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Azariel Ben-Menachem <ref name="term_22064" />
<p> a Spanish rabbi, was born at [[Valladolid]] about 1160. He distinguished himself as a philosopher, Cabalist, Talmudist, and, commentator, as his works indicate. He was a pupil of Isaac the Blind, who is regarded as the originator of the Cabala, and he was master of the celebrated R. Moses Nachmanides, who was also a distinguished pillar of Cabalism. Azariel died in 1238. He wrote A [[Commentary]] on the Ten [[Sephiroth]] by Way of [[Questions]] and [[Answers]] ( '''''ספירות''''' '''''על''''' '''''דר''''' '''''ִשאלה''''' '''''ותשובה''''' '''''פירוש''''' '''''עשר''''' ). This commentary was first known through the Cabalistic works of [[Meir]] Ibn-Gabbai entitled '''''דר''''' '''''ִאמונה''''' , ''The [[Path]] Of Faith'' (Padua, 1563), and '''''עבדת''''' '''''הקדש''''' , ''The [[Service]] Of Holiness,'' also called . '''''מראות''''' '''''אלהים''''' , ''The Vision Qf God'' (Mantua, 1545; Venice, 1567;' Cracow, 1578). It was published in [[Gabriel]] Warschauer's work entitled A ''Volume Of Cabalistic Treatises'' ( '''''ספר''''' '''''לקוטים''''' '''''בקבלה''''' ) (Warsaw, 1798), and recently at Berlin (1850). -A lucid analysis of Azariel's Cabalistic philosophy is given by Jellinek, inl his ''Beitrqae [[Zur]] Geschichte Der Kabbalah'' (Leipsic, 1852), which is translated by Ginsburg in his ''Kabbalah'' (p. 95 sq.), and by Dr. Goldammer in. the [[Israelite]] (Cincinnati, Feb. 7 and 14, 1873). See also Graitz, ''Gesch. D. Juden, 7:'' 69-75; Jost, ''Gesch. D. Judenth. U.S. Sekten, Iii,'' 71. (B. P.) </p>

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<ref name="term_22064"> [https://bibleportal.com/encyclopedia/cyclopedia-of-biblical-theological-and-ecclesiastical-literature/azariel+ben-menachem Azariel Ben-Menachem from Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature]</ref>
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