Chapter 3: Is The Rebbe Alive? - Can the Rebbe be Moshiach ...

Can the Rebbe be Moshiach?
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righteous are called alive even
when they are dead and help
their household members fulfill
their obligation in kiddush.
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ינב שודיקב רטופו םתתימב
םהש םיתמה ראשכ אלו .תיבה
יחכ םא יכ תװצמ ןמ ישפח
,וײחב שבול היהש ומכ םידגבב
וליפא םײח םיארקנ םיקידצהו
ינב שודיקב רטופו םתתימב
.תיבה
According to the Sefer Chasidim, Rabbi Yehudah HaNassi
was not uniquely alive. After death, everyone is alive and
can appear to those still living. However, the righteous are
more alive and can even help others fulfill their obligation in
kiddush. Rabbi Yehudah HaNassi, as a righteous man, was
in a sense still alive even after his death. There is, therefore,
no significant difference between what the Ramban and
Rabbeinu Bachya said and what the Sefer Chasidim said.
Rashi, however, has a different understanding of the Yaakov
Avinu passage. Rashi says that Yaakov Avinu is actually
still physically alive.
Did not die: Rather he lives
forever…
I expound from the Bible:
And that they embalmed him –
they thought he was dead.
Just like his descendants are
...םלועל אוה יח אלא ׃תמ אל
וטנחד יאהו ׃שרוד ינא ארקמ
.תמש ויה םירובס איטנח
ץבקמ אוהשכ ׃םײחב וערז המ