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Asher ben David
Desde la Torre: brought copy from French article too
'''Asher ben David''' was a [[Hachmei Provence|Provençal Kabbalist]] born in [[Vauvert|Posquières]], who flourished about the middle of the thirteenth century. He was the son (some say, grandson) of [[Abraham ben David|Abraham ben David of Posquières]], and a pupil of his uncle [[Isaac the Blind]].<ref>See [https://ift.tt/2OqOgb1 article] in Jewish Encyclopedia.</ref>
Asher ben David is one of the earliest cabalistic writers. He was the author of ''Perush Shelosh Esreh Middot'' or (''Commentary on the [[Thirteen Attributes of Mercy|Thirteen Attributes]] of God''), and his most important work, the ''Sefer ha-Yiḥud'' (''The Book of Unity'', an explanation of the Tetragrammaton and the ''[[sefirot]]''), which is the first Kabbalistic treatise to be preserved integrally. He identifies, on the one hand, the ten Sefirot with the ten spheres of the philosophers, and, on the other, explains the thirteen attributes of God as derivations of the three middle Sefirot: (love, justice, mercy), which he designates as fundamental principles.
According to [[Gershom Sholem]] Asher ben David is the main transmitter of Kabbalistic doctrines to the Catalan rabbinic schools, and in particular the [[School of Girona]], in the early thirteenth century.<ref>Scholem, ''Origins of the Kabbalah'', Princeton, 1987, p. 252.</ref>
==References==
[[Category:Jewish mysticism]]
[[Category:Kabbalists]]
[[Category:Neoplatonists]]
[[Category:Provençal Jews]]
Asher ben David is one of the earliest cabalistic writers. He was the author of ''Perush Shelosh Esreh Middot'' or (''Commentary on the [[Thirteen Attributes of Mercy|Thirteen Attributes]] of God''), and his most important work, the ''Sefer ha-Yiḥud'' (''The Book of Unity'', an explanation of the Tetragrammaton and the ''[[sefirot]]''), which is the first Kabbalistic treatise to be preserved integrally. He identifies, on the one hand, the ten Sefirot with the ten spheres of the philosophers, and, on the other, explains the thirteen attributes of God as derivations of the three middle Sefirot: (love, justice, mercy), which he designates as fundamental principles.
According to [[Gershom Sholem]] Asher ben David is the main transmitter of Kabbalistic doctrines to the Catalan rabbinic schools, and in particular the [[School of Girona]], in the early thirteenth century.<ref>Scholem, ''Origins of the Kabbalah'', Princeton, 1987, p. 252.</ref>
==References==
[[Category:Jewish mysticism]]
[[Category:Kabbalists]]
[[Category:Neoplatonists]]
[[Category:Provençal Jews]]
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