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J of the Day #26
Benjamin Mordecai, Native-born to Charleston, SC, was one of the biggest local Slave traders, regularly shipping slaves to New Orleans from 1846 to 1860, and made the first and largest donation to South Carolina succession to support the confederacy.
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J of the Day #27
Capt. Samuel Goldsmith, slave trader, gave the sole testimony in court in 1655 to legalize one of the earliest known slaves in North America, testifying that slave John Casor rightfully belonged to free Angolian, Anthony Johnson.
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J of the Day #28
Jacob Rodriguez Rivera, slave-trader and uncle, father-in-law, and partner of Aaron Lopez, whom he held the 2nd highest place to in the commercial, religious and social life of Newport’s Jewish community, the financial center of the Triangular Trade.
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J of the Day #29
Moses Levy, NY born head of one of 30 Jewish families in Newport, RI, where half of the 50 top tax payers were slave traders, was known to personally own at least 5 slave ships, the "Abigail", "Nassau", "Four Sisters", "Charlotte", and "Caracoa".
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J of the Day #30
Jacob Franks, King's agent to NY, Constable of the Dock Ward, and president of the Shearith Israel Synagogue, became a prominant and highly wealthy merchant as joint owner of the slave ships, "Abigail" and "Charlotte" with Moses Levy and Aaron Lopez.
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J of the Day #31
David Franks, son of NY slave trader, Jacob Franks, followed in his footsteps as Kings agent of Philadelphia, joint owner of the Slave Ships, "Gloucester" and "Delaware" with Moses and Isaac Levy, and leader of a Jewish boycott against the stamp tax.
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J of the Day #32
Joseph Marks, prominant slave trader and merchant, owned at least 7 ships, operating the Triangle Trade from 1743-51, the "Barbados Factor", "Charming Sally", "Hannah", "Polly", "Dolphin", "Prince Orange", and "Charming Polly".
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J of the Day #33
Moses Cohen Mordecai, "probably the largest shipowner in the United States," was "deeply involved in the slave trade - the auctioning, mortgaging and leasing of babies, parents and families," becoming the 2nd wealthiest man in S Carolina by 1820.
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J of the Day #34
Abraham Gradis, whose family owned at least 26 ships, was contracted by the French Naval administer in 1763 to provision French spirits, gunpowder, knives, and cloth to West Africa, taking payment in slaves to be sold in San Domingo for sugar.
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J of the Day #35
Judah Mordechai Cohen, Dutch-born, London-based merchant and plantation owner with over 1255 slaves on his plantations in Jamaica, was one of the most extensive slave owners in the British West Indies at the time of the Slavery Abolition Act 1833.
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J of the Day #36
Manuel Alvarez Correa, owner of the "Savannah" plantation, arrived in Curaçao in roughly 1674 via the Dutch West India Company and amassed a fortune as one of the largest single owners of slaves in Curaçao, recording 482 total in 1701 alone.
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J of the Day #37
Mordecai Gomez, son of Luis Moses Gomez, of the famed Gomez Mill house in Marlboro, NY, who contributed to transforming NY into the center for American Jewry, was also a succesful Caribbean slave trader, with two ships, the "Elizabeth" and "Hester".
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J of the Day #38
Judah P. Benjamin, US senator and state legislator from Louisiana, Attorney General of the Confederate States, and a founder of the Illinois Central Railroad, owned 140 slaves on his plantation, and is generally presumed to have been a homosexual.
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J of the Day #39
David Levy Yulee, son of Moses Elias Levy (partner of Judah Benjamin's father), a proto-zionist who bought 50K acres in Florida to create the New Jerusalem, chartered Florida's 1st railroad(1853), while employing 100 slaves on his 5K acre plantation.
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J of the Day #40
Jacob Naphtali Hart, German-born merchant, owned at least 12 ships and was well established in the slave trade before immigrating to the US in 1775. He became an important member of the Jewish community in NY, serving as president of Shearith Israel.
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J of the Day #41
Benjamin da Costa, merchant and president of a Jewish community in Martinique, arrived with his family in 1665 with 900 Jews and 1100 slaves from Brazil, establishing its 1st plantation and sugar refinery, until being expelled by the French in 1685.
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J of the Day #42
Juan Goedvriend, merchant on Swan Street (then, often called "Jew Street"), Barbados, where the Dutch West India Company recorded Jews purchasing 752 slaves in 1701, 249 by him, in partnership with Idem & Idem (2nd, only to Manuel Alvarez Correa).
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J of the Day #43
Abraham Cohen of Brazil, one of the earliest recorded patrons of the Dutch West India Company, purchased 52 slaves in 1662 and helped establish Jews as the primary financiers of the sugar industry and auctioneers, creditors, and renters of slaves.
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J of the Day #44
Mordecai Manuel Noah, the 1st prominent US born Jew(1785), wrote articles praising slavery and as a playright, originated "Negro Minstrelsy" due to his poor opinion of black actors. The 1st black newspaper named him the black man's "bitterest enemy".
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J of the Day #45
Raphael Jacob Moses, Confederate chief commissary officer and peach plantation owner with 60 slaves, would later serve in Georgia's House of Reps, stating, "I wanted to go to congress as a Jew...and do my part towards breaking down the prejudice."
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J of the Day #46
David Cohen, son of Moses Cohen Mordecai, owned a 1000 acre plantation. His cruelty became the subject of one of the earliest abolitionist narratives in 1838, “Recollections of Slavery by a Runaway Slave,” a graphic account of torture and suffering.
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J of the Day #47
Jacob Marcus, historian and founder of American Jewish Archives(1947), saw Jewish slave owners as victims. After a slave echoed a Jewish slur, Marcus complained that "anti-Jewish prejudice was not absent on Saint Dominique even among the Negroes."
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J of the Day #48
Nathan Simpson, slave trader and partner to Moses and Isaac Levy and Jacob Franks, worked with the Jobbers and Jews of Brazil and commissioned the largest shipment to New York in the early 1700s, carrying a load of 217 slaves on his ship, "the Crown".

J of the Day #49
Gabriel Meyer, cotton merchant, began in Pine Bluff, AR in 1856, eventually owning 21 slave plantations, “all of which cultivated very successfully." Called the 'father of the Pine Bluff public school system', he served on city council for 25 years.
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J of the Day #50
Isaac Monsanto, patriarch of the Monsanto family and one of the first Jews to arrive in New Orleans from Curacao in 1757, established himself as one of its wealthiest merchants and slave traders, before purchasing the first family plantation in 1767.
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J of the Day #51
Benjamin Monsanto, son of Isaac Monsanto, continued the family business after they and their partners were expelled from New Orleans in 1769 for illegal trading. He purchased the second family plantation in Natchez, MS in 1787, holding 51 slaves.
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J of the Day #52
Manuel Monsanto, brother of Benjamin Monsanto, maintained connections in New Orleans well after the family's expulsion, and returned to Toulouse Street by the mid 1780s to engage in the slave trade, contracting twelve shipments from 1787 to 1789.
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J of the Day #53
Manuel Méndez Monsanto, close relative of the Monsanto brothers in the US, settled in the Danish West Indies and flourished as a merchant and financier of slave labor in the sugar trade in both St. Thomas and Puerto Rico, until his death in 1863.
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J of the Day #54
Olga Méndez Monsanto, granddaughter of Manuel Méndez, was among the 1st Monsantos born too late to own slaves. Her husband, John Francis Queeny, founded the Monsanto Chemical Company in 1901, producing food additives like saccharin and caffeine.
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J of the Day #55
Edgar Monsanto Queeny, son of Olga and CEO of the Monsanto Chemical Co, 1928-1960, he grew the company immensely, producing deadly carcinogens and toxins like polychlorinated biphenyls and dioxin pestacides, widely poisoning food and water supplies.
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J of the Day #56
Dr. Jack Ruina, director of ARPA in 1961, advanced Rainbow Herbicides, including Agent Orange, made with dioxins by the Monsantos Chemical Company, for herbicidal warfare in Vietnam, permanantly destroying ecosystems and agriculture for enemy cover.
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J of the Day #57
Robert B. Shapiro, CEO of NutriSweet, sold cancer-causing poison, Aspartame, accounting for 80% of food-additive complaints to the FDA, until acquired by Monsanto in 1984, where he became CEO again and pioneered “agricultural biotechnology" (GMOs).
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J of the Day #58
Dr. Rachmiel Levine, director of Jewish research firm, City of Hope, oversaw development of recombinant Bovine Growth Hormone (rBGH), which Monsanto introduced into dairies in 1994, despite cancer risks, contaminating the bulk of the US food supply.
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J of the Day #59
Alexander M. Schmidt, FDA Commissioner (1973-76), pursued many initiatives, including registering the most widely used herbicide in the US: Monsantos' revolutionary carcinogen, Roundup, which would trigger over 11k lawsuits and $11B in settlements.
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J of the Day #60
David A. Kessler, Biden's head of Operation Warp Speed and FDA commissioner (1990-97) approved the 1st GMOs, notably Monsantos' toxic, "Round-up ready", self-pollinating seeds, which through a viscious campaign took over the majority of US farmland.
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J of the Day #61
Rabbi Morris Raphall, the 1st Jewish clergyman to pray at an opening session of Congress (1860), "Wrapped in a tallit, with a large velvet yarmulke, he recited the Birkat Kohanim and argued that Biblical law expressly permitted the owning of slaves."
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J of the Day #62
Rav Yehudah bar Yechezkel, 220-99 AD, disciple of Talmudic sage, Rav (Abba Aricha), whose firm stance on gentile slavery is written in Berakhot, “Whoever frees his slave has violated a positive commandment, as it says, “You shall work them forever.”
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J of the Day #63
Rav Abba Arikha, the 1st Talmudic sage, who in 220 AD, "established at Sura the systematic study of the rabbinic traditions", leading to the Babylonian Talmud, a compilation of oral theological critiques and guidelines for Jewish racial supremacy.
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J of the Day #64
Hoshaiah "Roba" Rabbah, compiler of Baraitot (200 AD), famously including "With regard to bloodshed, if a gentile murders another gentile, or a gentile murders a Jew, he is liable. If a Jew murders a gentile, he is exempt." The same is said of theft.
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J of the Day #65
Rabbi Shimon ben Yochai, 2nd-century tannaitic sage and disciple of Rabbi Akiva, who is often quoted for, "The best of the Goyim is to be killed" (Soferim 15) and "You [Israel] are called Man and gentiles are not called Man." (Bava Metzia 114b)
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J of the Day #66
Caiaphas, Jewish high priest (18-36 AD), who almost 2000 years ago today, paid Judas Iscariot 30 pieces of silver to betray and deliver Jesus of Nazareth to the Sanhedrin, where he and false witnesses could frame him for Treason, punishable by death.
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J of the Day #67
Simon ben Koseba, failed military leader (132 AD) was described as meeting Jesus in the Talmud:
"Balaam [Jesus] is raised from the dead and being punished in boiling hot semen. Those who sin against Israel are boiled in hot excrement." (57a Gittin)
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J of the Day #68
Yohanan ben Zakkai, the first rabbi in the Mishnah, didn't appreciate Jesus's ministry to gentiles, writing decades later: "A gentile who pries into the Torah is condemned to death, for it is written, it is our inheritance, not theirs." Sanhedrin 59a
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J of the Day #69
Abba "Rava" ben Joseph bar Ḥama ~300AD, one of the most quoted Rabbis in the Talmud, had this to say about gentile children: "the offspring of a male gentile is considered no more related to him than the offspring of donkeys and horses." Yevamot 98a
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J of the Day #70
Rabbi Akiva ben Hosef, Mishnah writer and referred to in the Talmud as "Chief of the Sages", was executed by the Romans after the failed revolt of Simon bar Kokhba (135AD) and wrote of lying: "it is permitted to deceive a gentile." (Bava Kama 113a)
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J of the Day #71
Maimonides, considered to be the foremost figure of European Judaism, decreed that a Jew may not save the life of a gentile unless standing idly by would “cause the spread of hostility against the Jews". (Murderer and the Preservation of Life 2,4,11)
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J of the Day #72
Elazar ben Yair, leader of the Jewish cult, "the Zealots", established a pariah kingdom on the plateau of Masada after the destruction of the 2nd temple. Unwilling to accept Roman rule, he forced his 960 men, women, and children to kill themselves.
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J of the Day #73
King Bulan "Sabriel" of Khazaria converted his kingdom to Judaism in 740AD to mediate their Christian and Muslim neighbors. Widely considered the beginning of the Ashkanazi race, they spread into Europe in the Hun Hordes to become 90% of world Jewry.
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J of the Day #74
Kaula al-Yahudi, Sephardic Jewish general in Spain, who in 711 AD, led a conspiracy to open the gates of Christian Spain to Islamic Moorish invaders under Ṭāriq ibn Ziyad (often accused of being Jewish, himself), leading to 780 years of Muslim rule.
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J of the Day #75
Rabbi Chasdai ben Isaac ibn Shaprut, Court minister of Córdoba, Spain in ~950 AD, built Torah academies and mentored the king of Khazar. Jews leveraged their role in the Moors' conquest to pass pro-Jewish laws, creating the "Golden Age of Tolerance".
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J of the Day #76
Joseph ibn Naghrela, appointed Vizier of Granada, Spain by his father, was known for excesses and corruption benefiting Jews, until being assassinated and crucified on the city gate, triggering the 1066 massacre and the end of the Age of Tolerance.
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J of the Day #77
Rabbi Kalonymus ben Meshullam, Jewish leader in Worms, Germany, where usury and rumours that Jews boiled a Christian alive and used his corpse to poison the town's wells prompted 10,000 angry peasants to attack, beginning the First Crusade of 1096.
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J of the Day #78
Pulcelina of Blois, moneylender to the court of Blois and adulturous mistress of Count Thibaut, was implicated in the first ritual Blood Libel murder accusation in France, crucifying a child, and was burnt at the stake along with 32 others in 1171.
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J of the Day #79
Aaron of Lincoln, moneylender and the wealthiest man in England, wealthier than even the king, whom he loaned money for the 2nd Crusade. After his death in 1186, a mob of angry debtors seiged the castle of York, protecting his business partners.
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J of the Day #80
Isaac fil rabbi Joce, Jewish leader, thrived with Aaron of Lincoln on 40% interest loans, until killing himself during a seige on his people in York castle to force conversion (ending their usury by law). Tensions grew until the expulsion of 1290.
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J of the Day #81
Eleazar, 1st suspect of medieval blood libel: William of Norwich was last seen entering his home on Good Friday, 1144, before being carried out in a sack to Thorpe Wood and later found dead, covered with sand, his head shaven and punctured by thorns.
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J of the Day #82
Theobald, Jewish-Christian convert of Cambridge, was quoted in 1173 with witnesses to the taking of William and the bribing of their Sheriff, stating "Jews customarily sacrificed a boy at Passover at a place chosen by lot, selecting Norwich in 1144".
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J of the Day #83
Makhir of Narbonne, 8th-century Prince of Septimania, France, self-claimed heir of King David and the prophesized "King Messiah ben Ephraim", was implicated by Theobald of Cambridge to be a cult leader, who originated the annual Passover Blood Libel.
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J of the Day #84
Abraham ibn Daud, Kabbalist, wrote in 1161 that Rabbi Makhir, of the line of David, was made ruler of Narbonne by Charlemagne because in 759, the Jews had once again opened the gates of a Visigoth city, only now for the Franks to drive out the Moors.
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J of the Day #85
Guillaume de Gellone, or "Isaac the Jew", Duke of Toulouse and son of Makhir of Narbonne, secured the Banner of Jerusalem for Charlemagne in 803 and built a Judaism academy and library in Narbonne, which became the heartland of Medievel Kabbalah.
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J of the Day #86
Bernat de Septimania, son of Guillaume, alledged of the line of Rabbi Makhir and King David, was accused of adultury, black magic, and ultimately executed for treason to Charles the Bald in 844, resulting in laws banning Jews from court positions.
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J of the Day #87
Gerberga, sister of Bernat de Septimania, like her brother, was accused of practicing blackmagic, prompting strict new laws. As one of the earliest recorded executions for witchcraft in Europe, she was cast into a river in a wine barrel and drowned.
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J of the Day #88
Senegund, granddaughter of Makhir of Narbonne (through Guillaume de Gellone's sister, Alda), married Fulcoald of Rouergue to form House Toulouse, outlasting Guillaume's line to become central to the Crusades and founding of the Kingdom of Jerusalem.
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J of the Day #89
Raymond IV, Count of Toulouse and Duke of Narbonne, led the 1st Crusade in 1096, taking Jerusalem with Godfrey of Bouillon. While unlikely that House Toulouse was still practicing Judaism, he chose to remain and establish reign in Tripoli (Lebanon).
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J of the Day #90
Rabbi Shlomo "Rashi" Yitzchaki of Troyes, France, (whose work is the foundation for much mystical discourse) is believed to have given audience to crusader, Godfrey De Bouillon, prior to him becoming the 1st ruler of the Kingdom of Jerusalem in 1099.
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J of the Day #91
Meir ben Samuel, son-in-law of Rashi, helped Stephen Harding and Hughes De Pain, 1st Grand Master of the Knights Templar, to translate Hebrew texts, and in 1120, Hughes and 8 others began building and, alledgedly, excavating around Solomon's Temple.
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J of the Day #92
Benjamin of Tudela, medieval traveler, made a pilgrimage by way of Narbonne to the Holy Land and back, encountering the Knights Templar on the Temple Mount in 1170, when the lost mystic tradition, 'Sepher ha Bahir', is said to have been recovered.
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J of the Day #93
Kalonymus ben Todros, 12th century Nasi in Narbonne, oversaw 2 converging events: Benjamin of Tudela's visit to Abraham ben David, father of Kabbalah, and Bertrand de Blanchefort moving the Knights Templar from Troyes to the local Rennes-le-Chateau.
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J of the Day #94
Nehunya ben HaKanah, 1st century Tanna, is credited with writing the mystic, "Sepher ha Bahir" (Book of Illumination) which mysteriously appeared, after 1k years, in the hands of the Provencal Rabbis of Narbonne in 1176, between the 2nd-3rd Crusades.
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J of the Day #95
Abraham "Ravad" ben David, a key link in the chain of Jewish mystics, initiated teaching of the Sepher ha Bahir in the 12th century and the concept of the Kabbalistic Emissary, the origin of the Tree of Life and open Jewish practice of the Occult.
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J of the Day #96
Rabbi Yitzhak Saggi Nehor, or "Isaac the Blind", Son of Ravad and the "Father of Kabbalah", created much of its heresies, like its determining principle that language itself (incantation) supercedes Logos (reason), and that God is a fallible deity.
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J of the Day #97
Azriel of Gerona, the most famous student of Isaac the Blind, founded speculative Kabbalah, a Gnostic heresy, declaring all qualities of God are projection, and creation implies a subtraction in the creator's essence, rejecting the divinity of Logos.
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J of the Day #98
Abraham Abulafia, 13th-century false Messiah and Kabbalist, was infamous for his delusions of grandeur, teaching a method of meditation as a path to supernatural (demonic) posession and "prophetic" vision, eventually leading to his exile.
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J of the Day #99
Moses de León, publisher of the primary Kabbalah text, the Zohar in 1291, a forgery of 1st century sage, Simeon ben Yochai, full of heresies, like Mans' mystical power to perfect God's creation, with the aid of a pantheon of 10 Goddess sorceresses.
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*Her father, Manuel Méndez Monsanto, from St Thomas is alleged to have financed John Francis in founding the company.