TY - JOUR
T1 - Faces of God
T2 - The Ilan of Rabbi Sasson ben Mordechai Shandukh
AU - Baumgarten, Eliezer
N1 - Funding Information:
This article was written as part of the Ilanot Project at the University of Haifa directed by Prof. J. H. (Yossi) Chajes with the support of the Israel Science Foundation (grant 1568/18). I also thank Yossi for his helpful contributions to this article. A special thanks to William Gross, who placed the Shandukh ilanot at our disposal along with his entire incomparable collection of ilanot.
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PY - 2020/1/1
Y1 - 2020/1/1
N2 - Rabbi Sasson ben Mordechai Shandukh was one of the leaders of the renewed Jewish community in Baghdad in the second half of the eighteenth century and at the beginning of the nineteenth century. Among the literary heritage left by Rabbi Sasson Shandukh, which includes moral literature, liturgical poems, halakhic literature and prominent Kabbalistic literature, are the unique Kabbalistic ilanot (rotuli "trees") he created. The four long rotuli that he created that have reached us are the subject of this article. The kabbalistic ilanot of Shandukh are distinctive for their great length, their eclectic sources, for their interpretation of the Lurianic theory of emanation, and for their anthropomorphic representations of divine faces, drawn in accordance with the teachings of the famed Safed kabbalist R. Isaac Luria.
AB - Rabbi Sasson ben Mordechai Shandukh was one of the leaders of the renewed Jewish community in Baghdad in the second half of the eighteenth century and at the beginning of the nineteenth century. Among the literary heritage left by Rabbi Sasson Shandukh, which includes moral literature, liturgical poems, halakhic literature and prominent Kabbalistic literature, are the unique Kabbalistic ilanot (rotuli "trees") he created. The four long rotuli that he created that have reached us are the subject of this article. The kabbalistic ilanot of Shandukh are distinctive for their great length, their eclectic sources, for their interpretation of the Lurianic theory of emanation, and for their anthropomorphic representations of divine faces, drawn in accordance with the teachings of the famed Safed kabbalist R. Isaac Luria.
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U2 - 10.1163/18718000-12340131
DO - 10.1163/18718000-12340131
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85096137141
SN - 1871-7993
VL - 13
SP - 91
EP - 107
JO - Images
JF - Images
IS - 1
ER -