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    Sabbatai Zevi (August 1, 1626 – c. September 17, 1676) was an Ottoman Jewish mystic, and ordained rabbi from Smyrna (now İzmir, Turkey). His family origins...
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    Sabbatians) were a variety of Jewish followers, disciples, and believers in Sabbatai Zevi (1626–1676), an Ottoman Jewish rabbi and Kabbalist who was proclaimed...
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    who claimed to be the reincarnation of the self-proclaimed messiah Sabbatai Zevi (1626–1676) and also of the biblical patriarch Jacob. The Jewish authorities...
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  • called Marranos. In 1648 Sabbatai Zevi claimed to be the Jewish Messiah. His Jewish followers were known as Sabbateans. Zevi converted to Islam in 1666...
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    where he became famous as a prophet for the Jewish messiah claimant Sabbatai Zevi. Nathan of Gaza was born in Jerusalem around 1643-1644; he died on Friday...
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    mainly in Thessaloniki. It originated during and soon after the era of Sabbatai Zevi, a 17th-century Sephardic Jewish Rabbi and Kabbalist who claimed to...
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    young and brilliant Rabbi who had been expelled from nearby Smyrna: Sabbatai Zevi. Banned from this city in 1651 after proclaiming himself the messiah...
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  • Baba), successor of Sabbatai Zevi. Mordecai Mokia (1650–1729), ("the Rebuker") of Eisenstadt, another follower of Sabbatai Zevi who remained faithful...
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    Commonwealth, as well as in Central and Eastern Europe. Frankists believed in Sabbatai Zevi, one of the most famous of all self-proclaimed messiahs in Jewish history...
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  • editor Fausto Zevi, Italian archaeologist Sabbatai Zevi (1626–1676), Ottoman rabbi Tullia Zevi (1919–2011), Italian journalist and writer Zevi Eckhaus, American...
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  • Jewish Messiah Sabbatai Zevi. Born in Thessaloniki, he was the son of Joseph the Philosopher and brother of Jochebed, Shabbatai Zevi's last wife. Jochebed...
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    resolute opponent of the followers of the self-proclaimed messiah, Sabbatai Zevi. He had a chequered career owing to his independence of character. He...
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    by Mehmed Pasha Bushati. In 1673, the self-proclaimed Jewish Messiah Sabbatai Zevi was exiled here from Istanbul. Ulcinj remained an Ottoman town for more...
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  • Querido – 17th-century successor of the self-proclaimed Jewish Messiah Sabbatai Zevi. Ibn Sahl of Seville – 13th-century Andalusian poet. Harun ibn Musa...
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  • Sabbatai Sevi, the mystical messiah, which focuses on the 17th-century movement centered on the self-proclaimed messiahship (1648) of Sabbatai Zevi (1626–1676)...
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  • of Gaza, who served as the prophet of Sabbatai Zevi. Jacob Ḥagiz was active in the opposition to Sabbatai Zevi and put him under the ban. About 1673,...
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    He saw this as the cause of the contemporary mystical heresies of Sabbatai Zevi and Jacob Frank. Cited in The Great Maggid by Jacob Immanuel Schochet...
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    in 456, and the end would come in 1660. 1666 Sabbatai Zevi Following his failed prediction of 1648, Zevi recalculated the end of the Earth for this year...
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  • the earliest followers of Sabbatai Zevi, the self-proclaimed Jewish messiah. Primo became Zevi's private secretary on Zevi's journey from Jerusalem to...
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  • lifetime and along with it the influence within this frontier territory of Sabbatai Zevi and his latter-day spiritual descendants such as Malach and Jacob Frank...
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  • century. He was one of the most influential pupils and followers of Sabbatai Zevi. He was held in high esteem on account of his religious and kabbalistic...
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  • thoughtful light’s creation. Sabbateans believed that the Messiah, Sabbatai Zevi, was a trapped or demonic soul whose escape from the Abyss would result...
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    intelligence, made him the most suitable representative of Sabbatai Zevi. Yakhini persuaded Sabbatai Zevi, who at that time was convinced that he was the Messiah...
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    perhaps best known for his vocal opposition to the messianic claims of Sabbatai Zevi. Sasportas was born in Oran, Algeria, then under Spanish rule, to a...
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    Sabbateans and the Frankists, followers of the messianic claimants Sabbatai Zevi (1626–1676) and Jacob Frank (1726–1791). Many rabbis suspected Hasidism...
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  • Roman Emperor Charles V, for refusing to convert back to Christianity. Sabbatai Zevi (alternative spellings: Shabbetai, Sabbetai, Shabbesai; Zvi, Tzvi) (b...
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  • and it was at this time that a controversial scholar by the name of Sabbatai Zevi (1626–1676) captured the hearts and minds of the Jewish masses of that...
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    Messianism Ahmadiyya Mirza Ghulam Qadiani Lahori Kabbalist Dönmes Sabbatai Zevi – Sabbatean Mahdavīyya Muhammad Jaunpuri / Bandagi Mian Syed Khundmir...
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    Concerto à Louis Cahuzac for clarinet and orchestra (1957) Sabbataï Zevi, le faux messie (Sabbatai Zevi, the False Messiah), opera (1957–1958) Symphonie No....
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    Messianism Ahmadiyya Mirza Ghulam Qadiani Lahori Kabbalist Dönmes Sabbatai Zevi – Sabbatean Mahdavīyya Muhammad Jaunpuri / Bandagi Mian Syed Khundmir...
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