sechel, I said that Rashi is the only one who explains that gemoro, and I then proceeded to clarify what Rashi meant. Sorry, but quoting a publication by your own people to say otherwise is useless, as I won’t accept an alternative explanation made by the person who claims he is Mashiach, especially when whatever it says there contradicts what Rashi says.
Rabbi Breitowitz is a great man, but I don’t know what he wrote about that kuntres, and I have no intention of messing up my mind by reading it. Furthermore, it is well-known – I, at least, know it for a fact – that Rabbi Breitowitz holds that the L rebbe is NOT Mashiach.
As to the Yerushalmi you quoted, it says Mashiach’s name is David, and the L rebbe’s name was not David. (I’m very surprised that you didn’t quote the next statement of the Yerushalmi, which says that his name is Menachem. Or were you just laying the bait for a trap by omitting it? At any rate, there it says his father’s name was Chizkiyah and that he came from the environs of Beis Lechem. Not that his father’s name was Levi Yitzchok and that he came from Yekatrinoslav.)
I’ll point out again, the ONLY sources that says that the L rebbe could be Mashiach are from the L rebbe himself, and if that isn’t plain self-aggrandizement and delusions of grandeur I don’t know what is.