Clues from the Chida: The King of Bordeaux
Following on from all of this discussion about ‘Sabbatean kabbalah’, and the xtian-mason inspired ‘Kol HaTor’, I girded my loins to actually read through the English translation of a book entitled: The Diaries of Rabbi Ha’im Yosef David Azulai [The CHIDA] With notes by Benjamin Cymerman. It’s very well translated, and the notes are useful, […]