... prayers to the saints (zaddikim), the conception of faith as the fountain of salvation, even the belief in a trinity consisting of the Godhead, the Shekinah, and the Holy Ghost, these and other exotic ... am!Similar movements were started in Germany during the latter part of the eighteenth century, and in Austria,notably Galicia, at the beginning of the nineteenth, but none stirred the mind of the Jews ... satisfy the followers of areligion of love. They only whetted their insatiable appetite. The anarchy among the Gentiles increased the misery of the Jews. The towns fell into the hands of the Lithuanians,...