Joseph Ben-Abraham Chiquitilla
Joseph Ben-Abraham Chiquitilla [1]
a Cabalist, was born at Medinaceli, in Castile, and died at Penjafiel after 1305. He wrote, גְּנִת אגֵוֹז , The Garden Of Nuts, an introduction to the doctrines of the Cabala (Hanau, 1615): — שִׁעֲרֵי צֶדֶק , The Gates of Righteousness, on the ten Sephiroth, in 327 paragraphs (Mantua, 1561): — שִׁעֲרֵי אוֹרָא , The Gates Of Light, a compendium of cabalistic philosophy on the divine names, Sephiroth, etc. (ibid. 1561; Cracow, 1600); translated into Latin by Knorr von Rosenroth,in the first part of his Cabbala Denudata (Sulzbach, 1677, 1678): — ס הִנַּיקוּד , The Book On Vowels, also called שִׁעִר הִנַּיקוּד , The Gate to the Points, on the import of the vowel-points (published in the collection of seven treatises, called The Cedars Of Lebanon ארזי לבנון ; Venice, 1601; Cracow, 1648): — סוֹד הִחִשְׁמִל , The Mystery Of The Shining Metal, being a cabalistic exposition of the first chapter of Ezekiel (also published in the preceding seven treatises, of which it is the fourth): — סוֹדוֹת , Mysteries, connected with sundry Pentateuchal ordinances (published by I. Ashkenazi in his Temple of the Lord, or הֵיכִל יְהוֹה ; Venice and Dantzic, 15961606). See Furst, Bibl. Jud. 1:174 sq.; Gratz, Gesch. D. Juden, 7:215 sq.; Jellinek, Beitrage Zur Gesch. Der Kabbala, 2:60 sq.; Steinschneider, Catalogus Libr. Hebr. in Bibl. Bodl. col. 1461-1470; also Jewish Literature, page 111; Ginsburg, The Kabbalah, page 116 sq.; Etheridge, Introd. to Hebr. Lit. page 358 sq. (B.P.)
