R. Nathan ben Sa‘adyah Har’ar Sha‘arei Sedeq (The Gates of Righteousness)

9781933379524

410 pages

Cherub Press

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Overview

Sha'arei Sedeq, written by Nathan Har'ar—one of Isaac of Acre's distinguished teachers—has influenced Jewish mystical thought. This significant text emerged from the school of ecstatic Kabbalah, which originated in Sicily and found its primary expression through Abraham Abulafia's writings. Its impact spread across multiple regions and traditions, shaping Kabbalistic developments in Italy, the Byzantine Empire, and Safed. The text's influence reached far beyond its original context, later shaping both eighteenth-century Hasidism and aspects of German Enlightenment thought.