The Baal Shem Tov and the Heretic

<p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>In 1757 in Poland followers of the false Jewish Messiah Jacob Frank have publicly denounced the </span><em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Talmud </em><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>and convinced the authorities to let them burn thousands of copies of the holiest Jewish texts.  One such disciple of the new movement undertakes a journey to confront his former teacher the famed mystic and kabbalist Rabbi Israel ben Eliezer the holy Baal Shem Tov founder of Hasidism in Eastern Europe.  In the course of a long day this follower of the false Messiah Jacob Frank lays out his life story and the revelations and supernatural wonders that have led him to a new and twisted form of Judaism that rejects and destroys the most sacred texts of the Jewish tradition.  The Baal Shem Tov in turn must decide how to confront such a radical new evil. </span></p>