Editing Sabbateans (section)

==Sabbatai Zevi==
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Sabbatai Zevi was a [[Sephardi Jews|Sephardic]] ordained [[rabbi]] from [[Smyrna]] (now [[İzmir]], Turkey).<ref>Scholem, ''op. cit.'', p. 111, mentions, among other evidence of Sabbatai's early rabbinic training and [[semikhah]] by Rabbi Joseph Eskapha of his native town of Smyrna: "According to the testimony of Leib b. Ozer, the notary of the notary of the Ashkenazi community of Amsterdam ..., Sabbatai was eighteen years old when he was ordained a ''[[hakham]]''." Scholem also writes, in the previous sentence: "Thomas Coenen, the Protestant minister serving the Dutch congregation in Smyrna, tells us ... that he received the title ''hakham'', the Sephardi honorific for a rabbi, when still an adolescent."</ref><ref name=wigoder>{{cite book |last1=Wigoder |first1=Geoffrey |title=Jewish Art and Civilization |date=1972 |page=44}}</ref> A [[Kabbalah|kabbalist]] of [[Romaniote Jews|Romaniote origin]],<ref>Goldish, M. Jewish Questions: Responsa on Sephardic Life in the Early Modern Period, esp. p. Introduction XXXI, 2008 (The author describes him as a Romaniote Jew)</ref> Zevi, who was active throughout the [[Ottoman Empire]], claimed to be the long-awaited [[Messiah in Judaism|Jewish Messiah]]. He was the founder of the Sabbatean movement, whose followers subsequently were to be known as [[Dönmeh]] "converts" or crypto-Jews.<ref>Rifa N. Bali (2008), pp. 91-92</ref>