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- ↑ Scholem, Gershom, Sabbatai Sevi: The Mystical Messiah: 1626–1676, Princeton University Press, Princeton, 1973, p. 887, states that Meir Rofe of Hebron had left Palestine together with Nathan of Gaza in 1666, and that he was "a member of Nathan's intimate circle in Adrianople..." Both Nathan and Abraham Rovigo were known Kabbalists, as was Rofe's father who studied Kabbalah with Hayyim Vital in Safed, where Rofe was born.
- ↑ Scholem, Sabbatai Sevi, p. 888.
- ↑ Scholem, Sabbatai Sevi, p. 771. This correspondence was published by Isaiah Tishby in Sefunot, III-IV (1960), pp. 71-130.