Part of the reason ‘the masons’ have been able to take over, and to do so much damage to both the Jewish community, and the wider world, is that most people have no idea just how ‘bad’ all this stuff really is.

Yah, it’s just a bunch of people doing funny handshakes and getting each other good jobs and nice business contacts!!!

The nepotism problem would be bad enough, in many ways, and has also meant that ‘only masons’ get jobs like being the PM or President, or any other important position, like head of the army, police, central bank, TV network or court.

And if a ‘non-mason’ happens to get anywhere near a real position of power – he’s either blackmailed, corrupted, threatened or killed.

That’s how it is.

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So, the nepotism is one problem, and perhaps, the more ‘obvious’ problem in all this.

But the real problem with masons, and all these ‘secret societies’ that are built around the same pattern and principles, is that at their core, they are literally satanic.

The small guys at the bottom of the pyramid usually don’t understand that – for them, it’s really just a club of funny handshakes, weird (but ‘meaningless’) rituals – and good business contacts.

But they are giving their energy, their ‘soul power’, literally, to the forces of evil.

Whether they know that, or not.

Whether they believe that, or not.

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And now with that intro out the way, let’s take a much closer look at the satanic-masonic-Frankist secret society that is at the heart of the subject of ‘how the masons took over our Jewish community 200+ years ago’.

Which goes by the name of THE ASIATIC BROTHERHOOD.

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As we’ve seen many other times with the Frankist real history, some solid attempts have been made to obscure and ‘scrub out’ the real importance of THE ASIATIC BROTHERHOOD.

But in its day, it was in the same league as it’s ‘rival’ THE ILLUMINATI lodges.

Except it went underground much earlier, and had a lot of interesting members from the Jewish community who belonged to the creme de la creme of the elite families with yichus.

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Some of the known members of THE ASIAN BROTHERHOOD include people I’ve written a lot about here, including:

BARUCH SHICK of SHKLOV – translater of Euclid, student of the GRA, and grandson of the ALTER REBBE of CHABAD. His descendants are literally running all sides of the show here, in Eretz Yisrael, from the Eida HaChareidit to the secular z-ists who made the Ha’Avara agreement with the Nazis in 1933.

BERNHARD ESKELES – Frankist-reforming banker, and descendant of the HANNUKAT HATORAH from Cracow, family member of JACOB ESKELES FRANK.

NATHAN ARNSTEIN – business partner of ESKELES – and somehow connected to all these ORNSTEINS / HORENSTEINS who took over the chassidic world, and especially the flow of charidee funds into Eretz Yisrael.

And a lot more people, besides.

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OK, so let’s learn a little more about why this ASIATIC BROTHERHOOD is and was just so very bad, spiritually.

(Much of this information is a condensed presentation of the information you can find on the theomagica.com site, HERE.)

First, who founded it?

We are usually told that it was founded by a xtian mason, Hans Heinrich von Ecker und Eckhofen, and the Frankist ‘Jew’ MOSES DOBRUSHKA, almost certainly a made up name.

MOSES DOBRUSHKA is said to be the grandson of JONATHAN EIBSHITZ, the nephew, cousin or second cousin of JACOB FRANK (ESKELES).

And what is beyond doubt, is that he’s married to ELKE,  the first cousin of BARUCH SHICK of SHKLOV, grandson of the ALTER REBBE.

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MOSES DOBRUSHKA famously converts to xtianity, adopts the name of: FRANZ THOMAS VON SCHÖNFELD (aka JUNIUS FREY) – and then, shows up in Paris egging-on the French Revolution.

MOSES DOBRUSHKA’s sister even marries FRANCOIS CHABOT, another leader of the satanic ‘French Revolution’, who converts Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris into ‘The Temple of Reason’.

That link leads to the Wiki page for the satanic ‘Cult of Reason’ this Temple was meant to belong to.

Snippet:

At the Notre-Dame Cathedral in Paris, on 10 November 1793, a special ritual was held for the “Feast of Reason”: the nave had an improvised mountain on which stood a Greek temple dedicated to Philosophy and decorated with busts of philosophers.

At the base of the mountain was located an altar dedicated to Reason, and in front of it was a torch of Truth. The ceremony included the crowd paying homage to an opera singer dressed in blue, white, red (the colours of the Republic), personifying the Goddess of Liberty.

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Some time down the line, both men are both publically guillotined for some fishy business going on with the FRENCH EAST INDIA COMPANY.

Apparently.

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Just notice at this stage that the Frankists, and their masonic buddies, were playing a leading role in the French Revolution, that also was essentially ‘satanic’ in nature.

Napoleon banned marriage, closed down churches, and tried to make the week 10 days instead of seven, so they could prevent people from keeping ‘the sabbath day’.

Most people don’t know this stuff about the French Revolution.

Because if they did, they would understand the Russian Revolution a century later was planned with exactly the same satanic end-goals in mind.

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There were actually five ‘founding fathers’ of the ASIATIC BROTHERHOOD, who were:

Hans Heinrich von Ecker und Eckhofen – Catholic, former member of the ROSICRUCIANS

Franz Thomas von Schönfeld (aka MOSES DOBRUSHKA) – Frankist, close family of JACOB FRANK.

EPHRAIM JOSEF HIRSHFELD – Frankist, joins in 1782 (I suspect he is one and the same as BARUCH SHICK of SHKLOV. Read on.)

‘Justus’ BISCHOFF – Franciscan catholic who spent some years living in Jerusalem

‘AZARIAH’ – who theomagica.com believes to be an imagined founder, but who I think is probably either JACOB FRANK himself, or his father-in-law SAMUEL CHAIM FALK, the bad Baal Shem of London, who was busy setting up a bunch of satanic ‘black kabbalah’ secret societies all over the place, including THE GOLDEN DAWN.

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OK, now let’s quote a bit from theomagica.com:

Lodges of the Asiatic Brethren have been confirmed for Vienna – where their original headquarter was – Prague, Hamburg, Berlin, Frankfurt and Innsbruck.

Equally, due to member lists found amongst the order’s papers memberships of several powerful potentates of the time are confirmed, the most influential of whom certainly was the future King of Prussia, Friedrich Wilhelm II.

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The ASIATIC BROTHERHOOD were major players, in the ‘satanic-masons’ game – and they brought together a lot of Frankists from Sabbatean families with royalty and other nobles – and satanic xtianity.

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This is another quote from a contemporary writer, Von Goue, who describes the ASIATIC BROTHERHOOD like this:

Their gatherings they call Melchisedek-Lodges and offer their services to include Jews, Turks, Persians and Armenians.

The order aims to be a fraternal association of all righteous and (currently) separated human children. (…)

The order’s teaching are partly moral, which means one is taught how to govern the spirits by breaking the seven seals, and partly physical, which means one is taught how to produce miracle cures (Wunderarzneyen) and how to create gold.

The order expects blind faith and blind obedience; it’s regulations are the true teachings of the son’s of Loyola.”

— VON GOUE, LEIPZIG 1805, P.411

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(The ‘Sons of Loyola’ is basically a reference to the Jesuits – who are the real ‘power behind the throne’ with everything that is going on. Just, they have their ‘externally Jewish’ fall-guys in place to deflect that onto the Jewish community. Smart.)

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All the non-Jewish members of the ASIATIC BROTHERHOOD had ‘Jewish names’, even if they were not Jews. At all.

So, while BARUCH SHICK of SHKLOV (the ALTER REBBE’s grandson) was called: PETRUS ben K-eL CHAI, the German, non-Jewish founder BISCHOFF’s name was ‘ISH TZADDIK’.

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On the ORDO AB CHAOS site HERE, we find a few more details of the non-Jews who belonged to the ASIATIC BRETHREN.

Snippet:

According to the anonymous Rituals of the Fratres Lucis, Saint-Martin, along with the chief occultists of the period, including Emmanuel Swedenborg, Comte de Saint Germain and Count Cagliostro, were all members of the Asiatic Brethren….. The Asiatic Brethren also composed a Sanhedrin, over which presided the Duke of Brunswick [FERDINAND, DUKE OF BRUNSWICK-BRAUNSCHWEIG-LUNEBURG-WOLFENBUTTEL.]

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Just to go off on a tangent for a moment, when the anti-semites accuse ‘the Jooooos’ of writing things like the PROTOCOLS of the ELDERS of ZION, the people who really wrote that stuff is the masons.

Most of whom were not Jewish, at all, but had ‘Jewish names’ from their twisted-kabbalah-practising secret societies.

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OK, so when was THE ASIATIC BROTHERHOOD founded?

Here’s where the story gets even more interesting.

The official story is that Hans Heinrich von Ecker und Eckhofen is meant to formally found it in 1781, after receiving ‘information’ from BISCHOFF, who spends time in Jerusalem before returning to Europe.

While BISCHOFF is in Jerusalem, some unnamed Sabbatean Kabbalist who is given the name AZARIAH ‘initiates him’ into the secrets of dark kabbalah – with a specific focus on Eretz Yisrael.

That’s why the order is called the ASIATIC BROTHERHOOD – it’s focussed-in on Israel, right from the start.

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So, BISCHOFF unofficially starts the secret society 38 years earlier – in or around 1743.

We know that the Sabbateans who ‘ascended’ to Israel with the Sabbatean JUDAH HACHASID in 1700 settled primarily in Jerusalem.

We also know that the Holy Land is crawling with Sabbateans still in 1777, when MENACHEM MENDEL of VITEBSK complains that the inhabitants of Tsfat are ‘thoroughly wicked, believers in Shabtai Tzvi’ – which is why he moves to Tiberius instead.

The details fit.

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What this means, is that THE ASIATIC BROTHERHOOD wasn’t just some Frankist creation.

It was the continuation of the twisted kabbalah of Shabtai Tzvi, mamash, that had been incubating in the Holy Land, given a new ‘Frankist’ twist and exported back to Europe.

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There is probably so much more to say about this, and how it connects with the satanic gnosticism that was the original seed-bed of what became ‘xtianity’.

But let’s try and keep focussed here on the ASIATIC BROTHERHOOD.

The other ‘Jewish’ founder, at least officially in 1781, is one:

EPHRAIM JOSEPH HIRSCHFELD

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Here’s another snippet from the theomagica site, about who he actually was:

Hirschfeld was born as a son to a Jewish cantor in Karlsruhe who held considerable knowledge in talmudic and kabbalistic studies (Katz, p.245)…

Hirschfeld’s father… had aimed to create and strengthen his family ties to several Christian families of noble decent.

As a protege of these powerful allies the young Hirschfeld was allowed to visit a higher school and study medicine initially…

Early on in his life we find him working as a teacher and accountant for several aristocratic families, such as ultimately the famous 19th century banker David Friedländer….

Different to many other Jews of the time who aimed for access to Christian secret societies and a place on the social parquet, Hirschfeld never converted to Christianity and always held on to his Jewish roots.

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You know who else was in Karlsruhe at exactly this time?

If you said ASHER LOW / LYON, the son of the SHA’AGAT ARYEY – award yourself a million brownie points!!!

To put this another way, EPHRAIM JOSEPH HIRSHFELD is doing much of what ‘BARUCH SHICK of SHKLOV’ is said to be doing, at exactly the same time – including studying medicine, hanging out with the Berlin haskalah circle, and playing a major role in the ASIATIC BROTHERHOOD with his deep knowledge of Talmud and kabbalah.

(You recall that BARUCH SHICK of SHKLOV’s mother is meant to be the sister of the SHA’AGAT ARYEH, while her brother ASHER LYON is rabbi in Karlsruhe. It’s always a very small world…)

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In the meantime, in 1790 HIRSHFELD and Von ECKER fall out, HIRSHFELD is banned from the order – and then, he tries to take Von ECKER to court.

Here’s another snippet from theomagica:

Now, what is particularly interesting about this conflict is Hirschfeld’s opinion on Kabbala as he expressed it in public documents as part of the related law court.

He argues very confidently that Kabbala as such was not based on any particular religion, but rather formed an open path for anybody interested – be they Muslim, Catholic or Jewish – to transcend the limitations of one’s own religious tradition and to gain access to “the one and only, true, pure and all embracing religion.” (Katz, p.267)

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This is the basis of the ‘one world religion’ we are still dealing with today.

And it’s rooted in the poisonous, twisted ‘kabbalah’ of those satanic heretics who have been hiding out within the Jewish community for at least 2,000 years.

If not much, much longer.

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Here’s a quote about this from HIRSHFELD himself:

“But because it is in the principles of the true Cabalistic that lies the one and only, true, pure and all-embracing religion, nothing is more natural than that all kinds of religious members are coming together here (in this order).

It is here for example that the orthodox Jew, Mohametan and Christian learned the sacred three-in-one as well as the true faith in the unbiased doctrine of Christ – of which the first two mustn’t know and the third downrightly knows nothing (…).”

— EPHRAIM JOSEF HIRSCHFELD, QUOTED AFTER KATZ, P.281

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HIRSCHFELD’s notion of ‘enlightenment’ is not scientific achievement, per se, but that all the ‘man-made’ religions fall away (including our God-given Torah-based yiddishkeit!) to leave behind it just the ‘real religion’ of kabbalah.

Again, this sounds very much like the real root of the ‘disagreement’ between BARUCH SHICK of SHKLOV and the Berlin circle of MENDELSSOHN and DAVID FRIEDLAND – who HIRSHFELD (aka SHICK?) was working for as a tutor, and in close contact with.

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In 1792, HIRSCHFELD is actually imprisoned in a debtor’s prison for a few months, in Schleswig.

Another mystery figure called ‘ISAAC ben JOSEPH’ shows up to pay off his debts – 550 thalers – and get HIRSHFELD freed.

They both then disappear out the picture, show up together in Strasbourg for a little while, and then HIRSHFELD returns to KARLSRUHE – when he’s not spending time in JACOB FRANK’s court in OFFENBACH (which has now been taken over by his daughter, EVA FRANK).

He dies in 1820.

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‘ISAAC ben JOSEPH’ appears to be none other than MOSES DOBRUSHKA, using yet another one of his aliases.

While the historians are baffled as to why he would show up and spend a huge amount of money to free his main ‘rival’ in the ASIATIC BROTHERHOOD – we’re working on the assumption that both these men are related to each other, and are close family.

But here’s where we really start to pull all this together, with the focus on Eretz Yisrael, and how it was taken over by the masons.

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While they are in Strasbourg, DOBRUSHKA and HIRSHFELD hook up with another leading ‘satanic secret society mystic’, by the name of LOUIS CLAUDE ST MARTIN.

(He’s mentioned above, as also belonging to the ASIATIC BROTHERHOOD).

He’s the founder of the satanic sect called THE MARTINISTS.

Here is their symbol:

What do you notice?

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Let’s continue this discussion in part II.

Continuing the Rav’s shiur from last week.

(You can read Part I HERE.)

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When he got to Yaffo, [the English who were ruling the Holy Land] said to [Rabbi Shmuel Horowitz]:

You are not going to descend [from the boat] here! You are not getting off here!

[R Horowitz asked them]?

What did I do?! What did I do?!

[The English replied]:

You are the most evil evildoer! You spread slanders about us! You said that there were pogroms here [i.e. In Israel]!

There were the pogroms of 1929 [in Hebron]. They chopped the hands and feet off, they burned them in fire.

You spread slanders about in the whole world! You said….

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In Russia, they asked [R Horowitz]:

Why did you come?

He said:

What do you mean, ‘why did I come’! They are killing Jews! They are slaughtering Jews! [in Eretz Yisrael].

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Like today, 500 Jews, 500 Jews, slaughtered.

There is no government, there is nothing. Everything is shtuyot (stupidity), there is no government at all.

It’s like in 1929.

It’s another 100 years, [but the situation is still like] it’s 1929.

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[The Rav returns to the story of R Horowitz]:

So, they were slaughtering Jews, so I ran away.

So, where are you going to run away to? To Russia! Here, they love Jews! Here, they look after the Jews. There is nowhere like Russia. Here, it’s Gan Eden! You are the only ones who protect the Jews!

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Immediately, [the Russians] publicised this in all the newspapers in the world.

Where’s the only place that protects the Jews? Only in Russia!

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Now, he gets to Yaffo, it’s the night of Lag Bomer, and he wants to get off.

[They say to him]:

Don’t come down! Here, you don’t get off! What do you mean, ‘come down?’ What ‘I’m getting off’?! You meshuga, you evildoer! What did you say about us?!

Is it permitted to say lashon hara?!?!?!?!?….

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[Skipping a discussion about Parshat Bechukotai, and how was is possible for Yaakov Avinu to ‘steal’ anything.]

Rejoining the shiur on page 42:

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This was the argument between Moshe and Bilaam.

Bilaam…

Moshe claimed: I am Bilaam. You [i.e. Hashem] are also talking with Bilaam, what, you think that I’m crazy?… That I’m confused? You speak with Bilaam – and You speak with me! So, there’s just another ‘Bilaam’.

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Bilaam claimed: I am Moshe…I knows “the sayings of God, and knows the knowledge of the Supreme One, who sees the vision of Shaddai, while fallen and with uncovered eyes.[1]

“I shall see him, but now now. I shall look at him, but it is not near. A star has issued from Jacob and a scepter-bearer has risen from Israel, and he shall pierce the nobles of Moab and undermine the children of Seth.”

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Nothing will remain.

What does Balak want? It’s written: “You shall not distress Moab and you shall not provoke war with them.”[2]

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Don’t make war, Bibi doesn’t agree to do a war, Biden doesn’t agree to do a war.

Biden says:

No, we don’t fight with Moab!

This was across all the media, on all the channels, this was in the White House. They said:

No, we don’t fight! We don’t let you fight with Rafiach, with the Arabs…

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Rafiach is bigger than the whole of Tel Aviv.

Rafiach – every alleyway, they are waiting with a ‘warm welcome’… There are a million alleyways there, and in every alley people who ‘love Jews’ are waiting there, people who ‘love’ the soldiers, and want to give them a ‘warm welcome’….

Every day, five people are being killed there. They tread on mines, and they fire RPGs at them.

So Biden said:

With Moab, we don’t fight. I don’t agree. I don’t agree. I don’t let you. Don’t go out against Moav.

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So, what does he want? Why is he hiring Bilaam?

Bilaam told him: You should know, that no trace of Moab will remain.

“A star has issued from Jacob and a scepter-bearer has risen from Israel, and he shall pierce the nobles of Moab and undermine the children of Seth.”

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[Bilaam says to Balak]

And who is going to do this? Your grandson!

[Balak replied] Hashem should have mercy!! My own grandson?! I am going to let my own grandson destroy Moab?!

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You don’t read the Gemara. This is ‘excellent’. Don’t read the Gemara.

[But] it’s written in Sanhedrin, it’s written in Sotah, it’s written in Nazir, that David Hamelech is the grandson of Balak.

He’s the grandchild of Ruth, and Ruth is the daughter of Balak, the daughter of Eglon – Eglon, the son of Balak.

So Bilaam said to him:

Your own grandson!! ‘Bone of my bone’.

[Balak replies] I see that my grandson is going to destroy Moab, and I won’t let this happen.

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And so, he asks Bilaam: What should we do?

[Bilaam says]:

Take a barrel, cut up a thousand snakes, and put their heads in the barrel. Put this in the kodesh kodeshim, the even shtiyah (foundation stone).

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The Beit HaMikdash didn’t exist yet, so they put it on the even shtiyah.

And so David said, “Moav is my wash-basin, upon Edom I will cast my shoe, Philistine, will you shout triumphantly over me?”[3]

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What does is mean, ‘Moav is my wash-basin’?

The Zohar says in [WHAT?] page 2:

This was straight away revealed to David.

Ruth was the daughter of Eglon, (he was the king of Moab, the son of Balak), so she knew where this barrel was concealed, with the thousand snakes, with the thousand heads.

A thousand snakes were in this barrel, so that the Beit HaMikdash would be destroyed as soon as it was built.

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So Bilaam said to Balak:

Conceal the barrel there, in the kodesh kodeshim.

And Ruth revealed this to David, and David uncovered it. This was uncovered by David – this barrel. ‘Moav is my wash-basin’.

All this is written in the Zohar Page 2.

(It’s permitted to learn Zohar, even in Shuvu Banim….)

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FOOTNOTES:

[1] Balak 24:16-17.

[2] Devarim 2:9.

[3] Tehillim 60:10.

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Ad kan, from the Rav.

As usual, it’s packed full of hints and allusion to some very deep things.

Those ‘snakes’ are still running the show here, and trying to turn the rest of us into ‘snakes’ too, with all their dark-side sorcery.

And the source of these snakes’ power is so close to home – the kodesh kodeshim!

The centre of Jerusalem, the heart of the world.

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I just wanted to add one more thought here:

The side of evil wants us to think that there is nothing we can really do, and to change all this, and that they hold all the cards in their hands.

It’s not true.

This is a spiritual war.

Every single person who stops giving their time, energy and attention to the ‘snakes’ – that’s already doing massive things to tip the balance against them.

And then, if that person also then starts to follow the words and advice of the True Tzaddikim like Rebbe Nachman and Rav Berland – they say the 7 TKS a day, or whatever they can manage, they do some hitbodedut, they do some minimal work, even, on overcoming their own bad middot, arrogance, and lack of emuna, they make some tiny effort to guard their eyes more, to maybe go pray at a kever tzaddik – and especially by Rabbenu in Uman….

All this is how we win this spiritual war, and finally eradicate the thousand ‘head snakes’ that have taken over our beloved home and our wonderful communities.

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There is no despair in the world!

But there is a heck of a lot of spiritual work to do.

So yalla!

Pick your own personal battle in this spiritual war, and start to fight it with everything you’ve got.

There is no time to waste.

This prayer really speaks to me.

It’s one of the prayers that was distributed ahead of Shavuot.

Meet me below for more of a discussion about how ‘judging ourselves’ in daily hitbodedut can save us from SOOO much suffering and hardships.

Even if we can’t always change ‘the situation’, we can always work on improving our reaction to it, so ‘the situation’ doesn’t ruin the tremendous good that is still to be found in other areas of our lives.

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To judge myself about every single thing

Ribonu shel olam, Who can do anything, and from Whom nothing is withheld:

“And it happened in the days when the Judges judged.” (Megillat Ruth, 1:1)

Ribonu shel olam, Who can do anything, give me the merit to judge myself over every single thing, and every single action, and every single breath.

Because if, chas v’shalom, a person doesn’t do hitbodedut, and he doesn’t judge himself, he brings famine upon the land, and his parnassa is diminished and lessened.

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And he brings no end of disasters upon himself and upon the members of his household.

And in the end, he is exiled from his land and from his house, and his family.

And he goes to live in the ‘fields of Moav’, and there, his two sons die.

And all his property is given to the government, the camels and the donkeys, the cattle and the sheep.

Until in the end, he also dies ‘naked’, and lacking everything.

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This prayer is not so ‘upbeat’, in some ways, I know.

But I say it pretty much every single day, because the point is to learn out how good a person’s life can be, if they do hitbodedut every single day, and try to judge themselves on an ongoing basis.

This is the Breslov way, not to pretend that we can somehow ‘catch’ every thing we did wrong on the one day a year called Yom Kippur, but every single day to go through what happened over the last 24 hours, particularly in relation to others, and to try and understand what we ourselves need to work on, fix, apologise for, acknowledge, etc.

Especially when we are having difficulties with other people, or not feeling ‘happy’, daily hitbodedut is an absolute must, so we don’t start piling-up more and more bad middot.

And then, those bad middot then bring down harsh judgements upon our heads, God forbid.

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There is no ‘bad luck’ in life.

There is only our own bad middot, and then the tikkunim that we are bringing into this life, from a previous life, that can often result in what appears to be ‘bad luck’, or very difficult circumstances.

Once we judge ourselves below, there is no judgment ‘above’.

The ‘daily crud’ we have to deal with – all the suffering we bring upon ourselves because of our own bad middot – reduces drastically.

God knows we are working on stuff, and He has maximum compassion on us, even if that process of ‘working on ourselves’ takes 120 years.

And it does.

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Re: the hard tikkunim we have to go through, because of spiritual debts we ran up in previous lives, there is a choice to make.

Either, we suffer tremendously in this life to clean them off (which is the choice that most people make, mostly without even realising there is another option.)

OR

We get close to the true Tzaddikim, follow their teachings to do 7 Tikkun Haklalis a day, to do hitbodedut for an hour a day, go to Uman, particularly for Rosh Hashana, because Rabbenu explains things can get ‘fixed’ on Rosh Hashana that can’t get fixed any other time.

And the most powerful thing of all is to do regular pidyon nefesh with a real Tzaddik.

Because we pay the ‘money’ damim in biblical Hebrew, so we don’t have to have our own damim – blood – spilt, via illnesses and other terrible suffering, God forbid.

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Just, finding a ‘real Tzaddik’ is the hard part in that equation.

(Assuming you already pay 10% of your income to charity every single month, as the Torah requires us to do, and you aren’t one of those people who look for excuses why not to give charity the way we’re meant to….)

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BH, I’m going to spend today translating some recent Rav stuff that touches more on what went on with Meron, and also the whole ‘tikkun’ aspect to why so many of us suffer so much, even when we’re making such great efforts to be good people and keep God’s Torah.

There are spiritual ‘rules’ that Hashem abides by to run the world.

Once we understand them, life gets so much easier, even when it’s still so challenging.

And authentic Breslov teachings from Rabbenu, and his chain of authentic students, that leads to the Rav in our days, is the ‘rule book’ and the guide that sets all these spiritual rules out.

That’s why the side of evil has always been fighting so hard to keep people away from the real wisdom and light that is Rebbe Nachman and Breslov.

And it’s been like this for 200+ years already – and is continuing in our days.

But BH, not for much longer.

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PS: I’m planning on spending one more intense week on the family tree stuff, and then I got to wherever I got to, and barring more new ‘hints’ from the Rav, I want to go back to writing more about life, Breslov teachings, and other stuff.

If you have questions about spiritual matters that are within the realm of what I can try and answer, or at least, to open a discussion here on the blog, please feel free to let me know.

I have one question to answer about the difference between the Rav’s Pirkei Nevarchim and the Tikkun Haklali, and when to say them, which is on my list to get to some time next week.

But I’m very happy to return to more obviously ‘spiritual’ topics on the blog, very soon, BH.

If God lets me do that…

I was actually looking for the stuff Elazar Fleckeles wrote about the Prague Frankist in my old blog posts.

I didn’t find that – yet.

Because I got side-tracked by a whole bunch of stuff I’d already put together three years ago about BARUCH SHICK of SHKLOV without really understanding the implications of it all.

This post is dynamite.

It demonstrates that Chabad, the Vilna Gaon, the Mir yeshiva, commies, z-ists, Yitzhak Rabin, Sara Sonia Diskin – everyone – is exactly the one single family.

And that family were direct descendents of the Sabbatean Eisenstadts – and many of them also become leading Frankist-masons, ‘maskilim’, and a bunch of other yucky stuff we’ve been writing about here for years.

Let’s begin.

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First, here’s the snippet from an old post called ‘THE YICHUS OF YITZHAK RABIN’ that started to unlock all this:

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I’ve been doing this so long now, that I have certain names emblazoned on my brain as ‘interesting’.

The name ‘KLETZKER’ is one of those names. ‘EISENSTADT’ is another of those names.

So, I immediately see that AHARON TUMARKIN is:

1. a) Meant to be married to an ‘anonymous’ Eisenstadt / Kletzker.
2. b) That this same anonymous Eisenstadt / Kletzker woman is also the wife of the Alter Rebbe’s grandson, one ‘BARUCH KLUTZKAR’.

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I start clicking around, and I somehow come across THIS attached document. (It’s in Hebrew and Yiddish.)

It’s a whole, big collection of official Chabad ‘stories’ about Benjamin Kletzker, Aharon Tumarkin’s father-in-law.

Very quickly, I become amazed by what I’m reading.

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Like, the story of how this BENJAMIN KLETZKER comes with the ALTER REBBE, and the MITTLER REBBE, to ‘confront’ none other than YEHOSHUA ZEITLIN, who is described as the ‘chief mitnaged’, at home in his mansion.

And then there are stories of how this BENJAMIN KLETZKER and PINCHAS ROSANES SHICK are big merchants, doing kiruv in the local fairs in Leipzig, and while they tie their trees together as part of their lumber merchant activities.

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And then, there are stories of how Rabbi SHLOMO OF KARLIN tries to ‘entice’ BENJAMIN KLETZER to become his chassid… and more stories of how BENJAMIN KLETZKER storms into the ‘mitnaged’ shul in Vilna, bangs on the bima and gives over a big shot of chassidic mussar….

And then, there are stories that show that this BENJAMIN KLETZKER mamash seems to be treated as something of an equal by the Alter Rebbe; and the Mittler Rebbe, and also the Tzemach Tzedek (Rebbe Number 3).

So how come I never heard of this guy before?!?!

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So then I get up to page 65, screenshotted below, and here is what I read:

TRANSLATION:

(This is all talking about this same guy, BENJAMIN EISENSTADT / KLETZKER):

His sons-in-law One of his children married the RABBI BARUCH OF SHKLOV / ORSHA, the second son of RABBI ELIYAHU (BEN RABBI MORDECHAI), and the Rabbanit Frieda, daughter of the Alter Rebbe.

The daughter oF RABBI BARUCH was the daughter-in-law of the Tzemach Tzedek, the wife of his son R’ Yaakov, who died during the lifetime of the Tzemach Tzedek.

[BENJAMIN KLETZKER’s] second son-in-law was RABBI AHARON TUMARKIN, (the grandfather of ‘Chatan Danan).

His third son-in-law was ‘the big, famous’ Rabbi Ber Leib Baruchin, from Plotsk.

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Ad kan, from 2021.

(BTW, this post marked the point when Google started delisting my blog from its search engine results. I had 900+ blog posts up, and from the week I posted this stuff up onwards, it dropped to less than 30 that were ‘findable’ by Google. This was a few months before I took the old blog down….)

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I had a very ‘strong’ dream a couple of years ago that Pinchas is Eliyahu…

At the time, I thought it was talking about ELIYAHU the Vilna Gaon.

Now, I know it was referring to none other than PINCHAS (ELIYAHU) ROSANES SHICK.

How do we come to this conclusion?

None other than NEIL ROSENSTEIN wrote in his book on the ‘cousinhood’ of the Vilna Gaon that PINCHAS ROSANES SHICK had married some mysteriously ‘unknown’ daughter of the ALTER REBBE.

I guessed at the time that this was probably FRIEDA, who Chabad says married ELIYAHU PINSKER ben MORDECHAI (with absolutely no other details or identifiying info).

But why would they go to so much trouble to cover all this up?!

Who cares, that ‘BARUCH SCHICK OF SHKLOV’ was the maternal grandchild of the ALTER REBBE?!

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That was before we’d properly pinned down the following:

1. BARUCH SHICK of SHKLOV was one of the leading ‘disciples’ of the VILNA GAON, and translated Euclid with the GRA’s urging.
2. BARUCH SHICK of SHKLOV was a leading maskil, hanging out with the circle of MOSES MENDELSSOHN in Berlin.
3. BARUCH SHICK of SHKLOV was a member of the satanic-masonic organisation called the ASIATIC BROTHERHOOD, that mixed-up deep but twisted kabbalah with Jesuit-inspired satanism. His membership name was PETRUS BEN [K]El-HAI.
4. BARUCH SHICK’s first cousin, ELKE JOSS, was married to one of the founders of the ASIATIC BROTHERHOOD, and a leading Frankist in his own right, ‘MOSES DOBRUSHKA’.

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Any one of these reasons is plenty, to justify covering up who BARUCH SHICK of SHKLOV really was.

Given all the bubbe meises Chabad told us about the ‘war’ between the Vilna Gaon and the Alter Rebbe, how would they explain that the ALTER REBBE’s grandson via his daughter FRIEDA was actually a leading student of the GRA?

Never mind, also a leading maskil getting funded by the ‘Berlin Circle’ of Mendelssohn.

And never mind, also a leading satanic-masonic member of the Frankists’ ASIAN BROTHERHOOD.

It’s kind of embarassing….

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Of course, every family has their black sheep.

But here’s the thing. Once you slot BARUCH SHICK of SHKLOV back into the correct family tree, you see that he wasn’t unusual, at all.

His whole family was literally dripping with Frankist-masons.

And also, proto-commies and leading ‘z-ists’ – and also, the wife of the MAHARIL DISKIN, SARA SONIA RATNER.

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Let’s list a few of BARUCH SHICK’s illustrious descendents, before we tie up a few more loose ends with PINCHAS (ELIYAHU) ROSANES SHICK:

1. SARA SONIA RATNER.

Like this:

BARUCH SHICK> R AHARON BARUCHIN (SHICK) OF MINSK (d. 1844)  > R YAAKOV BARUCHIN, ABD HORODOK AND KARLIN (1780-1844) > RACHEL LEAH BARUCHIN m R SHALOM RATNER > SORA FEIGA (SONIA) RATNER m MAHARIL DISKIN.

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THIS snippet from the GRODNO Yizkor page about Mrs Diskin starts to make so much more sense, when you understand that she descended from Sabbatean-Frankist royalty:

The Brisk rabbi, Grodno born, Rabbi Moshe Yehuda Leyb Diskin ( 1818–1897),came to the Holy Land in 1876, having been vindicated in a trial in Grodno, already mentioned, and was one of the Jerusalem zealots and a leader of the Old Community….

His wife, Sarah, the well–known ‘Brisk Rabbanit’, (Sonia di Rebbetzin), had her origins in Grodno as well. She was the sister of the public figure, the wealthy Grodno citizen, Yechezkel Ratner. It is said that she was educated, a scholar and well versed in the laws, with a sharp mind and decisive in public affairs, deciding and defending her views vigorously.

She knew foreign languages. It is told of her that she wore a Talith Katan and decided in matters of what’s forbidden and what’s permitted in the presence of her husband, and was often more extreme in many decisions than he was.

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What trial was MAHARIL DISKIN ‘vindicated’ in?

Here’s that snippet, from the same GRODNO page:

Ir Giborim, writes in a dispatch from Grodno in 1876 (Hamagid No.44), at the time of the trial of the Rabbi from Brisk, Rabbi Moshe Yehoshua Yehuda Leyb Diskin, which took place in Grodno (in a matter of money deposited with him and returned by the rabbi’s wife), that it was Knorozovski who defended the rabbi (not for gain), and succeeded in proving his innocence.

The trial took place on Yom Hakipurim.

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KNOROZOVSKI was the leading maskil of Grodno who had just donated a big secular library for Jews – he makes a strange bed-fellow for MAHARIL Diskin.

And also notice that this trial was apparently held on Yom Kippur…. The mind boggles.

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Back to BARUCH SHICK’s descendants.

2) FORMER PM YITZHAK RABIN

Like this:

BARUCH SHICK> R AHARON BARUCHIN (SHICK) OF MINSK (d. 1844)  > R YAAKOV BARUCHIN, ABD HORODOK AND KARLIN (1780-1844) > MOSZKA MOWSZA AARON BARUCHIN > SZEWEL BARUCHIN m GOLDA ZYLBERBLAT > SHEINA RACHEL BARUCHIN m YITZHAK KAGAN HACOHEN >  ROSA COHEN  > YITZHAK RABIN.

The great-grandpa of YITZHAK RABIN is the first cousin of SARA SONIA DISKIN, wife of the MAHARIL DISKIN.

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HERE’s a snippet about YITZHAK KAGAN HACOHEN, RABIN’s maternal grandpa:

“Yitzhak Cohen (from the Kapost chassidim, forest and estate merchant and government contractor in Mohelev and Petersburg; brother of the banker-businessman-writer Mordechai Ben Hillel HaCohen).

And his mother Sheina Rachel nee Baruchin from Bialystok (from the family of Rabbi Yaakov Karliner author of the book “Mishkento Ya’akov” and Rabbi Asher Tiktner author The book “Blessing of the Head”).

KAPUST CHASSIDIM are CHABAD – just, the branch of CHABAD that was under NOAH SHMARYAHU SHNEERSON.

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Maybe now we understand more about Rabin’s yichus, this strange snippet from the Wikipedia page for Yitzhak Rabin, will make more sense:

Yitzhak’s mother, Rosa Cohen, was born in 1890 in Mogilev in Belarus.

Her father, [YITZHAK KAGAN HAKOHEN] a rabbi, opposed the Zionist movement and sent Rosa to a Christian high school for girls in Gomel, which gave her a broad general education.

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If you go to the geni entry HERE and click ‘view tree’, you’ll start to see how so many of the State of Israel’s ‘establishment’ are all related to each other, including the eugenics pushing Arthur Ruppin.

Ruppin married ROSA COHEN’s first cousin – and then started ‘engineering’ who was allowed into the nascent State of Israel. We covered that more HERE, on the post about the ANGLO-PALESTINE BANK.

(While we’re on that subject, remember that the HANOTEH guys who made the first agreements with the Nazis in 1933 were also direct descendants of BARUCH SHICK, via his daughter ZLATEH who marries LEIB MACHNES.)

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Other interesting people in the tree of BARUCH SHICK, FRANKIST-MASON-MASKIL, big student of the GRA, and grandchild of the ALTER REBBE of CHABAD seem to include:

3) RABBI AHARON KOTLER (PINES), ROSH YESHIVA OF KLETZK and LAKEWOOD

Like this:

BARUCH SHICK> R AHARON BARUCHIN (SHICK) OF MINSK (d. 1844)  > R YAAKOV BARUCHIN, ABD HORODOK AND KARLIN (1780-1844) > ‘UNKNOWN’ > BATSHEVA m R MOSHE PINES > R SHNEUR ZALMAN PINES (KOTLER) (1856-1903) > R AHARON KOTLER (PINES)

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4) AMRAM BLAU, founder of the NETUREI KARTA

Like this:

BARUCH SHICK> R AHARON BARUCHIN (SHICK) OF MINSK (d. 1844)  > R ISAAC ‘KARLINER’ MINKOWSKY ABD KARLIN m SHEINA ESTHER > ZISSEL MINKOVSKY m R URI ORENSTEIN  > YESHAYAHU ORENSTEIN (1836-1908) m TZIPA LEAH RIVLIN > SHEINDEL ESTHER ORENSTEIN m R YITZHAH SHLOMO BLAU > AMRAM BLAU

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Tzipa Leah Rivlin is the daughter of MOSHE MAGGID RIVLIN, the grandson of BINYAMIN RIVLIN.

And you know who else fits into this particular branch of the family tree?

If you said suicided-pedophile-pervert, founder of ‘ZAKA’, YEHUDA MESHI ZAHAV, award yourself a million brownie points!

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I could keep going with the interesting descendants of BARUCH SHICK all day.

If you’re bored and you like this stuff, feel free to send me your finds. We’ve also got the proto-commie MANYA TUMARKIN, the WISSOTSKY Tea Barons, and AHAD HA’AM ASHER GINZBURG – married to the niece of the Rabbi RASHAB (number 5) of Chabad – and a few other people in this family tree.

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But it’s the guy called ELIYAHU DANZIG [HINDESS] who I really need to come back to.

He marries some unnamed daughter of that same YAAKOV BARUCHIN ABD HORODOK and KARLIN who is the grandson of BARUCH of SHKLOV.

(I’m guessing his wife’s name was probably HINDA….)

His father is YEHIEL DANZIG, THE MO’TZ of VILNA, and his grandpa is none other than AVRAHAM DANZIG of VILNA (1747-1820), who wrote the CHAYAI ADAM – and apparently was also a leader of the Vilna Kahal at the time all the crazy stuff was happening there.

He’s meant to be an ‘in-law’ of the GRA – but all the info is scrubbed, so if their children married each other, I’m not sure who they are, at this point.

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But let’s park that for now, and finish up by returning to BARUCH SHICK himself.

His father is PINCHAS (ELIYAHU) ROSANES SHICK, who married FRIEDA, the daughter of the ALTER REBBE of CHABAD.

PINCHAS’s dad is CHANOCH HEINACH SHICK, the ABD of SHKLOV.

CHANOCH HEINACH marries MINDEL RIVLIN – the sister of BENJAMIN RIVLIN, married to Dreiza, the daughter of JOSHUA ZEITLIN.

According to Chabad and ‘official history’, BENJAMIN RIVLIN is leading the charge against CHABAD in Shklov, and signing on all the stuff trying to ban them, together with CHANOCH HEINACH SHICK, his brother in law, and the ABD of SHKLOV.

This was an internal family war, as I’m hoping is starting to become much clearer.

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There is so much more to write about this.

But let’s end with these two points.

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PINCHAS ROSANES SHICK, the dad of BARUCH SHICK of SHKLOV, is the in-law of BINYAMIN KLETZKER (EISENSTADT AUSCH), who we started this whole post off with.

Their children marry each other.

And that also gives BARUCH SHICK’s descendants some of the best Sabbatean yichus anyone could hope for.

We’ll come back to this family’s clear links with the false messiah MORDECHAI MOCHIAH (EISENSTADT) – and also how all this links back to the founding of the MIR YESHIVA (and a bunch more Frankist bankers) in another post.

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While we just learned here that BARUCH SHICK’s maternal grandpa is the ALTER REBBE of Chabad….

….In the fake history we’re all taught, BARUCH SHICK’s maternal grandpa is usually said to be none other than the SHA’AGAT ARYEH.

Is the SHA’AGAT ARYEH an alter-ego of the ALTER REBBE of CHABAD, ridiculous as that currently sounds?

I don’t know.

But it sure is interesting.

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Lastly, where did BARUCH SHICK of SHKLOV, the satanic-mason-maskil-student-of-the-GRA-grandson-of-the-ALTER-REBBE end up?

This snippet comes from the JEWAGE website, which is also still preserving a little more of the information that is mostly scrubbed off everywhere else:

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He received the title of rabbi in 1764 in Brest and served as a dayan (religious judge) in Minsk, studied medicine in England and published a treatise on trigonometry “enEneh ha-Midah “(Prague, 1784; Shklov, 1793), as well as works on astronomy, anatomy and hygiene.

Translated the works of Euclid into Hebrew; he spent the last years of his life in Slutsk, where HE SERVED AS A DAYAN AND COURT PHYSICIAN TO THE PRINCE RADZIWILL.

He joined one of the English Masonic lodges at the end of the 18th century.

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That PRINCE RADZIWILL that had Shick as his personal physician is probably this guy:

MICHAL HIERONIM RADZIWILL

As you might expect, he was dripping with ‘secret society’ knighthoods and memberships – and it looks like he was also trying to punish Russia for partitioning Poland.

That’s something the Bolsheviks pulled off beautifully, a hundred years later…

But all this requires a lot more research, so for now, we’ll leave this here.

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PS: BARUCH SHICK’S brother was none other than AHARON ZASLAVSKI.

As well as apparently marrying Rebbe Nachman’s daughter CHAYA in a second marriage after her husband ZALMAN LUBARSKI passed away, he also is meant to have married the second ‘CHAYA SARA SHNEURI’, the Mitteler Rebbe’s daughter.

Oh, and also a Frankist wife called Mary.

While he’s meant to have ‘died young’, according to Chabad, I’m not sure that’s really what happened.

And I also think he’s one and the same as:

Aaron Moshe Alexandrov – who marries LEAH GOLDA, and then their daughter RIVKA marries the 4th Chabad Rebbe.

But that’s a tale for another time.

A big bunch of information swings loose in this post.

Buckle in.

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So, you remember that bubbe meises story we all got told, about the ‘mitgnadim’ of Vilna being against the ‘chassidim’ just because of some dispute around ‘spirituality’ etc?

And how we figured out a couple of years’ ago, that the real ‘war’ in Vilna was between it’s rabbi, one SHMUEL ben AVIGDOR, vs his kahal over who was going to get the bigger slice of the ‘taxation pie’, when it came to fleecing the Jewish community?

And how that dispute rumbled on for 30 years+, turned father against son and brother against brother, and literally had the people of Vilna fighting each other in the streets?

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We are meant to believe that the VILNA GAON and his (very well-connected and wealthy….) family were somehow totally above this poisonous dispute that convulsed Vilna for three decades.

Somehow, I highly doubt that.

Not least, because the PESSELES family who was funding the GRA’s house and bet hamidrash were apparently marrying the daughters of this same SHMUEL ben AVIGDOR (at least, in some versions of the family trees.)

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But who the heck was this ‘SHMUEL BEN AVIGDOR’, and why was all this stuff so covered up?!

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When I started writing this post, I was hopeful that I’d finally cracked that nut.

Mostly.

The breakthrough happened when I was going back over RUSSIA’S FIRST MODERN JEWS by David Fishman, and I got to page 19, where he was talking about how the partition of Poland also had a big impact on the ‘war’ against the chassidim.

Here’s the snippet, then we’ll start to unpick it:

“R AVIGDOR of PINSK [was] a fanatical Mitnaged who denounced the Hasidic movement to Tsar Paul I in 1800….[He wrote]:

From time immemorial it has been our custom that only our scholars could decide matters of justice….And when the Empress [Catherine the Great], may she rest in peace, assumed the throne, she decreed that Jewish disputes should be decided by the Jews’ scholars.

But certain rich men who did not approve of this, cunningly brought about that the decisions of Jewish courts in such disputes should remain ineffectual….

The truth of the matter is that if now, as in the past, the Jews’ affairs were subject to the judgment of their own scholars, the latter would have – based on the order of the authorities and in accordance with the supreme laws of the land – destroyed these individuals who have dared to rebel against God and His anointed ones.

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Fishman explains:

“R Avigdor’s complaint that the law no longer permitted Jewish scholars to settle the Jews’ affairs unilaterally, was a cause for celebration among the Hasidim.

Hasidic traditions note that following the second and third partition of Poland, the Russian authorities outlawed use of the herem, and the Mitnagdim were no longer able to ban the movement as they had in the past.”

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At this stage, I am treading cautiously on trying to decide which side was really the mitnagdim, and who were really the chassidim, and what this ‘dispute’ really was about.

They lied about so much, it’s still not obvious, especially not when you understand that the ‘initiated maskilim-Frankists’ are also in this mix – most of whom very quickly turned into the leading ‘reformers’, commies and z-ists.

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But to get back to AVIGDOR THE FANATICAL MITNAGED OF PINSK – I suddenly realised that he was the guy who informed on SHNEUR ZALMAN (at least, on one of the occasions that happened.)

And then, I started wondering if ‘AVIDGOR the SNITCH’ of Pinsk could possibly be the scrubbed father of our very own SHMUEL ben AVIGDOR.

And that’s where a whole bunch of interesting connections suddenly swam into view.

Read on.

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First stop was the Chabadpedia website put together by fanatical mesichists who believe the late Rebbe IS STILL Moshiach.

God bless them, because they have preserved so much useful info that’s been scrubbed out of existence most other places.

HERE’s the page (in Hebrew) for ‘AVIGDOR THE SNITCH’.

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According to the Chabad version (and remembering that Chabad lies about so much), we are told this, about the ALTER REBBE’s second imprisonment:

Less than two years after he was released from his first prison sentence, at the Feast of Sukkot, 24 Tishri, the ALTER REBBE was again asked to St. Petersburg. [1]

In Hasidic tradition, it is reported that when the old Admor heard that they wanted to arrest him again, he sent an urgent messenger to Prince Lyubamirsky, who governs the towns and settlements around Petersburg during this period and was in a friendship with one of the Hasidim, to consult with him on whether to hand himself in to prison.

The messenger entered the prince’s room in the middle of the night with great devotion, and the prince decided he should not flee….

This time, they did not arrest him by force, and the ALTER REBBE arrived on his own in St. Petersburg on the orders of the government, with a number of followers of means depositing a guarantee that he would indeed arrive in St. Petersburg at the appointed time.

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This unnamed ‘Prince Lubormirski’, big friend of the ALTER REBBE, seems to be this guy:

FYODOR NIKOLAYEVICH GOLICYN

Strangely, given the fact that Russia and France are famously at war at this time, he spends a lot of time in Napoloeon’s Paris, and even has an audience with Napoleon. His wife dies in Paris in 1804.

Tsar Paul appoints him curator of the Moscow University Library in 1796 – and he’s a knight of the Order of St. John of Jerusalem. Why he’s such good friends with the famously ‘anti Napoleon’ ALTER REBBE, I can’t tell you.

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You can read the Chabad version of the long story of how AVIGDOR KARO of PINSK informed against SHNEUR ZALMAN here – and if this topic interests you at all, you should really go and do that.

The long version of the short story is that AVIGDOR KARO accused ‘chassidut’ – but really, just SHNEUR ZALMAN and CHABAD – of the following:

In one of the documents documenting the claims in the handwriting of the snitch Avigdor, the claims appear, most of which constitute questions about concepts and elements in the Torah of the Hasidism, in order to try to prove that the Torah of the Hasidism tended from the Torah that was devoted to our ancestors. [6]:

1. How is it possible to say that a person cannot fear anything, since God is the one who acts and does everything – and according to this, no one who commits an offense can be punished, since God is the one who acts in it.

2. How can it be said that no one is afraid of any creation except God, for in the Torah it is told how the fathers and King David were afraid of other people.

3. In Hasidism, it appears that if a person desires for a certain matter, it teaches that there is a spark in him that he needs to correct, and how can we say this, and that a person also desires for the words of a transgression.

4. The leaders of the Hasidism send many funds to the poor of the Land of Israel, a hundred times the amount that would have been collected until the advent of the Hasidism theory, at the same time that according to the law ‘the poor of your city Kodamin’.

5. The Hasidim are dismissive of testimony and sworn statements and treat them lightly.

6. Parents are not treated with respect.

7. The Hasidim steal money from their families in order to fulfill their financial obligations to the leaders of the Hasidism, at the same time that according to the custom of Israel, a person who is not twenty years old is not allowed to give any gift without the knowledge of his father and mother.

8. The trip of the Hasidim to the rabbi raises a great question, for in order to hear the words of the Torah he could have sent the words of the Torah in writing to the colonies of the Hasidim, and for what reason would we have to spend large monetary expenses on the trip and gather together with great urgency?[7].

9. The Hasidim follow the instructions of their leaders more than the instructions of Moses.

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It’s very similar to the same ‘anti-Breslov’ stuff you still here today, spewing out on the YWN site and other ‘government-sponsored misinformation sites’ pretending to be ‘news’.

There is nothing new under the sun.

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In the meantime, Tzar Paul orders the ALTER REBBE into house arrest in St Petersburg, where the government can keep an eye on him.

And the man who arranged this is none other than NATAN NETA NOTKIN – grandpa of BINYAMIN RIVLIN of SHLOV, the fanatical ‘mitnaged’ closely related to the GRA whose son is HILLEL RIVLIN of SHKLOV, whose descendants take over the Holy Land.

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I don’t know why NATAN NETA NOTKIN flipped from being part of the group who got the ALTER REBBE arrested first time around, to the guy who ‘frees’ him the second time.

It’s another mystery.

But in the meantime, according to the Chabadpedia site, NOTKIN sets a condition, that the ALTER REBBE will have to come and convince three of the biggest ‘mitnagdim’ of Shklov that he’s not a heretic.

The three are named as:

YEHOSHUA ZEITLIN (f-i-l of BINYAMIN RIVLIN, who marries his daughter DREIZA and hangs out in his mansion with BARUCH SHICK).

MOSHE CHAFEITZ – somehow connected to the GRA’s close family, and the main fundraisers of Eretz Yisrael in Vilna and Brody known as the ‘EARLS of VILNA’.

JOEL of AMITSLAVL (probably connected to CHAIM of VOLOZHIN’s nephew in some way, AVRAHAM SIMCHA of AMITSLAVL.)

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Of course, the ALTER REBBE ‘blows them away’ with his erudition and piety, and they all decide they were wrong (and want to become Chabad….)

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The ALTER REBBE is released from house arrest after six months, and then takes up Prince Lubormirski’’s offer to come and live out the rest of his days in peace in one of his villages, either DUROBIN or LIOZNA.

He picks LIOZNA.

And the rest is (faked….) history.

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OK, now let’s zoom-in on ‘AVIGDOR BEN CHAIM KARO’ of Pinsk, the ALTER REBBE’s main persecutor (the second time around), according to Chabad.

On the Chabadpedia page for him HERE, we are told that Avigdor ‘fell into drunkenness’ after all this and hung out with loose women in the market place….

Apparently, this is some of the slanderous lashon hara the Alter Rebbe himself wrote about him, in his written defence against Karo’s accusations.

I don’t know if that’s true – I have a lot more to read now to try and pin it down – but what is beyond the shadow of a doubt is that AVIGDOR KARO’s attack against the ALTER REBBE cost him very dearly.

He was deposed from his position as the Chief Rabbi of PINSK – a position that he’d paid 54,000 zlotys to acquire! – and he was financially ruined as a result.

Plus, Chabad slandered him so thoroughly, as a drunkard and woman-chaser, he probably couldn’t hold his head very high in public any more.

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So how does this tie-in with our own ‘SHMUEL ben AVIGDOR’ of Vilna, also at the centre of a terrible ‘war’ with his (‘Chabadnik’….) kahal?

Let’s see if we can figure it out a bit more.

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Let’s start with this very strange snippet on the bottom of the Chabadpedia page for AVIGDOR THE SNITCH:

The machine-translation says this:

The Rebbe said in the conversation[6] that there was also a”curse” in Avigdor that the descendants of the greatest of the dissenters would approach Hasidism and become Chabad followers.

Indeed, Avigdor’s grandson Rabbi Moshe Avigdor Chaikin became close to Chabad‘s Hasidut, and served as a rabbi of the Chabad community in London[7] Other descendants of Avigdor who are members of the Chabad of Chabad are the Izraelite family[8].

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Say what?!

This somehow links JOEL of SMOLYAN – the main fundraiser / shaliach for the Alter Rebbe and Avraham Kalisker in Tiberius directly to the ‘fanatical mitnagid’ AVIGDOR KARO of Pinsk.

(MOSHE AVIGDOR CHAIKIN’s real name is ‘ZEITLIN’. And his brother is the Chabad rabbi of Hebron who apparently lives for 113 years (!) SHMUEL MENASHE CHAIKIN.)

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At this point, I wasted two valuable hours of my life trying to figure this bit of the equation out, but then I realised they have lied about so many individuals, so many details, at this point, I am just wasting my time.

And maybe, the point is to not focus in so tightly on the ‘individual’, but to actually pull the lense back out to the much bigger picture, about the true nature of the machkloket between the so-called mitnagdim and the so-called chassidim.

So, I went off to the National Library here in Jerusalem to track down a book by Mordechai Nadav called ‘The Jews of Pinsk, 1506-1880‘ that sets out much more of the ‘official history’ of the Jewish community of Pinsk, including a chapter on AVIGDOR KARO.

Here’s what I learned.

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1. The father of YECHEZKEL KATZENELLENBOGEN, the KNESSET YECHEZKEL, was called ABRAHAM KATZENELLENBOGEN, the ABD of BREST-LITOVSK (Brest).

He was one of the main persecutors of the so-called chassidim – and a person who we will be returning to, BH.

Here’s a snippet from p302 of Nadav’s book:

“Some time before late August 1781, R LEVI YITZHAK [who was the chief rabbi of Pinsk before AVIGDOR KARO] encountered R ABRAHAM KATZENELLENBOGEN, the rabbi of Brest-Litovsk, in Warsaw, and was forced to engage in a public debate over the doctrines of the Hasidim, in the synagogue in the Warsaw suburb of Praga.

In a letter calling his community to bitter battle against the Hasidim….R. Katzenellenbogen boasted that he had bested R LEVI YITZHAK ‘their head goon’…..

Sometime before July 1784, R Katzenellenbogen tried to challenge R Levi Yitzhak to a second public debate.”

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R Levi actually didn’t bother debating ABRAHAM KATZENELLENBOGEN the first time around, and other sources state: “on the contrary, [R LEVI YITZHAK] was insolent, jesting and mocking in a way inappropriate….”

It’s kind of hard to believe that about R LEVI YITZHAK.

But in any case, on June 25, 1784, ABRAHAM KATZENELLENBOGEN writes him again, accusing him of “behaving in certain ways and matters which I and all who see the truth do not find appropriate.”

And on June 23, 1784, the Vilna Kahal also sends a very strong letter to the Pinsk kahal, telling them to get rid of LEVI YITZHAK and declare a ban against the chassidim.

According to NADAV’s research:

“The letter was signed by Rabbi Samuel ben Avigdor, the Gaon, Rabbi Elijah of Vilna, and twenty of the Vilna kahal leaders.”

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This is kind of strange, for so many reasons.

For the people who are still believing the myth that the Gaon just sat shut up in some cupboard somewhere and avoided all communal politics – that’s simply not true. He was throwing his weight around all over the place.

And the fact that this letter was also signed by our very own SAMUEL ben AVIGDOR and 20 members of the kahal of Vilna that he’d apparently been battling against for 25 years by this point….

The story doesn’t add up.

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So a year later, after his ten year stint as chief rabbi of Pinsk ends, LEVI YITZHAK either decides to leave (because the mitnagdim have been making his life so miserable) or he’s forced out.

Either way, he ends up in BERDICHEV.

And now, the mitnagdim on the Pinsk Kahal are looking for a new rabbi, and Mordechai Nadav tells us on page 304:

“Their aim was to install a rabbi acceptable to the Gaon and the Vilna community….the kahal decided to accept payment from an applicant for the position of rabbi. Rabbi AVIGDOR ben HAYYIM, a vehement opponent to Hasidism, was willing to pay a respectable sum for his appointment….

He paid three thousand czerwone zlotys… Of which twenty-six hundred was apparently paid to the starosta and four hundred constituted a loan to the kahal….

In return for R Avigdor’s payment, the Pinsk kahal conferred on him the position oif Rabbi of Pinsk and the Pinsk district, for a period of ten years.”

And of course, he also got granted certain leases and monopolies, so he could make some money on his investment.

This is really what all this ‘chief rabbi’ stuff was boiling down to – control, honor and money.

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I read this, and it struck me that AVIGDOR KARO seems to have got ‘parachuted’ into Pinsk as the candidate of the Vilna Gaon, together with SHMUEL ben AVIGDOR, the Rav of Vilna.

If this AVIGDOR KARO really is the (scrubbed….) father of SHMUEL ben AVIGDOR, then it’s easy to see how Vilna could control Pinsk by proxy, if he was appointed.

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AVIGDOR KARO wants to burn Hassidic books, the way the Vilna kahal apparently burned the book about the BESHT in the synagogue courtyard.

But he lacks the popular support to do that.

And not only because there were way more hassidim, or ‘Karliners’, as they were known at this point, in Pinsk and Karlin. Nadav states on page 306:

“[A]pparently many non-Hasidim were similarly repelled by the new rabbi, who conducted his affairs imperiously, not by virtue of greatness in Torah or personal authority but thanks to his wealth and political power.”

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For as long as Pinsk remains in Polish territory, AVIGDOR KARO keeps his job.

But after the second partition of Poland, Pinsk comes under the control of Russia, while Vilna remains under Polish control – and without the clout of the Vilna Gaon and ‘SHMUEL ben AVIGDOR’ to back him up, AVIGDOR is removed from his position two years early.

And then, he spends the next few years trying to ‘sue’ the Pinsk kahal via the Russian bureaucracy, to get back the money he ‘invested’ in becoming the Chief Rabbi of Pinsk.

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Let’s quote a little of AVIGDOR KARO’s letter, that he sends to Tzar Paul I in 1787, a couple of years after he’s been deposed from his pulpit:

“Even though I was the rabbi, I no longer had the power to burn their books publically, for in all the towns under my jurisdiction the majority already belonged to that sect.

I was accordingly obliged to inform the late Gaon, R Elijah of Vilna, of what had happened,since he was the greatest of our sages….

Moreover, I proved to him [the Gaon] that, since their books lead the simple man astray from the straight way, according to the Mosaic Law their books should be publically burnt in the presence of all the people. And this was indeed done in Vilna, where the order was given to burn the books of this sect in public in front of the synagogue.[1]

When this became known to the sect and they discovered that I was opposed to their ideas, they rose up as one man against me and deprived me of my livelihood, and even eventually incited the others not to give me my due.”

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As usual, someone here is lying.

The Vilna Gaon and ‘Shmuel ben Avigdor’ wrote harsh letters demanding the persecution of Levi Yitzhak and  the ‘sect’ in Pinsk years before AVIGDOR KARO was even appointed as ‘their man in Pinsk’.

Meanwhile on the other side of the story (from page 319):

“[S]even years later R SHNEUR ZALMAN of LADI noted that R Avigdor had forcibly extracted unwarranted sums from the residents and that he had been accustomed to drinking intoxicating beverages.”

How’s that, for a nice piece of lashon hara?

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Are you noticing how this sinat chinam that was flourishing so beautifully particularly in Vilna then got ‘exported’ to a bunch of other communities, with the Vilna Gaon, ‘Shmuel ben Avigdor’ and the Alter Rebbe the main engines powering it?

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AVIGDOR makes his first complaint in 1793, after he’s just lost his job – and it’s ignored by the Russians.

Four years later, apparently when the Vilna Gaon has just passed away and there is a big struggle going on over his ‘succession’ in Vilna again (you remember, we learnt his students and his children also went to court to decide who gets his property….) – AVIGDOR KARO tries again, to get his money back from the Pinsk kahal.

Here’s another snippet from page 323 – and notice who starts the war, this time around:

“The Vilna Hasidim, who especially suffered from persecution, hastened to make the first denunciations to the authorities about irregularities in the conduct of kahal affairs involving taxes and use of funds, and shortly afterward another accusation that the kahal had collected monies unjustly.

The Russian rulers in Vilna quickly conducted an investigation into the matter; they had no difficulty uncovering improprieties, and the kahal leadership found itself in great danger.”

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Next, we’re told the Mitnagdim send a letter to the Tzar accusing Shneur Zalman, and 22 other chassidic rabbis in Russian territory, of ‘acts detrimental to the empire’.

All 23 chassidic leaders are arrested and brought to Vilna. 15 are immediately released, while the others are sent to St Petersburg.

In Riga, the other seven are released, and only Shneur Zalman is taken to prison in St Petersburg, while the Russians investigate.

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You and me already know all this was about money, and particularly, about the charidee money being collected for Eretz Yisrael.

Interestingly, AVIGDOR KARO’s name doesn’t even appear on the letter sent by the mitnagdim to the Tzar.

This first letter was apparently organised by none other than NATAN NETA NOTKIN of Shklov, the in-law of the SHA’AGAT ARYEH.

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Shneur Zalman is famously released in November 1798, once the Russians can find no proof that he is sending any charidee money to Eretz Yisrael.

(Because as we figured out, he really wasn’t sending it.)

And then three months later, ‘the hassidim’ in Vilna inform on the Vilna kahal to the Tzar again, leading to it’s disbandment sometime after February 4, 1799.

The timing of this is oh-so-interesting, as this is said to be the time when SHMUEL ben AVIGDOR, the ‘last ABD of Vilna’ dies.

According to Nadav (page 324):

“In the new elections, the Hasidim seized control and elected one of their own, Rabbi Meir Rafels, as head of the kahal. This was precisely what had happened in Pinsk six years earliers when Hershel Kolodner, a Hasid, was elected head of the kahal.”

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But AVIGDOR KARO is by now destitute, and desperate to get some money back from the Pinsk kahal, so he puts all his efforts into one more ‘denunciation’ of the Karliners.

According to Nadav (page 325):

“[T]he rabbi accused them (falsely) sic of being remnants of the Sabbatians, a sect rejected in Turkey and Poland because of its dangerous political aims.”

I’m not so sure – at all – this accusation is ‘false’.

In the meantime, let’s bring the last couple of snippets, for now, from Nadav:

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“In his final letter of denunciation, written after March 1801, Avigdor described how he coordinated his actions with the mitnaggedic leaders of Vilna.”

Initially, this complaint also goes nowhere with the Russians, but then:

“Suddenly, at the end of 1800, the Russian authorities were prompted to reinvestigate R Avigdor’s allegations against the Hasidim and R Shneur Zalman….following a harshly anti-Semitic pronouncement by the poet and nobleman Derzhavin.

In 1799, Derzhavin was first sent to Belarus to investigate a dispute between the Jews of Szklow and the nobleman Zoricz, and in 1800 to inquire into the causes of poverty and famine among the farmers of the area.

Derzhavin’s statement blamed the Jews for the farmers’ dire circumstances and included strong charges against R SHNEUR ZALMAN and the Hasidim in general.”

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We are back to SHKLOV, the stamping ground of NATAN NETA NOTKIN, YEHOSHUA ZEITLIN, and BINYAMIN RIVLIN.

And this time, we’re told that NATAN NETA NOTKIN is the one who arranges for the ALTER REBBE’s conditional freedom, as described above.

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Another strange thing to note is that this DERZHAVIN is said to be a very close friend of that same PRINCE LYUBORMISKI, who helps out the ALTER REBBE.

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As always, there is so much more to write, but that will do for now.

If you want a ‘Disney-fied’ version of the dispute with Zoricz on the Chabad site – replete with the usual fantastic imaginary scenes to tug at the readers’ heartstrings (whilst dissolving their brain to mush….) go HERE.

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I was hoping we’d finally get to the bottom of the ‘SHMUEL ben AVIGDOR’ story in this post.

As usual, the goalposts just moved back again.

But each time we put more ‘truth’ out there, it’s exploding more of the lies being told, generally.

And that has to be useful.

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OTHER LINKS IN HEBREW ABOUT AVIGDOR KARO OF PINSK:

Behadrei Forum
Behadrei Forum
Haaretz
Kikar
Kotar
Kotar
Otzar Forum
Otzar Forum
ivelt
Ishei Israel
Tora Forum

[1] The book burned was Zava’at Ha-Rivash.