The Sabbatai Zevi Messianic Movement
Historiansplaining: A historian tells you why everything you know is wrong
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Sabati Is the Messiah
Rabbis in jerusalem rejected sabatianism. Why would rabbis in other places, welcome it and not be threatened by it? If you're more steeped in cobala, you're more likely to embrace him. If you're just likeh everything sucks. The world is going down the tubes,. we have to have a messiah... You could give in to a certain degree of wishful think lik, all right, there's messiah, great, and you you would go with it. People who reject it are in a minority. Not universally, but that was kind of the general tendency. And so if you look at certain places where there were many rabb
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