[PDF.82rl] The Lost Messiah: In Search of the Mystical Rabbi Sabbatai Sevi

The Lost Messiah: In Search of the Mystical Rabbi Sabbatai Sevi

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 | #871790 in Books |  Overlook Hardcover |  2003-01 |  2003-01-27 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 |  1.13 x6.14 x9.36l,.0 | File type: PDF | 275 pages

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||1 of 1 people found the following review helpful.| origins of one cult|By vs|This book is about Sabbatai Sevi, who lived in XVII century in the Ottoman Empire. Sevi was born in a Jewish family and was educated to become a rabbi, but because of his very unorthodox views and messianic pretensions he was excommunicated and banished altogether from his native city of Smyrna.

Sabbatai meditated and studied mystic Judaic r|From Publishers Weekly|Historian and travel writer Freely retraces the 17th-century rabbi Sabbatai Sevi's steps from his birth in Izmir (in Turkey) to his exile and death in Dulcigno (in northern Albania) in this plodding and workmanlike account-part travelogue,

The Lost Messiah is the astonishing story of Sabbatai Sevi, a seventeenth-century rabbi who through the mysticism of the Kabbalah convinced vast numbers of Jews throughout Europe, the Middle East and North Africa that he was the long-awaited Messiah. Most of his followers were enraged and stupefied when he embraced Islam (on threat of execution from the Turkish Sultan), but many others continued to believe him. Some even converted to Islam themselves, creating the sect k...

You easily download any file type for your gadget.The Lost Messiah: In Search of the Mystical Rabbi Sabbatai Sevi   |  John Freely. A good, fresh read, highly recommended.

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