Ma'arekhet HaElokutמערכת האלקות
Guadalajara · 1295
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Ma'arekhet HaElokut
Ma'arekhet HaElokut
1280 CE–1340 CE · Rishonim · Castile
Medieval Kabbalistic author of Ma'arekhet HaElokut, a systematic treatise on the sefirot that became a standard text in early Kabbalistic curricula.
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Stop 1 of 11280–1340Lived
CastileקסטיליהIberia
We know they were here, but the specifics of what they did at this stop aren’t recorded yet in our corpus.
About Castile
Castile is a historic region of central Spain. It began as a county of the Kingdom of León, became a kingdom in the eleventh century, and was united with León in 1230 under Ferdinand III, forming the Crown of Castile, which led the Christian conquest of much of Iberia. The 1469 marriage of Isabella of Castile and Ferdinand of Aragon joined the two crowns, laying the basis of the Spanish monarchy. Castile's large medieval Jewish communities produced major scholars, including kabbalists such as Joseph Gikatilla and Moses de León, whom most modern scholars regard as the main author of the Zohar; Jews who would not convert were expelled in 1492. Map coordinates are placed at Madrid as a regional centroid.
In Castile at the same time
Zohar (trad. R. Shimon bar Yochai), Anonymous (14c. Castile)
In the same place & time
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Sages whose lives overlapped with Ma'arekhet HaElokut’s in the same cities, drawn from their recorded journeys.
In the same tradition
Zohar (trad. R. Shimon bar Yochai), Anonymous (14c. Castile)