- Frontispiece of a Tikkun,
a small book of prayers to be
recited day and night for the
self-proclaimed messiah Sabbetai
Zevi. Published in Amsterdam in
1666, the year in which Sabbetai
announced that the redemption
would come, it shows him
enthroned as king and seated at
a table with twelve elders. - (above) The system of sefirot depicted in
1516 on the cover of a Latin translation of
a kabbalistic work, Sha’arei Orah (‘Gates
of Light’), by Yosef b. Avraham Gikatilla.
The translator, Paulo Riccio, was a Jewish
convert to Christianity.
jacob rumans
(Jacob Rumans)
#1