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This is based on a verse in Deuteronomy, "a mamzer shall not
come into the congregation of the Lord" (Deut. 23:3) which
prohibits marrying or admitting into the Jewish fold any
progeny of incestuous sexual relations and adultery. 230
Anyone who was a member of a Frankist or Sabbatian
family was shunned by the religious Jewish community. In
those days, many Jewish communities had what is known as a
Seter Yuchsin (records of pedigree, which recorded the status
of people that were converted from other religions into
Judaism), and kept records of illegitimate births, but not
children born of Jewish parents out of wedlock, which
according to Judaism have no taint of illegitimacy whatsoever.
It should be pointed out that the Frankists and their elite
were not monolithic in character. There were people who were
brought up in these circles that rebelled against their
environment and sought to rectify their lives. One such
example is Edmond Rothschild, son of James, who contrary to
the Reform and Frankist teachings, embraced Zionism and
gave huge sums of money for the settlement of Israel and for
maintaining institutions where authentic Torah values were
retained and intensively pursued. It was he who rebelled
against the intrigues of the House of Rothschild, spurned
Abraham Geiger's eulogy of his father, and the teachings of
Marx, Engels and their radical friend Heinrich Heine (1799-
1856), whose patronage the Bund had assigned to Edmond's
mother Bette. 231
While the Bank of Rothschild was growing by leaps and
bounds, another banking interest, but not as large, was quietly
developing. It was the Mendelssohn bank, run by the brothers
Abraham Mendelssohn (1776-1835) and Joseph (1770-1848),
Moses' son, Abraham Mendelssohn married Daniel Itzig's
granddaughter Leah Salomon. He was the father of the
musician Felix. Abraham converted to Christianity in 1822.
Whereas his brother Joseph did not convert, Joseph's son
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