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1/I keep writing, deleting, and starting new threads on #Eidlitz and #Sabbateanism.

This is likely annoying to anyone that is following the discussion. I apologize.

But I got it right here.

And I think it is very interesting:
1a/ Disclaimer (again): I'm not a heresy-hunter.

I don't see moderate Sabbateanism as anything more than a belief that didn't pan out. We shouldn't lose an iota of respect for them.

I'm a researcher. I'm not here to pass judgment. I'm being descriptive. That is all.
2/When I talk about Sabbateans, I mean the movement post-apostasy.

Scholem noted Sabbateanism was forged at the conversion.

The apostasy, as Dr. Leiman put it, ended S.Z.'s "legitimate career."

Most Jews went home. Disappointed. Resumed lives.

Others did not. Could not
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