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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/ Ok. @AriLamm and @DBashIdeas let's do this...
I'll just say I plan to cover these 18th-century Rabbinic #Sabbateans over a longer time and several different threads (depending on interest) that I'll thread into one.
I'll just say I plan to cover these 18th-century Rabbinic #Sabbateans over a longer time and several different threads (depending on interest) that I'll thread into one.
2/ A quick disclaimer. I'm not trying to restart the Emden-Eibescheutz controversy here. But I believe the evidence shows there were many rabbis- including several great rabbis- that thought Sabbatai Zevi was the messiah even after his apostasy and death.
3/ And indeed, some believed in his messianic mission- in one form or another- even when they were born well after his death and lived more than a hundred years after his apostasy.
