What else has to happen before Moshiach comes?
• Wishful Thinking
Who would've thought that European basketball would immanentize the eschaton? At least some members of Lubavitch movement of Chassidic Judaism think it has.
"Maccabi's victory is another sign that any second now Moshiach will come – just like the Rebbe taught us," Rabbi Yaakov Gloiberman, the personal rabbi of Maccabi Tel Aviv coach Pini Gershon, said Monday. "And God willing, Moshiach will be the rebbe himself," he added, referring to the late Lubavitcher Rebbe, Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson.
Gloiberman, a Chabad emissary in Lod, provided spiritual support to Gershon, who coached Maccabi to a win against Tau Vitoria in the Euroleague final Sunday in Moscow.