So the rabbi decreed that they should immediately take a break and carefully examine the deceptive words that the wicked impostor cunningly presented to them, as a skilled manipulator, adept at capturing their attention. (And so a trustworthy person told me, who knew him and had seen him in Berlin, that even there he enticed and deceived many others with his false faith. Through cunning arguments and persuasive speeches, he made it appear to people as if it were explicitly written in the Zohar to believe in the false messiah, Shabbatai Tzvi, may his name be erased. For a brief moment, it seemed to them as if it were true.)