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Shabbatai Zevi (1626-1676, also spelled Shabsai and Sabbatai) was a false messiah, who succeeded in deluding thousand of Jews into believing that he was the long-awaited redeemer. Born in Turkey, he taught radical new notions based on the Kabbalah and ultimately converted to Islam, dashing the hopes of the masses, who had trustingly placed ...
Shabbetai Zevi battled with what might now be diagnosed as severe bipolar disorder. He understood his condition in religious terms, experiencing his manic phases as moments of “illumination” and his times of depression as periods of “fall,” when God’s face was hidden from him.
Sabbatai Zevi was not just a Jewish phenomenon, but an international one. His arrival affected the economy and politics of all Europe. Wild rumors regarding the advent of the Messiah circulated all over the civilized world.
Sabbatai Zevi, (Hebrew: שַׁבְּתַי צְבִי, Shabbetay Ẓevi) (other spellings include Shabbethai, Sabbetai, ; Zvi, Tzvi) (August 1, 1626 – c. September 17, 1676) was a rabbi and Kabbalist who claimed to be the long-awaited Jewish Messiah and gained a major following among world Jewry in the mid-late seventeenth century.
SHABBETAI TZEVI (also Sabbatai Sevi, Zevi, or Zebi, 1626 – 1676), Jewish rabbi of the Ottoman Empire whose messianic claims and abrupt conversion to Islam in 1665 – 1666 convulsed Jewish communities in Europe and the Near East.
Shabbetai Zvi. (1626 - 1676) Shabbetai Zvi was born in Smyrna in 1626, he showed early promise as a Talmudic scholar, and even more as a student and devotee of Kabbalah. More pronounced than his scholarship were his strange mystical speculations and religious ecstasies.
Jun 11, 2018 · The Jewish mystic and pseudo-Messiah Sabbatai Zevi (1626-1676), or Sebi, was the founder of the Sab batean sect. Sabbatai Zevi was born in Smyrna (modern Izmir), Turkey, of Spanish-Jewish parentage. At an early age he adopted the mysticism of Isaac ben Solomon Luria and began to lead an ascetic life.
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