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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:
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.
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
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
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.
