Shabbatai Zvi

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Sabbatai Zevi - 1626–76, Jewish mystic and pseudo-Messiah, founder of the Sabbatean sect, b. Smyrna. After a period of study of Lurianic kabbalah he became deeply influenced by its ideas of imminent national r...