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Isaac the Blind

French writer and rabbi (c. 1160-1235) · France · Writers · Died at 75

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Isaac the Blind, was a French rabbi and a famous writer on Kabbalah. The Aramaic epithet "Saggi Nehor" means "of Much Light" in the sense of having excellent eyesight, an ironic euphemism for being blind. Some historians suspect him to be the author of the Book of the Bahir, an important early text of Kabbalah.

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Father: Abraham ben David of Posquières

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Isaac the Blind, was a French rabbi and a famous writer on Kabbalah. The Aramaic epithet "Saggi Nehor" means "of Much Light" in the sense of having excellent eyesight, an ironic euphemism for being blind. Some historians suspect him to be the author of the Book of the Bahir, an important early text of Kabbalah. Others characterize this view as an "erroneous and totally unfounded hypothesis".

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France
Category
Writers
Type
Writer / Author
Status
deceased
Dates
Lived 1160 to 1235 · aged 75

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