Concept
Azriel of Gerona
Overview
Azriel ibn Menahem ibn Ibrahim al-Tarās (Arabic: عزريل بن مناحيم بن ابراهيم التاراس Azrēyl bin Mināḥīm ben Ibrāhim āl-Tārās; Hebrew: עזריאל בן מנחם בן אברהם אלתראס ʿÁzrīyʾēl ben Mənáḥēm ben ʾAḇrāhām al-Taras; c. 1160 – c. 1238) also known as Azriel of Girona was the founder of speculative Kabbalah and the Gironian Kabbalist school. He is known for implementing Neoplatonic thought into mainstream kabbalistic tradition.
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Whenever the useful bees kill any of them, they endeavour to do so outside of the hive; and if any of them die in the hive, they carry them out. Those which are called thieves injure their own combs, and if they can do it in secret, they will enter those of other bees, but if discovered they are killed. It is, however, difficult to enter unperceived, for there are guards placed at each entrance; and if one contrives…
Aristotle, Aristotle's History of Animals In Ten Books
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Next he made the Council to consist of five hundred members instead of four hundred, each tribe now contributing fifty, whereas formerly each had sent a hundred. The reason why he did not organize the people into twelve tribes was that he might not have to use the existing division into trittyes; for the four tribes had twelve trittyes, so that he would not have achieved his object of redistributing the population…
Aristotle, The Athenian Constitution
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And upon this tenth day, in returning home from the Synagogues, they say to one another, _God the creator seal you to a good year_. For they conceive that the books are now sealed up, and that the sentence of God remains unchanged henceforward to the end of the year. The same thing is signified by the two Goats, upon whose foreheads the High-Priest yearly, on the day of expiation, lays the two lots inscribed, _For…
Isaac Newton, Observations upon the Prophecies of Daniel, and the Apocalypse of St. John
Close in meaning to Azriel of Gerona; the term itself is not named.
Related ideas
- Gnosticism
- Hebrew language
- Nachmanides
- Kabbalah
- Sefer Yetzirah
- Emanationism
- Neoplatonism
- Talmud
- Aristotle
- God
- Apophatic theology
- Catalonia
- Arabic
- Isaac the Blind
Place in the tradition
Part of Neoplatonism.