Treatise on the Left Emanation
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The Treatise on the Left Emanation is a Kabbalistic text by Rabbi Isaac ha-Kohen, who with his brother Jacob traveled in Spain and Provence in the period of 1260–1280.[1]
Isaac may be the pseudepigraphic author of other texts including the Pseudo-R. Eleazar Responsum, and the Pseudo-R. Yehushiel Responsa.[2]
Translation[edit]
Professor Ronald C. Kiener, published an incomplete translation in The Early Kabbalah, New York: Paulist Press, 1986.
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References[edit]
^ Arthur Versluis, Magic and Mysticism: an Introduction to Western Esotericism (2007) p. 65: "We must also note the appearance, in the thirteenth century, of the "Treatise on the Left Emanation" by Isaac ha-Kohen, who with his brother Jacob traveled in Spain and Provence in the period of 1260-1280"
^ Mark Verman, The Books of Contemplation: Medieval Jewish Mystical Sources (1992) p. 176
