Chazal On Yudel Being Moshiach

In maseches Sanhedrin, 97b, Rav says "All the kitzin have passed," referring to the designated times for Moshiach's arrival. This statement was made in the time of the Talmud. Surely now, nearly two millennia later, Moshiach cannot be relegated to another generation and Yudel must be manifest as the true Moshiach.

In Yoma, 38b, and Kiddushin, 72b, the gemoro states emphatically that "No tzaddik departs from this world until another is created like him." In Yoma it continues "Hashem saw that tzaddikim are scarce so he distributed them in every generation." And in Bereishis Rabba, s. 58, "Before Hashem causes the sun of one tzaddik to set he causes the sun of another to rise." This is none other than the great and holy tzaddik Yudel Krinsky, the successor of the moshiach ha-dor, who will certainly lead us out of golus.

Well known in divrei chazal is the existence of a Moshiach ben-Yosef, a precursor to the true Moshiach. The Otzar ha-Midrashim, p. 551, writes that Moshiach ben-Yosef will die in golus, then, only after he is publicly mourned by all of Israel will Moshiach ben-Dovid come. Even then, the Jews will reject him and he will be concealed. After that he will arise and the Jewish people will be gathered into the land of Israel. With our own eyes we have seen the arrival and departure of the Moshaich ben-Yosef. Yudel, Moshiach ben-Dovid, has since been exiled from the downstairs shul in 770, fulfilling the oracle of his concealment. No one can deny the clear development of these predictions as they unfold rapidly before us. All that remains is the final gilui, when Yudel will lead us komemiyus le-artzeinu, be-korov mamosh!