<div dir="ltr"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">from the tenor of rMB and r ZS discussion , it sounds like mashiach is sent without the Dor being worthy necessarily , but then the klal blows the opportunity . </span><div>
<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"> so why did eliyahu say 'hayom, im bekolo tishma'u?' the implication is that the Dor need be worthy first ; </span></div>
<div><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">and furthermore, the prophetic descriptions of his spiritual powers , one would think , would not lend self to further spiritual deterioration of the Dor. </span></div>
<div><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"> ironic, was Bar Kochva from the great Gedolei Hador ? one thinks in terms of Mashiach as looking like r elyashiv , not a frum Ramatka''l.....</span><br>
</div><div><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br></span></div><div><font face="arial, sans-serif">i wonder what a pseudo-messiah would have to look like to be able to convince the Einei Haeidah</font></div>
<div><font face="arial, sans-serif">[and that would essentially mean as the 'gdolim' across the spectrum, and the 'amcha' as well]--</font></div><div><font face="arial, sans-serif">eg the recent generation's claimant to the messianic title , great as he was , was rejected +unanamously+ by all other than the followers . so if the messiah would be magnitudes greater than that , i am not sure a] how only one of the gdolim [ ala r akiva ] would follow him; and how potentially the generation could in spite of that spiritually deteriorate leading to his decoronation , let's call it.....</font></div>
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