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<p>The article with this title at</p>
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<p><a href="http://seforim.blogspot.com/2017/02/the-rabbi-rebbe-and-messiah.html">http://seforim.blogspot.com/2017/02/the-rabbi-rebbe-and-messiah.html</a></p>
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<p>is not primarily about RMMS. It focuses on another rebbe who some thought to be the messiah. The article is long and scholarly and well worth the read, IMO. The second paragraph of this article is<br>
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<p>"<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.12px;">Messiahship was a chasidic and mystical phenomenon, with chasidic rebbes; R’ Yisrael Ba’al Shem Tov<span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.12px;">[2]</span></span></span>,
R’ David of Tulna<span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.12px;">[3]</span></span></span>, R’ Yisrael of Ruzhin<span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.12px;">[4]</span></span></span>,
R’ Nachman of Breslov<span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.12px;">[5]</span></span></span>, R’ Yitzchak Isaac Safrin of Komarna<span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.12px;">[6]</span></span></span>,
R’ David Moshe of Chortkov<span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.12px;">[7]</span></span></span>, and mystics; R’ Chaim Vital<span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.12px;">[8]</span></span></span>,
R’ Chaim ibn Attar<span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.12px;">[9]</span></span></span>, R’ Moshe Chaim Luzzato<span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.12px;">[10]</span></span></span>,
Shukar Kuchayil I<span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.12px;">[11]</span></span></span>, and Shukar Kuchayil II<span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.12px;">[12]</span></span></span>,
and more recently Yisrael Dov Odesser<span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.12px;">[13]</span></span></span>, all being labeled one way or another as the Messiah<span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.12px;">[14]</span></span></span>.
Despite the characterization of these individuals as the Messiah, most lived on without any scandal associated with the eschatological attribution. There is one instance however, which unfortunately did cause a great uproar. I refer to you the case of R’
Menachem Mendel Hagar, the scion of the Vizhnitz chasidic dynasty, and the Transylvanian town of Borşa."<br>
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<p><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.12px;">Please see the above URL for much more about a chapter in Jewish history that I was not at all aware of. And, of course, after the entire incident there was an
attempt to suppress knowledge of it just as there was after the Shabbatai Tzvi affair. <br>
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<p><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.12px;">YL</span><br>
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