed,. But for zalman and matisjohu, he is nothing. All that counts is Toras “vajoel Moshe”.
As far as asking why not the Maggid ,why not other gedolim, “ein hochi nami”. You can ask this time and time again. Maybe it is more current today because, for the first time since bar Kochba (as you know, he was called Moshiach by Rabbi Akiva) we have Eretz Yisroel back in our own hands, Boruch hashem. Hence, more emphasis on Moshiach today. And, please, you are too intelligent to even dare compare for one milli-second Lubavitch with -chas vecholilo- x-anity.
As far as the rantings of zalman and matisjohu against the zionists, against the medianah,etc…that’s OK, stay here in the US and get consumed with jealousy and envy at the success of the “treifene medianh”. Hakodesh boruch knew what He was doing and ,of course, you have the bechira to be stupid.