Rabbi Lemlin was prophesying about the Messiah in the year 5260, and in all the dispersions of Israel they believed his words. Even among the nations the voice was heard going and growing, and many believed his words. And my master, my teacher, my elder grandfather Zalikimon at that time broke and dismantled the oven designated for Pesach to bake matzot in his complete expectation that next year he would bake matzot in the Holy Land.

And I heard from my elderly teacher, our teacher Rabbi Eliezer Trivash, head of the court of Frankfurt [(see above year 5322)] who said that it was not an empty matter, and an omen and sign was given, and he said perhaps sin caused and delayed it, [end quote Tzeda. And thus Shomer HaDat, letter 45, paragraph 1, in the year 5260 there arose a Jew in the district of Austria and his name was Rabbi Lemlin Ashkenazi who made himself a prophet and was saying that they should fast and return each man from his evil way with all their strength, for salvation is near to come.

And all the districts of Italy believed his words and they returned with all their strength, almost the repentance of Nineveh—an amazing thing. And the man died and the Messiah did not come, and this caused great bitterness, for when the fools saw that the Messiah did not come then they converted. And still that year is called the year of repentance. Shomer HaDat wrote, letter 119, section 2] Rabbi Moshe HaMon, physician of Sultan Solomon, testified that when he was in the city of Tavros with the king in the regions of Persia for war, on Shabbat in the year 5260, he saw many inhabitants of those cities who closed their stores on the sixth day between the suns, and he asked them why.

And they answered that they did not know, only that from the tradition of their fathers in their hands to close the stores because of the Sabbath day. Then he said: this is nothing other than that at the time of the decree of the Anusim they practiced this, for the faith of the Torah of Moshe was in their midst: