The people need to intelligently demand that their government

I just want to say that it's lovely in this day and age of oversharing on social media to see a parent clip out the anecdote about his daughter at

Redemption through doing evil was his great doing to Judaism....

To understand our present we must learn about history. I love this thank you.

He didn't just have a "huge following". He had over one million followers - a full HALF of the world's Jews.

Maybe the Balfour Declaration did influence later German policy, notably the Transfer Agreement

It would great if you could discuss the controversies over Sabbatean influence on later rabbinic scholarship.

Fascinating lecture. Thank you.

Quite a story! Thank you! I listened to the short version, but this story was definitely worth listening to in its expanded version!!!!

Thank you for the free lecture!

Was Jacob Frank a follower of Zevi?

Very amusing presentation.

Fantastic lecture! Thanks a lot !!! 👍

Great lecture. Hitting another one out of the park.

May I recommend Gershwin Scholem’s magisterial work “Sabbatai Sevi the Mystical Messiah”. Quite old but still packed full of references to primary sources. There are pages of dense description of the struggles between the believers and the unbelievers in Smyrna etc which are quite taxing but exemplify a traditional scholarly approach - there is no attempt to maknarrative accessible or to put it another way to dumb it down.

Thanks for the video, you really present this rather dark topic in a lovely and authentic way.

Very nice I love the way you talk tank you

Amazing presentation by a a brilliant and hilarious fellow. Glad I found your Channel!

Fascinating lecture.

Insightful lecture.