The Books of Jacob’s Messianic Muddle

“Why is it that some people have to pay while other people can collect?”
is a question that is asked in Olga Tokarczuk’s book “The Books of Jacob,” featuring a false messiah who’s called Jacob
Frank, who frankly did not give a damn about what was religiously correct,
his program like that of all false messiahs a sad nightmare that provided no one with a call that led to any wake-up.

These calls are always over before they are really over,
directed never by a genuine Jehovah,
far less enjoyable while they happen than in retrospect,
when they turn into subjects that philosophers dissect.