Nehemiah Hiyya ben Moses Hayyun (ca. 1650 – ca. 1730) was a Bosnian Kabalist, described by scholars as linked to Sabbateanism. His parents, of Sephardic...

was an Italian rabbi and kabbalist, one of the leading critics of Nehemiah Hayyun and Sabbateanism in general. He was born in Livorno in 1685 to Rabbi...

to a book by the Sabbatean Nehemiah Hayyun. Provided with this and with other recommendations secured in the same way, Hayyun traveled throughout Moravia...

they sewed fig-leaves together, and made themselves girdles". Rabbi Nehemiah Hayyun supports the idea that the fruit was a fig, as it was from fig leaves...

interwoven with that of Sabbateanism (Sabbatai Zevi, Nathan of Gaza and Nehemiah Hayyun) in both the East and the West. Ayllon's youth was spent in Salonica...

Ashkenazic congregation, and assisted him in unmasking the impostor Nehemiah Hayyun. This step, however, made more enemies for him, and, like Tzvi Ashkenazi...

later rabbi of Belgrade. Another son-in-law of his was Moses Ḥayyun, father of Nehemiah Hayyun. Jacob Ḥagiz was active in the opposition to Sabbatai Zevi...

of his wealth and position, befell him. The Shabbethaian cabalist Nehemiah Hayyun appeared in Prague, declaring himself a preacher or an emissary from...

Eybeschütz, and seems to have been especially influenced by the Sabbatean Nehemiah Hayyun. Prossnitz wandered from city to city in Austria and Germany, where...

the most respected citizens of the place were reading the works of Nehemiah Ḥayyun and of other adherents of Shabbethai Ẓebi. Elazar vigorously endeavored...

the other rabbis of his city, Ẓeror endorsed the excommunication of Neḥemiah Ḥayyun. A portion of his responsa and novellae were collected by his disciple...

became a determining factor in his whole career. On 30 June 1713, Nehemiah Hayyun arrived at Amsterdam and requested the permission of the Portuguese...

Oppenheimer, to whom he was related by marriage. His approbation of Nehemiah Ḥayyun's cabalistic work, 'Oz le-Elohim (1712), caused him great annoyance...