Heretic of the month: Jacob Frank.(Jacob Joseph Frank,)(Interview)

American Jewish Life Magazine | March 1, 2007| | Copyright

He rejected the Torah (once threatening to defecate on it if angry rabbis didn't leave it alone). He converted to both Islam and Catholicism. He slept with his followers--and maybe even his daughter. He preached a nihilistic doctrine that saw this world as intrinsically corrupt, and believed that the best way to imitate God was to cross every boundary, transgress every taboo, and mix the sacred with the profane.

A crazed cult leader from Texas, Fiji, or Jonestown? No--Jacob Frank, the great Jewish heretic of the 18th century.

Frank's name is little-known ...

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