Of course I mean in the non-technical term, I believe that each of us is a potential Messiah, that is has Moshiach/Christ/Buddha Consciousness in a state of latentcy. And that each of us has the ability to be a particular Messiah, individual Messiah as opposed to the general/universal Messiah/Moshiach/Chirst/Buddha - which I believe the Lubavitcher Rebbe was probably one of.

Every Jew has a spark of Moschiach in his soul.

The Lubavitcher Rebbe is the nasi hador.. the leader of the generation... our generation. 

The Lubavitcher Rebbe is Moschiach.  

and?

What are you saying?

That your soul is that of the Lubavitcher Rebbe?

there is a small part of every jewish soul that is a part of the soul of moschiach. and i'm not saying it, it's from chassidus.

so - i'll ask you again, is that spark of your soul the REBBE?!?! it's a simple piece of math.

the answer would be YES - my soul is that of Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson (the 2nd)!!!

but that's not the real answer - Chassidus isn't saying that it is either - but hey - my dear Rebbe is great to see that you've found a new body to be reincarnated in - when can we all come around for dollars and stuff? 

Oh! and is that what we are meant to do now - take our shirts off - is that one of the signs of the start of the Messianic era? shall we all be like Adam & Eve in the Garden of Eden before the sin?

Wow! Johanthan Silverman is the new Lubavitcher Rebbe - Yechi HaMelech!!!! 

OK so i was being an arse... i see that - but if you say stupid things then what do you expect?

I'm an ass. no big deal

but i do want to explore the original idea a little more - obviously for you reading this it's not as humourous or interesting as it is for me, but then again in all likelyhood - unless you've been talking to the Rebbe, studying his teaching and generally having him in your life for the past 15 years or so - it's not gonna make much sense.

I've been talking - communicating with a man that technically died over 10 years ago - to be honest i've lost count how many years it has been and i don't really want to know either.

the rebbe is very much alive - within me - in my life.

My wife is probably still a little disturbed by it - but there you go - what can i do? (it's a rhetorical question)

You'd think (following the classical psychological set-up) that i'm in denial, that somehow i've avoided confronting the inevitable death of my guru and kept him alive in my mind - so as to cushion the traumatic impact of the reality of his death. and that might be it, but it doesn't ring true for me.

You see, as i may have pointed out above - i'm not sure if the Rebbe was, i never knew him as a human being with a begining and an end - and even when he was alive i communicated with him in a similarly estranged way - through rabbis and letters.

So now it's through mediating, staring at his photo and sometimes opening one of his works.

Yes it maybe a Biblical prohibition to communicate to the dead, but is the Rebbe dead? or am i merely connecting to that level of my inner self which i identify as 'The Rebbe'? what the Rebbe calls - the Etzem HaNefesh / the Essential Soul.?

It's not something that the Rebbe seemed to have a problem with - he spoke to the Previous Rebbe (after he passed away) almost every Monday and Thursday for over 40 years.

You know the joke - if you speak to God you're praying - if God speaks to you, you're clinically insain

If you talk to the Rebbe (yes he is God [btw so are you]) but if the Rebbe talks to you....

But the Rebbe does at times talk to me - call me crazy - i probably am a little (as we all are [that just makes me feel better ok?])

What does he say? stuff like this:

'There is no Geula if there is no experience of Aleph'   

'Sometimes you've got to scramble a few eggs to make an omelet'

'What are you waiting for?'

But mostly it is non-verbal

like

i love you

and

trust - just let yourself trust

and

do i have to remind you that everything is god?

--

as i've said - this is my Rebbe and i like him he helps me and i help him - or the other way around?

I feel my destiny calling - it's quite patent it seems - but it's pulling me slowly towards the future - a small part in this big play. 

But the Rebbe was a man. Not a concept. Perhaps you could imagine a man even greater than Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson. Maybe that thing should be your Rebbe? I'm not really sure what I'm saying, but I guess I'm not totally comfortable with you totally spiritualizing the Rebbe...