[Avodah] The Rabbi, the Rebbe, and the Messiah

[Zev Sero via Avodah]

On 13/02/17 22:09, Ben Waxman via Avodah wrote:
> On 2/13/2017 8:42 PM, Zev Sero via Avodah wrote:

>> The evidence he presents does not show any attempt to suppress
>> knowledge of the affair, but rather a perfectly normal process of
>> destroying heretical books, and of removing the name of a rasha from
>> places where it ought not to appear, such as in proclamations
>> honouring him.

> Depends on what comes along with this process, like denying that
> Shabbatei Zvi was supported by great rabbis and enjoyed world wide
> communal support. There is removing the proclamation and there is
> denying that a proclamation was ever given.

There was never any attempt to cover it up, and nobody knowledgeable has 
ever tried to deny it.  But the proclamations themselves were quite 
properly destroyed; what else should have been done with them?  When a 
publisher withdraws and pulps a book, something which happens regularly, 
is it trying to cover up its mistake?!

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Zev Sero                May 2017, with its *nine* days of Chanukah,
zev at sero.name           be a brilliant year for us all