Sabbatian influences on the Chassidic and Mitnagdic movements : an excursion into messianic Kabbalah and its disseminators in the aftermath of Shabbatai Tzvi

This study hypothesises that as a result of a thorough analysis of the context and content of rabbinic texts, including the known associations of their authors − spanning the periods of Shabbatai Tzvi, the Baal Shem Tov and the Vilna Gaon − the conclusion can be reasonably drawn that the Chassidic and Mitnagdic movements had been fundamentally subjected to multiple Sabbatian influences and that a causal doctrinal and rabbinic link between Sabbatianism and both the Chassidic and Mitnagdic movements can be demonstrated.

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University of Pretoria

Year dc:date.issued

2024

Advisor dc:contributor.advisor

• Human, Dirk J.

• UCTD
• Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)
• Sabbatianism
• Chassidim
• Mitnagdim
• Messianism
• Mysticism

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en

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A2025

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oai:repository.up.ac.za:2263/103318