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No chapter in the history of the Jewish people during the last several hundred years has been as shrouded in mystery as that of the Sabbatian movement. On one point, at least, there is no longer any…
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Gershom Scholem
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Jerusalem, Mandate Palestine (Jerusalem, Israel)
Date:
1937
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Rabbis are becoming angry with our redeemerOur king and the shekhinah is heAnd it is for good and for the good of our King and for the goodof the six hundred thousand of Israel that all followed him …
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Unknown
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Ottoman Empire (Turkey)
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ca. 1700
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“I, too, have authority, the authority of the Lord, blessed be He, of the Shekinah and all the members of the Heavenly Academy.”
[Padua, 16 March 1730]
Oh, thou great Prince, lofty pillar, Gaon R…
Contributor:
Moses Ḥayim Luzzatto
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Padua, Venice (Padua, Italy)
Date:
1730
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Born and raised in Oran, Algeria, the talmudic scholar Jacob Sasportas served as rabbi of Tlemcen. Forced to flee Morocco due to political unrest, in 1647 he embarked on a life of wandering. In 1664…
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Isaack Luttichuys
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Amsterdam, Dutch Republic (Amsterdam, Netherlands)
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Date Unknown|Second Half of the 17th Century
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This is the secret of the teaching of the sages: “When the Holy One, blessed be He, created the world with the attribute of justice, and the world could not subsist—and so too with the attribute of…
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Solomon Ayllon
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London, England (London, United Kingdom)
Date:
1699
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During the first half of the seventeenth century some extravagant notions of the near approach of the Messianic time, and more especially of the redemption of the Jews and their return to Jerusalem…
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Henry Malter
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Philadelphia, United States of America
Date:
1906
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I received your letter, and since you believed that I sent to you concerning matters of our Messiah of Truth, I shall fulfill the wishes of your heart and your feelings of deficiency, and I shall tell…
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Abraham Michael Cardoso
Places:
Tripoli, Ottoman Empire (Tripoli, Lebanon)
Date:
1670