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Berlin, then the destruction of Israel would come from Berlin,
and so it was. 63
Mendelssohn was readily accepted by those who
considered themselves the vanguard of a new era. Professor
Gershom Scholem states that the followers of Shabbetai Tzvi
and Jacob Frank enthusiastically ran after Mendelssohn.
Indeed, Scholem further states that these people intended to
use the Haskala for their own Sabbatian ends. According to
Scholem:
"The leaders of the 'School of Mendelssohn,' who were neither
Sabbatians themselves, of course, nor under the influence of
mysticism at all, to say nothing of mystical heresy, found ready
recruits for their cause in Sabbatian circles, where the world of
Rabbinic Judaism had already been completely destroyed
from within, quite independently of the efforts of secularist
criticism. Those who had survived the ruin were now open to
any alternative or wind of change; and so, their 'mad visions'
behind them, they turned their energies and hidden desires for
a more positive life to assimilation and the Haskala, two forces
that accomplished without paradoxes, indeed without religion
at all, what they, the members of the 'accursed sect,' had
earnestly striven for in a stormy contention with truth, carried
on in the half-light of a faith pregnant with paradoxes." 64
A rather interesting custom started to spread like a plague
in Mendelssohn's time from the llluminati and Haskala and
became a practice among the early Reform. This was
pressure to place a symbol of Illumination into synagogues
throughout the world, unbeknown to the masses, It is stated in
the Book of Exodus that God commanded the Children of
Israel to take pure olive oil "to make a continuous light." This is
what appears in the Hebrew text as Ner Tamid (Exodus
27:20). This Ner Tamid was to be "in the Tent of Meeting
outside the dividing curtain which is over the Testimony. (Ibid.
v.21)."
The Eternal Light was kept up in both Temples in
Jerusalem. However, with the destruction of the Second
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