KABBALAH - Selected Writings. Bernhard Pick

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island of Comino, near Malta (about 1288), where he remained for some time, and wrote sundry Cabalistic works. Of his many works Jellinek published his Rejoinder to Solomon ben Adereth, who attacked his doctrines and pretensions as Messiah and prophet.

      A disciple of Abulafia was Joseph Gikatilla of Medina-Celi, who died in Penjafiel after 1305. He, too, occupied himself with the mysticism of letters and numbers, and with the transposition of letters. His writings are in reality only an echo of Abulafia's fancies: the same delusion is apparent in both. Gikatilla's system is laid down in his Ginnath egos, i. e., "Garden of Nuts," published at Hanau, 1615; and Shaare ora, i. e., "the Gate of Light," first published at Mantua, 1561, in Cracow, 1600, and translated into Latin by Knorr von Rosenroth in the first part of his Kabbala Denudata, Sulzbach, 1677-78.

      8 Comp. in general Beer, Leben Abraham's nach Auffassung der judlschen Sage, Leipsic, 1859; Grunbaum, N cue Beitrage zur semitischen Sagcnkunde; 1S93, pp. 89-132; Bonwetsch, Die Apokalypse Abrahams, 1897, pp. 41-55.

      Letter 2 x 1 = 2, 5 x 24 = 120

       3 x 2 = 6, 6 x 120 = 720,

       4 x 6 = 24, 7 x 720 = 5040 and so on.

      "Have you read in the Talmud of old,

      In the Legends the Rabbins have told

      Of the limitless realms of the air,

      Have you read it,--the marvelous story

      Of Sandalphon, the Angel of Glory,

      Sandalphon, the Angel of Prayer?"

      In a note on page 668 (Boston and New York edition, 1893) it is stated that Longfellow marked certain passages in Stehelin's The Traditions of the Jews, which evidently furnished the material.

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