Isaac Nasir
Isaac Nasir [1]
a famous Jewish philosopher devoted to Cabalism, who flourished about 1100, is the author of a cabalistic work entitled מִסֶּכֶת אֲצַילוּת , the Treatise On The Emanations, in which he introduces the prophet Elijah as speaking and teaching under the four names of Eliah ben-Joseph, Jaresiah bein-Joseph, Zechariah ben-Joseph, and Jeroham ben-Joseph, and propounding the system of the Cabala (q.v.). This remarkable treatise was first published by R. Abraham, (Vilna, 1802); it was then reprinted, with all its faults, in Lemberg, 1850; and in 1853 by Dr. Jellinek, in his Auswahl Kabbalistischer Mystik (part i, הִקִּבָּכָה גִּנְזֵי חָכְמִת ). See Ginsburg, The Kabbalah, page 109, where an analysis of this treatise is given; Furst, Bibl. Judges 1:3, page 19. (B.P.)
