Sefirotic Diagram of the First Man

Natan Hammerschlag

1691

Manuscript page with Hebrew text in circular frames arranged as a diagram in the shape of a human head with crown.
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Natan Hammerschlag

17th Century

Natan bar Moshe Naftali Hammerschlag, a seventeenth-century kabbalist and artist, was also the official cantor and secretary of the Council of the Four Lands of Poland. He was the son of Rabbi Moshe Naftali Hirsch of the Rema Hammerschlag family in Nikolsburg in Moravia (present day Mikulov, Czech Republic).

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