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3 unusual facts about Judah ben Barzillai


Hiwi al-Balkhi

In this way it became known that Ḥiwi raised the question why God preferred to live among unclean mankind instead of living among the clean angels (Judah ben Barzillai), and why He required sacrifices and showbread if He did not eat them, and candles when He did not need light.

Judah ben Barzillai

Halberstam, in the introduction to Judah ben Barzillai's commentary on the Sefer Yeẓirah and Sefer ha-Sheṭarot

Part of the Sefer ha-'Ittim is printed in Coronel's Zeker Natan (pp. 129 et seq., Vienna, 1872).



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