Abraham Cohen de Herrera : : gate of heaven : translated from the Spanish with introduction and notes / / Kenneth Krabbenhoft.

• Superior document: Studies in Jewish History and Culture ; Volume 5
• VerfasserIn: Krabbenhoft, Kenneth,
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden ;, Boston : : Brill,, [2002]; ©2002
• Year of Publication: 2002
• Language: English
• Series: Studies in Jewish history and culture ; Volume 5.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource.

With the publication of Abraham Cohen de Herrera's Gate of Heaven , a widely influential work of Jewish mysticism is available for the first time in an unabridged, annotated English edition. In this work, originally written in Spanish for the marrano community of Amsterdam, Herrera (d. 1635) follows the syncretic model of Marsilio Ficino and Pico della Mirandola in reconciling the teachings of the Sefer Yezirah , the Zohar , Moses Cordovero, Isaac Lurian and the Lurianic school (in particular Israel Sarug), with Aristotelian, Platonic, and Neoplatonic metaphysics, medieval Islamic and Jewish theology, and Scholasticism. This thorough synthesis explains the work's appeal to philosophers like Spinoza, Leibniz, Henry More, Hegel, and Jacob Bruckner.

Table of Contents

Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- The Author's Life and Works -- Life -- Works -- Elements of Herrera's Kabbalah -- Herrera's Historical Importance -- Remarks on the Translation -- A Word on the Footnotes -- Gate of Heaven -- Book 1 -- Book 2 -- Book 3 -- Book 4 -- Book 5 -- Book 6 -- Book 7 -- Book 8 -- Book 9 -- Book 10 -- Arguments for why there is a First Cause -- Arguments that prove that ʾEin-Sof the first Cause is not any one of the sefirot or all of them together -- Index of what is contained in each chapter and book of this divine work of the Gate of Heaven by Abraham Cohen de Herrera -- Glossary of Kabbalistic and Philosophical Terms -- Bibliography of Works Cited -- Hebrew Bible -- Name Index -- Studies in European Judaism.