Jacob Frank claimed to be the reincarnation of the false Messiah Shabbetai Zvi. In the mid-1700’s, he sought to create a new religion that would incorporate both Judaism and Christianity, leading to the formation of the Frankist sect, centered in Poland. Many rabbis of the time, including the Baal Shem Tov, battled the new sect and its leader vigorously and successfully halted their influence.
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The Infinite Light overflows with passion.
The passion to enter within the finite, to define itself within space and time, to dwell within darkness.
But this is its limitation: It is imprisoned within its endless presence, for wherever it goes it finds only itself.
When Infinite Light meets darkness, no darkness is left. As it seeps into space and time, they blur and dissolve. Expose to it the finite cells of the human mind, and all reason surrenders.
So the Infinite Light must first awaken a passion below, commensurate to its passion above. A passion of the intellect to know unbounded wisdom, of a created being to embrace its Creator, of darkness to shine. Only once it is awaited with burning desire, then may it enter, be welcomed and find peace.
How could it be that a created being can accomplish that which is not in the hand of heaven to achieve? For in that human passion itself is G‑d, who is below as above, and within all things.