Information AboutAbulafia |
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He was a student of the writings of Moses Maimonides and of Rabbi Hillel Of Verona . Abulafia's writings include Sefer HaYashar (The Book of the Righteous), Sefer Ha-Ot (The Book of the Sign), and Imre Shefer (Words of Beauty), Get HaShmot , Gan Na'ul (commentary on Sefer Yetzirah ), Otzar Eden Ganuz (also commentary on Sefer Yetzirah), and Sefer HaCheshek . Abulafia is closely associated with Gematria , the symbolic employment of letters as numerals. TRIVIA Abulafia is also the nick-name given by co-protagonist Jacopo Belbo to his home computer in Umberto Eco 's '' Foucault's Pendulum ''. The machine was used not only for word processing, but also to attempt to extract meaningful snippets from random permutations of text in a fashion reminiscent of Abraham Abulafia's methods. Paul Durham uses the word Abulafia as the escape code to call up a terminal in his virtual reality simulations in Greg Egan 's '' Permutation City ''. This is again a reference to the permutation process, though it is unclear whether it is intended as an homage to the machine in Eco's work or to Abraham Abulafia himself. Abulafia is also the name of a famous bakery in Tel Aviv 's Jaffa district. He is also mentioned in the book "The Bee Season" by Myla Goldberg, and the film adaptation "Bee Season" (2005) directed by Scott McGehee and David Siegel. REFERENCES
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