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The Sabbateans (or Sabbatians) were a variety of Jewish followers, disciples, and believers in Sabbatai Zevi (1626–1676), [1] [2] [3] an Ottoman Jewish rabbi and Kabbalist who was proclaimed to be the Jewish Messiah in 1666 by Nathan of Gaza.
The Dönme celebrated holidays associated with various points in Zevi's life and their history of conversion. Based at least partially on the Kabbalistic understanding of divinity, the Dönme believed that there was a three-way connection between the emanations of the divine, which engendered many conflicts with Muslim and Jewish communities ...
Sabbatai Zevi [a] (August 1, 1626 – c. September 17, 1676) [1] was an Ottoman Jewish mystic, and ordained rabbi from Smyrna (now İzmir, Turkey). [2] [3] His family origins may have been Ashkenazi or Sephardi.
Jacob Frank, 1895 depiction. Frankism is a Sabbatean religious movement of the 18th and 19th centuries, [1] created in Podolia, named after its founder, Jacob Frank.Frank completely rejected Jewish norms, preaching to his followers that they were obligated to transgress moral boundaries.
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Nehemiah Hiyya ben Moses Hayyun (ca. 1650 – ca. 1730) was a Bosnian Kabalist, described by scholars as linked to Sabbateanism. [1] [2] His parents, of Sephardic descent, lived in Sarajevo, Bosnia (then a part of the Ottoman Empire), where he was most likely born, though later in life he pretended that he was an Israeli emissary born in Safed.
Joshua Heschel Zoref (1633–1700) was a 17th-century ascetic, and an important figure in the Lithuanian Sabbatean movement. During the messianic fervor of 1666, he claimed to experience visions similar to those of Ezekiel.