The Sabbatean Prophets

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Sefer Haredim (R. Azikri), 70
Sefer ha-Tamar, 63
Sefer Yetzirah (Book of Creation), 51–52
semikhah ordination, 68
Sephardic Jews, 2, 41, 43, 97, 108, 145
ser’asker, 35
Serrarius, Peter, 17, 33, 152, 155–157
Servetus, Michael, 15, 86
Sextus Empiricus, 27
sexuality, 3–5, 54
Sha’ar Ru’ah ha-Kodesh (R. Hayyim Vital),
64
Shabbatai Zvi, 23, 32, 55, 71;
antinomianism of, 49, 72; astrological
interpretations of name of, 26, 101; burn
on penis, 72, 174n13; Christianity and,
79; conversion to Islam, 2, 6, 49, 101,
143, 162; denounced to the authorities,
161; dreams of, 4–5; father of, 111; journey
to Turkey, 89, 103; lack of credentials,
51; life of, 1–3; marriages, 5;
messiahship of, 76, 93, 112; mother of,
4–5; Nathan of Gaza’s prophecies concerning,
57–63, 72; opponents of, 118–
119, 130–131; possession outbreak and,
110, 120–121, 124; in post-apostasy
prophecy, 164; relationship to women,
3–5, 9, 72; “Secret of Faith” of, 146;
“strange actions” of, 53, 54, 143, 146;
visit to the Cadi, 101–104; wives of, 54–
55, 80, 89–97
Shalom ben Joseph z”l, R., 135
Shalshelet ha-Kabbalah (R. Gedaliah ibn
Yahya), 136–137
shamanism, 63
Shapira, R. Nathan, 17, 37
shari’ah (Islamic law), 39
she’elat halom (dream question), 150
Shefami, Moses, 105
Shekhinah (God’s feminine presence), 72,
126, 128, 148
Shene Luhot ha-Brit (Horowitz), 70
Shibhey ha-’ARI, 70
Shiite Muslims, 34, 35, 38–39
Shivhe ha-Besht, 85
Shulhan Arukh (R. Karo), 64, 66
Simeon bar Yohai, R., 52, 74, 125, 127,
135
Simon, Richard, 29
sin, 10, 11
skepticism, 27, 50, 146
Small Moonlight and Starlight of the Lusitanian
Monarchy (Bocarro-Rosales), 48
Smith, Joseph, 73–74
Solomon, King (biblical), 79, 84
South America, 17, 29
Spain, 2, 7, 158; beatas in, 115, 118;
conversos in, 46; expulsion of Jews from,
42, 43, 51, 63, 79; messianism in, 14, 15,
43
Spinoza, Baruch (Benedict), 29, 88, 145,
154, 169; Collegiants and, 17; as converso,
112, 132; Quakers and, 112
spiritualis intellectus, 11, 28
Sufi mysticism, 34, 35, 36, 116, 118; influence
on Sabbatean movement, 110;
maggidism compared to, 166; methods
of, 62; self-induced visions and, 61;
Wahhabi fundamentalism and, 170. See
also Islam
Suleiman, Sultan, 36
Sullam Ha-Aliyyah (Ladder of Ascent) (R.
Judah Albotini), 61
Supino, R. Raphael, 104–105, 122, 133
Suriel, R. Moses, 52, 122, 124–129, 161,
166, 204n99
Swedenborg, Emanuel, 18
Ta’alumot Hokhmah (R. Delmedigo), 70
Talmud, 41, 51, 158; damnation of Jesus,
85; legal guidelines of, 134; Nathan of
Gaza’s vision and, 58; as Oral Law, 74,
132, 144; Protestant scholars and, 86;
“ways of the Amorites” and, 138,
206n28
Tammon, R. Abraham, daughter of, 106
Taytatzak, R. Joseph, 25, 42, 64; circle of,
67, 73, 117; maggidism and, 67, 68
Templo, Judah Leon, 157
Tetragrammaton, 1
Third Force, 27
Thirty Years’ War, 16, 26