Sabbatianism

alternative Sabbateanism

1. JudaismuncountableA Jewish messianic movement of the 17th century, centred around Sabbatai Zevi (1626–1676).

   Sabbateanism is the matrix of every significant movement to have emerged in the eighteenth and nineteenth century, from Hasidism, to Reform Judaism, to the earliest Masonic circles and revolutionary idealism.

   1971, Gershom Scholem, translated by unknown, The Messianic Idea in Judaism and other Essays on Jewish Spirituality