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- From: levene@aplpy.jhuapl.edu (Robert A. Levene)
- Newsgroups: alt.messianic
- Subject: Re: Complete verification of Jesus
- Date: 25 Jan 1993 07:58:42 -0600
- Organization: Johns Hopkins University
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- In article <24JAN199314040627@utkvx2.utk.edu> you write:
-
- > that anyone who declares someone as Messiah before all the
- > requirements are complete can't be part of Judiasm? Are the Chabad
- > Jews now separate from the Jewish people because they believe they
- > know who the Messiah is... before world peace arrives?
-
- They believe that the Lubavitcher Rebbe is the person in this
- generation (every generation has one) who is the *potential* Messiah
- (Hezkat Moshiach) and who would be restored to full health and
- anointed the actual Messiah (Moshiach Vadai) if G-d wished for the
- Messianic age to begin now. Some of the breathless, unauthorized
- newspaper ads which individuals in Chabad occasionally place don't
- always make the potential/actual distinction clear, and I have
- complained about this to Chabad friends of mine.
-
- Rob
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