Isaac the Blind
(1160-1235)
French writer and rabbi (c. 1160-1235)
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Isaac the Blind (Yitzhak Saggi Nehor (Hebrew: רַבִּי יִצְחַק סַגִּי נְהוֹר)) (c. 1160–1235 in Provence, France), was a French rabbi and a famous writer on Kabbalah (Jewish mysticism). The Aramaic epithet "Saggi Nehor" meaning "of Much Light" in the sense of having excellent eyesight, an ironic euphemism for being blind. Some historians suspect him to be the author of the Book of the Bahir, an important early text of Kabbalah. Others (especially Gershom Scholem, see his Origins of the Kabbalah, p. 253) characterize this view as an "erroneous and totally unfounded hypothesis".
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1235 (aged 74)
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