Shabtai Zvi's Second Coming (1725-1764) 

Where can one get a Torah wife asking for a friend

If I had a nickel for every time a Jewish sect following someone they thought to be the Messiah also came to believe their leader would return from death, I would have at least 3 nickels. That's not a lot, but it's interesting that it's happened more than once.

May not be Jewish but love the way you tell the history of the Jews in it's entirety.

One variant of the blood libel was that Christian blood was used to make matzah. Clearly this was thought up by someone who never ate matzah.

These videos are so high quality I could binge them like a Netflix docuseries

Frankism ended up surprisingly relevant to Polish literature. First, there is Adam Mickiewicz, widely considered to be the greatest Polish poet. Both his wife, Cecylia Szymanowska and possibly his mother, Barbara Majewska (although this is disputed) came from Frankist families, that received ennoblement, following their conversion. Later acclaimed writer, poet, critic and translator Tadeusz Boy-Żeleński also had Frankist ancestry. Much more recently, Nobel-prize winning author Olga Tokarczuk wrote a novel specifically about Frank and his followers; "The Books of Jacob". I've read it but honestly, I'm not sure if I recommend it. I had a lot of conflicted feelings and opinions about it. I also don't feel competent judging its accuracy in presenting Jewish culture and religion.

Me to sabbateanism After this video talked about naked torah wives and sexual hospitality: I may have judged you too harshly

With the torah wives and sexual hospitality, I guess this would be a true Second "Coming" of Shabtai Zvi. **Winky Face**

Sabbatae Tsevi Sabbataï Tsevi Shabtai Zvi Only a charleton goes by so many names

Love this channel! You need a podcast!

Another great video Sam, keep them coming. Helps me learn a lot about Jewish history. Shalom

Discovered your channel after the useful charts collab over thanksgiving weekend and I'm glad to have finally caught up! Can't wait until you do a video on my hometown of New York!

That was excellent. Can't wait for the next episode.

Donma in Thessaloniki had the best schools and Attaturk studied in one of their school. Something Islamists especially Arabs use as an attack on him and kemalist secularism in general

fascinating. thank you for your great videos. i always look out for them.

Thank you. Knowledge is King

I really enjoy your videos. One very minor observation though is that you showed crosses in your video, although you said "crucifixes". A crucifix has a figure of Christ on it, but without it, it is just a cross.

Love your work! Keep crushing it Sam! Could you do a video about the Karaim? A friend of mine is an Egyptian Karaite and I know he would love to watch you acknowledge his people.

amazing channel!!!

Found the channel after being recommended the Jewish Empire video and then this one. RU-vid apparently knows I will click if I see a woman in the thumbnail LOL I'm not Jewish myself [although I have a bit of Sephardic ancestry as many Brazilians do] but once I saw the beautiful continuity of the videos I ended up binging the entire channel in 3 days, definitely one of the best findings of 2021, keep up the good work! PS: The visual appeal of the channel is exquisite. Being used to so many channels with simplified styles, seeing a more realistic one like this is extremely appealing and brings an awesome sense of closeness to the stories being told.

YAY!!! NEXT VIDEO!!

Another amazing video.

Happy Chanukah, Sam!

Wow, interesting channel. I'm glad I found it.

A small correction: The word עין in the context of the book ואבוא היום אל העין means fountain, rather than eye. That usage of the word lack in modern Hebrew

This channel is really good

hi man i just discovered your channel and first off you make great content thank you, but could you add a few sources with your videos? not that i dont believe i would love to know more on thoses subjects

I'm loving these maps they are so well done, where are you getting them.

Protip: Eastern Europe is ALWAYS a different story...

"cherem" against study of mysticism is far older, in mishna, chagiga 2:1, then reiterated in gemarah, then by Rambam in mishne torah, yesode torah 4:21, then in guide to perplexed 2:8... Story of sabateans just stresses the why... You see it today, for example, with rav Berland case. Charismatic cult leader, breakaway from Breslav hassidism, curently on trial for rape and murder. I have seen recordings of him saying that he is G-d embodiment on earth so everything he does is allowed. This is exactly how christianity, sabatatianism, frakism, etc started.

ואבוא היום אל העין means in context, "I came to the spring today."

I've been trying to find a source for this piece of Frankist trivia that I see mentioned time & time again in works on Sabbateanism, but can't find where it comes from. I don't really know the best way to look for it. They say the Frankists used tarot cards & called the High Priestess card Gevirah.

I love this material and have a request: Could you do a video listing all the various people designated "Messiah" first in the Bible and in history by popular acclimation by the Jews. Such a video would place Jesus as "Christ" within its proper historical context since the vast majority of Christians don't know what Messiah means and they imagine that "Christ" is a Divine designation when it isn't. Thanks!

Can you make a list of the music you use I’m obsessed with the song that played during the lanckoronie incident

There was less of Chassidism than I had hoped for, but the episode did not disappoint. I'm looking again forward every week to more Jewish history in Poland and wider Europe.

Does anyone know if there is an english translation of the text mentioned at 14:06 "And I Will Come To The Eye Today" or any books that discuss it in detail? I have heard it referenced several times but I dont think its been translated yet.

That village is Lanckorona Podolska (feminine). I am not sure, how did you get the form Lanckoronię (it is kind of lanckoronling, small offspring of Lanckorona :D), but the adjective would be podolskie (neuter), not podolski (masculine). Ignoring this funny (for Polish people) mistake, the video is great. :D I assume that the mistake in translation could be from "incident in Lanckorona"->"incydent w Lanckoronie"->"The Lanckoronie incident". Also, the "podolski" adjective could be a borrowing from nearby Kamieniec Podolski (masculine) name. Not sure, why "ę" though. It just sounds like a new-born Lanckorona. :D

When talking about the french revolution,will you talk about how they (sort of) restored the sanhendrin?

That ritual almost made me through up. So against the Torah

shalom!

Krysa means rat, kind of ironic how it almost fits him given the whole Jewish view of conversion and leaving the faith.

Can you make a video about berdichev or rabbi Levi Yitzhak of berdichev?

Hi great Video. Can you tell me what the name of the violin played song is ( 7:00 ), cant get it out of my head.

Amazing historical content. So sad it seems the Jewish people keep getting attacked from every angle

I should know this, but what is the song in the first part of the video 1:38 ? I’m drawing a blank

In eastern Transilvania there where a sabbathist movement upto the late 1980s. They considered themselves Christians but had close ties to jewdaism and the were victimised in the Holocaust. Is there any connections between the two groups? The szombatisták of Bözöd and the old sabbathists?

This is very interesting... Being a descendant of some of the Rabbinical figures... (To be honest, probably every Ashkenazi Jew watching this is also...) For example, Rabbi Jonathan Eibeshetz was a student of Rabbi Meir of Eisenstadt, whom my grandmother's grandmother was an Eisenstadt... And his decendent...

"Lanckoronię" is a declination (and not correct btw). The name of the city is just: Lanckorona.

I feel like this might eventually go into your corrections, questions and omissions, so I'm going to go deep. Just a small correction to start, ואבוא היום אל העין should be translated 'And I came today to the spring' (spring as in source of water), it's a verse from Bereshit 24, 42 - Avraham's servant is describing his meeting with Rivka. Now, to the main issue: the Emden Eybeshutz controversy. I feel it should be noted that Eybeshutz was a relative (either descendant, by marriage, or a student) of many of the leading Rabbinic figures at the time. So their reluctance to brand him as a Sabbatean makes sense, given that might implicate them. Also, Eybeshutz gathered many letters of support from many rabbis proclaiming he wasn't a Sabbatean, and even published them in a testimony called לוחות עדות. I feel like the video didn't make that clear enough. But to the actual issue with this video, and my main point of contention: was Eyebshutz really a Sabbatean? ואבוא היום אל העין is pretty much agreed to have been written by Eybeshutz, even by many Jewish Orthodox scholars, and indeed, when I asked my Rabbi (who studies and teaches Kabbala based on the writings of Rabi Moshe Kordovero), he said it was so. Nevertheless, there is a complete agreement in Orthodox Judaism today (and even as short a time as 50 years after Eybeshutz's death) that he was not a Sabbatean. How is this possible? Well, the answer is that unlike Frankism, Sabbateanism is in the end a Jewish movement. It's rooted in Kabbala and other Jewish sources, and though it has its excesses and issues, in the end it's a part of Judaism, even if a fringe part. The messianic leanings of it are completely Jewish, and the messianic belief is still strong today, witness Chabad. Its main issues seem to have stemmed from Shabtai Tzvi himself being unstable and going off in a radical direction (perhaps influenced by Natan). What this means is that you could take a Jewish text, and interpret it as containing Sabbatean leanings, or as containing Kabbalistic leanings. Both would be valid interpretations. So with Eybeshutz's writings. He had many writings that were Kabbalistic in nature, and could be understood as Sabbatean, but were probably not. The most that could be said of him was that he had Sabbatean influences in his work. Moreover, modern scholars (such as Gershom Shalom) who claim to see Sabbatean influences in Eybeshutz's work are often working out of ignorance of Kabbala sources - if they had read the original Kabbalistic sources, they might realize that both Sabbateanism and Eybeshutz's writing were inspired by those Kabbalistic sources. In any case, claiming he was undoubtedly a Sabbatean, as this video does, is highly unlikely. Eybeshutz's main writing are all focused on Halacha, and as mentioned, he himself fought and declared Herem against Sabbatean communities. The idea that a Sabbatean would devote so much time to halacha (and be very strict too, much more strict than many others) is rather odd to say the least. Indeed, many say this was the reason Emden grew upset with Eybeshutz - as a young Rabbi, Eybeshutz had given a strict ruling on a kosher matter (a chicken without a heart) that Emden's father, the Chacham Tzvi, was lenient on. I could go on and on, but I don't wish to belabor the point. I feel that the case presented here of Eybeshutz being undoubtedly a Sabbatean is biased at the least, and possibly incorrect. The opinions of the leading Rabbis of the time (including no less a personage than the Gra of Vilna) should be taken into account, as well as the fact that despite the claims of modern secular scholars, Orthodox Judaism sees Eybeshutz as an integral part of Halacha and Orthodoxy, and have no doubt at all about him not being a Sabbatean.

7:29 Finally, a religious sect with fashion sense.

👋👋👋 Chanukah Sameach!

Can you please make a video about "war on kaballah"? I always thought that there is consensus among jews that kaballah is valid thing

Damn, that ending was sad...

Interesting that Rabbi Eybeschütz has Blue Eyes… like the famous Rock’n’Roll Rabbi Shabtai Zisel ben Avraham

This video made me feel so sad

are some still around ?

I love this channel so much, you're a great presenter and keep an enticing pace too I must say.

I have but one thing to say to most of this. And that is What!? WHAT!? WHAT!!??!!??

This channel is suberb

Why do I have this feeling that the woman in the thumnail is you as a woman just like you did in the roman exile video?

Hey Sam I wanted to ask you a question Regarding Jewish History. I'm unable to find your email or Instagram anywhere. Can you drop your email?

lama ein leh discord ? :(

most based video ever, lets go!

I have a question. Why is traditional attires from Jewish cultures around the world rarely present in Israel?

Who knew my gentile ass was interested in Jewish history?

great video as always, altho i pretty sure that Torah wife got me scared for life

As we come closer to 1776 is there gonna be an episode about the arrival of Jews into non-Spanish America?

I don’t see r Yaakov emden with that hair but anyways great video

I love you

Shabat Zvi hasn't returned to life, so why believe? Christians: Sweating Profusely

8:06 הונלולו!

i am preparing to go to mannheim to do some shopping in like 1hour i click on your vid and the first thing i hear *mannheim* now thats a coincidence

I think it'd be cool if there was a movie about Shabtai Zvi, I looked it up and I can't seem to find any.

Are you sure that עין translates as "eye" and not as "well"? If not, better check that.

Was the sabatean guy the one who thought everything was inverted? Evil = good? Wonder how many practice this still today.

Geshmak

...a deep dive

I find this video interesting as a Messianic Jew. I was talking to a young man who sounded like he believed in something of this nature.

👍👍👍 as always. @16:10 ....Sabbatianism as Jewish movement was all but extinct.... 'all but' BUT didn't our Supreme Court Justice Brandeis have Sabbatian parentage? If so, then there must have been some residue of stalwarts who were not gentiles.... It would be great to see yet another episode!

Hey, you really need to work on the pronunciation of your A’s. You are not saying /æ/ correctly, instead pronouncing it as /a:/. Oddly, you do say it correctly in “Sabatean,” so this is an affectation rather than a speech issue.

lol, there's some details that don't match

Shalom!

it's a fantastic channel. a groyse shkoyech, Rebe. if i had any money, i'd be transfering 18$ each month for You just to keep it goin'.. (bli neder),

Hmm. What does Sabbateanism remind me of? I just can't quite nail it down.

Wow, respectfully you are very much approaching this topic with biased lenses. Why not talk about Sabbateins and the Frankist movement. This was never a gentle movement. Your lying! Zvi is wicked. We are talking about setting up his own people and sexual abuses of children. Please be honest about he history with this stuff, all it does is hurt the Jewish community. Very sad!

who cares

Can you make a list of the music you use I’m obsessed with the song that played during the lanckoronie incident

Protip: Eastern Europe is ALWAYS a different story...

Can you make a list of the music you use I’m obsessed with the song that played during the lanckoronie incident

Can you make a list of the music you use I’m obsessed with the song that played during the lanckoronie incident