From Lurianic Kabbalah To Hasidism 104 is absolutely pure, lucid and limpid ‒ a redeemed world . These believers were now faced with a most serious problem : could it be true that Shabbetai Zevi, the Messiah of Israel, had turned his back on his great mission ? What was the secret of this horrible act and why had redemption, which Nathan described in the multi - colored imagery current in the apocalyptic tradition, been so delayed ? What really happened ? The confrontation with great, difficult and severe theological problems is what gave rise to Shabbatean theology, created the separate religious sect of Shabbateanism and gave its believers the impact necessary for examining the paradoxical contents of the belief in the revelation of the Messiah in great detail and contending, with many compunctions, with the problem of the role of the believers in the light of this situation . What did the believers have to do, and how were they now to conduct themselves, after what had occurred ? We...
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