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purpose of imitating the Sabbatian role models as well as for
subverting and destroying these faiths.
As for the danger of the Frankist movement and its reckless
revolutionary policies, Gershom Scholem gives more than
ample testimony, and we shall quote liberally from his writings.
He says of the Frankist sect,
"Here, then we have all the prerequisites for the sectarian
disposition, for the sect serves the llluminati as both a rallying
point for their own kind and a refuge from the incompre-
hension of the carnal and unenlightened masses. The
sectarians regard themselves as the vanguard of a new
world..." 71
The idea was,
"that the King Messiah was to give 'a new Torah' and that the
commandments of the Law (Mitzvot) were to be abrogated in
Messianic times... Even those visionaries who dreamt through
the ages of a new Word of God in a redeemed world did not,
in fact, particularly connect this idea with the activities of the
Messiah himself, and it was not until it was seized upon by the
new 'Marranic' doctrine that its latent explosive power was
revealed." 72
Therefore, Scholem says of Frank that "he will always be
remembered as one of the most frightening phenomena in the
whole of Jewish history: a religious leader who was a corrupt
individual." 73
Scholem summarizes the five distinguishing beliefs of
radical Sabbatianism which are essentially beliefs that the, 74
1. Apostasy of the Messiah is a necessity.
2. Real Torah is not the real Torah, and must be violated by
conforming to another superior, alien mystical Torah
called the Torah of Atzilut (Aristocracy).
3. First Cause and the God of Israel are not the same, the
former being the God of rational philosophers and the
latter the God of religion.
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