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Also tomorrow, I return to dropping #Sabbatean news from the 17th-18th century.
Taking a break from R’ Zerah
Going to look at the Kitzur Shelah, R’ David Lida, & other pious Sabbateans in that era
Do real detective work & go beyond any published material on the topic
Taking a break from R’ Zerah
Going to look at the Kitzur Shelah, R’ David Lida, & other pious Sabbateans in that era
Do real detective work & go beyond any published material on the topic
2. In this thread, I’m not going to talk about R’ Zerah Eidlitz but instead about several other earlier pious #Sabbateans.
Over the next few days, I will use this as the intro and the thread-of-threads for sub-threads on each book.
Over the next few days, I will use this as the intro and the thread-of-threads for sub-threads on each book.
3. Some of these cases are different from R’ Zerah in certain ways:
1/ R. #ZerahEidlitz is an excellent place to start for this bc @AriLamm's whole push was to share idiosyncratic truths & show just how much more there is to learn & think abt.
For a century, great scholars painted him based on errors in texts, bad assumptions, & mistakes.
For a century, great scholars painted him based on errors in texts, bad assumptions, & mistakes.
2/ If there is interest, tomorrow, I will show:
- Eidlitz's role in Emden-Eib controversy
- Emden's accusation that Eidlitz was a #Sabbatean
- Why scholars from Ortho. defenders of Eib. to Scholem dismissed Emden's allegation against Eidlitz
- Clear proof he was a Sabbatean
- Eidlitz's role in Emden-Eib controversy
- Emden's accusation that Eidlitz was a #Sabbatean
- Why scholars from Ortho. defenders of Eib. to Scholem dismissed Emden's allegation against Eidlitz
- Clear proof he was a Sabbatean
3/ First, a bit of acknowledgment, I got interested in #Sabbateanism when I was a kid & Dr. Sid (Shnayer) Leiman came to speak at my shul and took the time Shabbat afternoon to talk to me about it.
I kept up with the topic & took a course with him on the controversy.
I kept up with the topic & took a course with him on the controversy.
