The Sabbatai Zevi Messianic Movement
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The Apostasy of Sabati
The apostasy turned the tables in a lot of ways, because if you had walked around in a jewish community in the summer 16 66, most people were sabitaan. This is part of the ground where then nocasidism arose. I think there was a kind of psychological release of being able to suddenly say, all bets are off. Do the things that are forbidden. But he was not a faker. And you would say the same thing for people that continued to be supportive of him towards the end of his life. They weren't faking either. These groups of believers all over the diaspera, they weren't fakers. They totally believed it.
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