1762: Rabbi Eybeshutz died.
Eybeschutz changed his father's name, Nota, to the name of the town his father was rabbi.
Eybeschutz was in competition with Jacob Frank for the future of the Sabbateans.
One, rabbi wrote of Eybeschutz' son, Wolf:
'And he went and took a violin and started to sing songs and cried a great cry. Wolf told the people who were there with him to look through the window, and they saw a pillar of fire coming from the heavens to the earth.
And he also told them: when I call you, fall on your faces, because the power of destruction is great and you might be destroyed. And there were also sounds and lightning."
According to the Zohar, a pillar of fire is one of the first signs that the Messiah has arrived.'
Under Frank, theybegan to practice 'redemption through sin'.
Eybeschutz also issued amulets to his sick followers in the name of Zevi.
Later he moved to Vienna where he began to associate with royalty including Empress Maria Theresa. There, he assumed the title Baron von Adlersthal.
