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Frank’s knife story is read as a lesson that rigid law makes learned people stupid and vulnerable to manipulation.
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Frank’s knife story is read as a lesson that rigid law makes learned people stupid and vulnerable to manipulation.
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"One Saturday I went outside the city and there brought myself some oranges and having a penknife on me. Peeled them a learned Jewish..."
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"to beg me to come to him promising all kinds of good things but I did not want to do it and in this..."
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"Okay so certain things that you will notice about the story is first of all he has contempt for Jews. Okay? A learned Jewish..."
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"Okay? So just because he's able to do this the learned Jewish scholar is now saying oh you must be the Messiah. You must..."
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A source-grounded reading of Jiang’s lecture on Jewish history, Sabbatai Zevi, and Jacob Frank: Jerusalem begins as an imperial hinge, exile becomes a crisis of faith, and Frankism turns sin, story, money, secrecy, and...
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