Isaac Lattes

Isaac ben Jacob de Lattes (Hebrew: יצחק בן יעקב דלאטש) was a rabbi who lived in Provence. In 1372 he completed his Kiryat Sefer, including two parts, Shaarei Tzion and Toledot Yiẓḥaḳ. The first is a chronicle in which he gives valuable information concerning other Provençal authors and discusses the history of tradition, while the second is an allegorical commentary on the Torah.^[1]

Shaarei Tzion plagiarizes from Menachem HaMeiri's introduction to Avot , as well as from other medieval authors. Gedaliah ibn Yahya quotes from Shaarei Tzion frequently in his Shalshelet haQabbalah, as does Chaim Yosef David Azulai in Shem haGdolim.^[2]

Salomon Buber published the first part, Shaarei Tzion, in Jarosław, 1885. The book survives partially in two manuscripts: MS Oxford Mich. 602 (Neubauer 1298), which formed the basis for Buber's edition, and MS Guenzberg 1336. A critical edition of the Shaarei Tzion was published by Shlomo Zalman Havlin  [he] at the back of his edition of Menachem HaMeiri's Seder haQabbalah (Mossad haRav Kook, 2006).

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