The Influence of Abraham Cohen de Herrera’s Kabbalah on by Miquel Beltran

By Miquel Beltran

During this e-book the writer seeks to discover historiographical and textual proof that Abraham Cohen de Herrera s major kabbalistic paintings, "Puerta del Cielo," prompted Spinoza s metaphysics because it is said in his later paintings, the "Ethica." a number of the most vital ontological subject matters maintained through the thinker, just like the suggestion of the 1st reason as substance, the procession of the endless modes, the subjective or metaphorical fact of the attributes, and the 2 varied understandings of God, have been expected in Herrera s mystical treatise. either shared a specific attention of panentheism that involves acosmism. This impression is confirmed via a comparative exam of the writings of either authors, in addition to an in depth learn on past Jewish philosophical thought."

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By Miquel Beltran

During this e-book the writer seeks to discover historiographical and textual proof that Abraham Cohen de Herrera s major kabbalistic paintings, "Puerta del Cielo," prompted Spinoza s metaphysics because it is said in his later paintings, the "Ethica." a number of the most vital ontological subject matters maintained through the thinker, just like the suggestion of the 1st reason as substance, the procession of the endless modes, the subjective or metaphorical fact of the attributes, and the 2 varied understandings of God, have been expected in Herrera s mystical treatise. either shared a specific attention of panentheism that involves acosmism. This impression is confirmed via a comparative exam of the writings of either authors, in addition to an in depth learn on past Jewish philosophical thought."

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The apparent inconsistency of this account had been assigned, by earlier thinkers as Maimonides himself, to the fact that God is beyond the knowable and all comprehension, and nonetheless creation was ex nihilo, especially in the Zohar. According to Sarug, the Platonic conception of the emergence of conferred existence, that involves some kind of presence in the original unit, is based on an act of the divine will, a tenet that endures in Gate of Heaven, even if Luria openly manifested his rejection to a Neoplatonic procession, in order to introduce the clues of a scarcely veiled acosmism.

Daniel Garber and Donald Rutherford, Oxford, Clarendon Press, 2012, 75–104. 2 See Saccaro Battisti, Giuseppa, “Herrera and Spinoza on Divine Attributes: The Evolving Concept of Perception and Infinity, Limited to Only One Genre,” Italia 4, 1985, 21–59, and Saccaro Battisti, Giuseppa, “Abraham Cohen Herrera et le jeune Spinoza – entre kabbale et scolastique; à propos de la creation “ex nihilo”,” Archives de Philosophie 51, 1988, 55–74. See also Saccaro Battisti, Giuseppa, “La Cultura Filosofica del Rinascimento Italiano nella “Puerta del Cielo” di Abrahàm Cohèn Herrera,” Italia Judaica 2 (1986): 295–334.

The ṣimṣum or shrinking, prior to the emanation, is also conceivable as metaphorical, as well as the production of the multiple that struggled to reach restoration after the breaking. Unlike some other disciples of Luria, Sarug wanted to state, through the demonstration of the intelligibility of the move from simplicity to multiplicity, that this was linked, according to Luria, to divine will. Sarug inherited the doctrines of the rupture of the vessels and their reestablishment as parṣufim or humanoid countenances, and Luria’s closeness to acosmism is linked, according to his disciple’s teachings, with a Neoplatonic conception of the emanation.

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