Jacob Frank: A Study in Transgression “Only to wipe out all laws, all religions, did I come to Poland, and it is my desire to bring life forth into this world.” — Jacob Frank, The Collection of the Words of the Lord, §130 “It was said to Abraham: Go, go from his country, and then to you too it was said: That means that you should go forth from those rituals which you have kept in the Jewish estate — like fasting, mourning, cursing, pretense, one beating another — for all