The Sabbatai Zevi Messianic Movement
Historiansplaining: A historian tells you why everything you know is wrong
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The Name Svi Is Asanasi. He Was an Askanazi Jew.
Svi was an askanazi jew. His father was a mercantile representative who managed trade between european merchants and smyrna, including for an english trading house. He had tremendous emotional ups and downs. Gersham scholem argues that he was by polar which we can't know because no doctor ever examined his mental health. And he would go through periods of excitement when he believed he was having mystical insights, and when he would worship openly and extravagantly.
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