The Alter Rebbe would say, “The Messiah we are waiting for isn’t coming. The Messiah we aren’t waiting for is coming.”
The Alter Rebbe fits a constellation of thinkers who challenge the average understanding of the Messiah as a person who will arrive at a specific historical moment. His statement is a kind of negative eschatology—the Messiah is definitio…
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