Start Time: Fri Dec 06 07:59:39 PST 2002
End Time: Fri Dec 06 08:06:36 PST 2002
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Rabbi Gurkow: Welcome to the Rabbi's one on one chat room, how can I help you today?
RabbiGreen: Topic is prophecy. On the online Hadar Hatorah site
RabbiGreen: on the topic of "Who is Moshiach?" the speaker
Rabbi Gurkow: I have never been o that site. What is your question?
RabbiGreen: said that if a person prophesizes something and it comes true
RabbiGreen: give me a chance to ask
RabbiGreen: and then says to abandon the Torah, he's not a prophet
RabbiGreen: Personally, I'm not orthodox and I eat pork on a religious basis (pardon the pun)
RabbiGreen: but your Rebbe said the time of the redemption had arrived and I don't see it.
RabbiGreen: Also, I claim myself to have had times where I could
predict things and I had RabbiGreen: psychic experiences notably while living in Crown Heights
RabbiGreen: I can't see how being a prophet is related to
RabbiGreen: kosher food and Talmud study alone.
Rabbi Gurkow: Is the question coming?
RabbiGreen: The question is why do you think you late Rebbe was a prophet when the redemption he prophesized did not occur?
Rabbi Gurkow: that is my business

(My reply, don't you think this is a curt and unintellectual reply for a supposedly intellectual Chasidic movement?)

RabbiGreen: I didn't mean to get personal. I really mean why do people in your movement in general think Rabbi Schneerson was a prophet when his heralding the age of the messiah seems to be further off now than ever before.
Rabbi Gurkow: no one asked you to believe it and as such you are free to disbelieve
(As long as I don't live in his neighborhood, anyway which is tightly controlled)


RabbiGreen: Ok, I'm glad you give me that space. I'm hoping that one
day there will be peace in the world, but I see things as having to
change drastically before that can happen. By