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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.
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
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.
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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.
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.
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