Sabbateans

Sabbatianism is a Shabbtai by Zvi founded and by Baruchia Russo (1676-1720) and Jacob Frank continuing messianic movement in Judaism, which grasped the entire Jewish Diaspora as early as 1666. It persists today in the Dönme founded by Russo, from the 18th century was the last great inspired Sabbatianism wave of Polish-Lithuanian Frankism under Jacob Frank. Among the sequelae of Sabbatianism includes the Eastern European Hasidism of Rabbi Israel ben Eliezer.

Justification under Zvi in Gaza

Beginning in 1665 came the mentally somewhat confused, ascetic young scholar Shabbtai Zvi in Gaza to Kabbalists Nathan of Gaza to results will give him a spiritual instruction ( a Tiqqun ). But instead of Tiqqun the message to be the long-awaited Messiah was of him. Zvi believed him and was henceforth deeply convinced of His Messiahship. On 31 May 1665 nor during his stay in Gaza, he proclaimed that he was the true Messiah of the Jews. Sign custody he appointed twelve Gazans community members to representatives of the twelve tribes of Israel. Zvi and Nathan of Gaza were able to draw crowds of Jews under their spell, who believed in the Messiah, Zvi and Nathan of Gaza, the born-again prophet Elijah saw that the tradition would accompany her to the Messiah. The cruel pogroms against the Jews during the Khmelnytsky Uprising in the Ukrainian- Belarusian Poland - Lithuania strengthened the mystical kabbalistic - end expectations of the Jews and led to the rapid spread of Sabbatianism from Aleppo to Hamburg.

The aim of Sabbatianism Zvi was the end of the unspeakable, medieval living conditions in the ghetto that brought her life in the Diaspora felt with him. The plan was to overthrow the Sultan and herbeizuzwingen salvation. At the end of the Ottoman authorities Shabbtai Zvi had the choice between death or conversion to Islam. Zvi chose the apostasy, embraced Islam with his followers on the surface, to then live as crypto- Jew on his Sabbatian religious practice.