Puerta del cielo (Gate of Heaven)

Abraham Cohen de Herrera

ca. 1630

Chapter 1. Reports Some of the Qualities and Excellencies of the Man of the Ineffable Tetragrammaton

Because the ineffable four-letter name of the Tetragrammaton is located in ‘Adam Qadmon, it will be useful to report here, in addition to what has been said about this in several other places, some of my thoughts about his qualities and excellence…

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Abraham Cohen de Herrera

1570–1635

Abraham Cohen de Herrera, of a former New Christian family, was a philosopher and kabbalist. He lived in Florence and Venice before joining his uncle in Morocco. During the English conquest of Cádiz, de Herrera was taken captive and shipped to London. He settled in Ragusa (Dubrovnik), where he lived as a Jew and studied Lurianic kabbalah. Later, having moved to Amsterdam, de Herrera composed two kabbalistic works in Spanish, Casa de Dios (House of God), concerning angels and the soul, and Puerta del cielo (Gate of Heaven), on kabbalistic theories of God and the cosmos.

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