Lecture sponsored by Joe and Zohara Weiss
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Shabbetai Tsvi: False Messiah
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Great lecture, thank you for your work to educate, and make it so widely and easily available.
It was sad to know, that a man named Shabbetai Tzvi, ruined the Jewish people because they assumed he was Masshiach. However, it is the Jews fault for thinking this way. He was learning torah and looked very devoted to G-d. I hope the real Mashiach will appear soon and Jews won’t suffer anymore. Thank you for posting this video.
Shabbetei Tzvi does not have a great reputation. I remember learning about him growing up as the “Moshiach wanna-be”. He made people believe that he was Moshiach. He is very looked down upon by our gadolim. He really was a great man (as I have learned) but he confused his “greatness” with thinking he was Moshiach, which was false.
He was not a great man. He was a manic depressive who made his followers turn to evil and who almost succeeded in destroying Judaism.
A charismatic person who managed to hoodwink a huge congregation into believing that he was the messiah