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The Roman destruction of the Second Temple is treated as the event that shifts Judaism from temple sacrifice to rabbinic law.
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Sabbatai Zevi is framed as a messianic revolutionary who attacks rabbinic hierarchy and replaces law with direct faith, equality, and freedom.
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Sabbatai Zevi is framed as a messianic revolutionary who attacks rabbinic hierarchy and replaces law with direct faith, equality, and freedom.
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Frank’s anti-rabbinic line is interpreted as a command to think for yourself rather than obey human rabbis.
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"But this kingdom of the Maccabees will not last very long. Again, the problem is that Jerusalem, it is the nexus of empires. And..."
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"So when the Second Temple is destroyed, what happened is that the Jews, or many Jews will choose to convert to Christianity. Okay. Because..."
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"...of their law. Okay. The law of Moses. And so the rabbis come into power. Before it was the Sadducees, the priests who control..."
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"...him a lot of information was written by his enemies the rabbis. His followers are pretty secretive. Okay? But one thing happened is this...."
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"...faith. What we have are all these laws created by the rabbis. But who are the rabbis? The rabbis are just a corrupt elite..."
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"The real problem are these laws that don't make any sense. Don't eat pork. So the Sabbath right? Rests on Saturday. Don't go to..."
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"Where there's no more hierarchy where the rabbis are not above you because the law doesn't exist anymore. What matters is your relationship to..."
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"...the centuries have converted to Christianity to Islam. According to the rabbis these people will burn in hell. But if they're all part of..."
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"There is no people like the Jews. They are like snakes and crocodiles, for there is no love at all among them, but only..."
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"...says we can never convert. Who says so? Because of these rabbis?"
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"These rabbis are human as well. Think for yourself. Okay? See the truth for yourself. And that's what he's teaching his followers. All right...."
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"...All right, and so this is one of the more influential rabbis in Jerusalem. He's talking in Hebrew. But what he's saying is, that..."
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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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