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LOT 234:
(SHABTHAI TZVI)
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Chavaya DeRabanan [communal proclamation against the followers of Shabthai Tzvi].
Single printed page. Text in Hebrew and Yiddish. Minor tears at creases expertly repaired, remnants of stamp. Modern morocco. Folio. Vinograd, Wandsbeck 6.
Israel ben Abraham, [Wandsbeck: 1725].
Following the discovery of a group of Sabbatean adherents traveling across Europe attempting to spread their heretical messages the three Aschkenazi communities of Amsterdam, Frankfurt am Main and Altona issued this broadside banning any assistance to, or even contact with, those suspected of promoting renegade beliefs.
Jacob Emden published (distorted) extracts of this highly scarce proclamation in his Sepher Hithavkuth (1752).
See G. Scholem & D. Wilhelm, The Chavaya DeRabanan Circulars Against the Sect of Sabbetai Zvi in: Kiryat Sefer Vol. XXX (1955) pp. 99-104.
