@Milhouse @Joseph – Once again, Joseph just blows total trash out of his nose. The facts are, that no one condemned him before. These are indisputable facts. Clearly, Joseph is a total ignoramus, and the only thing he’s read is likely a Wikipedia page and never studied this in depth.
He was first put in Cherem and thrown out of Smyrna (around 1650) after he started calling himself Moshiach (around 1648).
He was then condemned by the Bais Din in Yerushalayim after Natan of Gaza YM”S was already roaming Eretz Yisroel with fake scrolls and letters and all kinds of public sermons.
These two Cherems were well after he already called himself Messiah in Salonica and already was being publicly refereed to by the masses as “AMIRAH” [if you even know what this means].
And Mr. Joseph, did you know that the TAZ himself in the year 1666 sent his two sons to “check out Shabsai Tzvi”? Did you know that he sent the TAZ back a white silk scarf or robe (debate which one) as a gift? This is in the year 1666. MANY MANY MANY years after he was claiming to be Moshiach.
So please, cut the garbage today.