Nehemiah Hiyya ben Moses Hayyun (ca. 1650 – ca. 1730) was a Bosnian Kabalist, described by scholars as linked to Sabbateanism.[1][2] His parents, of Sephardic descent, lived in Sarajevo, Bosnia (then a part of the Ottoman Empire), where he was most likely born, though later in life he pretended that he was a Palestinian emissary born in Safed. He received his Talmudic education in Hebron.
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Nehemiah Hiyya ben Moses Hayyun (ca. 1650 – ca. 1730) was a Bosnian Kabalist, described by scholars as linked to Sabbateanism. His parents, of Sephardic...
was an Italian rabbi and kabbalist, one of the leading critics of NehemiahHayyun and Sabbateanism in general. He was born in Livorno in 1685 to Rabbi...
interwoven with that of Sabbateanism (Sabbatai Zevi, Nathan of Gaza and NehemiahHayyun) in both the East and the West. Ayllon's youth was spent in Salonica...
to a book by the Sabbatean NehemiahHayyun. Provided with this and with other recommendations secured in the same way, Hayyun traveled throughout Moravia...
they sewed fig-leaves together, and made themselves girdles". Rabbi NehemiahHayyun supports the idea that the fruit was a fig, as it was from fig leaves...
later rabbi of Belgrade. Another son-in-law of his was Moses Ḥayyun, father of NehemiahHayyun. Jacob Ḥagiz was active in the opposition to Sabbatai Zevi...
of his wealth and position, befell him. The Shabbethaian cabalist NehemiahHayyun appeared in Prague, declaring himself a preacher or an emissary from...
Eybeschütz, and seems to have been especially influenced by the Sabbatean NehemiahHayyun. Prossnitz wandered from city to city in Austria and Germany, where...
Ashkenazic congregation, and assisted him in unmasking the impostor NehemiahHayyun. This step, however, made more enemies for him, and, like Tzvi Ashkenazi...
became a determining factor in his whole career. On 30 June 1713, NehemiahHayyun arrived at Amsterdam and requested the permission of the Portuguese...
the other rabbis of his city, Ẓeror endorsed the excommunication of NeḥemiahḤayyun. A portion of his responsa and novellae were collected by his disciple...
the most respected citizens of the place were reading the works of NehemiahḤayyun and of other adherents of Shabbethai Ẓebi. Elazar vigorously endeavored...
Oppenheimer, to whom he was related by marriage. His approbation of NehemiahḤayyun's cabalistic work, 'Oz le-Elohim (1712), caused him great annoyance...
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