 This article, and others of the same nature to follow, stirred up the Jewish communities in Russia, and a storm of indignation against him arose among the more traditionalist Orthodox; he was denounced as a freethinker and his continued residence in Wilkomir became impossible.In 1869, he then went to Odessa where he intended to prepare himself for the university ("Ḥaṭṭot Ne'urim," vol.2, p. 3), but he was compelled to give up that idea.