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yeshiva where students from Jewish communities throughout
Europe would come to engage in advanced Talmudic
studies. 235
Around 1720, Eibeschutz's students, who supposedly were
good yeshiva students, did something very out of character
with the tenor of what the yeshiva world had been and had
exemplified for thousands of years. They vandalized Rabbi
Oppenheim's yeshiva, assaulted some students, inflicting
severe bodily injury and harm upon these students. They
entered the yeshiva's main study hail where students were
reviewing their daily Talmudic assignments, and they
completely demolished it.
As a result of this incident, Rabbi Oppenheim's students
began to realize the real nature of Eibeschutz's yeshiva. In the
months that followed, Rabbi Oppenheim's students were
ambushed and periodically beaten by Eibeschutz's thugs who
haunted the alleyways of the city of Prague.
By this time Rabbi Oppenheim's students were engaged in
escalating their retaliation, and although details of how they
fought back have not survived, it is very possible that some of
Eibeschutz's students were systematically killed, because on
June 16, 1772, Charles VI of Austria issued an edict to end the
feud. 236 I mention this background information because it was
from this environment that Carl Anton emerged, a star pupil of
Eibeschutz's yeshiva. After graduation from the Yeshiva,
Anton converted to Christianity. He was a Frankist, and
occupied a chair as professor of Hebrew at Helmstedt. 237
Eibeschutz's disciples had definitive objectives assigned to
them so that they would play certain roles in the revolution.
Carl Anton's assignment was to discredit the Bible. In order to
best accomplish this, no obstacle would stand in his way, such
as his religion. Therefore, Anton officially converted to
Christian so that he could hold an esteemed professorial chair.
Anton's function was so sensitive and scandalous that
painstaking efforts were made to obscure his activities. This is
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