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to the yeshiva by two faced crypto-Sabbatian religious
instructors who were dedicated and indoctrinated in
Sabbatianism. They spread themselves over the face of
Eastern Europe, posing as legitimate teachers of Judaism, but
earned side income through subsidies of wealthy Sabbatians.
They sought out at all times students whom they could take
into their confidence, who had a flair for Kabbala, and who
were good schemers, extremely brilliant, as well as those
students who were being raised as Sabbatians or crypto-
Sabbatians by their parents. Once having located the right
candidate, they would tutor him privately and secretly in the
mystical teachings of the movement.
The network of Sabbatians was held together by an
elaborate system of communications consisting of couriers
and emissaries whose full time job it was to run messages all
over Eastern Europe. Across this network traveled much
information and secret messages, some of which have been
lying around in archives in Europe. It reached the archives
because, from time to time, various governments who were
monitoring Sabbatian activity in Europe were able to intercept
and confiscate their communications. 232 An interesting letter
confiscated from the Sabbatian prophet Judah Leib Prossnitz
(1690-1730) en route to Jonathan Eibeschutz sheds light on
these activities. 233 Prossnitz is condemned at the beginning of
Rabbi Chagiz's letter urging a ban on Eibeschutz's yeshiva.
Chagiz described Prossnitz as "the abominable Leib of
Prossnitz." Prossnitz prophesied that Jonathan Eibeschutz
would be the Messiah to follow Shabbetai Tzvi. 234
When Eibeschutz's Prague Seminary was in full swing, his
crypto-Sabbatian fledglings were already scheming as to how
they could destroy and discredit the legitimate Rabbinate,
yeshiva system and communal structure of the teeming city of
Prague. The Chief Rabbi of the Prague community at that time
was a most prominent and saintly man, Rabbi David
Oppenheim (1664-1736). Rabbi Oppenheim had his own
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