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The Sabbatai Zevi Messianic Movement

Historiansplaining: A historian tells you why everything you know is wrong

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'Sabatai' - A Sense of Sense and Sense

By 16 76, there's like this sectarian a group that's formed. It seems in those groups, over time, little by little, that's where these doctrines developed and evolved. He was breaking all the rules at once, but in an intentional, ritualistic way so his followers could see it as part of his message. We have to violate yum kipur. we have to violate the incest taboo. We Have to violate the adultery taboo and have taboo sex. So he probably was about to engae in some kind of group sex or something, or some kind of sexual taboo,. righti? RightiThis is one of the ways in which his personality happened to lend itself

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