Sabbatai Zevi
Sephardic Rabbi
- Fame59.8
- Momentum5.3
- Religious Figures rank#217
- Fame59.8
- Momentum5.3
- Religious Figures rank#217
- Wikipedia35.4K
TurkeyA 17th-century rabbi from Smyrna who declared himself the Jewish Messiah, swept thousands of followers across the Ottoman Empire into ecstatic belief, then converted to Islam at the sultan's court when the alternative was execution.
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Sabbatai Zevi was born in Smyrna on August 1, 1626, to a Romaniote Jewish family from Patras. As a mystic and rabbi active throughout the Ottoman Empire, he claimed to be the long-awaited Messiah and built the Sabbatean movement around a dangerous premise: that in the Messianic Age, sins would become virtues, so he and his followers deliberately violated Jewish commandments. In February 1666 he arrived in Constantinople and was imprisoned by order of the grand vizier; by September, moved to Adrianople and brought before the court, he faced a stark choice from Sultan Mehmed IV's representatives…
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