MAY HE BE REVEALED AS MOSHIACH VADAI, CONFIRMED TO BE MOSHIACH

Sources where the Rebbe proclaims that Moshiach has already been revealed. * From Chapter Seven of Rabbi Shloma Majeski’s Likkutei Mekoros (Underlined text is the compiler’s emphasis.(

Translated by Boruch Merkur

14. In practical terms, the avoda of Jews must now be “to bring about the Days of Moshiach.” This avoda entails immediately revealing how “those who enter Egypt,” those who are in exile, are actually in a state of redemption, “geulas Yisroel,” which is realized by preparing ourselves and others for “the Days of Moshiach.”

Preparing for Moshiach, in connection with Rambam’s yahrtzait    [on the 20^th of Teives], especially includes strengthening and adding in the study of Rambam’s Mishneh Torah, as well as participating in the study of Rambam among many Jews (or if one already participates, by offering further support for this endeavor) – three chapters a day, one chapter a day, or the daily study of Seifer HaMitzvos.

In particular, within Rambam’s magnum opus itself, preparing for Moshiach is most pronounced in the study of the Laws of Melech HaMoshiach, the last two chapters of the Laws of Kings at the end of Mishneh Torah.

In addition to one’s own study of Rambam, we should also inspire Jewish acquaintances – men, women, and children – in pursuit of the call to “establish many students,” who will see and emulate.

May it be G-d’s will that through our very resolution to do so, we should immediately receive the reward, the actual fulfillment of the words of Rambam, at the conclusion of Mishneh Torah – that after there already is the “king from the Davidic dynasty, steeped in Torah and occupied with Mitzvos, like Dovid, his ancestor … and he compels all the Jewish people to follow it, strengthens its breaches, and wages the wars of G-d” – this one is “presumed to be Moshiach – may he immediately become “Moshiach Vadai – confirmed to be Moshiach,” by “doing so and succeeding, building the Beis HaMikdash in its place, gathering the exiles of the Jewish people … and fixing the entire world to serve G-d together, etc.”

Until, as Rambam concludes, “the earth will be filled with the knowledge of G-d as water fills the ocean bed.”

(Shabbos Parshas Shmos, 21 Teives; Seifer HaSichos 5752, pg. 257)