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How did the Polish Rabbis attempt to eradicate the
Frankists? They stated, "it was obligatory for every pious Jew
to search and expose them." 84 The Rabbis had watched
Frank's sinister activities but could not muster sufficient proof
to excommunicate him. In 1752, he married a Bulgarian
Jewish woman named Channa. She was very beautiful, and
he utilized her, as was the custom among members of his
sect, to ensnare hundreds of men who had licentious affairs
with her, to build up the strength of his sect. But at one point
public pressure became so great in Turkey, that he was forced
to embark for Poland in 1755. By this time Channa had two
sons, Joseph and Jacob, and a daughter Eva. However, on
the 20th day of the Hebrew month of Sivan in 1756, in the city
of Satinow, the Rabbis formally excommunicated Frank and all
his followers. They prohibited any one from intermarrying with
any member of the sect. The great Rabbi Jacob Emden (1697-
1776), wrote in a letter that it was prohibited for any one to
have mercy on them.
The excommunication largely came about from an incident
in which some illustrious Rabbis, who were not too familiar
with this sect, were invited to a meeting by members of their
congregations, and when they were invited into a larger hall in
the city of Laskron to get recruits, the door was locked behind
them and a nude woman danced in, right in front of their faces.
The Rabbis then had sufficient evidence and witnesses to the
incident. At this meeting, Frank spoke of a revolution against
the government, and this led to his arrest by the police. He
was thereafter exiled from Poland. 85
Wherever the Frankists came, they left desolation and
despair in the Jewish communities. They instigated public
burnings of the Talmud. Thousands of books of the Talmud
were burned in the city of Kaminetz on the last day of the
Hebrew month Marach Shevan (Cheshvan) in 1757. A chain of
Talmud burnings ensued in Lvov, Brodi and Zolkev, until the
persecutor, Bishop Dembowski, a befriender of Frank, died
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