Rabbi Mordechai Becher: 3 Radical Rebbes - Pshischa, Kotzk & Ishbitz

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The opening of this shiur, in Rabbi Mordechai Becher’s own words — taken from the captions, so names and Hebrew terms may be approximate.

um are you um hold on yeah okay so let me begin first of all we'll start with the 17th century the jewish people in europe had suffered a series of disasters tragedies the most famous was the homininsky pogroms led by the ukrainian kozak leader thousands and thousands of jews massacred thousands of rapes torture displacement it was a tragedy of epic proportions that that that they probably would never recover from very soon after then we had a tragedy which was of a spiritual psychological tragedy there was the appearance on the scene of the very famous infamous subtit a false messiah from izmir in turkey izmir in turkey who traveled from izmir to salonika and then to israel then to gaza and he became very famous he didn't do any thing that the messiah is meant to do but journalism was just beginning at the time stories about him were inflated he had a very very clever person behind him nathan of gaza and thousands tens of thousands of jews believed that the messiah was imminent the messiah was imminent understand that just survive we've just gone through the kaminsky pogroms people thought it cannot get any worse it's got to get better it must be messianic times subtitle comes on the scene and he says amit i'm the messiah if you could mute yourselves please i can hear noise in the background um so he says i'm the messiah that's it and uh to the extent that a uh british uh member of the dutch east india company india company wrote back wrote to his representatives that he was not able to hire a boat in amsterdam because the ships had been hired rented by jews in preparation for their imminent departure for israel with the messiah business grant terrible 1666 subtitles converts to islam and as you can imagine there was um unbelievable

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