Abraham ben Samuel Abulafia (Hebrew: אברהם בן שמואל אבולעפיה) was the founder of the school of "Prophetic Kabbalah". He was born in Zaragoza, Spain, in...

including among Maimonideans (Moses Maimonides and Abraham Maimonides), Kabbalists (Abraham Abulafia, Isaac the Blind, Azriel of Gerona, Moses Cordovero...

Abulafia may refer to: Abulafia (surname), Sephardic Jewish surname Todros ben Joseph Abulafia (1225 – c. 1285), prominent Sephardic Jew Abraham Abulafia...

Chiquitilla, "the very little one") was a Spanish kabbalist, student of Abraham Abulafia. Born at Medinaceli, Old Castile (one of the former qualifying regions...

theological opinions. According to Jacob Emden, it was compiled by Abraham Abulafia. It draws heavily on Sefer Yetzirah and Sefer HaRazim "Book of Secrets"...

prominent Abulafias in Spain were the kabbalists Todros ben Joseph Abulafia and Abraham Abulafia, the powerful Toledo rabbi Meir Abulafia, the poet Todros...

meaning. The Meditative tradition of Ecstatic Kabbalah (exemplified by Abraham Abulafia and Isaac of Acre) strives to achieve a mystical union with God, or...

the Pentateuch by the 12th-century Abraham ibn Ezra Sefer haYashar, by the Kabbalist and philosopher Abraham Abulafia Sefer haYashar (Rabbeinu Tam), 12th-century...

Messiah ben David will remove the requirement to keep the 613 mitzvot. Abraham Abulafia was the founder of Ecstatic Kabbalah. He linked the messiah with the...

down by Abraham Abulafia, the information distinguishes between the various methods of kabbalistic transmission to later generations. Abulafia opposes...

Spain and were represented by Nissim ben Abraham of Avila, a pretended worker of miracles, and by Abraham Abulafia, the kabbalistic visionary. He combated...

dynamic powers in the Divine, generally treated as hypostases (though Abraham Abulafia's anti-theosophical Ecstatic Kabbalah treats them as psychological);...

über meine Entdeckung in Ansehung des Sohar (1845), which fingered Abraham Abulafia as the author, and Samuel David Luzzatto's ויכוח על חכמת הקבלה (1852)...

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speculative Kabbalists disapproved of practical Kabbalah, including Abraham Abulafia, who strongly condemned it.[need quotation to verify] While the great...

Prophetic Kabbalah whose main representative is Rabbi Abraham Abulafia of Saragossa. Rabbi Abulafia wrote many wisdom books and prophetic books where the...

of the sevenfold series of true prophets, comprising Adam, Seth, Noah, Abraham, Zoroaster, Buddha, and Jesus. The stepping-stone from the Gnostic original...

Gaon, David Kimhi, Hasdai Crescas, Jedaiah ben Abraham Bedersi (early 14th century), Joseph Albo, Abraham ibn Daud, and Leon of Modena. Among the Geonim...

appear on the cover of the Paolo Riccio's Latin translation of Joseph ben Abraham Gikatilla's Gates of Light. The diagram only had 17 paths and, at the time...

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works of Joseph Gikatilla to the famous thirteenth-century Kabbalist Abraham Abulafia. Liber Semamphoras (aka Semamphoras, Semyforas) is the title of a Latin...

unholy world of the impure Qlippoth. However, other Kabbalists like Abraham Abulafia believed that higher levels of soul are to some extent accessible to...

rapids, stones, fire and smoke) which rests on the Sabbath. In 1280, Abraham Abulafia (1240 – c. 1291), a mystic and Kabbalist, set out to find the Sambation...

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Emanation Todros ben Joseph Abulafia c. 1225–1285 Moses of Burgos Ecstatic/Prophetic-Meditative Kabbalah (13th century): Abraham Abulafia Spain, Italy, Malta...

interpretation of these numbers is contested. In 1285, the Jewish mystic Abraham Abulafia from Zaragoza, after being expelled from the Jewish community of Palermo...

Jewish scholars, including Rashi, the Ramban, Chaim Vital, Isaac Abarbanel, Abraham Ibn Ezra, Rabbeinu Bachya, Rabbi Yaakov Culi (author of Me'am Lo'ez), the...

studied under Shlomo Pines. After earning his doctorate with a thesis on Abraham Abulafia, he eventually succeeded Scholem to the chair of Jewish Thought. He...

Torah" which was not identical to the Torah written in Hebrew. Thus, Abraham Abulafia in the 13th century assumed that the language spoken in Paradise had...

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