Title page of Chesed Le'Avraham by Abraham Azulai, published in Vilna, 1877
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Abraham ben Mordecai Azulai (c. 1570–1643) (Hebrew: אברהם בן מרדכי אזולאי) was a Kabbalistic author and commentator born in Fez, Morocco. In 1599 he moved to Ottoman Palestine and settled in Hebron.[1]
^Dov Zlotnick, "The Commentary of Rabbi Abraham Azulai to the Mishnah", in: Proceedings of the American Academy for Jewish Research, Vol. 40, 1972, pp. 147-168
Abraham ben Mordecai Azulai (c. 1570–1643) (Hebrew: אברהם בן מרדכי אזולאי) was a Kabbalistic author and commentator born in Fez, Morocco. In 1599 he moved...
Haim Yosef David Azulai ben Yitzhak Zerachia (1724 – 1 March 1806) (Hebrew: חיים יוסף דוד אזולאי), commonly known as the Hida (also spelled Chida, the...
includes: AbrahamAzulai (c. 1570 – 1643) – Kabbalistic author and commentator best known for his Chessed le-Avraham Chaim Yosef David Azulai (1724–1807)...
soul of Abraham, Raziel returned to teach Abraham all the spiritual knowledge and spiritual laws. Raziel was sent to Earth to teach Adam and Abraham the ways...
on the Zohar, the first part of which (Genesis) was abbreviated by AbrahamAzulai and included in his Zohore Ḥammah Zekut Abot, a commentary on the Sayings...
Gaon, David Kimhi, Hasdai Crescas, Jedaiah ben Abraham Bedersi (early 14th century), Joseph Albo, Abraham ibn Daud and Leon of Modena. Among the Geonim...
scholar 1822–1900 Sephardi-Mizrachi (Oriental) Kabbalah: AbrahamAzulai Author of Chesed le-Abraham. Morocco to Israel c. 1570–1643 Haim ibn Attar (Ohr ha-Haim...
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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...
Horowitz AbrahamAzulai 1700s Chaim ibn Attar Baal Shem Tov Dov Ber of Mezeritch Moshe Chaim Luzzatto Shalom Sharabi Vilna Gaon Chaim Joseph David Azulai Nathan...
Horowitz AbrahamAzulai 1700s Chaim ibn Attar Baal Shem Tov Dov Ber of Mezeritch Moshe Chaim Luzzatto Shalom Sharabi Vilna Gaon Chaim Joseph David Azulai Nathan...
Horowitz AbrahamAzulai 1700s Chaim ibn Attar Baal Shem Tov Dov Ber of Mezeritch Moshe Chaim Luzzatto Shalom Sharabi Vilna Gaon Chaim Joseph David Azulai Nathan...
Yetzirah, "The Book of Formation", attributed to the first Jewish patriarch, Abraham. However, the names of the sefirot as given in later Kabbalah are not specified...
the shrine of Abraham in Kefar Avaraham (aka Barza) near Damascus, and several other shrines dedicated to Elijah throughout Syria. Abraham has been associated...
the post-Talmudic period while purporting to be from an earlier date. Abraham Zacuto's 1504 work Sefer Yuhasin (first printed 1566) quotes from the Kabbalist...
movements, including among Maimonideans (Moses Maimonides and Abraham Maimonides), Kabbalists (Abraham Abulafia, Isaac the Blind, Azriel of Gerona, Moses Cordovero...
See introduction to Shaar Kavvanot See introduction by Rabb Hayim David Azulai to Otzrot Haim for another instance of previously unpublished books having...
Horowitz AbrahamAzulai 1700s Chaim ibn Attar Baal Shem Tov Dov Ber of Mezeritch Moshe Chaim Luzzatto Shalom Sharabi Vilna Gaon Chaim Joseph David Azulai Nathan...
rabbi and founder of the Chut Shel Chessed Institutions AbrahamAzulai Raphael Isaiah Azulai (1743–1830), rabbi and Jewish scholar in Ancona, Italy Elijah...
of the sevenfold series of true prophets, comprising Adam, Seth, Noah, Abraham, Zoroaster, Buddha, and Jesus. The stepping-stone from the Gnostic original...
Horowitz AbrahamAzulai 1700s Chaim ibn Attar Baal Shem Tov Dov Ber of Mezeritch Moshe Chaim Luzzatto Shalom Sharabi Vilna Gaon Chaim Joseph David Azulai Nathan...
Pardes Rimmonim by Moses Cordovero, Sha’ar ha-Shamayim and Beit Elohim by Abraham Cohen de Herrera, Sefer ha-Gilgulim (a Lurianic tract attributed to Hayyim...
there is) as "concealed Torah clothes itself in revealed Torah". David ben Abraham ha-Laban, a 14th-century kabbalist, says: Nothingness (ayin) is more existent...
Gerondi); Rabbi Isaac Luria (R’ Ari zal); Rabbi Hayyim ben Joseph Vital; R’ AbrahamAzulai. The microfilmed collections of the National Library of Israel in Jerusalem...
Horowitz AbrahamAzulai 1700s Chaim ibn Attar Baal Shem Tov Dov Ber of Mezeritch Moshe Chaim Luzzatto Shalom Sharabi Vilna Gaon Chaim Joseph David Azulai Nathan...
Horowitz AbrahamAzulai 1700s Chaim ibn Attar Baal Shem Tov Dov Ber of Mezeritch Moshe Chaim Luzzatto Shalom Sharabi Vilna Gaon Chaim Joseph David Azulai Nathan...
collection of sermons. The last two are mentioned by Azulai, who claims to have seen them in manuscript. Azulai, Shem ha-Gedolim, ii., s.v.; Joseph Zedner, Auswahl...
Horowitz AbrahamAzulai 1700s Chaim ibn Attar Baal Shem Tov Dov Ber of Mezeritch Moshe Chaim Luzzatto Shalom Sharabi Vilna Gaon Chaim Joseph David Azulai Nathan...
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