This chapter has a lot to do with theories of messianism, circling back to things discussed in the beginning of this series. Things like, what do we mean by this word, how do we get through the different uses of this word to find out what it originally meant, including within our minds? We previously looked at historians like Graetz, the quintessential 19th century new historian of the Jewish people, who had a clear agenda.  His agenda is clear to us now , maybe then it was

Zionism and messianism, is a different chapter so far. It is the latest. Even though the Hasidism chapter reached until the end of the 20th century, it was more like an extension of something from the 18th century. While Zionism, in this context, will be observed mostly in the late 19th century and early 20th century.  For the Hasidism chapter, in order to super simplify it, I chose to focus on 3 significant figures, who had a special relationship with messianism - of course,

We got an impression of one of his early writings as the new leader of Chabad, from their perspective that is the spiritual mystical...

It was said here that the Chabad dynasty was a build up of messianic meaning, it was not just the Rebbe in the 20th century going...

Born in 1902 in Ukraine, Menachem Mendel Schneurson was the great grandson of the 3rd Chabad leader (the Tzemach Tzedek ), grandson of...

We hath mentioned that the found of Hasidism, the Ba’al Shem Tov, was one of many, but none quite like him, and he had many followers,...

I haven’t used this term yet… but Nachman definitely has the psychological idea of “messiah complex”, meaning he feels it is his...

How does this all relate to messianism? First of all, he is a Tsaddiq , like the Ba’al Shem Tov, like Isaac Luria, like Rashbi, like...

Here, after perusing milestones from his life more hisorically, now we wll point at things that characterize him and his career, his...

Now we are skipping to the next generation, to the next phase of the Hasidic phenomenon, the next significant messianic persona,...

On top of all that, we have another important and relevant source, which seems to follow suit with the Rosh ha’Shana ascent. This one is...

The founder of the Hasidic movement, his words and his life, are documented in different writings carried along over the generations....

In a few words, to introduce us contextually to Hasidut, for our purposes here exploring messianism… Hasidut could be translated as...

To end the segment on Sabbatianism, two particular persons who were important, famous, and influential in the movement, later on in the...

A bit more of looking at Early Christianity next to Sabbatianism: These two cases are the most important messianic phenomena in history,...

The great theologian of Sabbatianism, Abraham Michael Cardozo, from a family of Maranos, anusim , of Spanish descent - probably the most...

Most Sabbatians remained in mainstream Judaism but hid their secret messianic Sabbatian faith. The way of Shabbtai Zvi himself was not...

This is a long one, getting into the thick of it, into the issues that I categorize together, because they are all sorts of paradoxes and...

From this point on, things start to take a twist.. From the outside, for any critic, the failure is obvious. But that is easy and not as...

It was the year 1665-1666. Shabbtai Zvi was building support for him as the Messiah, especially in Ismir, his hometown, in Turkey. There...