Editing Maggid (section)

==Relation to Messianic fervour==
The persecutions of the Jews brought forth a number of maggidim who endeavored to excite the Messianic hope as a balm to the troubled and oppressed Jewry. The new articulation and cosmic doctrines of redemption in Kabbalah, taught by Isaac Luria in the 16th century, inspired a new mystical awareness and focus on Messianism.<ref>{{Cite book |last=[[Scholem]] |first=Gershom |title=Sabbatai Ṣevi: the mystical Messiah ; 1626 - 1676 |last2= |first2= |date=1989 |publisher=Princeton Univ. Press |isbn=978-0-691-01809-6 |edition=4. paperback printing |series=Bollingen series |location=Princeton, NJ |pages=67}}</ref> Messianic messengers and potential candidates sought to advance the Messianic quest in Judaism. [[Asher Lämmlein|Asher Lemmlein]] preached in Germany and Austria, announcing the coming of the Messiah in 1502, and found credence everywhere.<ref>{{Cite web |title=LEMMLEIN (LÄMMLIN), ASHER - JewishEncyclopedia.com |url=https://jewishencyclopedia.com/articles/9744-lemmlein-lammlin-asher |access-date=2024-12-23 |website=jewishencyclopedia.com}}</ref> [[Solomon Molcho]] preached, without declaring the date of the advent, in both Italy and Turkey, and as a result was burned at the stake in Mantua in 1533.<ref>{{Cite web |title=MOLKO, SOLOMON - JewishEncyclopedia.com |url=https://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/articles/10933-molko-solomon |access-date=2024-12-23 |website=www.jewishencyclopedia.com}}</ref> R. [[Avraham Yehoshua Heschel|Höschel of Cracow]] (d. 1663) delighted in the elucidation of difficult passages in the midrash known as the "Midrash Peli'ah" ('wonderful, obscure midrash'). H. Ersohn's biography of Höschel, in his "Chanukkat ha-Torah" (Pietrkov, 1900), gives a collection of 227 "sayings" gathered from 227 books by various writers, mostly Höschel's pupils. These sayings became current among the maggidim, who repeated them on every occasion. Some maggidim copied his methods and even created a pseudo-Midrash Peli'ah for the purpose of explaining the original ingeniously in the manner initiated by R. Höschel. [[Behr Perlhefter]] is considered the first Maggid of the [[Sabbatian]] [[Abraham Rovigo]] in Modena. Perlhefter restored the Sabbatian theology after the death of the pseudo-Messiah, and advocate of mystical heresy, [[Sabbatai Zevi]] (1626-1676).