tunaisfish: Is it really so crazy to say that the rebbe who has brought tens of thousands of people back to yidishkeit (at least to some extent) taught hour long sichas each week explaining rashis and rambams with seeming contradictions and asking valid questions on almost all achronim on rashi, is bechezkas moshiach?
Truthfully, yes, it really is crazy!
Having just done a search I can point out that the only source for someone being chezkas Mashiach, is the Rambam in Hilchos Melachim, and he lays out certain criterie – NONE of which you cite in your post. The Rambam does not even say that Mashiach has to be “baki in Bavli, yershhalmi, shulchan oruch with the noisei keilim as well an abundance of kabbalah seforim” as you assume to be the case with the L rebbe.
It is so very woke, and so very Lubavich, for someone to say, “I think this person is great, therefore I’m allowed to declare that he is chezkas Mashiach.”
Boruch Hashem, the Rambam was not woke, and neither is the entire Torah. Unlike a vast number of the Lubavicher rebbe’s fan-base.