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Judah ibn Verga

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37: 1373: 1170:, a small town near Seville, were accused of transferring the body of a converted Jew to their cemetery; they applied to Ibn Verga for help, who, when admitted to the presence of the governor, proved by means of a cabalistic writing that the real criminals were the priests ( 1192:, where possibly he lived several years, until he was taken by the Inquisition; he died under torture (ib. § 62). Ibn Verga wrote a history of the persecutions of the Jews, largely taken from 1228:(MS. No. 1005, Hebr.), contains a series of scientific treatises written by a certain Judah ibn Verga, who is generally identified with the Judah ibn Verga of the 1245:
a description of the astronomical instrument which he invented to determine the sun's meridian, written at Lisbon toward 1457 (folios 110b-118a)
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A short treatise on astronomy, the result of his own observations, completed at Lisbon in 1457 (folios 120-127).
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There is, however, some reason for the statement that this identification is doubtful (comp.
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about 1480 (Neubauer, "Cat. Bodl. Hebr. MSS." No. 2013, 4).
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viii., note 1); his work, in turn, was the basis of the
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A method for determining heights (folios 118b-119b)
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Index

a series
Kabbalah
Esoteric symbolism
Ein Sof
Tzimtzum
Ohr
Ayin and Yesh
Sefirot
Four Worlds
Seder hishtalshelut
Tree of Life
The path of the flaming sword
Merkavah
Jewish angelic hierarchy
Shekhinah
Partzufim
Qlippoth
Tohu and Tikun
Sparks of holiness
Messianic rectification
Gilgul
Kabbalistic astrology
Gematria
Notarikon
Temurah
Names of God in Judaism
Shemhamphorasch
Tzadik
Tzadikim Nistarim
Anthropomorphism in Kabbalah

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