{"title":"Samuel Falk and the Freemasons","authors":"Michal Oron","doi":"10.2307/j.ctv102bk24.13","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctv102bk24.13","url":null,"abstract":"This chapter refers to the historian Nesta Webster, who lived in England around the turn of the nineteenth century and was the first to indicate the ties between Samuel Falk and the Freemasons. It describes Webster as a prominent antisemite who took an active part in the distribution of the Protocols of the Elders of Zion and published a long list of inflammatory articles that charged the Jews with responsibility for the Russian Revolution. It also discusses the antisemitic orientation evident in Webster's book on secret societies that attempts to link the Jews with various cultic sects that were political in nature. The chapter looks at an entire chapter in Webster's book that is devoted to Falk, whom she depicts as a 'high initiate' of the Freemasons. It serves as a bibliographical source for references to Falk in non-Jewish works.","PeriodicalId":254265,"journal":{"name":"Rabbi, Mystic, or Impostor?","volume":"23 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-03-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126358657","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Diary of Zevi Hirsch of Kalisz","authors":"Michal Oron","doi":"10.2307/j.ctv102bk24.15","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctv102bk24.15","url":null,"abstract":"|fo. 1a| London, Tuesday, 23 Elul 5507 [18 August 1747]. *He had intended to practise [his mystical devotions] but instead he went in the coach with *R. Mordecai Franzmann to *the house in Pas, *and he took books from there with him, that is, the best ones, also pictures, and also the staff that was with him, ...","PeriodicalId":254265,"journal":{"name":"Rabbi, Mystic, or Impostor?","volume":"18 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-03-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116558554","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Samuel Falk as Seen by Jacob Emden","authors":"Michal Oron","doi":"10.2307/j.ctv102bk24.12","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctv102bk24.12","url":null,"abstract":"This chapter focuses on the 1760s, wherein Samuel Falk was besmirched, cursed, and persecuted by Jacob Emden while frequently celebrated by various members of Christian society. It reviews extant testimonies that portray Falk as a controversial figure, such as being a fraud, a swindler, and a complete ignoramus, while others thought he was a teacher, guide, and spiritual leader for several prominent Freemasons. It also discusses Jacob Emden's campaign against Jonathan Eybeschuetz and his son Wolf and his crusade against Sabbatianism, which he regarded as a plague that had come to corrupt and destroy Judaism. The chapter highlights Emden's attack on Falk that links him with Moses David of Podhajce and with Jonathan Eybeschuetz. It analyses Emden's book that is full of his hatred of Falk, whom he derisively calls a ba'al shed, which meant possessed by a demon, instead of the term ba'al shem.","PeriodicalId":254265,"journal":{"name":"Rabbi, Mystic, or Impostor?","volume":"140 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-03-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132018602","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A Brief History of Ba’Alei Shem","authors":"Michal Oron","doi":"10.2307/j.ctv102bk24.9","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctv102bk24.9","url":null,"abstract":"This chapter focuses on ba'alei shem, the primary representatives of Jewish magic in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. It considers the ba'alei shem as the wonder-workers who employed the names of God or his angels through certain techniques, for various theurgic purposes. It also cites rabbinic literature that teaches of the existence and spread of the phenomenon among the sages in the Land of Israel and Babylonia despite biblical opposition to magic or sorcery and their practitioners. The chapter looks at the mystical heikhalot literature, which includes magical texts and descriptions of the qualities and aptitudes of the mystical elect that resemble and later characterize the ba'alei shem. It describes the mystics that possess knowledge of incantations and divine names that enable them to undergo mystical experiences and be in contact with the supernal spheres.","PeriodicalId":254265,"journal":{"name":"Rabbi, Mystic, or Impostor?","volume":"8 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-03-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115675061","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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