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>Nathan of Gaza was introduced to a Messianic claimant named Sabbatai Zevi by his colleague Abraham Yachini, a meeting that would lead to a new era in Jewish mysticism that the influence of reverberates to this day. While historical sources offer different accounts of their introduction, the common ground they have is that Yachini met the proselytizing Zevi following his excommunication from Thessaloniki, the Greek city which stood as the epicenter of Kabbalistic study in the Ottoman Empire. Following his exile, Zevi was downtrodden and sought the council of Nathan of Gaza through Yachini. The encounter imbued Yechini with a sense of divine intervention as he viewed Zevi as the materialization of a Messianic prophecy that Nathan of Gaza had which served as the impetus for his inspiration to lead a religious movement to summon the Mashiach to advance Jewish eschatology by ushering in the Messianic Age.
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