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The shared moral/legal weight that Frankists claim to lift easily once they see through it.
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social convention
A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "...limitations of marriage. And so when you get rid of the social convention, what is left is your love for either yourself or for..."
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A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "...limitations of marriage. And so when you get rid of the social convention, what is left is your love for either yourself or for..."
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Jiang answers that in Kabbalistic mysticism reality is consciousness or hallucination, so social laws and taboos are made-up limits rather than reality itself.
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"Okay. Look. Jacob Frank, first of all, he's a Kabbalist, okay? So he's a mystic. And if you go into the mystical Jewish tradition,..."
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"It just means you're stupid. Right? Okay. Okay, can you read? Please, Alan."
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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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"...thing where a thousand, ten thousand men can't lift up? It's convention. It's social convention. Right? It's laws that we agree on. It's morality...."
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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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"...limitations of marriage. And so when you get rid of the social convention, what is left is your love for either yourself or for..."
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"...to accept who he is. He's learned the power to see social conventions, social taboos as prisons. Okay? So this is the very last..."
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"...Your faith in God is so strong that it can bypass social convention and legal norms, okay? So they practice things like, as you..."
Relevant Lectures And Readings
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Jiang begins with Gay Talese the master reporter and ends with Gay Talese the man who learns to stare back at shame.
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The interview begins with an old historical puzzle and turns it into a present-tense accusation: dead sects do not stay dead when their stories, inversions, and elite habits get embedded in modernity.
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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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