Acharonim16th centurySafed; Rome
Rabbi Avraham Galante (the Kol Bochim)
Kabbalah and commentary
- Kinat Sitarim
- Kol Bochim
- Yerach Yakar
- Zechut Avot
- The Ramak
- The Zohar
- The Book of Lamentations
- Zohorei Chama
- Or Yakar
- Safed
Kabbalah and commentary
His commentary on the Zohar, Yerach Yakar, is named after Or Yakar, the commentary of his teacher the Ramak, in keeping with the saying “the face of Moses was like the sun”, and Rabbi Avraham Azulai abridged it in Zohorei Chama. He interpreted the Book of Lamentations “in the way of truth”, that is, through Kabbalah, in Kinat Sitarim, which was printed several times.
A kabbalist, born in Rome at the beginning of the 16th century, who went up to Safed and became one of the disciples of the Ramak. Like his father Mordechai and his older brother, Rabbi Moshe Galante the First, he lived a life of asceticism and holiness. He wrote Kinat Sitarim (Kol Bochim), a kabbalistic commentary on the Book of Lamentations printed in Venice in 1589 and edited by his son Shmuel, Yerach Yakar on the Zohar and Zechut Avot on Tractate Avot, and died in 1560.
includes 2 inspiration linksThe generations follow the Rambam’s introduction to the Mishneh Torah. A dashed line is inspiration, not direct transmission.