<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div class="">On 10/10/17 13:13, Zev Sero via Avodah wrote (re: Message: 1):</div><div class=""><span style="font-family: ArialMT;" class=""><font color="#4758ff" class="">THere was never any attempt to suppress knowledge of the SZ affair.</font></span></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><b class="">Patently UNTRUE</b>. The following is from documented historic texts and I quote:</div><div class=""><i class="">'In the vast majority of believers, revulsion and remorse set in and there was an active endeavor<span style="font-size: 19px;" class=""><b class=""> to erase</b></span> all evidence, </i></div><div class=""><i class="">even mention of the pseudo-Messiah. Pages were <span style="font-size: 19px;" class=""><b class="">removed from communal registers</b></span>, and <span style="font-size: 19px;" class=""><b class="">documents were destroyed</b></span>. </i></div><div class=""><i class=""><b class="">Few copies of the books that celebrated Shabbetai Zvi <span style="font-size: 19px;" class="">survived</span></b>, and those that did <span style="font-size: 19px;" class=""><b class="">have become rarities</b></span> much sought after by libraries and collectors.'<br class=""></i><br class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">On the same date at 14:47, Zev Sero wrote (Message 2, re: Prof. Levine’s statement that because of technology, </div><div class="">RMMS won’t be forgotten in the way others were):</div><div class=""><font color="#2f3bb9" class=""><span style="font-family: ArialMT;" class="">The Baal Shem Tov was forgotten?! All the others who were thought to be </span><span style="font-family: ArialMT;" class="">Moshiach were forgotten?!</span></font></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Prof. Levine’s point is totally misunderstood. From now until the Moshiach arrives, anyone can see videos of RMMS. I, personally, have watched</div><div class="">HUNDREDS of videos of RMMS and I’m not even part of the Movement. Our great-great grandchildren and their great-great grandchildren will</div><div class="">have access to watch videos of RMMS which will keep him alive. True, there may be pictures and stories of the Besht but as Prof. Levine so accurately points </div><div class="">out, there is a huge difference because of technology.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I have extended the following <font face="Helvetica" class=""><font color="#252525" class="">cliché: ‘<i class="">A picture is worth a thousand words, </i></font></font>but a video is worth a thousand pictures'</div></body></html>