L’SHEM SHAMAYIM – European Jewish History through European Jewish Debates

In each classes two thinkers are introduced. Sources are provided and studied. Every class ends with a balloon debate.

This week:

• Sabbatai Zevi (16tth Century, Turkey); self-proclaimed Messiah, started the most important mystical movement in modern Jewry.

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• Jacob Sasportas (17th Century, Holland); practical, and theorethical opponent of the Messianic movement of his time.