False Messiah Shabtai Tzvi & Kabbalah Study's Tragic Neglect, Ramchal's Persecution & Vindication

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The opening of this shiur, in Rabbi Dovid Orlofsky’s own words — taken from the captions, so names and Hebrew terms may be approximate.

of the Ram Khal Mosha Lutata, one of the great uh Jewish thinkers, Jewish philosophers, Jewish cabalists and ultimately Jewish leaders. Although there was controversy directed to him in his lifetime from some contemporaries, there was some confusion. There was a many issues as a result of Sha Titvi and people that held on to that unfortunate wrong and damaging uh approach that he introduced. Very mistaken. He was a false messiah. He was u he had followers that that they didn't want to let go of their faith and belief in him even after he [clears throat] converted to I believe Islam. And and it is very hard point a very difficult point in the Jewish story was this whole idea of the damage caused by the false messiah. And there were suspicions of rabbis being secretly uh devoted to him and still following him and not showing it, trying to hide it. And so because of this, there was a lot of issues with a lot of kosher rabbis. One of the most famous is the Raosh. Uh we see now obviously that it was all it was a mistake, a tremendous mistake. He was holy and and kadosh which is which means holy actually in Hebrew. He was he was one of the greatest of our of our later rabbis in all [clears throat] in all areas of of Jewish thought again philosophy, cabala, halaka, everything. Um but because of this concern that one of the rabbis of his time had that maybe

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1. 0:00of the Ram Khal Mosha Lutata, one of the great uh Jewish thinkers, Jewish philosophers, Jewish…
2. 2:09options but basically this is the the gist of it and because of this unfortunate backdrop…
3. 4:43beyond any doubt whatsoever that things were revealed to him, things that were happening in heaven,…
4. 6:48Jewish thought and it didn't become accepted in the in the fold of Judaism. I mean…
5. 9:33did not become part of the standard Jewish story. And since it didn't, so everyone's not…
6. 12:11later there becomes a question even with the zor itself but but since we accept the…
7. 14:20And so secrets and so someone that's missing any one of these four categories of Torah…
8. 17:01I mean up until and including the Arizal. Not everybody's on the level that they are…
9. 19:06say that each is going to be jealous sort of he's going to his which means…
10. 21:48finished Talmud at least once and he knows it well and knows it deep. And we…

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