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Azriel of Gerona, Azriel ben Menahem (Heb.
Hebrew language

Hebrew is a Semitic languages of the Afro-Asiatic languages. Modern Hebrew is spoken by more than seven million people in Israel and Classical Hebrew is used for prayer or study in Jews communities around the world....
 ?????? ?? ????), (c.1160- c.1238), was one of the most important Jewish
Judaism

Judaism is a set of beliefs and practices originating in the Hebrew Bible , as later further explored and explained in the Talmud and other texts....
 mystic
Mysticism

Mysticism is the pursuit of communion with, Unio Mystica with, or conscious awareness of an ultimate reality, divinity, Spirituality, or God through direct experience, intuition, or insight....
s in the Catalan
Catalonia

Catalonia , is an Autonomous Community in northeast Spain.Catalonia covers an area of 32,114 km? and has an official population of 7,210,508. It borders France and Andorra to the north, Aragon to the west, the Valencian Community to the south, and the Mediterranean Sea to the east ....
 town of Girona
Girona

Girona is a city located in the northeast of Catalonia, Spain, at the confluence of the rivers Ter River and Onyar. It is the capital of the Spanish Girona and of the Catalan comarca of the Giron?s....
 (north of Barcelona
Barcelona

Barcelona is the capital and most populous city of the Autonomous communities of Spain of Catalonia and the second largest city in Spain, with a population of 1,615,908 in 2008, while the population of the Metropolitan Area was 3,161,081....
) during the thirteenth century when it was an important center of the Kabbalah
Kabbalah

Kabbalah is a discipline and school of thought discussing the mysticism aspect of Judaism. It is a set of esoteric teachings that are meant to explain the relationship between an infinite, eternal and essentially unknowable Creator deity with the finite and mortal universe of His creation....
. He is the teacher of the most important figure from the kabbalist community of Girona, Nahmanides
Nahmanides

Nahmanides, also known as Rabbi Moses ben Nachman , was a Catalonia rabbi, philosophy, physician, Kabbalah, and Jewish commentaries on the Bible....
.

Azriel was the most important student of the mystic Isaac the Blind
Isaac the Blind

Rabbi Yitzhak Saggi Nehor ?????? ??????? ?????? ??????, also known as Isaac the Blind, has the Aramaic epithet "Saggi Nehor" meaning "of Much Light" in the sense of having excellent eyesight, an ironic euphemism for being blind....
. His writings covered subjects pertaining to the sefirot and included his mystical interpretation of Jewish liturgy and of the aggadah
Aggadah

Aggadah refers to the Homiletics and non-legalistic Exegesis texts in classical rabbinic literature - particularly as recorded in the Talmud and Midrash....
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Azriel of Gerona, Azriel ben Menahem (Heb.
Hebrew language

Hebrew is a Semitic languages of the Afro-Asiatic languages. Modern Hebrew is spoken by more than seven million people in Israel and Classical Hebrew is used for prayer or study in Jews communities around the world....
 ?????? ?? ????), (c.1160- c.1238), was one of the most important Jewish
Judaism

Judaism is a set of beliefs and practices originating in the Hebrew Bible , as later further explored and explained in the Talmud and other texts....
 mystic
Mysticism

Mysticism is the pursuit of communion with, Unio Mystica with, or conscious awareness of an ultimate reality, divinity, Spirituality, or God through direct experience, intuition, or insight....
s in the Catalan
Catalonia

Catalonia , is an Autonomous Community in northeast Spain.Catalonia covers an area of 32,114 km? and has an official population of 7,210,508. It borders France and Andorra to the north, Aragon to the west, the Valencian Community to the south, and the Mediterranean Sea to the east ....
 town of Girona
Girona

Girona is a city located in the northeast of Catalonia, Spain, at the confluence of the rivers Ter River and Onyar. It is the capital of the Spanish Girona and of the Catalan comarca of the Giron?s....
 (north of Barcelona
Barcelona

Barcelona is the capital and most populous city of the Autonomous communities of Spain of Catalonia and the second largest city in Spain, with a population of 1,615,908 in 2008, while the population of the Metropolitan Area was 3,161,081....
) during the thirteenth century when it was an important center of the Kabbalah
Kabbalah

Kabbalah is a discipline and school of thought discussing the mysticism aspect of Judaism. It is a set of esoteric teachings that are meant to explain the relationship between an infinite, eternal and essentially unknowable Creator deity with the finite and mortal universe of His creation....
. He is the teacher of the most important figure from the kabbalist community of Girona, Nahmanides
Nahmanides

Nahmanides, also known as Rabbi Moses ben Nachman , was a Catalonia rabbi, philosophy, physician, Kabbalah, and Jewish commentaries on the Bible....
.

Azriel was the most important student of the mystic Isaac the Blind
Isaac the Blind

Rabbi Yitzhak Saggi Nehor ?????? ??????? ?????? ??????, also known as Isaac the Blind, has the Aramaic epithet "Saggi Nehor" meaning "of Much Light" in the sense of having excellent eyesight, an ironic euphemism for being blind....
. His writings covered subjects pertaining to the sefirot and included his mystical interpretation of Jewish liturgy and of the aggadah
Aggadah

Aggadah refers to the Homiletics and non-legalistic Exegesis texts in classical rabbinic literature - particularly as recorded in the Talmud and Midrash....
. He took on Gabirol
Solomon ibn Gabirol

Solomon ibn Gabirol, also Solomon ben Judah was an al-Andalus Hebrew poet and Jewish philosopher. He was born in M?laga about 1021; died about 1058 in Valencia ....
's philosophical work to integrate it into the ten sefirot.

While his teacher Isaac the Blind considered Divine Thought to be the first supernatural quality to emanate from the Ayn Sof (or Divine Being), Azriel argued that Divine Will was the first emanation. Therefore, it was the act of the will rather than the act of the intellect that was the first manifestation of God’s Divine Being.