Editing The Ruling that the Rebbe is Melech HaMoshiach (section)

==== Journey of the Rabbis - 5777 ====
In the year 5777 (2017), approaching 24 Tevet - the hilula (anniversary of passing) of the Alter Rebbe - a group of twelve rabbis from the Chabad Halacha Institute embarked on an official journey to pray at the gravesites of our Rebbeim. The purpose of the journey was to read a ruling declaring the Rebbe as Melech HaMoshiach (King Messiah) and requesting his revelation - at the gravesites of the Alter Rebbe and the Mitteler Rebbe. During the journey, the rabbis discussed various halachic issues and also visited shluchim (emissaries) and participated in several special events.
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Upon landing at the airport, the rabbis went to pray at the gravesite of the Alter Rebbe in Haditch. During the journey, the rabbis formulated the final text of the ruling, based on halachic sources and the Rebbe's sichos (talks). After deciding on and proofreading the text of the ruling, all the rabbis signed it. The rabbinical delegation arrived at the gravesite of the Alter Rebbe in Haditch, where the representative of the rabbis, Rabbi Shlomo Zalman Levkivker, one of the heads of the yeshiva in Tzfat and a Moreh Tzedek (halachic authority), read the ruling:<blockquote>"24 Tevet, the hilula of the Alter Rebbe, 5777, here in Haditch near the holy gravesite. Ruling! ... Therefore, we rule according to our holy Torah based on the halacha in Rambam (Chapter 7 of Hilchos Yesodei HaTorah, Halacha 1, and in Chapter 9, Halacha 2, and in Chapter 10, Halacha 1) that the Rebbe Melech HaMoshiach Shlita is the prophet of the generation and he is the King Messiah... Therefore, we are obligated to listen to everything he tells us and instructs us within the obligation to listen to the voice of a prophet. This includes that he is Melech HaMoshiach... And according to the instruction of the Rebbe Melech HaMoshiach that the time of redemption has arrived, therefore we request that now his kingship be raised before the eyes of all, literally immediately in the complete redemption, now."</blockquote>