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Kabbalist Elijah Menaḥem ben Abba Mari Ḥalfan constructed this diagram, now stained and torn, with the assistance of his tutor Abraham Sarfati. It depicts the sefirotic system and includes Ḥalfan’s…
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Elijah Menaḥem Ḥalfan
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Venice, Republic of Venice (Venice, Italy)
Date:
1533
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Translated by David Malkiel.
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Isaac Lampronti
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Ferrara, Papal States (Ferrara, Italy)
Date:
First Half of the 18th Century
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This bronze physician’s mortar from Verona, Italy, is decorated with a seven-branched candelabrum, flanked by the Hebrew letters mem and resh, likely the initials for the Hebrew term for “physician’s…
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Servius de Levis
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Verona, Republic of Venice (Verona, Italy)
Date:
16th Century
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To the Most Serene Prince and to the Most Honorable and Wise Senators of the Venetian Republic
Free Wisdom befits a Free Republic, most Serene Prince, most honorable Senators, whom Freedom of their…
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Isaac Cardoso
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Verona, Republic of Venice (Verona, Italy)
Date:
1673
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[ . . . ] Philo: I have already told you that the cognition of the generating nature is meant to direct them towards their natural perfection, without any other…
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Judah Abravanel
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Venice, Republic of Venice (Venice, Italy)
Date:
ca. 1512