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Bund and may also have supported <strong>the</strong> llluminati in its time.<br />
She was also tu<strong>to</strong>red by Bode of <strong>the</strong> llluminati.<br />
We have noted that <strong>the</strong> followers of Rabbi S. R. Hirsch<br />
were able <strong>to</strong> partially foil <strong>the</strong> Haskala in Germany. However,<br />
his formulation of Torah and Culture was lacking a mystical<br />
element that could have been more conducive <strong>to</strong> fur<strong>the</strong>r<br />
success. Why did it lack <strong>the</strong> mystical element? Mendelssohn's<br />
impact on German Jewry was so great that by <strong>the</strong> time Rabbi<br />
Hirsch came on <strong>the</strong> scene, it was virtually impossible <strong>to</strong><br />
introduce mystical elements in<strong>to</strong> religious creed for fear <strong>the</strong>y<br />
would be considered as superstition. It was only in <strong>the</strong> I930's<br />
that Hirsch's, grandson, Rabbi Isaac Breuer, finally attempted<br />
<strong>to</strong> officially inject <strong>the</strong> mystical element in<strong>to</strong> <strong>the</strong> <strong>the</strong>ology of ob-<br />
servant Hirschian School German Jews. This is discussed by<br />
Professor Scholem in a chapter entitled The Politics of<br />
Mysticism; Isaac Breuer's "New Kuzari," his The Messianic<br />
Idea in Judaism. 61<br />
Rabbi Ezekiel Landau's public pronouncements against<br />
Mendelssohn, <strong>to</strong>ge<strong>the</strong>r with that of o<strong>the</strong>rs, ga<strong>the</strong>red<br />
momentum, and in <strong>the</strong> halls of learning throughout Germany<br />
and Europe, Mendelssohn's name and family became a<br />
subject of derision and a curse. It is both <strong>to</strong> <strong>the</strong> deep prophetic<br />
insights and foresight of <strong>the</strong> Rabbis that <strong>the</strong>y already predicted<br />
over one hundred and fifty years before <strong>the</strong> actual events that<br />
a holocaust was going <strong>to</strong> fall upon <strong>the</strong> Jewish people. They<br />
cited <strong>the</strong> Talmud in Tractate Sotah, 62 which asks <strong>the</strong> question<br />
as <strong>to</strong> why Samson's eyes were blinded in <strong>the</strong> city of Gaza.<br />
"Samson's corruption began in Gaza. Therefore, he was pun-<br />
ished in Gaza." As it is written (Judges 16:1) "And Samson<br />
went <strong>to</strong> Gaza and saw <strong>the</strong>re a whore." Therefore, he was<br />
punished in Gaza, as it is written, "And <strong>the</strong> Philistines seized<br />
him and put out his eyes and brought him down <strong>to</strong> Gaza" (Ibid<br />
v.21). The Rabbis compared Mendelssohn and his Berlin circle<br />
<strong>to</strong> <strong>the</strong> whore, and warned that if Israel were <strong>to</strong> be tempted <strong>to</strong><br />
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