About Sabbatai , I agree that this colorful character did not cause any irreparable damage to the Jewish faith, in fact the entire story was a very bizarre one: he ended up converting to Islam when the Sultan got fed up of him, leaving most of his followers lost and in a state of total confusion in OTL… but in TTL the earlier crackdown on the Sabbateans will, on the one hand, reassert the authority of the Galilean Rabbis (who have begun to claim a role akin to that of the Christian Patriarchs), and on the other hand will have great consequences on several other deviations of Judaism in the future, for example on Hasidism, who will develop a more messianic and antagonistic nature.
On the other hand, the Jews certainly cannot be the eternal winners in the power struggles in TTL Ottoman Galilee… but they can try to maximize their gains and minimize their loss. They will suffer many setbacks, as I wrote in the third chapter, but they will almost always recover. The difference with OTL is that their position is stronger both demographically and economically, as it was the case of some other minorities inhabiting the Levant during that period, such as the Maronites, and if they occasionally fall from grace, this won’t necessarily mean their total extermination.