The Talmud Does not Teach a “Resurrected Moshiach”
The claims we hear nowadays in the Chabad movement about a resurrected Moshiach are from a Bible, but it is not the Jewish Bible. These claims about a resurrected Moshiach utilize blatant falsifications of classical Torah sources. The Talmud Sanhedrin is being misinterpreted by certain persons to claim that the future Moshiach will be a resurrected person. The Talmud Sanhedrin is only explaining that the attributes of the future Moshiach will resemble attributes of certain persons from the past, such as Daniel.
Even if somehow someone could argue that the future Moshiach will be a resurrected Daniel, then any persons living in our time would be excluded from being Moshiach.
Nor does the Rambam ever state anywhere that a deceased person could become a resurrected Moshiach. According to Rambam in Hilchos Melachim, Moshiach must be a living Jewish king in the Land of Israel who must accomplish certain tasks while living to be considered Moshiach. Once a Jewish king dies of any causes he is no longer a candidate for Moshiach.
Here is an excellent video explaining that Judaism does not believe in a dead messiah:
Chabad “Meshichistim” (who claim the deceased Chabad rebbe is Moshiach) are constantly trying to cite the Rambam to prove that somehow the deceased Chabad rebbe is the Moshiach.
Contrary to the Meshichistim, Moshiach must be a living Jewish king in Jerusalem (Rambam, 12th Principle of the 13 Principles).
The claim that the Moshiach can start his mission, then die, and then reappear to finish his mission is debunked in a number of places in the Rambam’s writings, for example:
” והמשיח ימות וימלוך בנו תחתיו ובן בנו וכבר ביאר הנביא את מיתתו לא יכהה ולא ירוץ עד ישים בארץ משפט ויאריך מלכותו ימים רבים עד מאד
But the Messiah will die and his son will reign in his place, and then his grandson. And the prophet has already explained his death: ‘He (the messiah) will not tire and will not be crushed until he puts justice in the world’ (Isaiah 42:5). And his kingdom will continue for a very long time.”
(Rambam’s Commentary to Tractate Sanhedrin, Introduction to Perek Chelek)
In this age we regretfully see that a high percentage of Jews have largely abandoned Torah observance.
Chabad “Meshichistim” who are all over the Internet promoting a Christianized, deceased, false “Moshiach” as “alive and well” provide an additional excuse for secularized Jews to reject traditional Judaism as irrational, irrelevant, and psychotic.
This is an excellent video, produced by an authentic Torah scholar, that explains the messianic process according to authentic Torah sources:
Rav Menashe Klein zt”l was a prominent Torah sage who denounced the Chabad Meshichistim in no uncertain terms.
““This sect of crazies, which falsify the Torah and our sages’ words, to say the Moshiach is dead but is really alive… these are things against our holy Torah,” says Harav Klein, echoing the sentiments and shitos of numerous gedolei Torah v’yirah of the last decades.”
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