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his two nephews that of Frey, under which <strong>the</strong>y resided at<br />

Paris, where <strong>the</strong>y were guillotined in <strong>the</strong> days of Terror,<br />

We shall now explain <strong>the</strong> meaning of this fascinating<br />

footnote.<br />

According <strong>to</strong> legend, Abraham minted his own coins<br />

containing on one side a Hebrew inscription shown in <strong>the</strong><br />

footnote, which means "an old man, an old lady, a young man<br />

and a virgin."On <strong>the</strong> opposite side of <strong>the</strong> coin were <strong>the</strong> letters<br />

that were Hebrew name initials for those whom this epigram<br />

represented. They were, reading from right <strong>to</strong> left, "Abraham,<br />

Sarah, Isaac and Rebecca." On <strong>the</strong> coinage of <strong>the</strong> Frankists,<br />

<strong>the</strong> lettering similarly appeared, excepting that <strong>the</strong> letter Shin<br />

for Sarah which in Hebrew is designated by a dot on <strong>the</strong> left<br />

for an "s" sound had <strong>the</strong> dot on <strong>the</strong> right designating <strong>the</strong> "sh"<br />

sound, which s<strong>to</strong>od for Shabbetai. The Resh, which s<strong>to</strong>od for<br />

Rebecca, was replaced by <strong>the</strong> Hebrew letter Daleth (which<br />

bears some graphic resemblance <strong>to</strong> Resh) which s<strong>to</strong>od for<br />

Dobrushka.<br />

The names on <strong>the</strong> Frankist coin represented Elijah <strong>the</strong><br />

Prophet, Shabbetai, Rabbi Jonathan Eibeschutz (1690-1764),<br />

and Jacob Frank in <strong>the</strong> alias of Dobrushka. The latter two<br />

names require some fur<strong>the</strong>r explanation.<br />

Rabbi Jonathan Eibeschutz was a Frankist personality who<br />

led a double life. Secretly he was a Sabbatian, but outwardly<br />

he assumed <strong>the</strong> life of a great Rabbinical scholar and Decisor.<br />

It was <strong>the</strong> great Gaonic sage, Rabbi Jacob Emden (1697-<br />

1776), who exposed Eibeschutz as a Sabbatian. The basis for<br />

<strong>the</strong> expose began in 1751 after Rabbi Eibeschutz had left<br />

Metz in France in 1750 for Al<strong>to</strong>na in Germany. Emden based<br />

his charges on five amulets that had been issued <strong>to</strong> various<br />

individuals in <strong>the</strong> Metz community. 90 Certified copies of <strong>the</strong><br />

amulets were transmitted by scribes of <strong>the</strong> Jewish community<br />

and sealed by a royal notary. The amulets show that Eibeschutz<br />

invoked <strong>the</strong> power of Shabbetai Tzvi, and some bitter<br />

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