David Berger, The Rebbe, the Messiah, and the Scandal of Orthodox Indifference

(Portland, Oregon: The Littman Library of Jewish Civilization, 2001.)  Without a doubt, the central argument of David Berger's The Rebbe, the Messiah, and the Scandal of Orthodox Indifference will strike a Messianic Jew differently than your average Orthodox rabbi or layperson, who are presumably Berger's intended audience. For many of us, a particular line of debate about the Messiah is old hat: how a person who appeared to leave the stage of history at his death (resurrection notwithstanding) cannot be the Messiah; how the unredeemed state of the world means that, according to the unanimous