General

Title

Jerusalem (Israel), National Library of Israel: Ms. Heb. 4=9819

Manuscript name

Shandukh’s First Ilan

Summary

This Shandukh ilan, which is over ten meters long, opens with a unique, complex sequence of miniature arboreal diagrams that, taken together, are meant to represent Adam Kadmon. Shandukh notes that the “ten complete parẓufim” it contains are each composed of ten sefirot and that this fractal pattern continues infinitely: “each and every sefirah is composed of ten, endlessly."" The continuation of the ilan includes a visualization of the Saruqian World of Nekudot, comprising several diagrams inspired by the opening of Moshe Graf's Va-yakhel Moshe (Moses assembled, Dessau, 1699). Then follows a compact recapitulation of the first part of the ilan before the subsequent stages of emanation are represented.

Support material

parchment

Main language

Rabbinic Hebrew

Hand description

Oriental

Identifier

Ms. Heb. 4=9819

NLI identifier

997012314165305171

Repository

National Library of Israel

Country

Israel

Settlement

Jerusalem

Creation time

Date

1821