Imrei Binah [elucidation of kabbalistic concepts]

SATANOW, YITZCHAK.

(Berlin

1784)

FIRST EDITION. Title surrounded by Biblical verses. Approbations by Tzvi Hirsch Berlin and his son Saul Berlin; the others are spurious

Vinograd, Berlin 317

As stated on the title-page, the author's express purpose in writing this book was to demonstrate that the two seemingly disparate disciplines of Kabbalah and Philosophy are actually compatible and complimentary. Isaac Satanow (1732-1804), a member of Mendelssohn's inner circle, was one of the founding fathers of the Berlin Haskalah movement and a most prolific scholar. See B. Naor, From A Kabbalist's Diary (2005) pp. 107-122.