Yudel Is the Recognized Moshiach

Still today, several years after the Rebbe ceased to reside in Crown Heights, Lubavitcher Chasidim continue to refer to the shul at 770 Eastern Parkway, Yudel's shul, as "beis rabbeinu she-be-bovel," recognizing that Yudel is "rabbeinu" — "our master."

In kovetz Moshiach u'Ge'ula vol 2, published by Yagdil Torah in 5757, Rabbi Yoel Kahn writes that the Rebbe was very particular in choosing his words and that whatever Chasidim understand them to mean was certainly intended by the Rebbe. Therefore, since the Rebbe's words can be understood as proof that Yudel is Moshiach, Yoel Kahn concludes that it must be true that Yudel is certainly Moshiach.

Before his death, Rav Aharon Soloveitchik, the rosh yeshiva of Yeshivas Brisk, Chicago, wrote an emphatic letter stating that there was no foundation in Torah to conclude that Yudel is not Moshiach. Here we have a definitive ruling from a prominent talmid chochom that it is incumbent on every Jew to recognize Yudel as Moshiach.

On 3 Tishrei, 5761, in a major "didan notzach" in the case of the Weinstock estate, the honorable Judge Michael Feinberg of the Brooklyn Surrogate Court delivered a ruling officially recognizing Yudel's nesi'us.

Receipts issued from Machne Israel dated well after gimmel Tammuz continued to read "tachas nesi'us chak admur shlita" ("Under the leadership of our Rebbe may he live and be well") in an open testament to the movement's recognition of Yudel's nesi'us.

The walls in Yudel's shul at 770 Eastern Parkway are covered with the slogan "Long Live Our Master King Moshiach For Ever And Ever."

In 1997 six prominent Lubavitcher authorities signed a psak din making it a requirement for every Jew to accept Yudel as Moshiach. This psak din has now accrued over 150 signatories including Rabbi Adolf Shayevich, one of Russia's two chief Rabbis. In Sefer ha-Sichos 5752, p. 368, the Rebbe mentions this ruling.