The source of logic and emanation in Wittgenstein and Gikatilla

What is it about?

This chapter looks at the writings of Yosef Gikatilla, where the Name is the primal unity – the point – from which all else emerges via a linguistic process which, I argue, is strikingly akin to that logical- linguistic structure described in Wittgenstein’s Tractatus (and with more than a slight nod to Leibniz, who himself absorbed a significant amount of kabbalistic material). A second theme which emerges in this chapter is AHYH as the internal name of God, one present in the highest sefirah and before the process of emanation has begun.

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